Meghan Looney

Meghan Looney

Year: Sophomore
Hometown: Mansfield, Mass.
High School: Bishop Feehan
Position: Middle Distance

Personal Bests
400 meters - 1:00.41
800 meters - 2:15.90

2008-09
Competed at the New England Cross Country Championships, the UAlbany Invitational and the Manhattan Club Bad Boy race ... Member of the third-place distance medley relay team at the ECAC Indoor Championships ... Finished seventh in the mile run at the Harvard Open ... Was ninth in the 600 meter run at the NYU Metro Coaches Invitational ... Finished 22nd out of 86 in the 800 meter run at the Terrier Invitational ... Placed fifth in the 500 meter run at the Battle of Beantown ... A member of the 4x800 relay team at the Heptagonal Championship and ECAC Championships … Competed in the 800 meter run at the Penn Invitational.

Personal
Lettered in cross country and track and field ... Captained cross country and track and field teams as a senior ... A three-time Boston Globe and Boston Herald All-Scholastic honoree ... An 11-time Attleboro Sun Chronicle All-Star and 11-time Eastern Athletic Conference All-Star ... Received track team’s MVP as a sophomore, junior and senior ... Given the Outstanding Runner Award at the MSTCA Outdoor Freshman/Sophomore meet (2005, 2006), the MSTCA Auerbach Indoor Freshman/Sophomore meet (2006), the MSTCA Indoor Elite meet (2007, 2008) and the MSTCA Outdoor Coaches Invitational (2007) ... Won the 600 meters at the New England Championships in 2007 and finished as runner-up in 2008 ... Two-time 600 meter All-State champion and three-time 800 meter runner-up ... Three-time State Div. III state champion in the 600 and 800 meters ... Cross country team won three State Div. III titles ... Member of the National Honor Society, the Spanish Honor Society, the Science Honor Society and History Honor Society ... AP Scholar and National Merit Commended Scholar ... Recipient of the President Scholar Award .. Vice President of STAND and captain of Peer Ministry ... Father, William, III graduated from Harvard in 1981 and grandfather, William, Jr., earned his degree in 1953.