2021: Competed in three races during the season and was one of the Wildcats scoring runners at the Princeton Invitational;
Paul Short Run (10/1): Recorded a time of 24:45.1 over 8000 meters at Lehigh … Finished 95
th in a field of more than 350 runners in the Gold race at the annual meet;
Princeton Invitational (10/16): Came in 12
th overall and fifth in the Villanova lineup with a season-best 8K time of 24:40.6 …
BIG EAST Championships (10/29): Posted a 32
nd place overall finish at the conference meet with a time of 25:54.7.
2020: Second team All-BIG EAST performer ... Was one of the top five scorers for Villanova at both the BIG EAST Championships and the NCAA Championships ... Recorded personal best times for both 8,000 meter and 10,000 meter courses;
BIG EAST Championships (3/5): Finished fifth in the Villanova lineup and 17th overall at the conference meet ... Earned second team All-BIG EAST honors for placing among the top 20 overall finishers ... The all-conference accolade was the first of his career and he posted a time of 23:43.1 on the 8,000 meter course ... Helped the Wildcats finish third in the team standings and earn an at-large bid to the NCAA Championships;
NCAA Championships (3/15): Finished fifth in the Villanova lineup and 168th overall in his first race at an NCAA Championship ... Covered the 10K course on the Oklahoma State campus in 32:24.0 ... Helped the Wildcats finish 20th overall at the national meet after being ranked outside of the national top 30 entering the meet ... The finish was the team's best since 2014.
2019: Haverford Invitational (10/25): Came in seventh out of 40 runners in his only race of the season ... Recorded a time of 20:37.8 on the four-mile Alumni Course at Haverford.
2018: Competed at each of the first four meets of the season;
Main Line Invitational (9/14): Registered a time of 20:14.9 in the four-mile season opener at Haverford;
Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational (9/28): Competed in the open race at registered a time of 26:14.3 over 8000 meters;
Princeton Invitational (10/12): Came in 65th out of more than 200 runners and posted a time of 25:18.9 in the 8000 meter race;
BIG EAST Championships (10/27): Posted a time of 26:35.4 over 8000 meters at the conference meet and finished in 51st place overall.
2017: Ran four races during the season and was part of the Wildcats lineup at the BIG EAST Championships;
Main Line Invitational (9/15): Recorded a time of 21:51.2 over four miles in the season opener;
Paul Short Run (9/29): Ran in the open race and came in 31st overall with a time of 25:31.3 over 8000 meters;
Penn State National Open (10/13): Placed 64th at the meet and had a time of 26:44.0 over 5.2 miles;
BIG EAST Championships (10/28): Came in 26th and recorded a time of 25:42.9 over 8000 meters at the conference meet.
2016: Competed as an unattached runner at four meets during the season;
Big 5 Invitational (9/9): Came in 24th with a time of 20:04.8 over 6000 meters;
Main Line Invitational (9/16): Recorded a time of 21:01.5 and placed 32nd in the four-mile race;
Paul Short Run (10/1): Finished with a time of 27:36 over 8000 meters in the open race at the Lehigh meet;
Haverford Invitational (10/21): Placed eighth with a time of 21:10.6 on the four-mile Haverford course.
2020: Ran two races each in the 3000 meters and the 5000 meters during the season ... Registered personal best times in each event; Wesley A. Brown Invitational (1/18): Came in eighth in the 3000 meters at Navy with a time of 8:36.53 in his first race of the year;
Villanova Invitational (2/1): Posted a personal best time of 8:26.69 in the 3000 meters and notched a 10th place finish in the race at the Wildcats home meet;
FastTrack National Invitational (2/14): Runner-up in the 5000 meters with a personal best time of 14:45.71;
BIG EAST Championships (3/1): Recorded a time of 15:33.23 in the 5000 meters on the first day of the conference meet.
2019: Competed at three meets during the season and exclusively ran the 3000 meters;
Wesley A. Brown Invitational (1/12): Recorded a time of 8:41.28 and placed 11th at the indoor season opener;
Dr. Sander Invitational/Columbia Challenge (1/26): Posted a time of 8:42.21 in his second race of the season;
FastTrack National Invitational (2/8): Competed in the invitational section of the 3000 meters and placed 22nd with a season-best time of 8:36.09.
