Deyanneira Colon Maldonado

  • Award
    Student-Athlete of the Week - Women's Track
  • Week Of
    3/2/2025
  • Sport
    Indoor Track & Field
  • School
    Aurora University
  • Year
    Senior
  • Position
    Distance
  • Hometown
    Aurora, Ill.
  • High School
    East Aurora
Colon Maldonado, a senior, won her second consecutive NACC Women's Track Athlete of the Meet honor after sweeping the four longest individual running events - the 800, the mile, the 3,000, and the 5,000.

She kicked off her championships with a meet-record performance in Friday's 5,000. Colon Maldonado stopped the clock in 17:17.54, edging Concordia Wisconsin's Ainara Sainz De Rozas by just .45 seconds. She opened Saturday's competition with a win in the mile, then added the 800 title, before capping the day by edging Sainz De Rozas for the 3,000-meter crown in another championship-record performance. Colon Maldonado's winning 3K time of 9:54.92 broke her own championship record of 10:09.61 set just last year. Three of Colon Maldonado's victories came by less than a second, and the aggregate margin of victory for the four races was just 5.44 seconds.