Mary Northcutt
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- Birth Date:
- 8/17/1998
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- Height:
- 5-11
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- Hometown:
- Huntsville, Ala.
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- Year:
- Senior
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- High School:
- Virgil I. Grissom High School
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- Events:
- Freestyle, Backstroke, Sprint
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- Major:
- Exercise Science
Bio
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 Postma, Mary Northcutt, Yulia 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.
News mentions
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – Mary Northcutt (Hunstville, Ala.) of the Carson-Newman swim team has been nominated for the 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – The Carson-Newman swim team had 18 athletes named to The College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America’s Scholar All-American team.
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – Senior Mary Northcutt (Huntsville, Ala.) of the Carson-Newman swim team has been named to the 2019-20 CoSIDA Academic All-America at-large first-team for Division II.
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – Carson-Newman swimming alumni Mary Northcutt (Huntsville, Ala.) and Paden Duke (Memphis, Tenn.) have both been selected to the College Sports Information Directors of America Academic All-District At-Large teams, the organization announced Thursday afternoon.
ROCK HILL, S.C. – Carson-Newman swimming alumna Mary Northcutt (Huntsville, Ala.) has been presented the inaugural Bob McCloskey Insurance Postgraduate Scholarship by the South Atlantic Conference, the league office announced Tuesday afternoon.
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. - The Carson-Newman swim team had 15 athletes named All-Americans by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America on Wednesday.
GENEVA, OH. – The Carson-Newman swim team saw stellar results in the preliminaries of day two of the NCAA Swimming and Diving National Championships.
GENEVA, OH. – The Carson-Newman swim team saw two All-American-worthy swims in the opening day of the Swimming and Diving National Championships in Geneva, Ohio.
GENEVA, OH. – The Carson-Newman swim team will march a program-record nine individual athletes to the NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving National Championships in Geneva, Ohio from Mar. 11 to Mar. 14.
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – The Carson-Newman swim team will have a program-record nine athletes attend the NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving National Championships in Geneva, Ohio from Mar. 11 to Mar. 14.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The C-N swim team saw 10 Eagles win All-Conference honors during final events at day two of the BMC Conference Championships.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Carson-Newman swim team saw multiple swimmers qualify for All-Conference laurels at day three of the Bluegrass Mountain Conference Championships.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Carson-Newman swim team saw two school records broken and multiple athletes qualify for ‘A’ and ‘B’ finals in the preliminary races on the first day of the Bluegrass Mountain Conference Championships in the Tar Heel state.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Carson-Newman swim team saw two school top-three finishes and multiple All-Conference-worthy performances at the finals of day one of the Bluegrass Mountain Conference Championships in the Queen City.
FRANKLIN SPRINGS, Ga. – The Carson-Newman swim team took down the Savannah College of Art and Design and Emmanuel on the women’s side and defeated SCAD on the men’s end in a tri-meet in the Peach State.
The Carson-Newman swim team won every single event against Bluegrass Mountain Conference rival Mars Hill in a 319-82 dual-meet victory on Senior Day.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The Carson-Newman swim team capped off day three of the Tennessee Invitational by piling on more season and personal best times, positioning the squad to move up the national ranks and springing multiple Eagles to qualify for the NCAA National Championships in March.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The Carson-Newman swim team secured lifetime-best times across the board and saw finishes worthy of National Championship qualification at day two of the University of Tennessee Invitational in Knoxville.
Senior Mary Northcutt (Huntsville, Ala.) of the Carson-Newman swim team was honored as the female swimmer of the week by the Bluegrass Mountain Conference for the week of Nov.11 to Nov.17, 2019.
The Carson-Newman swim team will host Lees-McRae College on Nov. 16, marking their first regular-season home event of the year.
The Carson-Newman swim team finished in third place on both the men’s and women’s sides at the Emory Invitational in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Carson-Newman swim team lost on both the no.13 men’s and no.14 women’s sides in a dual-meet against South Atlantic Conference rival Wingate.
The Carson-Newman swim team has been tabbed as seventh on the women's side and tenth on the men's in NCAA DII national rankings.
Senior Mary Northcutt (Huntsville, Ala.) of the Carson-Newman swim team was honored as the female swimmer of the week by the Bluegrass Mountain Conference for the week of Sept. 30th to Oct. 6th, 2019.
The Carson-Newman swim team eviscerated the competition in both days of the King Invitational, winning all but four out of 36 total events
The Carson-Newman swim team will travel to Kingsport, Tennessee tomorrow for the squad's first official NCAA meet of the 2019-20 campaign at the King Invitational.
The Carson-Newman swim team held their fourth annual Blue vs. Orange Championships with Blue triumphing over Orange, breaking a two-meet losing streak by a score of 230-184.
The Carson-Newman swim team will open up their 2019-2020 campaign at the CSCAA Open Water National Championships in Lawrence, Kansas on Saturday, Sept. 14 at 8:30 a.m.