EUGENE, Ore. – The best 100m hurdles athlete in MVC history now has a proper title to go alongside that recognition: First Team All-American.
 
Rachel Mehringer earned the distinction Saturday evening at Hayward Field, placing seventh in the 100m hurdles at the NCAA Outdoor National Championships with a time of 12.99. It was her second All-America honor of her career, after earning Second Team All-America honors in 2025 with a 13th-place finish.
 
The seventh-place finish by the Sycamore superstar was the highest finish by a 100m hurdles athlete in Missouri Valley Conference history and made her just the second First Team All-American in the event in conference history, joining Kathleen Raske of Southern Illinois in 1989.
 
Saturday's performance was Mehringer's ninth time breaking 13 seconds this season, all of which have come since May 1. She ran the top five 100m hurdles times in MVC history during the 2026 outdoor season and owns 21 of the top 23 times in the event in conference history, including nine of the top 10. Mehringer ran six wind-legal sub-13 times in the event this season, the only six wind-legal times under 13 seconds in conference history.
 
Mehringer became Indiana State's first First Team All-American in any event since Erin Reese in 2019 and the Sycamores' first 100m hurdles First Team All-American in program history with her performance in Saturday's final. She also guaranteed Indiana State's first points at a national championship since 2019, when the Sycamores finished with eight points.
 
Mehringer's collegiate season ended with Saturday's result, but she will represent the Blue and White on a bigger stage next month. Her postseason performances at the NCAA East First Round and NCAA Outdoor Championships qualified her for the USATF Outdoor Championships July 23-26 in New York City.
 
Up Next
Indiana State will have multiple athletes competing on the international stage in the coming weeks, starting with the USATF and Canada U20 Championships June 18-20. Kieran Barnewall will continue the Hurdle U tradition at the Canada U20 Championships June 19-20 in Ottawa, while throwers Ben Brown and Theo Thurmond will represent the Blue and White at the USATF U20 Championships June 18-19 in Eugene, Oregon.
 
Mehringer will be joined at the USATF Outdoor Championships in July by another Sycamore great, as three-time All-American and 2024 Olympian Erin Reese will compete in the hammer throw.
 
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