2018-19 Track & Field Roster
Michael Nicholls
- Position:
- Hurdles
- Height:
- 5-10
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Bridgetown, Barbados
- High School:
- The Lester Vaughan School
2018 NCAA First Team Indoor All-American (60-Meter Hurdles)
2019 NCAA Second Team Outdoor All-American (110-Meter Hurdles)
2019 NCAA Second Team Indoor All-American (60-Meter Hurdles)
2019: Outdoor - Shot to second in the UGA record books with a 13.61 for ninth in the 110-meter hurdles at the NCAA East Prelims to advance to the NCAA Championships and the same time for 10th at Nationals…Scored at the SEC Championships with a 13.81 to take eighth…Led off the winning 4x100m relay at the Spec Towns Invite as the Bulldogs finished in 39.72.
Indoor - Reached his second-straight NCAA Indoor Championships in a Bulldog uniform, earning second team All-American honors with a 10th place finish nationally in the 60-meter hurdles (7.80)...Exploded for a new school record--by nearly a whole tenth of a second--in the short hurdles, clocking 7.67 to place second at the Clemson Invitational...Claimed a fourth-place finish at the SEC Indoor Championships with his second-best time of the season in an event final (7.78)...Also placed seventh in the 200 meters at the Clemson Invite with a time of 21.40...Earned two 60mH event wins in the regular season, clocking 7.79 to claim the Husker Invitational and 7.80 to win the UAB Blazer Invitational.
2018: Outdoor - Ran a leg on the Georgia 4x100 meter relay team that secured an eighth-place finish at the NCAA East Prelims (39.29) on the way to nationals qualification, as well as the No. 5 spot in school history...Finished sixth in the preliminary round of the 110-meter hurdles at prelims with a blazing time of 13.91, but missed nationals qualification with a headwind in the next round...Ran a season-best time of 13.62 (wind-aided) in a fourth-place 110mH finish at Texas Relays to become No. 2 in school history with the NCAA East Region No. 8 qualifying mark...Sped to his best wind-legal time of the season (13.80) in the prelims at the Texas Relays...Helped the 4x100 meter relay teams to event wins at the Spec Towns and Yellow Jacket Invitationals...Secured a 10th-place finish in the hurdles at the SEC Outdoor Championships with a time of 13.97.
Indoor - Became the first indoor All-American hurdler in Georgia history with a seventh-place finish in the 60-meter hurdles (7.77) at the NCAA Indoor Championships, coming just a hundredth of second shy of his season-best time...First clocked a 7.77 in the prelims towards a second-place finish in qualifiers...Climbed to No. 2 in school history in the 60m hurdles (7.76) in a prelims victory at the Tiger Paw Invite, the best time of his collegiate career...Earned the No. 14 NCAA qualifying mark in the 60m hurdles (7.76)...Finished fourth place in the 60m hurdles (7.84) at his first SEC Indoor Championships while earning Second Team All-SEC honors...Steadily improved his hurdles time all season, starting with a 7.86 in his Georgia debut at the Orange & Purple Invite.
New Orleans (2016): Advanced to the NCAA East Prelims in the 110mH…Collected Southland Conference titles in both the 60mH (7.97) and the 110mH (13.91)…Sixth in 110mH (99cm) with a 13.45 at World Championships…Named to conference Honor Roll.
High School: Attended and competed for The Lester Vaughan School.
Personal: Born April 6, 1997…Majoring in Sociology.
