Mary Northcutt
Mary Northcutt
Birth Date: 8/17/1998
Height: 5-11
Year: Senior
Hometown: Huntsville, Ala.
High School: Virgil I. Grissom High School
Events: Freestyle, Backstroke, Sprint
Major: Exercise Science

2019-2020: Northcutt's final year as an Eagle saw her win not one but two Bluegrass Mountain Conference Female Swimmer of the Week Awards. Her first laurel came for the week of Sept. 30 to Oct. 6 during which she won the 100-yard backstroke and 50-yard freestyle in C-N's dominant win at the King Invitational. Her second honor came for the week of Nov. 11 to Nov 17 during which she took first in the 50-yard freestyle at the Emory Invitational. Northcutt swam the 100-yard breaststroke in 57.16 at the Tennessee Invitational, the fourth-fastest time in program history. On the final day of the UT Invitational, Northcutt swam the 100-yard freestyle in a time of 51.86, a lifetime best. On senior day against Mars Hill, Northcutt won the 50-yard freestyle at 24.89 seconds. In C-N's regular season finale, Northcutt won the 50-yard freestyle in 23.70 and took first place in the 100-yard freestyle at 52.40 in a tri-meet against Emmanuel and SCAD. At the BMC Championships, Northcutt teamed up with CJ Jensen, Allyson Metcalf and Laurel Sankowski to place third in the 200-yard medley, securing a bronze medal for the team. Northcutt qualified for the NCAA Swiming and Diving National Championships as both an individual and member of a relay team. It was the first time in Northcutt's career that she appeared in a race at National Championships as an individual. At National Championships, Northcutt teamed up with Jensen, Kailee Morgan and Manon Compagner to take eighth in the 'A' final of the 200-yard medley relay, securing All-American honors. 

 

2018-2019: The women's 'A' side of Lisa PostmaMary NorthcuttYulia Fomina, and Elly Culp collected a time of 1:37.17, topping the Wingate 'C' side by over six seconds vs. Wingate... finished 12th in the 100-yard freestyle at the Emory Invitational also finished second in the 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of 1:37.41 with Lisa Postma, Yulia Fomina and Elly Culp... won first place in the 50-yard freestyle with a new season-best time of 24.43 seconds and also won the second leg of the foursome in the 200 freestyle relay along with Postma, Ksenia Naydenova, and Culp who took first with a new season-best time of 1:37.78... finished in second place in the 200-yard freestyle with Elly Culp, Meredith Ginn and Laurel Sankowski at the Bluegrass Mountain Conference Championships... earned first-place in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 23.78 seconds in the 'A' finals after also earning the top spot in the prelim race with a time of 23.57, just .05 seconds than her fastest swim of the season at the Last Chance Meet... 

2017-2018: 2017-18 Google Cloud Academic All-District® Men's & Women's At-Large Teams, selected by CoSIDA. At-Large All-America Honors. Scholar All-America Honors.  Was one of four student-athletes on the district 3 team who accumulated a 4.0 GPA. The award notches the first-career academic all-district honor for the Exercise Science major. The freestyle and backstroke swimmer was a member of the Eagles 200 freestyle relay team who went to the 2018 National Swim Championships. The group earned All-America honors in the event with a fifth-place collecting a new school record at 1:32.47. Northcutt was also a member of the 200 freestyle relay team who gathered an All-BMC time during the conference championships. Northcutt joins a group that now only consists of herself and former Eagles swimmer Nancy Claire Smith as the only women's academic All-America at-large selections in the history of C-N during the D2 era. Smith earned the honor in back-to-back years in 2016-17.

2016-2017: An All-American as part of the women's 200 free relay team, posting the eighth fastest time in the country...Part of the women's 200 free relay quartet in Cincinnati that set a new school record with a time of 1:33.27...Was named all-conference in the 50 free and as a member of the 400 free relay and 200 free relay teams at the BMC Championships...Picked up her only solo victory in the 100 free against King...Helped relay teams to victories in the 400 free against King, the 200 free against Bellarmine and Maryville and the 200 medley relay against Emmanuel.

High School: Member of varsity swim team all four years...Captain of team as a senior...Winner of the Wendy's High School Heisman...Swam the 100 free, 50 free, 100 back and 200 back in high school.

Personal: Daughter of Scott and Sara Northcutt...Born August 17, 1998...Majoring in Exercise Science...National Honor Society member.