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NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships
Maresa Hense Earns Second-Team All-America Honors, Sets New Pentathlon School Record
3/13/2026 6:58:00 PM | Women's Track and Field
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.- Sophomore Maresa Hense earned Second-Team All-America honors in the pentathlon, finishing 9th with a school record 4,231 points at the 2026 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships.
Hense won the first heat of the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.63, finishing 12th in the event overall. In the high jump, Hense set a personal-best mark, clearing 1.72m for a ninth-place finish. Hense finished 10th in the shot put with a throw of 11.38m and 14th in the long jump at 5.83m. Hense capped off the pentathlon with an epic second-place finish in the 800m with a time of 2:11.35.
Hense is the first on the UConn women's side to earn all-America honors in an indoor competition since Susan Aneno (First Team) and Divine Oladipo (Second Team) secured recognition in 2019. Hense joins Tamara Highsmith (2007) as the only Huskies on the women's side to earn all-America recognition in the pentathlon since the event was added to the indoor championships in 2004.
The sophomore from Germany is the first Husky on the women's side to earn multiple All-America honors since Lindsay Crevoiserat in 2012-13, becoming only the tenth in women's program history to record this accomplishment.
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