| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Mya Lynn Lesnar |
| Nationality | American |
| Born | April 10, 2002 |
| Alma mater | Colorado State University |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Shot put |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | Shot put: 19.06m (Ft. Collins, 2025) Hammer: 63.50m (Long Beach, 2023) Discus: 53.62m (Clovis, 2023) Weight throw: 22.06m (Albuquerque, 2024) |
Mya Lynn Lesnar (born April 10, 2002) [1] is an American track and field athlete. In 2024, she became the NCAA indoor champion in the shot put and won the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships. [2]
A native of Alexandria, Minnesota, [3] she attended Alexandria Area High School. [4] In April 2019, she set a Central Lakes Conference Indoor Track Championship Meet record in the shot put. [5]
Lesnar spent her freshman and sophomore college years at Arizona State University before transferring colleges after the 2021–22 school year. [6] She won the weight throw at the Mountain West Indoor Championships on February 25, 2023 with a personal best throw of 20.68m. [7]
In December 2023, she set a new Colorado State University women‘s shot put record with a throw of 18.50 metres at the Mines Alumni Classic. [8] [9] The previous school record had stood at 17.55 metres. [10] In February 2024, she recorded a personal best distance of 22.06m in the weight throw in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Mountain West Championship. [11] At the same event, she extended her shot put personal best to 19.10 metres. [12]
Competing at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Boston, Massachusetts, she won the shot put competition with a throw of 18.53 metres. [13]
In May 2024, she won the women's Mountain West Outdoor Championship with a shot put distance of 19.08 meters, a new outdoors personal best.
A year later on May 3, 2025 Mya threw a personal best of 19.60 meters to break the CSU program and facility (Jack Christiansen Field) record. This was also the best outdoor shot put throw by any female in the NCAA in 2025. [14] She threw 19.01 metres to win the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon in June 2025, 16cm ahead of second place Abria Smith. [15] [16] She finished in tenth place at the 2025 Prefontaine Classic on 5 July. [17]
Mya Lesnar is the daughter of professional wrestler and retired mixed martial artist Brock Lesnar and Nicole McClain. She has a twin brother, Luke. She has two half-brothers, Turk and Duke, from Lesnar's marriage with Rena Greek, known professionally as Sable. She also has a step-sister, Mariah, from Greek’s previous marriage. [18]
Lesnar is currently in a relationship with San Francisco 49ers guard Drew Moss, who also attended Colorado State. [19]
