Built for Everything: The Multi-Event Rise of Leeann Redlo
Long Island has a rich tradition of producing elite track and field talent, and Leeann Redlo is one of its finer recent exports. A senior multi-event specialist and high jumper at Towson University in the Coastal Athletic Association, Redlo has spent four years quietly rewriting the record books in Towson, Maryland — earning conference hardware, breaking school records, and establishing herself as one of the more complete field athletes in mid-major Division I track and field. She arrived on campus as a celebrated prep star from Bayport, New York, and she is leaving it as one of the most decorated athletes in Towson track and field history.
Roots: Bayport, Long Island
Leeann Redlo grew up in Bayport, New York, a hamlet on the South Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County. She attended Bayport-Blue Point High School — home of the Phantoms — a small, highly regarded public school of roughly 600 students with a genuine tradition of athletic achievement across multiple sports, including a track and field program that has produced division, county, and state championship teams.
The specifics of Redlo’s earliest days in the sport are not extensively documented in the public record, but the breadth of her eventual athletic profile — high jump, hurdles, long jump, triple jump, shot put, sprint events, combined events — suggests someone who came to track and field with natural athleticism and was then guided through a wide developmental funnel at the prep level. The multi-event athlete does not emerge by accident; the pentathlon and heptathlon demand comfort with discomfort, the ability to shift mindset across wildly different disciplines within a matter of hours, and a competitive toughness that is difficult to teach. Redlo showed all of those qualities early, and by the time she reached her senior year at Bayport-Blue Point, she was one of the most celebrated prep track and field athletes in New York State.
High School Career: A State Leader on Long Island
During the 2021-22 indoor track and field season — her senior year at Bayport-Blue Point — Redlo put together what the Long Island Track and Field Coaches Association subsequently recognized as the most outstanding field performance by any Long Island girl that season. She was named the Most Outstanding Female Athlete of the 2021-22 Long Island indoor campaign, selected by a joint committee of representatives from the Nassau and Suffolk County Track Coaches Associations, NSCHSSA, and USATF Long Island.
The recognition was well earned. She finished the season as the state leader in the high jump with a clearance of 5 feet 7 inches (1.70m) — a mark that ranked No. 1 in all of New York. She was not a one-event athlete, however; that versatility that would later define her college career was already very much present. During that same indoor season, she ranked 5th in New York in the long jump at 18 feet 8¾ inches and 9th in the triple jump at 38 feet 4 inches. On the track, she added a NY #2 ranking in the 55-meter hurdles with a time of 8.15 seconds, a hair outside the state’s top mark. The committee’s article noted simply that her season in the jumping events could be viewed alongside the best male performer of the season — the kind of comparison that does not come lightly.
She was also named 1st Team All Long Island in the high jump that winter, earning the top spot on the official All Long Island selection list — an honor voted on by the full coaching committee, not just recognition from one organization. Competing at the Ocean Breeze Freedom Games in January 2022, she ran 8.53 in the 55-meter hurdles finals, finishing third in a deep field of regional and national competitors, with a preliminary time of 8.59 — strong marks that illustrated her track speed alongside her field event prowess.
By the time she graduated from Bayport-Blue Point in the spring of 2022, Redlo had clearly established herself as a recruit worth watching at the college level. She chose Towson University, a Division I program in the Coastal Athletic Association located just north of Baltimore, Maryland — a program that would prove to be an excellent fit for a multi-event athlete looking to develop across a full slate of disciplines.
Towson University: Freshman Year (2022-23)
Redlo arrived at Towson in the fall of 2022 and made an immediate impact. Her debut indoor season was marked by what Towson’s records described as 14 top-10 finishes — a remarkable level of consistency for a first-year collegiate athlete competing across multiple events against conference-level opposition.
The highlights came fast. In January 2023, she won the 60-meter hurdles at the Gulden Invitational with a personal record of 8.82 seconds. She competed at Penn State’s National Open, posting a 60-meter hurdle time of 8.84. She competed at the Boston University David Hemery Valentine Invitational in February, one of the most competitive indoor meets on the East Coast calendar. In the high jump, her season peaked with a 1.75-meter clearance (5 feet 8¾ inches) at the ECAC Indoor Championships in early March — a mark that at the time stood as the second-best in Towson program history.
At the CAA Indoor Championships in late February 2023, she placed fourth in the pentathlon with 3,354 points — which at the time ranked second in program history. She also finished fifth in the high jump in the standalone event. Then, just one week later, she won the high jump at the ECAC Indoor Championships outright with that 1.75-meter clearance, a title at a prestigious multi-conference championship meet in her first collegiate season.
