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Nikki Lynch

Class:
Senior
Position:
Center/Wing
Hometown:
Lafayette, Calif.
High School:
Miramonte

SPRING 2025: Collegiate Rugby Championship 7s All-Tournament Team Selection...Named Forward of the Year at the team’s annual banquet.

FALL 2024: Named NIRA Division I First Team All-American…Named MA Sorensen Award Nominee...Started in eight games…Scored 11 tries including three against Princeton (Sept. 28)...Scored two tries against AIC (Sept. 20), Mount St. Mary's (Oct. 19) and Army (Oct. 26).

FALL 2023: Saw action in all eight games as a junior and ranked second on the team with eight tries … Recorded three tries against Queens (Sept. 23) and a pair of tries against Harvard (Sept. 30).

FALL 2022: Saw action in seven matches as a sophomore, earning six starts … Finished the season with five tries to rank third on the team … Scored twice in Brown’s win over LIU (Oct. 8).

2021-22: Helped the Bears reach the NIRA 15s Semifinals in the Fall.

Before Brown: Competed in rugby, field hockey and volleyball at Miramonte High School … Played on Czech Women's National Field Hockey Team … Finished second in 2016 European Tournament with the Czech team … Named Best Goalie of the European Tournament … Also competed for the Pleasanton Cavaliers and SK Slavia Praha (Field Hockey) ... Received the Duke of Edinburgh Award - Bronze Level.

Personal: Daughter of Hana and Dan Lynch … Father, Dan, was an All-American football player and played for the Denver Broncos in 1985 … Has one sibling, Karolina … Plans to concentrate in Biology or Neuroscience.