Awards & Honors:

2021 USTFCCCA Outdoor All-American (Women’s 5K)
2021 All-ACC First Team Outdoor (Women’s 10K)
2021 ACC Outdoor Women’s 10K Champion
2021 USTFCCCA Indoor Second Team All-American (Women’s 5K)
2021 All-ACC Second Team Indoor (Women’s 5K)
2021 All-ACC Academic Indoor T&F
2020 All-ACC Women’s XC
2020 USTFCCCA Cross Country All-American
2020 All-ACC Academic XC
2020 All-ACC First Team Indoor (Women’s 3000m)
2020 ACC Indoor Women’s 3000m Champion
2020 USTFCCCA Indoor All-American (Women’s 3000m)
2019 All-South Region
2019 All-ACC Women’s XC

2021 Outdoor:

Helped lead the Yellow Jacket women to a 33rd-place team finish at NCAA Outdoor National Championships… Second Team All-American in the women’s 5K backed by a 15:59.72 race at nationals to garner a 15th-place finish… Captured the ACC women’s 10K title with a school and meet record mark of 32:45.30 in her first ever collegiate 10K race , upsetting one of the best fields in the country… Broke the outdoor school record for the women’s 5K at Raleigh Relays, coming in at 15:37.16 to shatter the previous program best mark of 16:12.03 (Hana Herndon)… Followed her 5K record with another outdoor school record breaking performance with a 4:18.95 effort in the women’s 1500m at the Crimson Tide Invite, toppling the previous record of 4:19.91 (Nicole Campbell… Started the year off with a personal best mark of 2:10.31 in the women’s 800m at the Yellow Jacket Invite…

2021 Indoor:

Second Team All-American in the women’s 5K clocking in at 16:07.75 which was good for No. 10 in the country… All-ACC honoree in the women’s 3K following a fourth-place performance at ACC Indoor Championships… Set school records in the women’s indoor 5K (16:06.50) and women’s indoor mile (4:41.33)… Made podium five times throughout the 2021 indoor season… Started the year off with two second-place finishes in the women’s mile at the Clemson Invite and women’s 5K at the Carolina Challenge… Broke women’s indoor mile school record at the Music City Challenge in Nashville, blazing to a 4:41.33 finish…

2020 Cross Country:

In arguably the most unique season in the history of NCAA D1 collegiate XC due to the COVID-19 pandemic Nicole Fegans was the Yellow Jackets top women’s distance runner in 2020 and helped guide the team to its best ever finishes at ACC XC Championships (2nd-place) and NCAA XC Championships (No. 20)… Had an All-American season that culminated with a 12th-place finish in the women’s 6K race at NCAA XC Championships, clocking in at 20:29 to earn the second best individual finish at nationals in women’s program history… All-ACC honoree following a ninth-place finish in the women’s 6K race at ACC XC Championships, crossing the finish line at 20:30 as the first Jacket runner in a year that featured a program-best three All-ACC honorees… Had a sixth-place performance at the UAB Blazer Classic in a loaded field in the women’s 6K, setting a personal record mark of 20:24… Claimed the individual title in the women’s 6K race at the Mountain Dew Gator Cross Country Invitational to start off the 2020 campaign…

2020 Indoor Track:

Had a historic junior season setting new women’s school indoor records in the women’s mile (4:41.55) & 3000m (9:06.92)… Earned USTFCCCA All-American honors in the 3000m… Captured her first ACC individual championship in the 3000m finals in South Bend… Qualified for NCAA Division I National Championships in the 3000m prior to the cancellation of the 2020 indoor season… Ranked No. 14 in the nation prior to nationals in the 3000m… Broke school indoor mile record twice during regular season at the Bob Pollack Invitational (4:43.28) & Charlie Thomas Invitational (4:41.55)… Six podium finishes throughout the year in multiple events… Assisted the DMR squad in first-place finish at the Charlie Thomas Invitational…

