Northern State University Athletics

Arechigo graduated from Northern State in 2013 and 2018 with bachelor's degrees in English Education and English and a master's degree in Leadership and Administration, competing for both the women's basketball and track and field teams. On the hardwood, she scored 1,062 points and pulled down 803 rebounds in her career. Arechigo holds the school record for single game rebounds with 22 against No. 6 Minnesota State in 2009. She ranks 33rd in career scoring, 12th in career rebounds, and second in career rebounding average (8.2) at NSU. Arechigo is the only women's basketball player to record a 20-20 game with 22 points and 20 rebounds against Bemidji State in 2010.  She ran three seasons of cross country, earning NSIC All-Conference accolades in 2010. On the track, she is the school record holder in the 3000m steeplechase with a time of 11:02.37. Arechigo earned NSIC All-Conference accolades in the 800m and 3000m steeplechase in 2010, finishing in second and third overall. She was a 3-time CoSIDA Academic All-American, once for basketball in 2012 and twice for track and field in 2012 and 2013; the most by any former student-athlete at Northern State across all sports. Arechigo capped off her Northern Sate career with the Hildred Wolfe Award in the spring of 2013. Mikayla and her husband, Jake ('13), met at Northern State and currently reside in Aberdeen with their three children: Rhea (6), Miles (3), and Rhett (1). Mikayla is a teacher-librarian at Aberdeen Central High School.