Bio

Melissa Mueller earned 11 NCAA Division III All-America awards and three individual national titles to help the UW-Oshkosh women’s track & field team to two national titles and five WIAC championships from 1991-94 before excelling as a pole vaulter after her collegiate career.

Mueller led UW-Oshkosh to the outdoor national championship in 1991 and the indoor title in 1994. The nine-time conference champion was also a member of WIAC Indoor Championship teams from 1991-93 and WIAC Outdoor Championship squads in 1991 and 1994.

Individually, Mueller won the 1993 outdoor national crown in the high jump and added indoor titles in 1994 in both the high jump and 55-meter hurdles on her way to being named the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division III Track & Field Athlete of the Year.

Mueller, a member of the WIAC All-Time Women’s Track & Field Team announced in 2012, earned five All-America awards in the high jump, two in both the 55- and 100-meter hurdles, one in the long jump and one as a member of the Titans’ 400-meter relay team.

Mueller’s pole vault career included qualifying for the 2000 Olympic Games, setting two national indoor records and winning the 2003 Pan American Games by establishing a meet record.

The McFarland High School graduate was inducted into the USTFCCCA Division III Hall of Fame in 2004.

Mueller earned a bachelor’s degree in education from UW-Oshkosh in 1995.