Baird 'Blue & Gold' Student-Athlete: Lauren Neiheisel
9/13/2021 12:27:00 PM | Cross Country, Track & Field, Academics and Student Programs
Neiheisel has a 3.94 GPA and is a MAGIS mentor
MILWAUKEE - Women's distance runner Lauren Neiheisel is the Baird Blue & Gold Student-Athlete of the Month for September 2021, as chosen by Marquette Athletics' Academics and Student Programs staff. Neiheisel is a senior on thewomen's cross country and track and field teams in the College of Nursing. She has earned Dean's List, Athletics Director Honor Roll and Chi Alpha Sigma recognition, with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.94. She also was inducted into Sigma Theta Tau (nursing honors society) and is a member of Alpha Sigma Nu, the National Jesuit Honors Society.
She participated in clinicals during the pandemic, and spent her summer at Duke University in a one-on-one professional nursing mentorship program in a critical care ICU unit. Neiheisel is a team captain for women's cross country, and has been part of the MAGIS Mentor program (matched to a high-achieving incoming freshman student-athlete to help them balance school and sport) the past three years.
She is also active in SHAPE (the peer mental health group), and LEAD (leadership development program), and FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes).
Neiheisel was the Marquette women's team's fourth-place finisher at the 2020-21 BIG EAST Cross Country Championships after a second-place team finish in 2019.
2021-22 Blue & Gold Student Athletes of the Month:
September: Lauren Neiheisel, women's cross country/track & field
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