Meghan O'Donoghue
Meghan O'Donoghue
Height: 5-2
Year: 2014
Hometown: Talbott, Tenn.
Team: Women's Cross Country, Track & Field
Award: Woman of the Year

Meaghan O’Donoghue added two prestigious honors to her resume at the close of her Golden Eagle running career, in addition to accepting her degree as a May graduate. She was selected co-winner of the Derryberry Award for her moral and academic integrity, campus involvement, good citizenship, leadership qualities and physical vigor. and she was named CoSIDA Academic All-District first-team. She graduated with honors, maintaining a 4.0 GPA in French and political science. During the 2013 cross country season, she ran a season-best 5K time of 20:37.88 at the Vanderbilt Invitational, and ran in 25 of Tech's 27 cross country meets during her four-year career, including all 20 during her final three years. She was the recipient of the team’s Most Dedicated Runner Award. In track, she has competed in the 3,000m, 5,000m and 10,000m races, hitting personal records in the 3,000m indoor with a time of 11:37.28, the 3,000m outdoor at 11:08.89, and 10,000m with a PR time of 40:49.58.  She served as the secretary of the Tennessee Tech student-athlete advisory committee (SAAC), was a senator for TTU’s SGA and was awarded the OVC Academic Medal of Honor four times and made the dean’s list and OVC Commissioner’s Honor Roll from 2010 to 2014.  She has also served as a French tutor and WIN program tutor. Meghan was also a member of the executive council of TTU’s Newman Catholic Campus Ministries and served as treasurer from 2012 to 2014.