Hall of Fame

Nilsson, Johanna

Johanna Nilsson

  • Class
    2006
  • Induction
    2025
  • Sport(s)
    Cross Country/Track & Field
Johanna Nilsson was a distance runner for Northern Arizona from 2002-06… Claimed four NCAA National Championships during the course of her career… First National Championship came in 2003, when she won the indoor 1,500-meter… In 2005, she won the NCAA Cross Country Individual Championship, becoming only the second athlete in Big Sky history to accomplish that feat, joining fellow Hall of Famer Angela Chalmers (1986)… Claimed two more National Championships in 2006, winning the indoor mile and 3,000-meter… Named NCAA Women’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Year in 2006… Claimed nine Big Sky Conference Championships during her career… Finished her time at NAU with four school records… Voted No. 2 on the Big Sky’s Greatest Female Athletes list… Sister of fellow 2025 Big Sky Hall of Fame inductee, Ida.