For all of that, the CAA recognized her as its Rookie of the Year for the 2022-23 indoor season — the first of what would become a growing list of conference honors during her Towson career.
The 2023 outdoor season continued the trajectory. She won the high jump four times over the course of the spring. Her season best in the high jump came at the Knights Invite with a 1.73-meter clearance (5 feet 8 inches). She earned All-CAA Honors in the high jump, finishing second in the conference championships with a 1.68-meter mark. She also placed third in the high jump at the ECAC Outdoor Championships — a second consecutive ECAC podium in the event. On the track, she ran a personal best of 14.69 in the 100-meter hurdles at the CAA Outdoor Championships. She also threw a personal best of 10.43 meters in the triple jump at the Morgan State Legacy Meet. A freshman year that could be measured in terms of school records, conference honors, and ECAC medals had set a clear bar for what was to come.
Sophomore Year (2023-24): Building Consistency
The 2023-24 indoor season saw Redlo continue to develop across all of her disciplines. She opened the season at the NYC Gotham Cup in January 2024, winning the high jump at 1.70 meters. At the Penn State National Open, she competed in the pentathlon, scoring 3,395 points — her best combined event total to that point in the indoor season. At the CAA Indoor Championships, she placed second in the high jump at 1.73 meters and placed fourth in the pentathlon with a personal record of 3,441 points, which became the second-best pentathlon score in Towson program history at the time.
The 2024 outdoor season continued her high jump development. She opened in March at the Towson Spring Opener and the Towson Invitational. At the South Florida Invitational in early April, she cleared 1.75 meters to win the high jump — matching her previous collegiate best. She finished fifth in the CAA Outdoor Championships high jump at 1.70 meters and competed at the Kehoe Twilight at Maryland. Her 100-meter hurdles times improved; she ran 14.61 at the Towson Invitational — getting closer to what would eventually become a top-tier mark. A sophomore season that solidified her as a multi-event contender had her trending in the right direction heading into her junior year.
Junior Year (2024-25): Conference Record-Tying, All-American Path
The 2024-25 season was the year everything crystallized for Leeann Redlo. She entered her junior campaign with established baseline marks in all of her events, and what followed was a systematic dismantling of Towson’s own record book — combined with the kind of conference recognition that confirmed she had moved from promising prospect to genuine star.
The indoor season opened with a CAA Field Athlete of the Week honor in early February 2025, earned after her second-place pentathlon finish at the George Mason Patriot Games with 3,387 points. Her high jump mark of 1.76 meters in that meet was recorded as the 50th-best in the country at that point in the season — a nationally significant mark for a CAA athlete.
At the CAA Indoor Championships in late February, she put together one of the most complete performances of her Towson career. She scored a personal record 3,567 points in the pentathlon to finish second and earn All-CAA Honors. Within that pentathlon, she cleared 1.76 meters in the high jump for first place in that discipline. On the second day, competing in the standalone high jump event, she cleared 1.78 meters to tie the conference record in the event — earning the meet’s Most Outstanding Field Performer award. Her 60-meter hurdles time of 8.84 in the standalone event ranked as a strong mark. Then, a week later at the ECAC Indoor Championships, she raised the bar further by clearing 1.80 meters in the high jump — setting a new Towson school record on her first attempt at that height. At the end of the indoor season, she was named the CAA Field Athlete of the Year, the conference’s top individual honor for a field competitor.
The outdoor season carried the momentum forward. At the Towson Invitational at the end of March, she ran 14.08 in the 100-meter hurdles — a personal best that ranked 4th all-time in program history — and 1:03.59 in the 400-meter hurdles, another personal best. She won the high jump and 100-meter hurdles at the Towson Twilight Senior Meet. She won the high jump at the JMU Invitational. She placed second in the high jump at the Aggie Invitational. At the Penn Relays in April — the oldest and most prestigious track and field meet in the country — she competed in the high jump, finishing eighth overall.
The season’s culmination came at the CAA Outdoor Championships on May 14, where she finished second in the heptathlon with a score of 4,884 points — the second-highest heptathlon score in Towson program history. Her individual event marks within that heptathlon were impressive across the board: 100-meter hurdles in 14.13, high jump at 1.76 meters, 200 meters in 25.91, long jump at 5.62 meters, and 800 meters in 2:33.07. She also competed in the standalone 100-meter hurdles at the same championships. After the CAA meet, she qualified for and competed in the NCAA Division I East Preliminary Round in the high jump — making her one of the few CAA field athletes to reach the national qualifying level.
