Mia Jansen letters in five sports

There are high school athletes who letter in all of the traditional “big three,” tackle football, basketball and baseball for boys, volleyball, basketball and softball for girls, during an academic year.

Then there is Lompoc High School’s Mia Jansen, Class of 2026 president, who lettered in five sports during the 2023-24 school year, her sophomore year at Lompoc, while carrying a 4.83 GPA.

Jansen lettered in tennis and flag football during the fall sports season, basketball during the winter, and softball, and track and field during the spring.

“For sure, it was tough to juggle two sports at once and get time to do homework as well,” during the fall and spring sports seasons, Jansen said.

“I did have to miss practice in some sports because of others at times. I had my priority sports, tennis in the fall and softball in the spring, that would cause me to choose practice time in those over the other sports.”

Jansen said the biggest sports highlights of her sophomore year were being part of the Lompoc tennis team that repeated as CIF Central Section Division 3 champion and qualifying for the Division 2 track and field area meet in the discus.

“I qualified in the discus in the last meet before the area one,” with a fifth-place finish at the Mountain League finals, said Jansen. Jansen also competed in the shot put during the track and field season.

Jansen said, “I did miss one softball game,” to compete at the Division 2 area meet.  

She was an integral part of the Lompoc tennis team that culminated its successful defense of its Division 3 title with a 9-0 sweep of Dinuba in the Division 3 championship match at Lompoc last November. Lompoc was the top seed for the playoffs, and Dinuba was No. 3.

Jansen was a consistent points producer for the Braves in the No. 3 singles slot and in doubles all season. She rolled to a 6-4, 6-1 win at No. 3 singles in the Division 3 title match after teaming with Rianna Stouppe, Lompoc’s top singles player, for a 6-1, 6-1 win in the No. 1 doubles match.

Jansen was unbeaten in the playoffs in singles and doubles. After playing with multiple doubles partners during the regular season, Jansen teamed with Stouppe at the No. 1 Lompoc doubles slot throughout the playoffs.   

The five-sport letter winner played wide receiver for the inaugural Lompoc girls flag football team during the inaugural season that the CIF sanctioned the sport.

Lompoc was the only Central Section school that fielded a girls flag football team though the squad’s coach, Ashley Coelho, said that as the season went along, several section schools expressed interest in establishing a girls flag football team. Coelho has been a main spokesperson for the sport in the Central Section.

Jansen played guard for the Lompoc girls basketball team and was a third baseman, first baseman and catcher for the softball team.

She participated in four sports her freshman year, tennis, basketball, softball, and track and field. Jansen lettered in basketball, and track and field.

Jansen was the No. 1 singles player for the Lompoc junior varsity girls tennis team her freshman year. She  traveled with the varsity to its Division 3 championship match at top-ranked Kerman, which Lompoc won 5-4.

Seeded No. 10 for the playoffs that year, the Braves won four times at higher seeds to take the Division 3 title. The 2022 Division 3 championship, in Lompoc’s first school year as a member of the Central Section, was the first sectional divisional title in program history for the Lompoc girls tennis team.

When it comes to whether or not she will tackle five sports during her junior school year, “I’m pretty sure I will,” said Jansen.

“I’m looking forward to it.”