Hannah Thompson, a distance runner on the Malone University track & field team, is one of several Pioneer senior spring sport student-athletes who plan to retain their final season of eligibility and return in 2021.
Hannah is currently a first-year graduate student at Malone, pursuing a Master's in Business Administration. She will finish her Master's next spring while competing in outdoor track.
Hannah, who redshirted during last year's outdoor track season, is already an All-American in indoor track following a sixth-place finish in the 5,000 meters at the 2019 NCAA Division II National Championship. In 2018, she was the G-MAC Champion in the both the indoor and outdoor 5,000 meters and a National Championship qualifier in the indoor 5,000 and the outdoor 10,000.
Hannah's favorite memory as a Pioneer was at that 2019 Indoor National Championship when she earned her first All-America award and then less than an hour later watched Malone's Distance Medley Relay team finish sixth and take home another All-America trophy.
Hannah capped off an outstanding cross country career last fall when she became Malone's fourth women's cross country All-American in the NCAA DII era. After a fourth-place finish at the G-MAC Championships, and a seventh-place finish at the Midwest Regional, she earned an at-large qualifying bid to the National Championships in Sacramento. While there, she placed 27th overall to earn the second All-America honor of her career.
"Hannah has made endless positive contributions to our program from an athletic, academic and spiritual perspective. She is a great example of someone who has worked incredibly hard to achieve great success. Disciplined and vibrant, we are confident that she will achieve great things in the future." - coach Tina
Oprean.
Hannah is from Canton and GlenOak High School. She is the daughter of Ric and Bonnie Thompson.
