Nicki Mitchell Class: Senior Hometown: Lake Forest, Ill. High School: Lake Forest Event: Multi-events

2008-09: Indoor and Outdoor Academic All-MAC... named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team... indoors, recorded a career-best long jump with a winning mark of 18-2½ at the Findlay Oiler Opener (12/06/08)... also recorded a season-best triple jump of 36-6½ at the Findlay Oiler Opener, good for fourth place... at the Indoor MAC Championship (02/28/09), recorded three season bests with a 5-5¾ leap in the high jump, a time of 2:18.44 in the 800-meter run and 3,753 points in the pentathlon, which is the second-best performance in Miami history... placed first in two indoor events and in the top five in eighteen events... outdoors, tied for the third-best RedHawk long jump performance of the season with an outdoor season-best 18-0¼ jump at the All-Ohio Championships (04/18/09)... earned another season-best mark at the All-Ohio Championships with a 5-6½ high jump... recorded a career best in the heptathlon with 4,956 points to finish third at the outdoor MAC Championship (05/15/09), ranking her fourth in Miami history... the score was also the best RedHawk heptathlon mark of the season.

2007-08: Indoors, finished second in the pentathlon at the All-Ohio Championships... also added a top-10 finish in the long jump with a leap of 5.25m (17-2¾)... at the MAC Indoor Championships, placed sixth in the pentathlon with a score of 3,539... outdoors, won the triple jump at the Miami Team Challenge (11.34m/37-2½)... top-five finish in the heptathlon at the All-Ohio Championships with a score of 4,706... top-five triple jump finish at the Stan Lyons Invitation (11.08m/36-4¼)... placed seventh in the heptathlon at the MAC Outdoor Championships... honored as a Straight "A" Team member for a 4.00 GPA during the spring 2008 semester.

2006-07: Multi-event athlete who registered top indoor performance in the high jump (5-6) at the Findlay Open... added season-best long jump (17-3¼) at the MAC Championships... finished with career-best pentathlon score (3,331) at the conference meet, where she placed 12th... outdoors, turned in season-best heptathlon score (4,267) at the MAC Outdoor Championships, where she finished 11th... notched season-best long jump (18-0½) at the Vanderbilt Invitational.

High School: Two-time all-state honoree... placed in the top 10 at the state meet in the high jump (7th; 2004, 6th; 2006) and long jump (10th; 2006)... member of the school-record setting 800-meter relay and 4x400-meter relay teams... posted high school bests of 5-6 in the high jump, 37-0½ in the triple jump and 17-4½ in the long jump... four-year letterwinner in track and field.

Personal: Daughter of Anne Marie and Richard Mitchell... business management major.