Nick Adcock Makes Mizzou Hall of Fame

On September 8th, Nick Adcock will be inducted into the Mizzou Track & Field Hall of Fame. He is the son of Sue (Ruckman) Adcock. 

In 2007, Nick claimed the title of “America’s Greatest Athlete Under 20.” He was Mizzou’s first ever track and field athlete to qualify for the USAFT Junior Decathlon Championship and won it with a score of 7,293 points. He beat out a field of 145 athletes, and his performance was the seventh best in the 58 year history of that event. For that, he qualified for the US Junior National Team and competed in the Pan Am Junior games in Sao Paulo (Brazil), where he placed second.

He was a five time All-American, and won the Big 12 Championship in 2008 and 2010 in the Heptathlon, and also won it in the Decathlon in 2010.

Nick holds the school record in the Heptathlon with 5,938 points and the Heptathlon 60 Meter Hurdles with a time of 7.92. In 2009, he placed fourth nationally in the Indoor Heptathlon and did so again in 2010. He holds the Big 12 Conference Meet Record for the Heptathlon and was the 2010 USFFCCA Midwest Athlete of the Year.

Nick also excelled in the classroom as well as the track, winning multiple Big 12 academic awards.

He represented the USA once in Toluca (Mexico), once in Sao Paulo (Brazil), twice at the Thorpe Cup in Marburg (Germany) and once in the USA.

In 2011, he won the 2011 Indoor USATF National Championship.

Nick grew up in Kansas City and graduated from Oak Park High School in 2006. His Kindergarten teacher at Fox Hill Elementary started drilling into his head when he graduated that he should go to college at the University of Missouri. He started doing track in middle school, doing High Jump and some relays. In high school, he started doing hurdles as well, which became his favorite event.

In 2009, he met his wife Liz Roehrig, who was competing for the University of Minnesota, where she was inducted into their Hall of Fame in 2021. They married in 2014 and reside in Columbia (MO), where he is an accounting manager at Storage Mart and she is a PE teacher and assistant track and field coach at Battle High School. They have two daughters, Teagan (6) and Braylee (8 months).