BOULDER – When Abby Nichols was in her final semester at The Ohio State University during the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic shut down everything, including NCAA sports.
Nichols had a year of eligibility left in cross country and outdoor track, but when the NCAA announced there would be an additional year added on, she knew she wanted to keep running and made the decision to start looking at other programs outside of Ohio. The school the highest on her list? Colorado.
"I knew about the history here," Nichols said. "I always wanted to live by the mountains.