Charleston Southern University Athletics

Sarah McCartney - TFRRS Profile

School Records: *As of 4/27/2025
1st - Indoor Mile - 4:51.53 - 2025 Gamecock Challenge (2/1)
1st at CSU / 4th in Big South - Indoor 3K - 9:32.17 - 2025 Orange & Purple (1/26)
1st at CSU / 3rd in Big South - Indoor 5K - 16:22.51 - 2024-25 Sharon Colyear (12/7/2024)
1st  at CSU / 2nd in Big South - Indoor DMR Relay - 11:44.50 - 2025 Orange & Purple (1/26)
2nd at CSU / 4th in Big South - Indoor DMR Relay - 11:46.26 - 2024 USC Invitational (2/3)
3rd - Indoor DMR - 11:55.70 - 2025 Gamecock Challenge (2/1)
2nd - Outdoor 1500 - 4:28.70 - 2025 CSU Invitational (3/17)
1st - Outdoor 5K - 16:55.75 - 2023 Tennessee Invite (4/6-8)
1st - Outdoor 10K - 34:56.94 - 2025 Wake Forest Invitational (4/17)

2024 Cross Country at Charleston Southern: Earned First-Team All-Conference at the Big South Championships (11/1) taking 5th overall in a time of 17:19.1 in the race ... Helped the team to a runners-up finish to tie the best finish in program history at the conference championship ... Named Big South Runner of the Week in back-to-back outings (9/4 & 9/18) .... Raced at all six meets during the fall taking top seven finishes at four of them ... Notched a career-best in the 6K at the Arturo Barrios Invitational (10/18) hosted by Texas A&M with a time of 20:08.7 for 32nd in a field of nearly 400 runners ... Opened the season with a 5K time of 18:04.3 at the CSU Buccaneer Open (8/30) to win the race for the first cross country individual win of her career ... Ended the year by running the for the Bucs at the NCAA Southeast Regionals (11/15) and taking 55th overall with a time of 21:53.5 ... Recorded times of 21:09.2 at the Furman Invitational (9/14) for 7th and a 21:42.4 at the ECU Pirate Invitational (10/4) for 5th.


2024 Outdoor at Charleston Southern: Redshirted season ... Competed unattached at CSU home meet and Rakeigh Relays.

2024 Indoor at Charleston Southern: Had a pair of top three finishes at the Big South Championships (2/23-24) in the distance events and broke three school records during the season ... At the Conference meet, she took 3rd in the 3K with a time of 9:50.80 and 3rd in the 5K with a 17:21.04 ...  The points scored from that event helped the Buccaneers take second place in the meet for the highest finish in program history and a program record of 157 points scored ... Was named a three-time Big South Track Athlete of the Week (12/6, 1/17 & 2/7 - as part of DMR team) ... Broke the school record in the indoor 5K to begin the season in Boston, Massachuets at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener (12/3) with a time of 16:37.22 ... At her next meet, the Gamecock Opener (1/13), she broke the school record in the indoor 3K with her mark of 9:42.20 to win the event ... Was a member of the DMR squad at the USC Invitational (2/3) that set the school record in the event, winning it there, with their time of 11:46.26 which also ranks as the third-fastest in conference history as well ... Competed in five meets during the year recording a top six finish in five of her races with the one she wasn't having a field of ove 160 athletes with many of them considered to be the best in the country.

2023 XC at Charleston Southern: Named First-Team All-Conference after finishing second overall at the Big South Championships (10/29) to help tie the team's best finish at the meet in school history ... She became the third CSU runner to ever finish within the top two at the Big South Championships and the first since 1989 ... Ended the season by running at the NCAA Southeast Regionals and recorded the best finisher by a female runner at the event in program history finishing in 32nd and with a personal best 6K time of 20:47.4 ... Raced at every meet during the season and was the team's top finisher at five meets while being the #2 finisher at the other meet ... Was within the top 32 at every race including the top 12 at four races and top five on three occasions ... Finished the conference championship race with a career best time in the 5K of 16:54.5 and marked her highest finish ever in cross country race in her CSU career ... The team competed in 5K races for the final two regular season meets and the league championship and she set new personal bests in each of the three outings ... In the first 5K of the year she ran a 17:41,1 at the Live in Lou Classic (9/30) to finish in 29th in a field of nearly 300 runners and followed it with a 17:18.7 at the Upstate Invite (10/14) to be 5th overall in a field of nearly 300 runners again ... Opened the year with a 4th place performance at the Buccaneer Invitational (9/1) with a time of 15:43.7 and set a 6K personal best, at the time, at the Furman Invitational (9/16) crossing the line at 21:43.5 for 12th ... Named Big South Runner of the Week (10/19).

