Prior to NJIT: Three-year varsity letter winner in track and field and competed in the New Jersey Meet of Champions. ...Second-team all-Union County in basketball, playing for coach Kathy Matthews at Union Catholic High in Scotch Plains, NJ. ... received Union County Coaches Award for basketball and track and field. ... Played AAU basketball for the Jerzee Heat coached by Kemper Smith. ... National Honor Society, academic medallion and numerous academic awards.

Personal: Lesley Nicole Hendricks ... Daughter of Harold and Brenda Hendricks ... microbiology major. ... born 6/14/88 in Newark, NJ.