Heather MacLean (born August 31, 1995) is an American middle distance runner. From

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and an alumna of the University of Massachusetts, MacLean is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

NCAA

In college at the University of Massachusetts, MacLean placed 10th at

2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships The 2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships were the 97th NCAA Men's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships and the 37th NCAA Women's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships held for the sixth consecutive year ...

1500 m. She earned NCAA Division I All-American cross country honors at

2017 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships The 2017 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships was the 79th annual NCAA Men's Division I Cross Country Championship and the 37th annual NCAA Women's Division I Cross Country Championship to determine the team and individual national champ ...

(the school's first woman to do so), and established records for

800m The 800 metres, or meters ( US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of an outdoor (400-metre) track and has been an Olympic event since the ...

1000m The 1000 metres is an uncommon middle-distance running event in track and field competitions. The 1000 yards, an imperial alternative, was sometimes also contested. All-time top 25 *h = hand timed *i = indoor performance *A = affected by ...

1500m The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ...

and the

mile The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English ...

and also qualified for the NCAA Championships in track and cross country. She was a finalist for 2018 NCAA Woman of the Year award. MacLean placed 9th at the

2016 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships The 2016 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships was the 52nd NCAA Men's Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships and the 35th NCAA Women's Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, held at the Birmingham CrossPlex in ...

mile.

Professional

In 2019, MacLean was seventh at the USA Outdoor Championships 1500m, setting a personal best of 4:05.27. At the 2020 NYRR Wanamaker Mile, she finished sixth, clocking a personal best of 4:25.98 which placed her 15th on the U.S. woman all-time indoors list. MacLean won the Blankenship Women's Mile in 4:27.54 at the 2021 American Track League meet number 2 and also the 1500 meters in 4:06.32 at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix. At the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials held in

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, on June 21, 2021, she finished third in the women's 1,500m race behind Elle Purrier St. Pierre and

Cory McGee Cory Ann McGee (born May 29, 1992) is an American professional middle distance runner and Olympian from Pass Christian, Mississippi. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games she finished 12th in the 1500-meters. She was the 2011 Pan American U20 Champio ...

to secure a place at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

References

External links

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Heather MacLean bio
University of Massachusetts Amherst Athletics *
Heather MacLean UMASS Amhearst Results
TFRRS

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{{DEFAULTSORT:MacLean, Heather 1995 births Living people American female middle-distance runners People from Peabody, Massachusetts UMass Minutemen and Minutewomen athletes University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni Track and field athletes from Massachusetts World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic track and field athletes of the United States 21st-century American women