Kevin McDermott

Position:
Distance
Height:
5-9
Weight:
0
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
West Hempstead, N.Y.
High School:
Chaminade

Junior: Had most successful cross-country season of his career by finishing all six of his races in 2007 among Duke’s top three runners, and earning his first All-East honors in the sport with an 8th place overall finish at the IC4A championships at Van Cortlandt Park. McDermott led all Blue Devil harriers across the line at the Lou Onesty meet in Charlottesville, leading Duke to a 1st place finish in a 9 team field. Kevin was #2 man for Duke at Oregon and at the Blue Ridge Open. After a demanding cross-country season, Kevin saw limited action indoors and struggled to regain his form until he clocked 9:17.07 in the 3000 steeple at the Duke Invite. He finally qualified for the IC4A championships (his third consecutive year) by clocking 9:13.66 to place 4th at the Duke Twilight meet on May 4th.

PB outdoors: no changes

Honors: All-East XC (2008)
All- East indoors (2006)

Junior: Turned in most successful cross country season of his career by finishing all six of his races in 2007 among Duke’s top three runners ... earned first All-East honors in the sport with an eighth place overall finish at the IC4A championships at Van Cortlandt Park ... led all Blue Devil harriers across the line at the Lou Onesty meet in Charlottesville, Va., leading Duke to a first place finish in a nine-team field ... No. 2. runner for Duke at Oregon and the Blue Ridge Open ... after a demanding cross country season, saw limited action indoors and struggled to regain form until he clocked 9:17.07 in the 3,000m steeple at the Duke Invite ... qualified for the IC4A championships for third straight year by clocking 9:13.66 to place fourth at the Duke Twilight meet May 4 ...

Sophomore: After a cross country season that solidified him as a scoring member of the team, he placed fifth in the ACC Outdoor Championships with a personal best 9:03.73 ... ranks No. 4 all-time in school history in that event ... that performance qualified him for both the IC4A Championships and the NCAA East Regional Championships ...

Freshman: Solid contributor in cross country as a freshman who came up biggest when the team needed him most at the NCAA Southeast Regional, running as the No. 4 man for Duke in his first ever 10,000m in a time of 31:52.5 to help the Blue Devils place fourth in the region ... indoors ran a solid 3,000m at the Armory Collegiate meet in New York with a 8:34.85 collegiate debut ... his best undercover race came at the IC4A Championships in Boston, when he ran a 4:17 anchor on the Duke DMR to lead the Blue Devils into the final ... for his efforts earned his first All-East nod when Duke placed seventh in the IC4A final ... had three sub-9:20 clockings as a freshman in the 3,000m steeplechase, including a 9:18.33 to place fifth at the Penn Relays Olympic Development race, and a 9:15.01 to place 10th in the ACC steeple and qualify him for the IC4As ... he was the only Duke frosh to qualify for the IC4As outdoors as an individual, and was Duke’s outdoor freshman of the year in 2006 ...

Prep: Earned a spot on the U.S. Junior National Team in the steeplechase with his second-place finish at the USATF Junior National Championship in Carson, Calif. ... an All-America in both the indoor two-mile, where he placed fifth in 9:19.88, and the 2,000m steeplechase, where he placed third and owns a personal best of 5:53 ... best performance may have been winning the New York state title in the 3,000m steeple, where he clocked a 9:13.90 ... was third in the New York state meet in cross country ... ran 12:56 for 2.5 miles at Van Cortland Park ... placed 11th at the Footlocker NE Region.