MBHS Grads Among Top Frosh Runners

A pair of Morro Bay High grads made a big splash this season at college, with one being named “Freshman of the Year,” in the Great South Athletic Conference.
Natalie Marquart and Shannon McClish, both freshmen at U.C. Santa Cruz recently capped off a great regular season in the NCAA Div. III GSAC, according to a news release from the conference. Marquart showed steady improvement all year and was named to conference’s “Freshman of the Year” and both she and McClish were named to the 2015 GASC All-Freshman Team.
Their Banana Slug teammate, Cailtlin Devlin of Elk Grove, Calif., was named “Runner of the Year.” Marquart drew special recognition in the conference’s news release, saying that she, “is expected to add needed depth this championship season and be a top performer in the future for the Slugs. Her lifetime best performance at Bronco Invitational with a 6k time of 23:57 puts her on pace to be one of the best runners the Slugs have ever had.”
Founded in 1999, the GSAC was formed by a group of Div. III schools from the Southeast that had similar academic and athletic interests, according to the GSAC website.