Year: 2025
Award: Career Achievement
Location/Affiliation: Colorado State University
Two-time NCAA National champion in Shot Put; fifth-best mark in NCAA history
Power. Precision. Perseverance. That’s Mya Lesnar. The Colorado State standout delivered a 2025 season for the history books, capturing the NCAA Outdoor National Championship in the shot put with a massive 19.60-meter throw — the fifth-best mark in collegiate history. She swept four consecutive Mountain West titles across indoor and outdoor competitions and earned first-team All-America honors after a fourth-place finish at Indoor Nationals. Outdoors, she dominated every regular-season meet, broke the CSU Jack Christiansen Track record, and entered NCAA Championships as the only athlete in the nation to surpass 19 meters. In her collegiate finale, she sealed her second consecutive national title on her very first throw. A Mountain West Athlete of the Year and Bowerman Award semifinalist, she leaves CSU as one of the most decorated athletes in program history and a 2x national champion whose impact extends far beyond the record books. At CSU we like to talk about Stalwart Rams… Mya Lesnar’s picture is next to the definition of Stalwart.
