Hall of Fame
The most decorated female track & field student-athlete in UCM history, Lettow was a four-time national champion and a 16-time All-American. She won the 2011 and 2012 pentathlon and heptathlon national titles and earned nine indoor All-America honors and seven outdoor. She was a four-time United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Field Athlete of the Year and was a 2012 NCAA Today’s Top 10 Award winner as one of the top 10 student-athletes in the nation in all divisions. She was the 2011-12 NCAA Division II Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year. She won 15 MIAA Championships during her career while amassing 40 All-MIAA honors. She was a two-time Ken B. Jones Award winner as the MIAA’s top female student-athlete, one of just three student-athletes all time to win the award twice. She is one of only two all-time to be named a unanimous winner of the award. She is UCM’s career record holder in the pentathlon with 4,193 points , heptathlon (5,807 points), 600 yard run (1:23.45), 60m hurdles (8.50), 100m hurdles (13.69), 400m hurdles (58.90), and outdoor 200m (24.47). She ranks in the top 10 in seven other events and also in two relays. She finished eighth at the 2012 and 10th at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials in the heptathlon. Continues to train with the Santa Barbara Track Club and has competed in multiple Thorpe Cup (annual heptathlon and decathlon competition between the USA and Germany) competitions as part of Team USA. Lettow was the 2011-12 NCAA Division II Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year, was a four-time MIAA Scholar-Athlete and MIAA Academic Honor Roll member, awarded a prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, Two-time D-II CCA Regional Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Three-time National Women’s Track & Field All-Academic Team. ¬¬Vice President in charge of external operations – UCM Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) … served as a member of the Jennies “Literacy Team” that visited local elementary schools to read newly purchased books to young students … Active participant in Mules and Jennies for Joplin bracelet distribution and clothing drive to aid tornado relief in Joplin … a member of the student organization Psi Chi, which is active in the department of psychological science to contribute to the community and the profession ... participant for Angel Tree … volunteered at Warrensburg Manor Nursing Home and Warrensburg Veterans Home … volunteered to tutor fellow UCM students in Spanish... In the falls she could be found putting her musical talents to work singing the National Anthem before UCM home sporting events … worked with Soles for Souls, an organization that collects shoes for people in third-world countries.