Here’s a few things Nikki Kureczka couldn’t get around to doing; wash dishes, mow the lawn, change a tire. That’s because she was doing everything else.

Whether it be soccer, indoor track or outdoor track, Kureczka spent her athletic career at Berlin High setting six track records, winning big races, named All­Conference seven times, captained three sports and was All-Academic in all three and collected enough awards and admiration to fill a gym. Only two hours before the Yale Classic 300 meter indoor race as a senior, Kureczka ate multiple slices of pizza. “I couldn’t resist it,” she said. No problem. She won anyway. She also won the Class M state outdoor 400 meters.

Kureczka, 30, a resident of Middletown, said one of her toughest opponents was her father. “We’d race 50 yards, and he’d always beat me,” she said. “He says he could still beat me today.”

Being elected captain of three sports in her senior year (2009-10) surprised her. “I never thought of myself as a captain. My teammates said I always came to practice happy with a positive attitude. I always loved sports. They made me feel good,” she said.

And since she played three sports and was an honor student she had to be organized. She figured it out. “I knew how much I had to put into things,” she said.

Keeping busy and organized is a family trait. Both parents worked two jobs. Yet they always made time to see Nikki’s soccer games and track meets.

While at Central Connecticut State University she played all of the defensive positions on the soccer team for four years because of her speed and ability to track opponents. She wasn’t shy about contact. “I was always breaking something,” she said. Mostly her nose three times. “Medicine seemed to draw me in.”

She graduated as an honor student in psychology. Then she took graduate courses for two years to become a surgery tech. She works 55-60 hours a week at the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven. One day she’ll see brain surgery, a double mastectomy the next. The experience has convinced her to someday go back to school to become a physicians assistant.

Next November Nikki will be married. Guess who will be washing dishes, mowing the lawn and changing tires?