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Donald Trump has paid a glowing tribute to the daughter of wrestling icon Brock Lesnar after she won a major college athletics title.
Mya Lesnar won the NCAA shot put title with a first-round toss of 19.01 meters earlier this month to become the first Rams athlete to win an outdoor event title since Loree Smith did so in 2005.
Just the sixth Colorado State athlete to win outdoor gold, the younger Lesnar previously won the NCAA indoor shot put title in 2024.
What's more, the 23-year-old is the only competitor in program history to win both indoor and outdoor titles.
She followed in the footsteps of her father, who was actually an NCAA title winner as a heavyweight wrestler at Minnesota.
Now Maya has received some special praise from the president, who took to Truth Social on Thursday night to send his congratulations.
Donald Trump has paid tribute to Brock Lesnar's daughter after she won a college athletics title
Mya Lesnar of the Colorado State Rams competes in the shot put during the Division I Men's and Women's Track and Field Championship held at Hayward Field
Trump wrote: 'Congratulations to Mya Lesnar on the WIN — Great Genetics!'
'Heck yeah it was. It was pretty awesome,' Lesnar told the school's athletics website, CSURams.com, after her victory.
'Obviously throws like that don't happen often, and to do it on my first one was pretty cool. I just went calm, hit my cues. [Rams coach Brian] Bedard and I have tons of trust, and that's exactly what we did.
'I think it had more of an effect for me. It meant more for me to do it on the first one, to start off the competition strong. A lot of the other ladies responded. It was awesome.'
While her 19.01m effort remained the best throw of the day, Mya would nearly top it with an 18.8m effort for the top two results of the day.
Remarkably, Rams coach Brian Bedard thinks Mya is actually capable of much more.
'I still think she missed the big one today because in training we've been seeing throws in the 19.30-meter range, so she didn't quite put it together,' Bedard said.
'She probably had a B-plus day for her, but when a training is going so well to have a big margin that she can maybe not hit her best and win it is awesome.
'It was a great start for her. We've been working on the mental game and trying to have some joy when she competes and really simplify some technical cues and managing excitement levels and all that, and I thought she did that today. When she came up and talked to me between throws, she had a really good awareness of what she was doing in the throw and what she was feeling. I just loved her mindset today. It was mature.'
Brock Lesnar has enjoyed success in the octagon and the wrestling ring since his NCAA title
To put Mya's top throw into perspective, China's Lijiao Gong won the shot put at the Tokyo Games in 2023 with a toss of 20.58. Mya's toss Thursday would have been sixth in Tokyo
To put Mya's top throw into perspective, China's Lijiao Gong won the women's shot put at the Tokyo Games in 2023 with a toss of 20.58. Mya's toss would have been good enough for sixth place in that tournament.
Mya has gone viral in recent years both for her sensational athletic ability and her striking resemblance to famous father Brock.
Back in 2023 the track and field athlete grabbed headlines after breaking the shot put record at Colorado State with a superb 18.50 attempt, while she also claimed three straight Mountain West Conference titles.
Brock, who has not featured in WWE since losing to Cody Rhodes at SummerSlam in 2023, is one of the wrestling's most celebrated stars and a highly-successful combat-sport athlete.
