Personal information | |
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Birth name | Mya Lynn Lesnar |
Nationality | American |
Born | April 10, 2002 |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Shot put |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | Shot put: 19.10m (Albuquerque, 2024) 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. [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. [14]
She is the daughter of professional wrestler and retired UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar and Nicole McClain. [15] [16] She has a twin brother, Luke, and two half brothers, Turk and Duke from Lesnar's marriage with Rena Greek, known professionally as Sable. She has a step-sister Mariah from Greek’s previous marriage. [17]