2025-26 Women's Track & Field Roster
Melissa Wullschleger
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Olten, Switzerland
- High School:
- Schulen KVBL
- Major:
- Recreation, Sport and Tourism
 All-American Heptathlon (Outdoor '25) |
 Big Ten Freshman of the Year (Outdoor '25) |
 1x NCAA Championships Qualifier |
 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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