Heinicka was named the 2006 Big 12 Female Sportsperson of the Year
  
 
Big 12 To Honor Former Gymnast Jodie Heinicka During Big 12 Football Championship Game

Heinicka was selected as the 2006 Big 12 Female Sportsperson of the Year

Nov. 29, 2006

COLUMBIA, Mo. - Former Missouri gymnast Jodie Heinicka will be honored during Saturday's Dr. Pepper Big 12 Conference Football Championship game as the 2006 Big 12 Female Sportsperson of the Year. Heinicka, who completed her athletic eligibility in 2006, was the first Missouri student-athlete to earn in the honor in the award's six year history. She and 2006 Big 12 Male Sportsperson of the Year, Parker Dalton from the Texas A&M baseball team, will be recognized during the first media time out in the first quarter.

The Big 12 annually recognizes its top male and female sportsperson. The Sportspersons of the Year Award was started prior to the 2000-01 academic year to honor student-athletes who displayed an extraordinary degree of sportsmanship and/or community service during the academic year. Heinicka and Dalton were selected by a media panel.

Heinicka, a native of Seminole, Fla., spent her time in Columbia as an active participant in university and city activities. She was involved in the Can Food Drive for Central Missouri Food Bank, participated in the Dance-a-thon for children's diseases and visited the children's Cancer Patient Ward at the University Hospital. Heinicka organized a Habitat for Humanity project to help a local family in Columbia get their first home. During the holidays, she helped organize an Adopt-A-Family project and wrapped Christmas presents for a number of local families. She also worked at the water station for the Domestic Violence Half Marathon Race, volunteered at the local Boone Hospital and visited Columbia grade schools to read and mentor children.

In addition to these activities, Heinicka represented Missouri on the Big 12 Student Athlete Advisory Committee and was elected to be the student athlete representative for the Intercollegiate Athletic Committee. She also served as vice president for SAAC and was chosen to complete a public service announcement television commercial.

In the athletic arena, Heinicka is tied for Mizzou's bar record with a 9.950, which she set at the Missouri Cat Classic as a sophomore in 2004. As a senior in 2006, she finished the season ranked as the fourth finest bars worker in the nation and held the South Central Region's top bars ranking 10-of-11 weeks during the season. Heinicka, who was a three-time Academic All-Big 12 first team selection, concluded her career with a second-place finish on bars at the NCAA Southeast Regional.

 

 

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