Laulauga Tausaga-Collins (born 22 May 1998 in
Hawaii) is an American discus thrower. With a throw of 63.71 m (Minsk, 2019), her personal best, she has qualified for the
2020 Olympic Games
The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July.
Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...
. She improved her best to 63.94 m for qualifying to the final at the
2019 World Athletics Championships
The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athletics. It was held betw ...
in Doha.
Professional
Tausaga made the women's discus final at 2019 world championships, won silver medals in discus at the 2019 match and 2019 NACAC U-23 Championships. Tausaga won discus at
2017 Pan American U20 Athletics Championships
The 2017 Pan American U20 Athletics Championships was the nineteenth edition of the biennial track and field competition for under-20 athletes from the Americas, organised by the Association of Panamerican Athletics. It was held in Trujillo, Peru ...
.
International
USA National championships
University of Iowa
Laulauga Tausaga-Collins is a 2019 NCAA Discus champion, 8-time
NCAA Division 1 All-American, 6-time
Big Ten Conference champion, & 12-time All-
Big Ten Conference scorer.
LAULAUGA TAUSAGA (SR-4) IOWA
Track and Field Results Reporting System
Prep
Tausaga won 2014 CIF San Diego Section Shot put title in and 2015 CIF San Diego Section Shot put title in while representing Mount Miguel High School
Mount Miguel High School is a public, comprehensive high school located in Spring Valley, California and serves over 1,400 students in grades nine through twelve. Opened in 1957, Mount Miguel is the fourth of twelve high schools constructed in t ...
.
At the 2015 CIF California State Meet
The CIF California State Meet is the annual championship track and field meet for the California Interscholastic Federation. The meet was started in 1915 for boys and 1974 for girls. Every athlete in every high school in California has a direc ...
, she placed 3rd in the shot put .
References
External links
IAAF profileprofile
World Athletics
Laulauga Tausaga-Collins profile
USATF
Lagi Tausaga's profile
Iowa Hawkeyes
The Iowa Hawkeyes are the athletic teams that represent the University of Iowa, located in Iowa City, Iowa. The Hawkeyes have varsity teams in 22 sports, 8 for men and 14 for women; a 15th women's sport will be added in 2023. The teams partici ...
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American female discus throwers
1998 births
Living people
Iowa Hawkeyes women's track and field athletes
Track and field athletes from Hawaii
American female shot putters
American female hammer throwers
World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States
Sportspeople from Hawaii
People from Hawaii
People from Spring Valley, San Diego County, California
American women's volleyball players
American women's basketball players
University of Iowa alumni
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