Career Results
Career Best Indoor Performances
60: 7.52 (Sunday Invitational on 2/10/19)
High Jump: 1.83 meters / 6'0" (MAC Championships on 2/23/19)
Long Jump: 6.60 meters / 21'8" (MAC Championships on 2/22/19)
Triple Jump: 11.73 meters / 38'6" (Golden Wolves Rust Buster on 12/7/19)
Career Best Outdoor Performances
High Jump: 1.80 meters / 5'10.75" (Coach P Invitational on 4/14/18)
Long Jump: 6.44 meters / 21'1.5" (MU Twilight Meet on 4/16/21)
Triple Jump: 12.46 meters / 40'10.5" (Misericordia Invitational on 4/21/18)
Javelin: 39.01 meters / 128'0" (Holiday Invitational on 4/17/19)
Indoor Awards
All-MAC Third Team (long jump in 2018-19)
2021 (Outdoor Season): Competed in four of 11 meets as a senior jumper/sprinter ... Qualified for the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships in the long jump ... Did not record a mark in the long jump at the MAC Championships ... Recorded a season best jump of 6.44 meters (21'1.5") in the long jump at the MU Twilight Meet (4/16) ... Was the second leg on King's 4x100 meter relay team that won with a time of 45.14 seconds at the season-opening Monarch Invitational (3/20) ... King's finished eighth at the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships with 53 points
2019-20 (Indoor Season): Competed in six of 10 meets as a junior jumper … Qualified for the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships in the long jump … Finished eighth in the long jump to score one point with a season best mark of 6.50 meters (21’4”) … Was the third leg on King’s 4x200 meter relay team that finished sixth to score three points with a time of 1:34.74 … Recorded a season best mark of 11.73 meters (38’6”) in the triple jump at the season-opening Golden Wolves Rust Buster (12/7) … King’s finished sixth at the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships with 62 points
2019 (Outdoor Season): Competed in six of eight meets as a sophomore jumper/sprinter ... Qualified for the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships in the long jump and the triple jump ... Finished 10th in the long jump with a season best mark of 6.24 meters (20'5.75") ... Finished 15th in the triple jump with a season best mark of 12.15 meters (39'10.5") ... Was the second leg on King's 4x100 meter relay team that finished seventh to score two points with a time of 44.99 seconds after qualifying for the final with a time of 44.78 seconds in the preliminaries ... Recorded a season best mark of 39.01 meters (128'0") in the javelin at the Holiday Invitational (4/17) ... King's finished seventh at the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships with 73 points
2018-19 (Indoor Season): Competed in six of eight meets as a sophomore jumper ... Qualified for the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships in the high jump and the long jump ... Finished eighth in the high jump to score one point with a season best height of 1.83 meters (6'0") ... Finished third in the long jump to score six points and earn All-MAC Third Team honors with a season best mark of 6.60 meters (21'8") ... Was the second leg on King's 4x200 meter relay team that finished eighth to score one point with a time of 1:37.17 ... Was the second leg on King's 4x400 meter relay team that finished 10th with a time of 3:45.66 ... Ran a season best time of 7.52 seconds in the 60 meters ... King's finished seventh at the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships with 52 points
2018 (Outdoor Season): Competed in five of eight meets as a freshman jumper/sprinter ... Recorded a season best height of 1.80 meters (5'10.75") in the high jump at the Coach P Invitational (4/14) ... Recorded a season best mark of 6.05 meters (19'10.25") in the long jump at the season-opening York Twilight Meet (3/28) ... Recorded a season best mark of 12.46 meters (40'10.5") in the triple jump at the Misericordia Invitational (4/21) ... King's finished ninth at the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships with 25 points
PRIOR TO KING'S: Three-sport student-athletes for the Crusaders of Holy Cross High School in Dunmore, Pennsylvania ... jumper/sprinter on the track and field team, guard on the basketball team, and forward for the soccer squad ... graduated in 2017 from HCHS as the Treasrer of Pro Life Group and with honors all four years ... named the captain of all three teams as a senior, was captain of soccer and track and field team as a junior, and captain of track and field team as a sophomore ... earned team MVP honors of all three teams as a senior and of the soccer team as a junior ... named HCHS Athletic MVP ... earned All-Lackawanna League First Team honors in soccer as a junior and senior and Second Team honors as a sophomore ... recorded personal best marks of 21'9" in the long jump. 43'6" in the triple jump, and 6'2" in the high jump ... scored 82 career goal in soccer ... member of Crusader basketball team that won the District II title in 2017 and the Lackawanna League Championship in 2015
PERSONAL: Son Leslie and Eric Nelson ... has two older brothers, Andrew and Erik ... older brother, Andrew (Class of 2016), ran track and field at Misericordia ... an accounting, finance, and economic major ... chose King's because of "the family like feel and the closeness to my home. I chose King's to continue my athletic and academic careers."
