Estel Valeanu

1x USTFCCCA First Team All-American
1x USTFCCCA Second Team All-American
1x Second Team All-SEC
1x Ivy League Champion
1x First Team All-Ivy League
1x Second Team All-Ivy League
14x Israel National Champion (5 shot put, 9 discus throw)
2023-24 LSWA Women’s Newcomer of the Year
2023-24 USTFCCCA All-Academic Award

Prior to UVA (LSU)
2024 Outdoor
• Earned gold medals in shot put and discus throw at the Israeli Championships, making her a 14-time National Champion in Israel
• Closed out her first collegiate season with the Tigers earning All-American honors in discus throw at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, recording a distance of 57.17 meters (187’ 7”) to finish ninth
• Contributed six points at the SEC Outdoor Championships, helping the Tigers claim their 26th SEC women’s team title
• Earned bronze and Second Team All-SEC honors in discus at the SEC Championships with her throw of 56.65 meters (185’ 10”)
• Tossed a new personal-best and No. 9 distance in LSU performance-list history of 57.34 meters (188’ 1”) to finish ninth in hammer throw at the SEC Championships
• Took 16th in shot put with a toss of 15.12 meters (49’ 7.25”) at the SEC Championships
• Recorded the No. 2 throw in LSU PL history of 57.53 meters (188’ 9”) to finish first in discus at the LSU Invitational
• Tossed a new PR and No. 6 distance in LSU PL history of 16.02 meters (52’ 6.75”) in shot put to finish fifth at the LSU Alumni Gold meet
• Opened the season taking first in discus throw at the Hurricane Invitational with a distance of 56.41 meters (185’ 1”)
• Finished second in hammer throw at the Cameron Burrell Alumni Invitational with a toss of 56.46 meters (185’ 3”)
• USTFCCCA Second Team All-American (DT)
• Second Team All-SEC (DT)

2024 Indoor
Did not compete

Prior to UVA (Harvard)
2023 Outdoor
• Capped a stellar season with her 11^th and 12^th Israeli National Championship titles, taking first in both shot put and discus throw
• Earned bronze in hammer throw at the Israeli National Championships
• Finished her collegiate season as a First Team All-American after breaking her Harvard record in discus throw, reaching a distance of 58.25 meters (191’ 1”) to take sixth at the NCAA Outdoor Championships
• She was crowned the Ivy League Outdoor Discus Champion after landing a throw of 56.77 meters (186’ 3”)
• At the Ivy League Championships she also took bronze in shot put and landed a PR of 57.20 meters (187’ 8”) in hammer throw to take fifth
• Set a PR of 16.01 meters (52’ 6.5”) in shot put to take second at LSU Alumni Gold
• Also took first in discus throw at LSU Alumni gold
• Crowned the discus throw champion at the NEICAAA Outdoor Championships
• Qualified for the NCAA East Preliminaries in discus throw
• Finished first in shot put and discus at the UCONN Northeast Challenge
• Finished first in discus and second in shot put at the Harvard/Yale vs. Oxford/Cambridge meet
• Finished first in discus at the Hurricane Collegiate Invitational
• Opened her season up with a first place finish in both shot put and discus at the Kirk Baptiste Spring Break Invitational
• USTFCCCA First Team All-American (Discus)
• Ivy League Champion (Discus)
• First Team All-Ivy (Discus)

2023 Indoor
• Closed her indoor season with a second-place finish in weight throw and third-place finish in shot put at the Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Championships
• At the Ivy League Championships, set her weight throw PR of 19.97 meters (65’ 6.25”)
• Finished first at the Boston David Hemery Valentine Invite in both shot put and weight throw
• Took second in both shot put and weight throw at the UMass Flagship Indoor Invitational to open the season
• Collected two more runner-up finished in shot put and weight throw at the Boston Battle in Beantown
• Finished second in shot put and fourth in weight throw at the H-Y-P
• Second Team All-Ivy League (WT)

2022 Outdoor
• Began the outdoor season by throwing for a season high in Hammer Throw with a distance of 52.94m and coming in first place in Discus after throwing for a distance of 52.30m at the Houston Spring Break Invitational
• Threw for a career best 56.07m in Discus at the Hurricane Collegiate Invitational, finishing in second place

2022 Indoor
• Placed second in Weight Throw after throwing 16.93m at the Lions Indoor Invitational
• Notched a career best 17.99m in Weight Throw finishing in third place in the event at the Boston University Battle in Beantown
• Putted a career best 14.10m in shot put, earning a fourth place finish at Crimson Elite

2021 Outdoor
Did not compete

2021 Indoor
• Competed at the Ivy League & HBCU Challenge, taking sixth in shot put with a throw of 13.92 meters (45’ 8”)

2020 Outdoor
Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

2020 Indoor
• Competed in six meets for the Crimson
• Opened the season with a fifth-place finish in the shot put (13.28m)
• Notched a career best throw of 13.77m in the shot put at the BU Multi-Team Meet
• Placed seventh at H-Y-P in the weight throw (15.80m), before recording a career best throw of 16.77m at Ivy League Heps

2019 Outdoor
Did not compete

2019 Indoor
• Competed in the Crimson Opener, finishing fifth in shot put with a throw of 13.28 meters (43’ 7”)

Background
• Four-time Israeli National Champion in discus throw
• Held outdoor personal-bests of 13.00 meters (42’ 8”) in shot put and 54.28 meters (178’ 1”) in discus throw
• European U23 Championships finalist in discus throw in 2019
• European Throwing Cup finalist in discus in 2019
• European U20 Championships finalist in discus in 2017
• 2019 Israeli Championships silver medalist in shot put
• Kruševac Balkan U18 Championships finalist in discus in 2016

Personal
• Graduated from Blich High School in Ramat Gan, Israel
• Born in Israel
• Daughter of Adrian and Ayelet Valeanu
• Has two sisters, Alin Valeanu (25), Ami Valeanu (23)
• Top 5% GPA in Israel
• Studied Environmental Engineering at Harvard
• Earned a Master’s degree in Finance at LSU