2023-2024: Indoors – redshirted. Outdoors – redshirted, but stayed active during the season by
throwing unattached at 5 area meets. Some highlights for the year were winning the SP at the Joe
Gillespie Invitational in Stephenville and placing 3 rd in the SP at the Corky Crofoot Shootout in Lubbock.
She had bests throwing unattached of 46-2.75 in the SP and 144-8 in the HT, as she spent the year
learning this new event.

Before ACU: Has been one of the dominant throwers in New Mexico for the past several years for Rio
Rancho HS (where she was a teammate with Tessa Holderman, who is now her ACU teammate) and
Albuquerque Academy (her 8 th  grade year). Because middle schoolers are allowed to compete at the HS
level in New Mexico, Sterling first made her mark competing for Albuquerque Academy as an 8 th -grader
by placing 2 nd  in the NM 4A SP and DT and 5 th  place in the javelin. Her freshman season (2020) was wiped
out by the pandemic. But she returned to competition as a sophomore in 2021 for Rio Rancho HS,
placing 2 nd  at the NM 5A meet in the shot put, discus and javelin. In 2022, her junior year, she won the
SP, DT, and placed 4 th  in the javelin. That year, she was ranked #66 in the U.S. in the SP for high
schoolers. As a HS senior, she won both the SP and DT and her best SP throw ranked her #85 in the U.S.
among high school throwers.
 
As a senior, she also won the Great Southwest Indoor Classic (a HS all-star track meet), putting her #91
for HS athletes for U.S. high schoolers. She also competed in the Great Southwest Outdoor
Championships in 2022 and threw all four outdoor implements in one meet – getting 2 nd  in the SP, 3 rd  in
the hammer throw, 9 th  in the JT, and 10 th  in the DT. Her PR’s are: 43-8 in the SP, 131-4 in the DT, and 119-
9 in the javelin. Sterling was also placed 2 nd  at the NM State Powerlifting championship as a junior and
senior. She was named to NM Milesplit All-Decade team in the SP and DT. Her senior year, Sterling was
named the Rio Rancho HS Athlete of the Year.
 
Personal: Sterling was a 2023 graduate of Rio Rancho HS in New Mexico, where she appeared on the
Honor Roll. Sterling is a Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication major at ACU. Her
Mother is Cheryl Glenn. Her brother, Teagun, just graduated from the Air Force Academy and was 4 th  in
the Mountain West Conference javelin in 2022 and finished 5 th in the javelin in 2024. Sterling has been
active as a volunteer teaching young children’s classes at her home church – Life.Church Rio Rancho, as
well as local non-profits Watermelon Mountain Ranch (a non-profit that rescues dogs and cats) and the
Roadrunner Food Bank.

Why did you choose ACU? Because of the strong track and field community and the Christian values the
university upholds. No other team offered the same family-like bond between teammates and coaches. I
also love being at an institution that helps me grow closer to God.

What is your favorite thing about ACU? The community of like-minded individuals I have found here.