2018: Ran four races in the 3000 meters during the indoor campaign;
Nittany Lion Challenge (1/13): Placed 13th in his first race of the year and crossed the finish line in 8:43.61;
Penn 8-Team Select (1/20): Posted a time of 8:38.69 and tallied a 13th place finish;
FastTrack National Invite (2/9): Competed in the invitational section of the 3000 meters and tallied a personal best time of 8:34.32 to finish in 13th place;
BIG EAST Championships (2/24): Came in 18th at the conference meet with a time of 8:43.43.
2017: Competed twice as an unattached runner during the season;
Villanova Open (1/27): Recorded a time of 15:39.32 and came in ninth in the 5000 meters at the Wildcats home meet;
Villanova Invitational (2/4): Recorded a time of 8:58.36 in the 3000 meters.
2021: Made the most of his three races during the season and set personal best times in both the 5000 meters and the 10000 meters … Competed in the 10K at the BIG EAST Championships;
Raleigh Relays (3/25): Registered a personal best time of 14:34.04 in the 5000 meters in his season debut at North Carolina State;
Virginia Challenge (4/16): Finished in 10
th place in a competitive field in the 10000 meters at Virginia and registered a personal best time of 29:51.36;
BIG EAST Championships (5/14): Came in 10
th in the 10000 meters at the conference meet with a time of 30:41.93.
2019: Ran two races during the outdoor season and recorded personal bests in the 5000 meters and the 10000 meters ... Scored in the 10K at the BIG EAST Championships in his first career race in the event;
Sam Howell Invitational (4/6): Came in 11th in the seeded section of the 5000 meters with a time of 14:48.51 ... Narrowly eclipsed his previous PR in the 5K by 0.46 seconds from the previous park of 14:48.97 which he had recorded at Princeton a year earlier;
BIG EAST Championships (5/10): Debuted in the 10000 meters at the conference meet and came in seventh with a time of 31:29.01 ... Scored two team point to contribute to the Wildcats winning the BIG EAST team title and finishing off an indoor-outdoor sweep of the conference meets.
2018: Competed exclusively in the 5000 meters at three meets during the season;
Colonial Relays (4/6): Recorded a time of 15:02.66 and finished 22nd in his first race of the outdoor season;
Larry Ellis Invitational (4/20): Runner-up in the unseeded section of the 5000 meters and recorded a personal best time of 14:48.97;
BIG EAST Championships (5/12): Came in ninth at the conference meet with a time of 14:59.57.
2017: Sam Howell Invitational (4/7): Competed as an unattached runner in his only race of the season and recorded a personal best time of 4:09.56 in the 1500 meters.
Shaker High School: Earned four varsity letters each in cross country, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field ... Team captain for the cross country and track & field teams as a junior and a senior ... Won a Section 2 title indoors in the 3200 meters ... Came in 12th at the New York Regional meet of the Nike Cross Country Nationals ... Also tallied a ninth place finish at the New York State Federation meet and was 13th at the state meet ... Finished fourth at the section meet ... Three-time Suburban Council All-Star as a sophomore, junior and senior ... Two-time Albany Times Union first team All-Star in cross country as a junior and a senior ... Three-time team MVP in cross country ... Two-time winner of his school's Sportsmanship Award ... Also named the top runner in his class as a freshman, sophomore and junior ... As a senior won the Capital Zone Leadership Award ... Graduated in the top five percent of his class ... Achieved High Honor Roll status academically all four years ... Was the sophomore class Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Personal: Born 8/25/98 in Albany, N.Y. ... Older of three children of Paul and Mary Beth Nichols ... Siblings are Chris and Hanna ... Enjoys hiking, reading and playing sports with friends in his spare time ... Chose to attend Villanova for the combination of its academic and athletic programs which offered him the opportunity to be successful ... Enrolled in the Villanova School of Business ... Management Information Systems major and Finance minor.
