National Champion! Amelia Bowman-McCoy Wins 3000M Steeple National Championship

National Champion! Amelia Bowman-McCoy Wins 3000M Steeple National Championship

Results

Sophomore Amelia Bowman-McCoy ended her incredible Herkimer Track & Field career in the most distinguished way possible: A National Champion!

Bowman-McCoy, a sophomore from Oneida, NY, set a personal-best of 12:37.56 in the 3,000M Steeplechase at the NJCAA Division III Track & Field National Championships to claim her first-ever National Championship.

Bowman-McCoy paced herself from the start, steadying behind two other runners for the first 1000 meters of the race. She overtook another runner in the next 1000 meters to find herself in second-place with the final one-third of the race to go.

That's where she separated herself from everyone else.

Bowman-McCoy ran great splits, including her second-fastest 400-meter split in the final stretch of the race, to clinch her first National Championship victory.

She also finished in third-place in the 800M National Championship Race.

Bowman-McCoy has 20 top-three finishes and won seven track events in her career: the 800M, the 1500M, the 3,000M Steeplechase, the 5,000M, the 4x400 relay twice and the 4x800 relay.

She ends her career as one of the top runners in Herkimer history, having finished top-five in all eight cross country races this season.