(PAINESVILLE, Ohio) – Today's Storm Senior Spotlight is Johanna Moeller, the last but surely not least senior of the Lake Erie track and field program. Hurdles and long jump specialist from Bochum, Germany, Johanna will end her career as one of Storm's most decorated runners.
Johanna Moeller's College Best
A product of Schiller-Schule Städt. Gymnasium für Jungen und Mädchen, Moeller often raced in the 60, 200, 800-meter races, and also outran the competition in the 60 and 100-meter hurdles. Johanna is also a high flyer competing in both the high jumps and long jumps. In her first two seasons with the Storm, Johanna finished with 12 top-eight placements in 13 meets. Moeller reached the top of the podium for the first time at the 48th Annual Sparky Adams Invitational (Apr 22, 2017) when she ran a 15.19 in the 100 hurdles. In her junior year, Johanna began to turn up the intensity and it showed at every track meet she competed in, ending with four first places finishes and placing in the top three 13 times in 2018-2019.
Johanna competed in six meets this season setting new personal records in the 60m, 60H, and long jump. Moeller ended the year on the podium earning silver in the long jump during the 2020 G-MAC Indoor Championships.
Johanna is a three-time G-MAC Women's All-Conference Second Team selection earning the honors in three consecutive years (2017-2020). Moeller is a scholar in the classroom, earning Academic All-Conference most recently in 2018-2019. This past week she was awarded the Charles J. Stillwell Scholarship, provided by the Cleveland Foundation for excellence in internships. Johanna is majoring in Political science and criminal justice and will pursue her masters of public policy at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin post-graduation.
From the women's track/cross-country program, please take a few minutes to get to know Johanna Moeller
Favorite Food: Sauerkraut
Favorite TV Shows: Shameless!!!!
Favorite Hometown Restaurant: Waldhaus
Favorite Musical Group/Singer: Drake
Favorite Sport other than Track: Soccer
Favorite LEC Class: Psychology and Law
Favorite Vacation Place: Thailand
Favorite Actor/Actress: Til Schwieger
Favorite Place on Campus: Library
Favorite Professional Athletes: Pamela Dutkiewicz (German Hurdler)
If you could trade places with anyone for a day - who would it be and why?
I want to be my old coach from Germany, Sabine Braun, she went to the Olympics and World Championships multiple times in the heptathlon... I always wondered how one person can be so good at every single Track and Field event!
Name three people (dead/alive) that you would have dinner with?
Schiller, he was a famous German Poet, Albert Einstein, Angela Merkel (our chancellor)
Any superstitions before competing?
I always eat bananas and take a book to track meets to stay calm, I always listen to the same song while warming up
What is your major and why?
Political science and criminal justice because I think these subjects cover very important issues and I want to work for the government later
Something the average person doesn't know about you....
I've been to almost every continent!
