Lauren Collins

Lauren Collins

Year: Senior
Hometown: Lake Forest, Calif.
High School: Santa Margarita HS
Position: Multi

UCI:

2009: Finished ninth in the high jump finals at the NCAA Track & Field Championships at McDonnell Field in Fayetteville, Ark. Cleared 5-10 ¾ to place ninth of the 15 jumpers...Finished third in the high jump with a mark of 6-0 ½ to finish third as the top five finishers in individual events at the regional advance to the NCAA Championships...Broke her own school record in winning the event at the Big West Conference Championships with a mark of 6-1...Placed third in the long jump at 19-4 ¼ for the third-best mark in school history at the Asics/Steve Scott Invitational hosted by UCI. All at the same event she placed fourth in the high jump at 5-10 ¾ and anchored UCI's 4x400 relay that finished first in a season-best 3:46.83...Placed second in the javelin throw (116-11), the high jump (5-7) and the long jump (18-1 ¾), and she was third in the 100-meter hurdles (14.50) at the Big West Challenge Cup...She won the Northridge Spring Break Open multi event Heptathlon with a school record of 5,549 points, breaking her own record set in 2007 (14.20 in the 100-meter hurdles, 5-10 in the high jump, 36-3 in the shot put, 25.41 in the 200 meters, 18-8 in the long jump, 116-3 in the javelin throw and 2:17.27 in the 800 meters)...At the All UC Meet hosted by UCI she won the event with a mark of 6-0. She won the long jump with a mark of 19-0, tying Kristi Kaufmann (1991) for No. 4 in school history.

2008: Indoor - Finished 13th in Pentathlon at NCAA Indoor Championships (3,882 pts)...Won the Pentathlon at ISU Classic (4,087 pts), a UCI record...Finished fourth in Pentathlon at Husker Invitational (3,792 pts).

2007: Outdoor- Finished 14th in the heptathlon (5,505 points) at the 2007 NCAA Outdoor Championships...Placed ninth in the high jump (5-7 ¼) at the 2007 NCAA West Regional...Won the heptathlon at the 2007 Big West Conference Championships with a school-record total of 5,512 points...Finished second in the high jump (5-11 ¼) and was fourth in the 100-meter hurdles in a school-record 13.96 at the Big West Championships...Holds school record in the high jump with mark of 5-11 ¼ at the Stanford Invitational Mar. 30...Won the heptathlon at the Spring Break Open in Northridge...Named Big West Athlete of the Week twice in 2007 and three times in her UCI career.

Indoor- Finished second in the pentathlon with 3,963 points over five events at the 2007 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Indoor.

2006: Outdoor- Qualified for the NCAA West Regional Outdoor Championships in the high jump as a freshman...Finished third in the high jump and she was fourth in the heptathlon with 4,900 points at the 2006 Big West Conference Outdoor Championships.

Santa Margarita Catholic High School:

Two-time CIF 100HH champion...State Championship competitor junior year (100HH and high jump) and senior year (high jump)...Four-time MVP and Scholar-Athlete...School record holder in the 100HH and high jump.

Personal:

Sociology major with a minor in education...Volunteer at TACA...Volunteer at Big Brothers and Big Sisters charity event...Big West Scholar-Athlete...Named UCI/Big West Scholar-Athlete of the year in 2010 as well as Lauds and Laurels Senior Athlete of the Year...Named UCI Scholar-Athlete in 2009.