UWEC Athletics Hall of Fame
Breanna Winsand had a brilliant collegiate track career following on the heels of a stellar prep career at Fall Creek High School.
Winsand attended UW-La Crosse for three semesters, studying biochemistry with a biomedical concentration prior to transferring to UWEC for nursing. Between the two schools, she earned 10 All-American awards and earned seven conference gold medals with seven additional runner-up spots in five different individual and two different relay events. She was a two-time conference 55-meter high hurdle champ indoors and won the 100-meter high hurdles once and the 400-meter intermediate hurdles twice outdoors. She is one of only three women who have won both the 100 and 400-meter hurdles in the same conference outdoor meet. She was also a conference place winner in the 400-meter dash, the triple jump, the 4x400 relay and the 4x100 relay. Her best NCAA finishes were a fourth in the 100-meter highs and a fifth in the 400-meter intermediates.
At one point, Winsand held six UWEC school records: 400-meter dash (indoor and outdoor), 55 hurdles, 100 hurdles, 400 hurdles and distance medley relay. She also was part of a 4x400 relay school record at La Crosse.  Five times she was the conference athlete of the week.
She sat out the 2004 season to concentrate on her academics in the highly-demanding nursing program. She came back in 2005 to share the WIAC Scholar-Athlete award in outdoor track.
Her collegiate accomplishments were not surprising considering she helped her high school track team earn two state championships and one runner-up finish while individually capturing one state title in the 300-meter hurdles and three golds as a member of the 1600-meter relay. She had no less than a dozen podium finishes as a prep. She also set numerous meet records and won 10 conference individual titles in the hurdles and jumps. She still holds the Fall Creek records in the 100 hurdles, 300 hurdles and 4x400 relay.
After graduating cum laude in nursing in 2005, Winsand started as an RN in the Medical-Surgical/Oncology Unit at Mayo Clinic in Eau Claire. As an undergradate, she had been a CNA in Neuro-Pediatrics-Trauma at Mayo. From 2007-2011, she was an RN in Critical Care. From 2011-2015, she spent time in Obstetrics & Gynecology/Labor & Delivery. For 15 months in 2015-16, she was an RN in Post-Anesthesia at Oak Leaf Surgical Hospital in Altoona. Since June, 2016, she had been a Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist at Mayo up to the time of her induction into the Blugold Hall of Fame.
At the time of her induction, she and her husband Stacy, a financial advisor, were parents of four children: Rylee (15), Trey (13), Remy (11) and Tyson (8). They resided in Fall Creek.
Winsand is also the Founder and President of Angel's Embrace to help the grief process for families experiencing a stillbirth or miscarriage after suffering her own stillbirth.
