The 2016 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Runner of the Year began the 2017 with a strong run at the Tommy Evans Invitational, setting the conference 5K record.
His time of 15:17 was good enough for fourth place in the meet and clipped the previous conference best set by Cedarville’s Daniel Michalski by two seconds.
McCartney helped the Pioneers to a 2-1 finish in a meet that only consisted of Division I schools finishing second to Akron but beating Kent State and Youngstown State