Senior Year (2025-26): A Record-Setting Farewell Campaign
Coming into her senior season, Redlo was already one of the most accomplished track and field athletes in Towson history. What the 2025-26 campaign has demonstrated is that she was not done adding to that legacy.
The indoor season opened in December 2025 at the Youree Spence Garcia Invitational, where she ran 8.67 in the 60-meter hurdles and leapt 5.87 meters in the long jump. In January 2026, she won the high jump at the Penn Select with a clearance of 1.78 meters. She was named CAA Field Athlete of the Week for the week of January 13 — her second such recognition of her career — after her Penn Select performance.
At the Penn State National Open at the end of January, she competed in the pentathlon and scored 3,758 points — by far her best indoor pentathlon total to that point in the season — placing fourth overall against a strong field that included athletes from programs across multiple Division I conferences. Her shot put within that competition reached 10.40 meters, a mark that would stand as one of her strongest throws on record.
At the PSU Sykes & Sabock Challenge in early February, she won the high jump by clearing 1.81 meters (5 feet 11¼ inches) and leapt 5.87 meters in the long jump for second place. Both marks were near or at personal-best territory. Then came the 2026 CAA Indoor Championships on February 22-23 — and Redlo saved her finest performance for the conference’s biggest stage.
In the pentathlon, she posted a massive personal record of 3,831 points to win the event outright — the first conference championship of her combined event career. Her individual contributions within that pentathlon score were remarkable: a long jump of 5.71 meters, a shot put of 10.15 meters, a high jump of 1.82 meters (6 feet ½ inch), 60-meter hurdles in 8.61 seconds, and an 800 meters in 2:43. In the standalone high jump on the same day, she cleared 1.82 meters again — a new Towson school record. In the standalone long jump, she leapt 5.92 meters (19 feet 5¼ inches) to place third and set a personal best that ranked second all-time in Towson program history. In the standalone 60-meter hurdles, she ran a personal best of 8.58 seconds to rank fourth all-time at Towson. She was recognized as the CAA’s Most Outstanding Field Performer of the Meet for the second consecutive year.
The 2026 outdoor season was still underway at the time of this writing, with Redlo competing in individual events as she builds toward the CAA Outdoor Championships and what promises to be a formidable heptathlon defense. At the George Mason Dalton Ebanks Invitational in early April, she ran 14.24 in the 100-meter hurdles and cleared 1.73 meters in the high jump. At the South Florida Invitational on April 10-11, she equaled her personal best with a 14.08 in the 100-meter hurdles and cleared 1.78 meters in the high jump for second place. At the Legacy Track & Field Meet on April 17-18, she won the high jump at 1.75 meters while also competing in the javelin. She has, across those early outdoor meets, already shown the same methodical approach to building toward her peak that has defined each of her previous outdoor campaigns.
Program Records and All-Time Lists
By the conclusion of her senior indoor season, Leeann Redlo appeared on multiple Towson all-time performance lists across several disciplines. She holds the school record in the indoor high jump at 1.82 meters (set at the 2026 CAA Championships). Her long jump of 5.92 meters ranks second all-time in program history. Her pentathlon score of 3,831 ranks among the program’s all-time best. Her 60-meter hurdles time of 8.58 ranks among the top five in program history. Her outdoor heptathlon score of 4,884 stands as the second-best in Towson history. Her outdoor 100-meter hurdles personal best of 14.08 ranks among the top marks in Towson program history. She is one of the few athletes at any program to appear on multiple all-time lists spanning sprints, hurdles, jumps, throws, and combined events simultaneously.
Conference Honors Summary
Redlo’s conference recognition across four years at Towson constitutes one of the more complete individual award profiles in CAA track and field. As a freshman in the 2022-23 indoor season, she was named CAA Rookie of the Year. As a junior in the 2024-25 indoor season, she was named CAA Field Athlete of the Year — the conference’s highest individual honor for a field competitor. In both the 2024-25 and 2025-26 indoor CAA Championships, she was recognized as the Most Outstanding Field Performer of the Meet. She has earned multiple All-CAA honors in the combined events across both indoor and outdoor seasons, and she earned CAA Field Athlete of the Week recognition in both 2025 and 2026. Her high jump clearance of 1.78 meters tied the CAA indoor conference record during the 2024-25 season; her subsequent clearance of 1.82 meters now stands as her personal collegiate best.
