Jodie Heinicka

	Hometown: Seminole, Fla.
	Position: Graduate Assistant Coach

Former Tiger Jodie Heinicka joins the coaching ranks as a graduate assistant for Mizzou in 2007. In addition to her coaching duties, Heinicka is a graduate assistant in the Total Person Program of the Mizzou athletic department, which assists Tiger student-athletes in such areas as academic counseling and career planning.

Within the program, Heinicka works with the men's and women's basketball and women's soccer teams, as well as helping coordinate academic tutors.

Over the course of her career, Heinicka posted six of the top 12 uneven bars scores in program history. As a sophomore in 2004, she set the Mizzou bars record when she recorded a 9.950 at the Cat Classic to win the individual event title.

In the best season of her career, Heinicka ended her senior campaign ranked fourth nationally on bars and stood as the South Central Region's top bars worker 11-of-12 weeks. Over the course of the year, she won 10 bars and two vault titles, including the Cat Classic Individual Event vault title.

Outside the athletic arena, Heinicka was named the 2006 Big 12 Female Sportsperson of the Year, the first time a Missouri student-athlete earned the honor. Additionally, she was a three-time Academic All-Big 12 first team selection and was named a National Association of Gymnastics Coaches/Women Scholar Athlete in 2006.

The Seminole, Fla., native earned a bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies in May 2006 and is currently working on a master's degree in education leadership policy.

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