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

NCAA SCORING

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

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

2013 Indoor 800m 3rd, 2:05.97

Five-time USTFCCCA All-American on relays...Two-time NCAA scorer in 2011...Seven-time SEC scorer while at UT, including All-SEC Indoor First-Team in 2012 with DMR...Won the 2012 Outdoor Lady Vol Most Improved Athlete Award.

Honors

• Won the Tony Wilson Award for women's running events
• SEC indoor scorer (w800m, 3rd, 2:05.97)

Indoors

• Qualified for the NCAA Championship 800m, her first individual event at the national meet, but did not advance out of the preliminaries after being caught behind a two-runner pileup...Finished 16th in 2:19.68
• Attempted to improve her season-best at the Alex Wilson Invitational, but only managed to finish 15th in 2:07.81
• Scored for the Lady Vols at the SEC indoor meet, finishing third in a season-best time of 2:05.97
• Improved her season mark in the 800m to 2:07.08 in the Olympic Development category at the Tyson Invitational, winning that race
• Dropped her 800m season best to 2:07.24 at the Armory Invitational, finishing fourth in the Championship division...Ran a 3:40.97 4x400mR to finish 7th
• Ran the mile at the Texas A&M Mondo Challenge, placing eighth with a time of 5:08.77
• Won the 800m at the Kentucky Invitational, finishing in 2:09.68...Placed third in the Distance Medley Relay with a time of 11:37.30

Outdoors

• Won the Showcase division of the 800m at the Sea Ray Relays, finishing in 2:05.00...Also competed on the winning 4x800 relay and the 4x400 relay...Earned the Tony Wilson Award for her efforts that weekend
• Was a member of the meet and track record-setting 4x800 relay team at the Florida Relays, winning in 8:28.81...Ran her first 800m of the outdoor season, finishing ninth in 2:08.58...Also participated in the 4x400 relay which finished 29th
• Broke the meet record with the 4x800 relay, placing second in 8:35.06...Finished 11th in the Section V-X of the 1500m at the Raleigh Relays in a career-best 4:39.83
• Ran with the fourth place 4x400 relay team at the MSU Conference Challenge, finishing in 3:46.68...Placed sixth in the 1500m run, clocking a then PR of 4:42.13
2012 CROSS COUNTRY
Earned a new personal best at the 6K NCAA South Regional, finishing 123rd overall and sixth on the team in 22:34.6...Finished 113th overall and seventh on the team at the 6K SEC Championships, finishing in a personal best time of 23:30.72...Ran in the 4K Belmont Opener and placed 10th on the team and 64th overall in a personal best time of 17:16.50...Competed at the 6K Brooks Paul Short Run, finishing in 24:43 to wind up 325th overall and 10th on the team...Earned a new 5K personal record at the Crimson Classic, finishing seventh on the team and 56th overall in 19:05.37.
2012 TRACK & FIELD
Honors - USTFCCCA Outdoor All-America Second Team (4x400mR)...USTFCCCA Indoor All-America Second Team (DMR)...All-SEC Indoor First Team (DMR)...SEC Indoor Runner of the Week (Jan. 17)...Named the Outdoor Lady Vol Most Improved Athlete...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 - Competed with the 4x400m relay team at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, placing 10th in the semifinals despite a season-best time of 3:31.57...Named to the USTFCCCA Outdoor All-America Second Team for her performance with the 4x400m relay team...Earned a trip to NCAA Championship meet at the NCAA East Preliminary Round with the 4x400m relay team...That unit finished in a season-best time of 3:33.59 that ranked No. 4 in the East..Progressed beyond the first round of the 800m race at the NCAA East meet, but fell short of qualifying for the national meet...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 CROSS COUNTRY
Counted toward Tennessee's scoring total for the first time at the NCAA South Regional, running fifth for the Big Orange and placing 131st overall in a 6K career-best 23:39.5...Completed her first cross country race as a Lady Vol, running sixth for UT and 354th overall in 24:30 at the 6K Brooks Paul Short Run...Finished seventh for Tennessee and 95th overall in 19:44.52 at the 5K Crimson Classic.
2011 TRACK & FIELD
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.
2010 CROSS COUNTRY
No results.
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.