Competitive Profile
What makes Redlo’s profile particularly interesting as a multi-event athlete is the range of disciplines she competes in at a genuinely high level. The heptathlon — which comprises the 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200 meters, long jump, javelin throw, and 800 meters — rewards those who can attack their weakest events rather than simply accumulate points in their favorites. Redlo’s hurdles times in the 14.08 range, her high jump marks above 1.80 meters, and her long jump distances pushing toward 6 meters all represent legitimate points-scorers on any heptathlon table. Her continued development in the shot put and javelin — the events that often separate mid-level heptathletes from scoring potential at higher levels — has been notable across her four years.
She has also demonstrated the willingness to compete individually in multiple events outside the combined format — entering standalone 100-meter hurdles, high jump, long jump, and 400-meter hurdles races across multiple outdoor seasons. This individual event versatility, and the competitive results she has posted in those events, speaks to an athlete who genuinely excels at the component parts rather than simply assembling a combined event total from average performances.
Looking Forward
As her Towson career heads toward its conclusion in the spring of 2026, Leeann Redlo has the tools, trajectory, and event profile to continue competing at a high level beyond the collegiate stage. Heptathletes with her combination of high jump ability, hurdles speed, and sprint strength represent a valuable athlete type in the post-collegiate development pipeline, whether at the club level, through USATF competition structures, or in pursuit of national qualifying standards.
Her NCAA Division I East Preliminary Round appearance in the high jump in 2025 demonstrated that she can compete at the national level in individual field events. Her combined event scores are on an upward curve that, with continued development in her weaker disciplines, could push toward the kinds of numbers that earn appearances at USATF championships or open competition at invitational meets that draw international-caliber heptathletes.
Whatever the next chapter holds, the record she has built at Towson — the school records, the conference championship, the multiple All-CAA honors, the CAA Rookie of the Year, the CAA Field Athlete of the Year — tells the story of an athlete who arrived with exceptional natural gifts and then worked systematically to maximize every one of them. For a multi-event athlete from a small Long Island school, that kind of career represents exactly what the discipline is supposed to look like at its best.
Personal & Miscellaneous
Leeann Redlo is a native of Bayport, New York, and a graduate of Bayport-Blue Point High School. She competes for Towson University in Towson, Maryland, in the Coastal Athletic Association at the NCAA Division I level. Her primary events are the heptathlon (outdoor), pentathlon (indoor), high jump, and 60/100-meter hurdles. She also competes in the long jump, shot put, javelin, and sprint events. No verified personal social media profiles or current sponsor affiliations were confirmed in available public records at the time of this writing.
Career Bests
- High Jump (Indoor): 1.82m (5′ 11.5″) — 2026 CAA Indoor Track & Field Championship (Towson School Record)
- High Jump (Outdoor): 1.78m (5′ 10″) — South Florida Invitational, April 10–11, 2026
- Long Jump (Indoor): 5.92m (19′ 5.25″) — 2026 CAA Indoor Track & Field Championship
- Long Jump (Outdoor): 5.68m (18′ 7.75″) — UCF Black & Gold Challenge, March 21–22, 2025
- Triple Jump (Outdoor): 10.43m (34′ 2.75″) — Morgan State Legacy Meet, April 22, 2023
- 60m Hurdles (Indoor): 8.58 — 2026 CAA Indoor Track & Field Championship
- 100m Hurdles (Outdoor): 14.08 — Towson Invitational, March 28–29, 2025; South Florida Invitational, April 10–11, 2026
- 400m Hurdles (Outdoor): 1:03.59 — Towson Invitational, March 28–29, 2025
- 200m (Outdoor): 25.91 — CAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship, May 14, 2025
- Shot Put: 10.40m (34′ 1.5″) — Penn State National Open, January 30–31, 2026
- Javelin: 22.23m (72′ 11″) — CAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship, May 14, 2025
- Pentathlon (Indoor): 3,831 points — 2026 CAA Indoor Track & Field Championship (1st place, CAA Champion)
- Heptathlon (Outdoor): 4,884 points — CAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship, May 14, 2025 (2nd place, All-CAA)















































































