Miné De Klerk Season 2023-24

Career Performance List

Honors
USTFCCCA All-America First Team (Shot Put - 2024 Indoor)
Big Ten Champion (Shot Put - Indoor 2024)
Big Ten Bronze Medalist (Shot Put - Outdoor 2024)
Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Spring 2024)
Pac-12 Team Champion (2022, 2023)

2024
Indoor: Won the Big Ten shot put title with a 56-2 ½ (17.13m)…claimed her first-career First-Team All-America honor, placing seventh at NCAAs in the shot put (56-1 ¾, 17.11m)…recorded a career-best 58-4 ½ (17.79m) in the shot put at the Frank Sevigne, moving up to No. 3 in school history…added a victory at the Graduate Classic, a runner-up finish at the Mark Colligan Memorial and a third-place finish at the Tyson Invitational.

Outdoor: Closed the season at the NCAA West Preliminary Round, placing 13th in the shot put (55-8 ½, 16.98m) and 35th in the discus (168-10, 51.47m)...earned the bronze medal at the Big Ten Championships in the shot put (56-4, 17.17m)...threw the fourth-best shot put mark in school history at the Drake Relays with a 57-6 ½ (17.54m) to take fourth…posted top-three finishes at the Jim Click Shootout with a 57-4 ¾ (17.49m) in the shot put and a 176-10 (53.91m) in the discus…opened the season at the Florida Relays with a fourth-place finish in the discus while hitting eighth-best mark in school history (181-0, 55.17m).

Before Nebraska
Transferred from University of Oregon...Pac-12 Team Champion (2022, 2023)...World Athletics Rising Star nominee (2022)...South African Junior Sportswomen of the Year (2022)... Junior World Champion (shot put, 2021, 2022)...World Junior Championships Bronze Medalist (Discus, 2022)...South African Newcomer of the Year (2021)...World Junior Championships Silver Medalist (Discus, 2021). Graduated from Goudveld High School in 2021.

Personal
Born March 30, 2003 in Gisborne, New Zealand...parents are Ben and Yolandie de Klerk...major is psychology.