Victoria Zimmerman Season 2010-11

Personal Bests
Indoors
Weight Throw, 61-7 (18.77)
Outdoors
Hammer Throw, 197-9 (60.28)

Big 12 Champion
2011 Hammer Throw

Academics
USTFCCCA All-Academic Team (2010, 2011, 2012)
First-Team Academic All-Big 12 (2009, 2010, 2011)
Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll, Spring: (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), Fall: (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)

Big 12 Championships
2011 (O): HT, 197-9 (1st)
2011 (I): WT, Foul (DNP)
2010 (O): HT, 175-0 (6th)
2010 (I): WT, 56-1 (11th)
2009 (O): HT, 163-11 (14th)

2011 (Junior)
Victoria Zimmerman earned the Big 12 title in the hammer throw at the 2011 Big 12 Outdoor Championships with a personal-best mark of 197-9... competed in six meets during the indoor track and field season... posted a personal-best mark of 61-7 in the weight throw at the adidas Classic on Jan. 22... competed in six meets during the outdoor track and field season.

2010 (Sophomore)
Zimmerman shattered her weight throw previous best of 53-9 1/4 by over three feet at the Bill Bergan Invitational with a toss of 57-2 3/4... competed at the Big 12 Indoor Championships for the first time in her career, placing 11th (56-1)... topped 180 feet for the first time in her career in the hammer throw with a toss of 184-10 at the GPAC Last Chance... tossed 189-11 one week later at the Texas Tech Dual... earned her first All-Big 12 honor at the conference outdoor meet with a sixth-place showing in the hammer throw... finished 18th at the NCAA West Regional to conclude the year.

2009 (Redshirt Freshman)
Zimmerman opened the indoor season by bettering her previous best of 46-6 3/4 in the weight throw by more than five feet with a toss of 51-9 3/4 at the Holiday Inn Invitational... improved the mark later in the year to 53-9 1/4 at the Nebraska Tune-Up... opened the outdoor season by breaking her previous best of 139-1 in the hammer throw with a toss of 151-0 at the Stanford Invitational... added more than 18 feet at the WSC Wildcat Open, throwing 169-9... tossed 163-11 to finish 14th at her first conference meet in Lubbock, Texas.

2008 (Freshman)
Zimmerman redshirted in her first season at Nebraska to learn to throw the weight and hammer... competed unattached at five meets indoors, including a then-personal-best throw of 46-6 3/4 at the Cornhusker Last Chance... competed at both home meets outdoors, recording a toss of 139-1 in the hammer throw at the Nebraska Invitational.

Before Nebraska (John Hersey HS)
Zimmerman competed in the 2007 Illinois Class AA state meet as a senior and finished 11th in the shot put (39-5) under Coach Jim Miks... also competed in the 2005 state meet in the shot but did not qualify for the finals... prep best in the shot put came at the 2007 Buffalo Grove Girls Class Sectional with a mark of 41-10 to qualify for state... was a member of the National Honor Society.

Personal
Parents are Klaus and Felicitas Zimmerman... born Jan. 6, 1989... majors are biological sciences and Spanish.