Lela Nelson (2017) - E-Club Athletic Hall of Fame - Eastern Michigan University Athletics

Lela Nelson

Induction:
2017
Class:
2005

Graduated in 2005...Earned several varsity letters for the women’s track and field indoor and outdoor teams from 2002-2005...Earned the Mid-American Conference indoor long jump title in 2004...Earned MAC Indoor Championship First Team honors in 2004 and Second Team honors in 2003 and 2005...Earned MAC Outdoor Championship Titles in the 100-meter hurdles, long jump, and the 400-meter Relay Team...Voted the 2005 MAC Outdoor Championship Most Valuable Performer ...Named MAC Outdoor First Team in 2005...2005 NCAA Division I Outdoor Champion in the heptathlon...Two-time outdoor NCAA All-American in the heptathlon and long jump (2005)...Left EMU holding eight EMU all-time records including the outdoor 100-meter high hurdles (13.34), long jump (21-3.5), heptathlon (5,878), the 400-meter relay team (44.99), the 800-meter relay team (1:33.8), the 1600-meter relay team (3:36.23) and indoor in the pentathlon (3,894) and the 1600-meter relay team (3:38.49)...Won the 2006 USA Indoor Pentathlon Championship while placing sixth in the long jump at the same meet...Placed fourth in the heptathlon at the 2006 USA Outdoor Championships...Had the top performance of the women’s long jump at the 2008 Reebok Boston Indoor Games, with a 6.50-meter mark...Represented the USA at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships in the long jump as the only female EMU National Champion born in the US...Qualified for the Olympic Trials in both the long jump and the heptathlon.