2019 Cross Country:
Tech’s top finisher at every meet this season … Earned All-South Region honors and helped the Jackets finish fourth with a 6K time of 20:41.7, placing 18th overall at the NCAA South Regional … Was named All-ACC and finished 20th at the ACC Championships, with a 6K time of 21:20.8 … Led Tech to a first-place finish and placed second individually with a 4K time of 13:26.6 at the Bulldog Invite … Crossed the finish line fourth and helped tech earn second place at the Penn State National Open with a personal-best 6K time of 20:31.4 … Finished fifth with a 5K time of 17:21.3 at the Battle in Beantown.

2019 Track:
Indoor: Ran a season-best 9:38.70 in the 3000m at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational … Finished seventh in the 3000m at the Power Five Invitational with a time of 9:42.74 … Also competed in the 3000m at the ACC Indoor Track & Field Championships, finishing in 9:47.73. Outdoor: Turned in a personal-best 1500m time of 4:22.96 to finish third at the Joe Walker Classic … Also earned a PR in the 5000m (16:16.28) at the Raleigh Relays … Earned a fifth-place finish in the 1500m (4:38.51) and also competed in the 4×400 (4:22.57) at the FSU Relays … Turned in a 1500m time of 4:38.51, finishing sixth, and ran with the 4×400 group (4:09.87) at the Yellow Jacket Invitational … Competed in the 5000m at the Penn Relays (16:32.63) … Also ran the 5000m at the ACC Championships (16:51.18) and NCAA East Region prelims (16:52.98).

2018 Cross Country:
Helped lead Georgia Tech to the 2018 NCAA Cross Country Championship for the first time since 2001, finishing with a 6K time of 21:27.7… recorded a 6K time of 21:17.3 at the NCAA South Region Cross Country Championships… finished 30th at the ACC Championships with a 6K time of 21:18.1… finished fourth at the Georgia Bulldog Invitational with a 5.5K PR of 20:48.2… set a new 5K PR with a time of 17:39.0 while finishing 13th at the Coast-to-Coast Battle of Beantown… finished with a 6K time of 21:17.5 at the Penn State Nationals Open.

2018 Track:
Ran a 3:01.14 in her lone 1000m at the Orange & Purple Invite … turned in a season-best mile time of 4:54.62 at the Charlie Thomas Invitational … recorded a season-best 3K performance (9:34.55) at the Music City Challenge – good for third-fastest all-time in school history … helped lead a DMR group to the third-fastest time (11:27.20) in school history … ran a 17:11.14 in the 5K at the ACC Championships. Outdoor: ran a season-best 4:26.49 in the 1500m at the Tiger Track Classic to finish fifth … posted the fourth-fastest 5K time in school history (16:26.12) at the Yellow Jacket Invitational to take gold … helped break the 23-year-old 4x1500m relay record by finishing seventh with a time of 18:15.33 – 11 seconds faster than the previous time.

2017 Cross Country:
Started off the year by winning the Jacksonville State Open as an unattached runner, turning in a time of 14:06.40 in the 4K meet … ran a season-best 6K time (20:48.9) at the South Regionals … finished 10^th (22:18.2) at the Bulldog SEC Preview.

High School: Attended Landmark Christian High School … four-year letterwinner in cross country and track and field (ran 5K, 1600m, 2300m, 4×400) as well as a three-year letterwinner in swimming … helped team to back-to-back-to-back state championships (2014, 2015, 2016) … won 2016 individual state championship in cross country and 2017 individual track and field title in 1600m and 3200m – recording fastest time in each event … named All-American after finishing seventh at Footlocker Nationals in 2016 … named 2016-17 Gatorade Cross Country Player of the Year for Georgia … holds school records for 1600m, 3200m and 5K.

Personal: Intends on majoring in Business … enjoys biking around Atlanta and seeing new places with friends in her spare time.

Nicole Fegans: Road to NCAAS