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2025-26 Women's Track & Field Roster

Melissa Wullschleger

  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Olten, Switzerland
  • High School Schulen KVBL
  • Instagram melissa.wullschleger

Biography

USA Button All-American Heptathlon (Outdoor '25)
Big Ten Logo white Big Ten Freshman of the Year (Outdoor '25)
NCAA Badge 1x NCAA Championships Qualifier
Badge Illinois 2 Illinois Record - Heptathlon

2025

Indoor

  • Placed seventh at the Big Ten Indoor Championships in the pentathlon with the program's fourth-highest score (3,984 points)
  • Set a new personal best in the long jump 6.07m (19-11) at the Fighting Illini Open

Outdoor

  • NCAA All-American (Heptathlon)
  • Big Ten Freshman of the Year
  • NCAA Championships qualifier (Heptathlon)
  • Broke the program record heptathlon en route to becoming an All-American at the NCAA Outdoor Championships (5,928 points)
    • Program's first All-American in the event since Carmel Corbett in 1996 and collects the school's third heptathlon All-America honor
  • Placed fourth at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships in the heptathlon (5,749 points)
  • Threw the program's third-furthest javelin, 44.20m (145-0), at the NCAA Outdoor Championships

INTERNATIONAL

Earned fifth place in the heptathlon at the 2023 U20 European Athletics Championships.

PERSONAL

Daughter of Peter and Poovi Wullschleger … Has one sibling, Natascha … Intended major is sociology.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2024-25Freshman

    Heptathlon
  • 2025-26Sophomore

    Heptathlon