The Southern Conference Track Athlete of the Week, McArthur earned a pair of runner-up finishes at a meet that included more than 1,200 student-athletes from 37 different institutions. She led the Cougars in the long jump with a distance of 18'5¼", passing the school record by a quarter-inch. Junior Saskia Kalmeijer (Brussels, Belgium/Pope) placed 18th with a personal record of 17'2" for the third-best performance in school history. Junior Brynne Johnson (Centerville, Ohio/Centerville) also competed in the event, finishing 34th with a distance of 16'5¾",

McArthur also broke her own school record in the 100-meter hurdles twice this weekend. After finishing third out of 43 entries in the preliminaries with a time of 14.28 seconds, she placed second in the finals, behind South Carolina's Janica Austin, with a time of 14.20 seconds. Her time is more than a half-second faster than her time at the Palmetto Invitational on Mar. 12.

Junior Mary Zolga (Raynham, Mass./Bridgewater-Raynham) led the Cougars in the 400-meter hurdles. The current school recordholder, Zolga ran a time of 1:06.10 for the second-best performance in school history. Kalmeijer also ran well in the hurdles, recording a personal-best time of 1:09.36 for the fifth-best performance in Cougar history.

McArthur represented Charleston in the 200-meter dash, placing 18th with a time of 25.51, the fourth-fastest time in school history. Junior Isabel Boersma (Franklin, Tenn./Ravenwood) crossed the finish line in 27:08 seconds, while Johnson followed with a time of 27.68 seconds. Zolga competed in the 400 meters, where she recorded a 17th-place time of 58.32 seconds.

In the middle distance events, sophomore Kristen Wolfe (Midlothia, Va./James River) ran the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 11:25.01 for fourth place. Wolfe owns the top five times in school history, with Saturday's performance coming in fourth on the list.

Five Cougars participate in the 3,000-meter run with sophomore Grace Loba (Orean, Va./Fauqier) leading  the pack. She crossed the finish line in 10:55.34. Senior Emily Nagle (Annapolis, Md./Richmond) and juniors Erin Stoddard (Mauldin, S.C./J.L. Mann) Kristen Jenkins (Cheyenne, Wyo./Cheyenne Central) followed, respectively.

Select members of the CofC men's cross country team competed in various middle-distance and distance events as part of the NCAA five-race allowance in the spring. Sophomore Christian Bailey (Charlotte, N.C./Ardrey Kell) broke the school record in the 3,000 meters, shaving more than nine seconds off the existing record with a new mark of 8:50.20 for third place. Sophomore Alex Hill (Columbia, S.C./Dreher) finished 17th with a time of 9:27.63 while newcomer Sam Metzger recorded a 19th-place time of 9:35.55.

Junior Trevor Sprague (Dunwoody, Ga./St. Pius X Catholic) topped his own school record in the 5,000 meters. His time of 15:03.72 placed him fifth and is 29 seconds faster than his previous record. He led a pack of five Cougars that included senior David Thomas (Mt. Pleasant, S.C./Academic Magnet) and freshmen Manning Miller (Bluffton, S.C./Bluffton) and Kelly Toomes (Mt. Pleasant, S.C./Bishop England). Thomas placed 19th with a time of 15:41.56, the sixth-fastest time in school history. Miller's time of 15:51.87 makes him the fifth-fastest runner in CofC history.

Sophomore David Lamberson (Stafford, Va./Colonial Forge) represented Charleston in the 10,000 meters, alongside Eric Robertson (Dalzell, S.C./Thomas Sumter Academy). Lamberson finished third with the third-fastest time in school history, 32:58.30. Robertson recorded a time of 34: 12.14 to come in eighth.

The Cougars travel to Raleigh, N.C. next weekend to compete in the Raleigh Relays.