2022-23 Women's Basketball Roster
Kovacikova, Nikola
Jersey Number 1
Nikola Kovacikova
- Position:
- G
- Height:
- 5-10
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- High School:
- St. Vincent de Paul Levica
- Hometown:
- Levice, Slovakia
Bio
Penn (2020-22)
Played in 19 games with eight starts in the 2021-22 season ... started first eight games she played in ... totaled 56 points, 30 rebounds, 22 assists, and nine steals while averaging 14.8 minutes per game ... had a career-high 18 points and six assists at St. Francis Brooklyn (11/18/21), shooting 4-for-8 from three-point range ... earned Penn's Norman J. Goldring Prize and George H. Frazier Prize which is given to a senior female student-athlete with the highest GPA.
Georgetown (2018-20)
Appeared in 27 game with 12 starts in 2019-20 and was Georgetown's third-leading scorer averaging 7.9 ppg as well as pulling in 3.2 rpg … recorded two double-doubles on the season ... had a career-high 20 points and 12 rebounds against Seton Hall on 1/30/20 ... As a freshman in 2018-19, she won the team's Newcomer of the Year Award after playing in all 35 games with eight starts ... averaged 4.0 ppg and 1.8 rpg ... scored a season-high 15 points against Maryland-Eastern Shore 11/9/18 ... named Big East All-Academic and made the Dean's List twice
Prep
A member of the Slovak women's national team which took eighth place at EuroBasket in 2018 … member of the national team pool for four years and won a silver medal at the European U-20 Championship … appeared in seven FIBA events, averaging double digits at the 2018 U-18 Women's European Championship and the 2015 U-16 Women's European Championship … the top scorer in junior leagues for six seasons and earned team MVP honors on five occasions … named league MVP and was the top scorer during a stint in the 2015-16 European Girls Basketball League … won a 3-on-3 world championship in a high school tournament competing against trios from all over the world … played with UKF Nitra in Slovakia.
Personal
Daughter of Viera Kovacikova and Peter Kovacik … both her mother and father played professional basketball and are professional basketball coaches ... her mother won a silver medal at the 1997 European Women's Basketball Championship (EuroBasket Women 1997) with Slovakia ... working on earning her MBA with hopes to become a marketing manager of a global fashion brand ... chose Cal Poly because of the coaching staff, familly atmosphere and wanted to live on the west coast
Played in 19 games with eight starts in the 2021-22 season ... started first eight games she played in ... totaled 56 points, 30 rebounds, 22 assists, and nine steals while averaging 14.8 minutes per game ... had a career-high 18 points and six assists at St. Francis Brooklyn (11/18/21), shooting 4-for-8 from three-point range ... earned Penn's Norman J. Goldring Prize and George H. Frazier Prize which is given to a senior female student-athlete with the highest GPA.
Georgetown (2018-20)
Appeared in 27 game with 12 starts in 2019-20 and was Georgetown's third-leading scorer averaging 7.9 ppg as well as pulling in 3.2 rpg … recorded two double-doubles on the season ... had a career-high 20 points and 12 rebounds against Seton Hall on 1/30/20 ... As a freshman in 2018-19, she won the team's Newcomer of the Year Award after playing in all 35 games with eight starts ... averaged 4.0 ppg and 1.8 rpg ... scored a season-high 15 points against Maryland-Eastern Shore 11/9/18 ... named Big East All-Academic and made the Dean's List twice
Prep
A member of the Slovak women's national team which took eighth place at EuroBasket in 2018 … member of the national team pool for four years and won a silver medal at the European U-20 Championship … appeared in seven FIBA events, averaging double digits at the 2018 U-18 Women's European Championship and the 2015 U-16 Women's European Championship … the top scorer in junior leagues for six seasons and earned team MVP honors on five occasions … named league MVP and was the top scorer during a stint in the 2015-16 European Girls Basketball League … won a 3-on-3 world championship in a high school tournament competing against trios from all over the world … played with UKF Nitra in Slovakia.
Personal
Daughter of Viera Kovacikova and Peter Kovacik … both her mother and father played professional basketball and are professional basketball coaches ... her mother won a silver medal at the 1997 European Women's Basketball Championship (EuroBasket Women 1997) with Slovakia ... working on earning her MBA with hopes to become a marketing manager of a global fashion brand ... chose Cal Poly because of the coaching staff, familly atmosphere and wanted to live on the west coast
Cal Poly Women's Basketball Postgame Press Conference Big West Championship- UCSB (March 12, 2025)
Wednesday, March 12
Cal Poly vs. CSUN, Women's Basketball Highlights -- Feb 15th, 2025
Sunday, February 16
Sydney Bourland & Mary Carter Postgame Press Conference (CSU Bakersfield) - Jan. 30, 2025
Friday, January 31
Cal Poly vs. CSUB, Women's Basketball Highlights -- Jan 30th, 2025
Friday, January 31
