Nikki Look

Height:
5-2
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Castle Rock, Colo.
High School:
Douglas County

PERSONAL BESTS
INDOOR

800-Meters: 2:24.34 (2012)

OUTDOOR

800-Meters: 2:20.70 (2012)

1,500-Meters: 4:38.82 (2012)

HONORS

Academic All-Big 12 (2011)

CoSIDA Academic All-District second team (2012, 13)

CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team (2013)

MPSF All-Academic (2012, 13)

Pac-12 All-Academic first team (2012, 13)

NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship (2013)

2013: Indoor: Did not compete.

Outdoor: Look only competed in a pair of races for the Buffs due to injuries in her final season with the Buffs. She ran a season-best time of 4:52.73 at the Bryan Clay Invite (4/19) and one week later ran 4:58.16 at the Jack Christiansen Invite (4/27).

2012: Indoor: Look competed in a pair of 800-meter runs for the Buffs during the indoor season. She earned a sixth-place finish at the Air Force Team Challenge (1/28), finishing in 2:25.68. Two weeks later at the Air Force Invite, Look bettered her time, this time finishing in 2:24.34 for 10^th place.

Outdoor: Look ran the 800 and 1,500 and recorded personal bests in both events. She clocked a PR of 2:20.70 in the 800 at the Potts Invite (3/17), which placed third overall. In the 1,500, Look clocked a time of 4:38.82 at the Mt. SAC Relays (4/19).

2011: Indoor: Did not compete.

Outdoor: Look raced twice for the Buffs in the 1,500. She recorded a season best at the CU Invite (4/9), finishing the meet in 5:08.04.

2010: Did not compete.

CROSS COUNTRY: (2012) Look raced two times in her final season. She was 16^th at the Rocky Mountain Shootout and took 32^nd at the Santa Clara Bronco Invite. (2011) Did not compete. (2010) Look ran in two meets for CU. She placed 36^th overall at the Rocky Mountain Shootout and was 13^th at the Fort Hays State Open.

HIGH SCHOOL: Look was a four-sport athlete at DCHS. She received the National Girls and Women in Sports Day Recognition Award as a junior and earned one letter as a member of the cross country team and four on the track team. Look earned the Female Sprinter Award twice, was the 2008 most valuable athlete, a two-time captain and a member of the school record setting 800-meter sprint medley (1:48.01), 4x200 (1:45.16) and 4x100 (50.20) relay on the track team. She owns the Zoom Track Club Team records in the 100 and 200. Look was a member of the 800 sprint medley relay that placed second at the state meet in 2008. Look was named the Outstanding Female Student Athlete of the Year as a senior at DCHS and was awarded the Boettcher Scholarship, which grants a full-ride scholarship to any Colorado college. She was an academic all-state selection in basketball and swimming.

IN THE CLASSROOM: Look graduated with a degree in applied mathematics. She recorded a 4.00 and was named to the Dean’s List all eight semesters and Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll. In 2012 she was named MPSF All-Academic, Pac-12 All-Academic first team and CoSIDA Academic All-District first team. She picked up more awards during her senior year (2013), again earning All-MPSF and All-Pac-12 honors and was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America team. Look also earned an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship as she plans to attend medical school in the fall of 2013.

PERSONAL: Nicole Look was born on October 28, 1990, in San Mateo, Calif. She is the daughter of Douglas and Lois Look of Castle Rock, Colo. She has one younger sister, Danielle. Look lists developing healthy baking habits, scrapbooking, photography, swimming, yoga and golfing as her hobbies. She started Tae Kwon Do at the age of three and earned a black belt by the time she was eight. Look co-founded Nourish Peace which raises money to support Global Education Fund’s effort in building schools around the world. She has worked as a rehabilitation aide at a physical therapy clinic, a six-year-old track coach and a ballot judge for the 2008 Presidential Election.