1998 - The nation's No. 1 discus thrower and rated No. 7 in the shot put … Sua won the discus competition last season at both the USA Outdoor and for the second time at the NCAA Outdoor … She becomes the first woman to win the USA/NCAA discus dumble since Leslie Deniz, Arizona State, 1983 … At the USA meet, she won the event with a 204-2 and was seventh (53-0) in the shot put … At the NCAA Outdoor, Sua won the discus (210-8, meet and stadium record) for the second-consecutive season (becomes the fourth athlete in women's NCAA history to win back-to-back discus crowns, first since Donyell Mitchell, LSU, 1993-94) … Also earned All-America honors in the shot put for the fourth time (56-2H) and was 25th (172-8) in the hammer … At the Pac-10, Sua won the shot put (56-10), was second in the discus (204-10) and was third in the hammer (175-5) … At the NCAA Indoor, she earned All-American in the shot put (seventh, 54-4I) … At the USA Indoor she was fifth in the shot put (53-5H) … Had personal-best 57-9 (No. 4 in UCLA history, No. 7 on U. S. list), 57-2I and a season-best 55-5i in the shot put, a personal-best 212-2 (No. 2 in UCLA history, No. 3 in the U. S.) in discus, with a 208-2 (No. 5 on all-time collegiate list) … Also had personal-bests 153-6 (javelin) and 189-5 (hammer, No. 2 in UCLA history, No. 24 on U. S. list).

1997 - Established herself in her true freshman season as one of the nation's top throwers … Entered 1998 in the U. S. rankings at No. 5 in the shot put and No. 2 in the discus (behind senior teammate Suzy Powell) … In upper level competition, Sua won the shot put (53-9G) and discus (198-7, meet record) at the U. S. Junior meet and at the Pan American meet in Havana, she was again a double gold winner (shot put, 53-3I; discus, 189-11, meet record) … At the NCAA Outdoor, she won the discus (200-6) and placed third (55-8G, outdoor season-best and No. 4 on the World Junior outdoor chart) in the shot put and at the NCAA Indoor, she set the American Junior Indoor record in the shot put with an indoor personal-best 57-3H (third place and No. 3 in school history) … Also set the American Junior mark in the discus, 208-2 (No. 3 all-time on the U. S. collegiate list and No. 2 on the World Junior list) on May 21, breaking her old mark of 205-5 she set on May 10, which snapped her effort of 199-2 on March 29 … At the Pac-10 meet, she was second (54-8) in the shot put and discus (193-11) … In UCLA's win at USC, she scored in four events - second in the shot put (54-8I) and discus (190-2), fourth in the hammer (162-2) and fifth in the javelin (136-11, personal best).

High School - The nation's top rated female prep thrower as a junior and senior at St. Thomas Aquinas HS in Ft. Lauderdale, FL … As a senior, she finished second to Bruin teammate Kim Mortensen (149-140) in the Track & Field News' voting for Female Prep Athlete of the Year … The nation's No. 1 high school thrower in the shot put (50-6, No. 11 all-time prep effort) and discus (186-3, No. 2 all-time U. S. high school mark behind Bruin teammate Suzy Powell's 188-4 and No. 2 all-time U. S. junior mark behind Powell's 190-6) in 1996 and '95 … Competed at the '96 U. S. Olympic Trials in the discus and placed eighth (181-5), after producing a then-personal best 186-3 in qualifying … She was unbeaten in the shot put in 1996 and produced eight of that year's 10 longest throws, including a 50-6 to win Arcadia … In the summer of '96 at the World Junior meet in Sydney, Australia, she placed eighth in the shot put (49-4G) and second (184-9, same distance as the winning mark and highest finish ever by an American in the discus at the World Junior meet) … 1996 U. S. Junior shot put (49-11) and discus (178-6) champ … Won the '96 Florida State shot put (49-5G) and discus (185-9) crowns … In 1995, her prep personal bests were 48-8I (No. 2 in U. S.) and 176-8 (No. 1 in U.S.) and placed second at the U.S. Junior meet in the shot put and discus (Powell placed first) … 1994 high school personal bests were 43-9H and 145-1 … Junior Olympic record in the shot put (47-11I) … Exceptional all-around high school athlete, letterwinner in track and field, volleyball, softball and basketball.

Personal - Economics/business major … Name pronounced Say-la-la Sue-ah … Born Feb. 25, 1978.

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