University of Detroit Mercy Athletics

Career Highlights:

• 4x Detroit Mercy Athletic Director's Honor Roll (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
• 3x Horizon League Fall Academic Honor Roll (2021, 2022, 2023)
• 3x Horizon League Spring Academic Honor Roll (2022, 2023, 2024)

2024 Outdoor:

• Claimed sixth in the discus with a 33.36m toss at Oakland's Elaine Leigh Invite
• Tallied career-bests with a throw of 36.28m for eighth in the discus and 37.63m for 10th in the hammer, along with 28.60m for seventh in the javelin, at Michigan's Len Paddock Open
• Placed 18th in the discus (33.35m) and 21st in the hammer (34.69m) and javelin (24.94m) at the Horizon League Championships

2023-24 Indoor:

• Set PR's in the shot put (9.41m), finishing 22nd, and the weight (12.02m), taking 18th, at Grand Valley's Bill Clinger Classic
• Earned 12th in the weight with a toss of 11.56m at Michigan's Silverston Invitational
• Finished 16th in the weight (11.98m) and 21st in the shot put (8.38m) at the Horizon League Championships

• Did not participate

• Did not participate

• PR in the javelin (29.60m) at the Elaine Leigh Invite
• PR in the discus (35.91m) at the Horizon League Championships

• PR in shot put (8.92m) at the Jack Skoog Open
• PR in weight (10.98m) at GVSU Big Meet

• Did not compete

• PR of 10.21m in the weight at SVSU Tune-up
• PR of 8.30m in the shot put at the Horizon League Indoor Championships

• A four-year letter winner in track and field, basketball and volleyball
• Helped her team to a Northwest Conference track and field and Division 3 regional titles in 2018 and 2019 as well as runner-up in the D3 MITCA state championships in 2019
• Claimed fourth in the discus at the state championship as a junior as well as runner-up at the regionals
• A two-time First Team All-Conference in the discus
• Was All-Region and All-Northern Michigan Dream Team and the team's Defensive MVP in volleyball as a senior
• Helped her volleyball team to back-to-back district and regional titles as a junior and senior as well as a D2 final four appearance
• A member of the National Honor Society

• Daughter of Amanda and Ron Hessem
• Both her parents ran track and field at Ferris State
• Has an older and a younger brother
• Chose Detroit Mercy because of the academics
• An Architecture major