Liberty Athletics Hall of Fame
Danielle (McNaney) Detmer
- Induction:
- 2018
- Class:
- 2005
Women’s Track & Field: 2002-05
Danielle [McNaney] Detmer is the most decorated multi-event female athlete in Liberty’s track & field program history, having set records that stood for more than a decade.
During her stellar four-year career, Detmer helped the Lady Flames capture three Big South Indoor Track Championship titles (2002, 2003 and 2005) and a pair of Big South Outdoor Track & Field Championship titles (2002 and 2003). She was a 13-time Big South champion and was the 2003 Big South Most Outstanding Track Performer at the outdoor track championship where she tallied 46 points to lead her team to the conference title.
Detmer is the only three-time ECAC champion in program history, finishing as the pentathlon champion in 2004 and 2005 and the heptathlon champion in 2005. She set a Liberty and Big South record with 5,504 points when she won the 2005 Penn Relays heptathlon. She competed in the heptathlon at three NCAA Division I Outdoor Track Championships, finishing as high as 11th place in 2005.
The native of Gardner, Kan., was a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-American (2004: second team; 2005: first team) and was named to the Big South Women’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2005. Following her career, she competed in both the U.S. Olympic Team Trials and USATF Outdoor Track & Field Championships and helped Team USA win the 2006 Thorpe Cup title.
Danielle [McNaney] Detmer is the most decorated multi-event female athlete in Liberty’s track & field program history, having set records that stood for more than a decade.
During her stellar four-year career, Detmer helped the Lady Flames capture three Big South Indoor Track Championship titles (2002, 2003 and 2005) and a pair of Big South Outdoor Track & Field Championship titles (2002 and 2003). She was a 13-time Big South champion and was the 2003 Big South Most Outstanding Track Performer at the outdoor track championship where she tallied 46 points to lead her team to the conference title.
Detmer is the only three-time ECAC champion in program history, finishing as the pentathlon champion in 2004 and 2005 and the heptathlon champion in 2005. She set a Liberty and Big South record with 5,504 points when she won the 2005 Penn Relays heptathlon. She competed in the heptathlon at three NCAA Division I Outdoor Track Championships, finishing as high as 11th place in 2005.
The native of Gardner, Kan., was a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-American (2004: second team; 2005: first team) and was named to the Big South Women’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2005. Following her career, she competed in both the U.S. Olympic Team Trials and USATF Outdoor Track & Field Championships and helped Team USA win the 2006 Thorpe Cup title.
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