Carnevale Earns All-American Recognition

River Dell High School alum Stephanie Carnevale recently earned All-American honors by finishing seventh in the 60-meter hurdles at the NCAA Championships. Carnevale, who graduated River Dell in 2010, is currently a junior at Muhlenberg College.

Carnevale, who got into the national meet as the 15th and last qualifier, posted the seventh-fastest qualifying time with a school-record 8.85, to advance to the final. The time shaved over a tenth of a second off her previous school-record-setting personal best to break the Centennial Conference record.

In the final, Carnevale crossed the finish line in 8.95 seconds, a hundredth of a second ahead of the eighth-place finisher and making her the first junior in program history to earn indoor All-America honors.

A few weeks earlier, she won a gold medal in the hurdles at the CC Championships, improving from a third-place finish last year. She also won a silver medal in the 60-meter dash, breaking another school record with a time of 8.03 seconds. She also finished fifth in the 200-meter dash, and her time of 27.30 seconds ranks her in fifth place on Muhlenberg’s all-time list. 

Carnevale qualified for the ECAC Championships in both the 60-meter dash and the 60-meter hurdles and competed in the hurdles en route to qualifying for the NCAA Championships.

According to Muhlenberg College, Carnevale is only the second indoor All-American in the school's women’s track and field history, and the first junior to accomplish the feat. Alex Faust was the other, placing sixth in the pole vault in her senior season of 2010.

Carnevale is currently majoring in business administration at Muhlenberg. During her time at River Dell, she also set several time-breaking records in the 55m hurdles, 100m hurdles, high jump and long jump during the indoor and outdoor track seasons.