A two-year soccer letter winner, Nicolette Stafford also was one of the top sprinters on the indoor and outdoor track teams during her freshman scholastic year in 2016-17. Stafford begins her second season with the indoor track program this winter. As a freshman, she was named the Most Dedicated athlete on the indoor and outdoor track programs.
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Academically, Stafford earned a spot on the Rutgers-Camden Athletic Director’s Honor Roll during both the Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 semesters.
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Soccer 2017: Played in 15 games, starting two…Scored one goal for two points…Took nine shots, four on goal, for a .444 shots on goal percentage…Started the season opener against Elizabethtown College (Sept. 1) and also a game against Rosemont College (Sept. 13)…Scored her lone goal, on her only shot, in the Rosemont game, helping the Scarlet Raptors to a 5-1 victory…Played her season high of 61 minutes against national power Johns Hopkins University (Sept. 20)…Took two shots apiece in back-to-back road games against Lancaster Bible College and New Jersey City University, Oct. 4 and Oct. 7, respectively.
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Outdoor Track 2017: Competed in the 200-meter dash in seven spring invitationals, while also adding races at 100 meters, 400 meters and with the 4x100 and 4x400 relay teams…Ran her lone 100-meter dash at the season-opening Golden Rams Invitational (March 25), placing 31st of 42 (14.07), while also finishing 32nd of 42 in the 200-meter dash (28.98) and anchoring the 4x100 relay team, which placed fourth of six with a 52.58 clocking…Finished 15th of 17 at 200 meters (29.88) and 11th of 16 at 400 meters (1:07.15) at the Stockton Invitational (April 1)…Ran a personal-best 28.16 time to finish 13th of 24 in the 200-meter dash at the Oscar Moore Open (April 8)…Placed 19th of 58 athletes in the 200-meter dash (28.68) and ninth of 32 in the 400-meter dash (1:03.71) at the Gwynedd Mercy Mid-Week Twilight Invitational (April 12)…Finished 32nd of 72 at 200 meters (28.26) and 30th of 69 at 400 meters (1:03.85) at the Widener Invitational (April 22)…At the Lions Invitational (April 29), placed 41st of 73 in the 200-meter dash (28.27)…Ran both days at the New Jersey Athletic Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships (May 6-7), finishing 19th of 27 in the 200-meter dash preliminaries (28.23) and 10th of 17 in the 400-meter preliminaries (a PR of 1:02.83) on the opening day…On the second day of the NJACs, ran the leadoff leg on both the 4x100 relay (54.31, seventh of seven) and 4x400 relay (4:22.15, sixth of eight).
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Indoor Track 2016-17: Sprinter who competed in the 200-meter dash in four meets and also helped Rutgers-Camden set program relay records…Posted a 30.39 clocking in the 200-meter dash at the Gotham Cup (Jan. 20), finishing 64th of 66 athletes…Placed seventh of 14 in the 200-meter dash (30.40) at the Widener Field Meet (Jan. 27), while also running the leadoff leg on the 4x160 relay team which finished first of three squads with a program-record time of 1:32.67…Set another program relay mark in the 4x200, running the second leg as the Raptors finished 10th of 12 (1:58.36) at the St. Joseph’s College Invitational (Feb. 11)…Also ran the 200-meter dash in a personal-best time of 29.65 at the St. Joseph’s meet to finish 52nd of 82…At the NJAC Indoor Track & Field Championships (Feb. 20), finished 21st of 26 (29.72) in the 200-meter dash and also ran the second leg of the 4x200 relay which finished sixth of six and broke its own nine-day old record with a 1:55.80 clocking.
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Soccer 2016: Played in 13 games, starting four…Tied for fifth on the team in scoring with four points and tied for third with two goals…Had one game-winning goal…Took six shots, four on goal…Started her first collegiate contest and played 62 minutes in a 3-0 loss at 12th-ranked Swarthmore College in the season opener, Sept. 1…Notched the game-winning goal at 83:52 to lift Rutgers-Camden over Alvernia University, 3-2 (Sept. 7)…Added her second career goal in the second half to force No. 22-ranked Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute into overtime before the Raptors dropped a 2-1 decision in a non-conference road game (Oct. 5)…Played her season high of 75 minutes in a 3-2 overtime loss to New Jersey City University (Oct. 8).
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High School: Graduated from Kingsway Regional High School in 2016.
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Club Team: East Coast Premier.
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Personal: Born October 20, 1997…Health Sciences major at Rutgers-Camden…Nicolette is the daughter of Michele and Bill Stafford of Swedesboro.
