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Nijgia Snapp                  Hometown: Mays Landing, N.J. High School: Oakcrest Last College: Seton Hall Height: 5-5 Event: Middle Distance/Sprints Year (In/Out): Jr./Jr.

PERSONAL RECORDS

Indoors
400m: 54.91 (H.S.)
800m: 2:05.49 (2012)
Mile: 5:06.93 (2012)

Outdoors
400m: 53.64 (H.S.)
800m: 2:03.88 (2012)
1500m: 4:43.77 (2011)

SNAPP'S NCAA SCORING

2011 Indoor DMR: 8th, 11:07.86
2011 Outdoor 4x400mR: 7th, 3:32.15

SNAPP'S SEC SCORING

2011 Indoor 800m: 5th, 2:07.69
2011 Indoor 4x400mR: 5th, 3:36.16

2012 Indoor DMR: 1st, 11:12.23
2012 Indoor 800m: 3rd, 2:07.18
2012 Outdoor 800m: 3rd, 2:03.88 2012 Outdoor 4x400mR: 3rd, 3:33.85

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: Four-time USTFCCCA All-American on relays...Two-time NCAA scorer in 2011...Six-time SEC scorer while at UT, including All-SEC Indoor First-Team in 2012 with DMR.

2012: Honors - USTFCCCA Indoor All-America Second Team (DMR)...All-SEC Indoor First Team (DMR)...SEC Indoor Runner of the Week (Jan. 17)...Indoors - Ran 1200m leg on UT's DMR unit, which finished 11th at the NCAA Indoor meet in 11:26.02...That effort earned her USTFCCCA Indoor All-America Second Team accolades...Picked up her initial SEC title and All-SEC First Team award, running the 800m leg for UT's winning DMR (11:12.23)...It marked Tennessee's sixth win in a row and eighth in nine seasons...Added a third-place finish in the 800 meters, running 2:07.18...Posted a career-best 800m time of 2:05.49, placing fifth in the championship division at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational...Named SEC Indoor Runner of the Week after winning with a then-nation-leading 800m time of 2:08.55 at the Kentucky Invitational...Dropped her season best to 2:08.50 to place fifth at the Texas A&M Mondo Challenge...Member of UT's NCAA automatic-qualifying DMR (11:02.74) at the A&M meet as well...Established mile PR of 5:06.93 at the Auburn Invitational...Outdoors - Placed third in the 800 meters at SEC Outdoor Championships with a PR of 2:03.88 after running a previous PR of 2:06.10 in the prelims...Ran on the 4x400m relay team, contributing to its third-place finish and time of 3:33.85...Won the 400 meters at the SEC/Big Ten Challenge, clocking in at 54.07, and was on UT's fourth-place 4x400m relay (3:44.63)...Ran on UT's runner-up 4x800m relay (8:27.04) at the 118th Penn Relays.

2011: Honors - USTFCCCA All-American, including first-team indoors with the DMR and 4x400m relays and second-team outdoors with the 4x4...Indoors - Placed fifth in the 800m at SEC Indoors with a 2:07.69 readout...Ran a career-best clocking of 2:07.16 to finish second at the Texas A&M Challenge...Her 1:10.92, first-place effort in the 500m at the Penn State National ranks as the fourth-fastest time ever run by a Lady Vol...Ran on UT's fifth-place 4x400m relay unit (3:36.16) at the SEC meet...Member of Big Orange DMR that finished eighth at NCAA Indoors in 11:07.86 and ninth in the 4x4 (3:35.21), earning All-America honors with each...Outdoors - Battled an injury but wound up a member of Tennessee's seventh-place NCAA 4x400m relay unit (3:32.15), collecting her third All-America citation of the campaign...Ran on UT's third-place 4x800m tandem at the Penn Relays...Logged an outdoor PR of 2:10.17 in the 800 but did not advance to the SEC final...Finished fifth in the 1500m at the UT-UCLA Dual, checking in with a personal-best time of 4:43.77.

AT SETON HALL: Swept 4x400m relay BIG EAST titles before the program was eliminated after 2010 season...Ran a 53.97 400m to take second at BIG EAST Outdoors...Placed second indoors (55.06)...Also finished eighth indoors in the 800m...Was an NCAA outdoor 4x4 qualifier...Ran an indoor PR 2:08.80 in the 800m at the ECAC Championships.

HIGH SCHOOL: Three-time high school All-American...Prep PRs included 53.64 for 400m, 2:10.57 for 800m and 4:57 for 1500m.

PERSONAL: Born July 22, 1991, in Atlantic City, N.J....Majoring in business...Parents are Joseph Snapp Jr. and Tracey Miles...Her siblings are Jordien Moore, Maureace Snapp and Joseph Snapp III.