2023 Outdoor at Charleston Southern: Set a pair of school records during the spring while she scored in both events she competed in at the Big South Championships (5/10-12) ... Ran the 10K in a time of 35:21.86 to be third overall at the meet to set a school record, a full minute and a half faster than the previous mark ... Also finished 5th in the 5K with a time of 17:42.40 ... Set another school record at the Tennessee Invite (4/6-8) with her breaking the 17-minute barrier for the first time as she finished with a career best of 16:55.75 ... Recorded a personal best time in the 1500 at the Charleston Southern Invitational (3/17) with a 4:36.97 ... Was third in the 5K at the Georgia Tech Invitational with a 17:0.24 with nearly 100 entries in the event.

2023 Indoor at Charleston Southern: Set a pair of school records during the winter while she scored in both events she competed in at the Big South Championships (2/24-25) ... Finished in 4th in the 3K and the 5K with times of 9:47.76 and 17:09.83 to contribute 10 points for CSU ... Competed in four meets during the winter season and set personal bests across three different events ... Broke the school records in the 3K at the Bob Pollock (1/27-28) with a time of 9:44.55 and the mile at the South Carolina Invitational (2/3-4) with a time of 4:54.19 to be 5th overall in the field ... Had her 5K time at the conference championship become the 2nd-fastest in school history ... 

2022 XC at Charleston Southern: Named First-Team All-Conference after finishing 7th at the Big South Championships (10/29) with a PB time of 17:49.2 ... Set personal bests in the 4K, 5K and 6K races over the course of the season ... Opened the year with a 6th-placed finish at the CSU Buccaneer Open with a time of 15:39.1 ... Finished 5th in her first 6K of the season with a time of 21:59.3 at the Vertcross (10/14) ... Set her 6K personal best of 21:56.7 at the Southeast Regionals (11/11) finishing in 83rd.

2022 Outdoor at Charleston Southern: Eighth in the 10K with a personal best time of 37:17.84 at the Big South Outdoor Championships ... Tenth in the 5K at the Big South Outdoor Championships with a time of 18:14.22 ... Ran her personal best 1500 time of 4:42.34 at the Georgia Tech Invitational ... Ran her personal best 5K time of 17:34.26 at the Duke Invitational ... Fourth in the 5K at the Weems Baskin Relays with a time of 17:58.35 ... Won the 1500 at the CSU Distance/Throws Carnival with a time of 4:43.98.

2022 Indoor at Charleston Southern: Eighth in the Mile at the Big South Indoor Championships with a time of 5:07.71 ... Ran her personal best Mile time of 5:0586 at the South Carolina Invitational ... Ninth in the 3K with a personal best time of 10:16.93 at the Clemson Invitational.

2021 XC at Charleston Southern: Raced at five meets during her sophomore campaign ... Had a pair of top-20 finishes on the season running her season-best 5K at High Point (10/15) with a 18:40.2 ... Finished in 17th at the Big South Championships (10/29), shaving over 45 seconds off her time from the spring and finishing in 17th ... Had her 6k season-best come at the FSU XC Open (9/17) with a time of 22:54.1.

2021 Outdoor at Charleston Southern: Ran a personal best 5K time of 17:45.50 at the Big South Outdoor Championships ... Ran a personal best 10K time of 38:50.34 at the Big South Outdoor Championships ... Ran a personal best 1500m time of 4:49.83 at the UNF Invite ... Seventh in the 3K with a time of 11:17.00 at the Weems Baskins Relays ... Placed among the top-20 in the 5K with a time of 18:36.89 at the Yellow Jacket Invite.

2021 Indoor at Charleston Southern: Ninth in the 3K with a time of 10:51.05 at the Carolina Indoor Open.

Spring 2021 XC at Charleston Southern: Completed one race during her debut XC season ... Finished in 31st in the 5k at the Big South Championships (3/5) crossing the line at 19:32.4.

High School: Came to CSU with a personal best 5K time of 18:31 ... Gwinnett Country XC Champion as a senior at Archer HS ... All-Area First Team three times, GA 7A Runner of the Week, All-County twice and holds the school's 5K record in XC ... Team captain for both her cross country and track & field teams ... Finished 4th in 3200m and 8th in 1600m events in State Championship meet as a junior ... Region Champion as a junior in both 1600m and 3200m events ... All-Country in 2019 as a junior in the 4x800 ... School record-holder for the 3200m and 1600m events ... Had personal bests times of 2:27 in the 800, 5:11 in the 1600, and 11:08 in the 3200.