Jamie Falcone Receives Green Terror Sports Hall of Fame Award from McDaniel College

WESTMINSTER, MD (11/04/2011)(readMedia)-- Jamie Falcone of Reisterstown, Md., receives the Green Terror Sports Hall of Fame award from McDaniel College. She is a 2001 alumna of the college.

Presented annually during McDaniel's Homecoming, the Green Terror Sports Hall of Fame award is presented to a graduate and former athlete who has performed outstandingly as an undergraduate athlete and who has contributed to society since leaving the college.

Jamie Falcone was involved in indoor and outdoor track at McDaniel. She still holds the Centennial Conference and the championship meet records in indoor track in the 55m dash and the 200m. In outdoor track, she still holds the Centennial Conference and the championship meet records in the 100m dash, the 200m dash and the 4 x 100 m relay. Her 24.02 time from the Towson Last Chance meet in 2000 is the 10th best time ever run by a NCAA III athlete. She earned All-American honors in the 100m dash, finishing in sixth place in 2000.

Falcone earned a bachelor's degree in sociology with a minor in human resources development at McDaniel in 2001. She was actively involved on campus as a member of both Capboard and Circle K.

A logistics executive with Target, she continues to run in her free time and enjoys working out.

For more information about McDaniel College, visit www.mcdaniel.edu.

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McDaniel College, recognized nationally among "40 Colleges that Change Lives" and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 60 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 20 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.