Nicole Honaker

Hometown: Oakley, Calif.

Major: Nursing. Plans to graduate in Spring 2009.

Background: In high school she was an all-star cheerleader, varsity cheerleader, varsity diver, sports editor for the yearbook and gymnast. At Sacramento State she was on the all-female cheerleading team as a freshman, and is currently on the co-ed cheerleading team.

Influences: “I’m definitely an academic-based person—B’s have never been acceptable to me. I’m here to go to school, so my biggest influence would have to be my education.”

Highlight: “Being a cheerleader here has been really good. Basketball games when we have a full house are always intense. We’ve had some really close games and the crowd was really into it. Those are really fun from a performance standpoint. We cheered against Cal football and it was really neat to go to Cal Berkeley and cheer in their stadium and see that kind of system. That has been a highlight for me.”

Proudest accomplishment: “As far as recently, winning Miss Sacramento is definitely up there. Being Miss Sacramento is the coolest thing—I haven’t been able to absorb it all yet. It is something that will always be with me. I’ll always be a Miss Sacramento and it's something I can look back at.”

Destination: “I would like to be an emergency room nurse or a surgical nurse and those are both really intense. I like anything with adrenaline. I'm actually doing a volunteer position at the UC Davis Medical Center right now in the emergency room, so it is very cool to see how it all works and to see first-hand what an emergency room is like.”