A starter on four consecutive national championship teams, McLean was a three-time All-American. She became the first Cornell player in any sport to earn four national championships. She was named one of the school's top freshmen, sophomore, junior and senior athletes by the Cornell Daily Sun after each of those seasons. She had six goals in the national final as a freshman, eight goals as a sophomore, four goals as a junior and four more during her senior year. In her four seasons, the Big Red went 78-4-5. As a senior, McLean shared the Charles H. Moore Outstanding Senior Varsity Athlete Award.