Pearson Earns All-American 2nd Team Honors
Lauren Pearson capped her first collegiate indoor seasons by earning All-American Second Team honors at the NCAA National Indoor Track & Field Championship Meet in Birmingham, Ala.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (3/13/26)—-Lauren Pearson capped her first collegiate indoor seasons by earning All-American Second Team honors at the NCAA National Indoor Track & Field Championship Meet in Birmingham, Ala.
Pearson finished her first year as a collegiate multi-evener by placing 14th in the pentathlon. Pearson finished the five events with a total of 3,470 points. That total was only two points shy of her school record mark she set last month at the MIAC Championship Meet.
Pearson's top-scoring event at nationals came in the 60-meter hurdles where she ran a 9.14 and earned 881 points.
Pearson then cleared 5-04.50 which was the third best mark of the 20 competitors and gave her 783 points - which was her second highest scoring event of the day,
Pearson also went above 600 points in the long jump and 800 meters - the final two events of the pentathlon. She scored 601 points in the long jump by posting a distance of 16-10.75. That mark was No.9 in the event for the pentathletes.
Her long jump mark was over eight inches farther than what she finished with at the MIAC pentathlon.
Pearson finished off her first national meet by running a 2:30.12 in the 800 meters which gave her 691 points.
The Cobber 4x400-meter relay team of Emily Rengo, Josie Brown, Emma Warner and Kyla Nygaard placed 12th at the national meet with a time of 3:52.92 in the second heat of the prelims which missed out on qualifying for the finals by a little over :04 seconds. CC qualified for nationals by recording a school-record time of 3:50.42 at last weekend's Warburg Last Chance meet.
Nygaard was the other Concordia athlete to qualify for nationals in an individual event. She ran in the 800 meters on Friday and cane through with a time of 2:15.11 in the prelims.
Concordia is scheduled to start the outdoor portion of its schedule on Mar. 28 at the CSB Optimistic Open.
