West Virginia University Athletics

Kansas (2024)

• Appeared in all 19 matches, logging 345 minutes on the season
• As a member of the back line, she helped Kansas notch eight shutouts
• Attempted nine shots throughout the year
• Played a season-high 42 minutes against Friends on Sept. 15

High School

• Graduated from Golden High School, playing four years on the varsity team for coaches Isaac Clark, Luke Meadows and Larry Harding
• 2024 4A Jeffco Offensive Player of the Year
• Named to the all-state first team in 2024
• Received first team all-conference recognition in 2021, 2022 and 2024
• Earned all-state honorable mention honors as a freshman in 202
• Made the all-conference second team in 2023
• Scored 33 goals and notched 20 assists, playing in 48 career games at Golden High
• Received CHSAA Academic All-State First Team honors each year from 2022-24
• At the club level, she played for the Colorado Rush for coach Russell Finch
• Helped the team win the GA Champions Cup in 2022
• Her team went on to be named the academy's team of the year that season
• She was honored as the Colorado Rush Defensive Player of the Year in 2023
• Earned "Girl of the Game" honors three times throughout her career

Personal

• Daughter of Mike and Thu Nickel
• Has one brother
• Her father, Mike, was a member of the track team at Bowling Green and Cincinnati
• Her great grandfather, Elbie Nickel, played football for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1947-57
• Her grandfather, Elbert Joseph Nickel, played football at Cincinnati
• Birthday is April 17
• Majoring in exercise physiology