Nicola McDermott

Nicola Lauren McDermott (born 28 December 1996) is an Australian high jumper.
McDermott competed in the women's high jump at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. McDermott also competed in the women's high jump at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, where she achieved a personal best jump of 1.91m and won the bronze medal. On 20 June 2019, McDermott jumped a personal best of 1.96m at Mestský Stadion, Ostrava, Czech Republic. Achieving a new personal best of 1.98 m in Sinn, Germany, on 29 August 2020, she rose to second place in the all-time list of Australian women high jumpers.
McDermott set Australian and Oceanian records with a personal best 2.00 m jump on 18 April 2021.
Personal life.
McDermott is of partial Croatian ancestry. She studies biochemistry at the University of Sydney. 
While attending a youth camp at the age of 16, McDermott became a Christian. She compared experiencing the Holy Spirit "tangibly" to "electricity" going through her body, as if "colour" had come to a world she'd been seeing "in black and white". McDermott runs Everlasting Crowns, a ministry dedicated to encouraging and teaching athletes.