Montana Western, University of

A native of Winifred, is a 1995 graduate of Western Montana with a communications degree. During her Lady Bulldog career, she was a three-time first-team All-Conference selection and two-time All-District selection. Other individual honors include numerous Player of the Week selections, and selection to several All-Tournament teams. Wickens was named the Lady Bulldogs ‘Most Valuable Player” in her senior season. She led the Lady Bulldogs in scoring for three seasons and is third on the all-time scoring list with 1,407 career points. Her career best was 33 points against Montana Tech in 1994. Wickens also excelled in the classroom where she earned Academic All-Conference honors three times and Academic All-American honors twice. She said her most memorable moments at Western were her first semester, her last semester and everything in between. Her coaches at Western were Gary Cooper and Karyn Pilskalns. Her teammates included Tracy Harris, Charlie Kress, Amy Oltrogge, Tanya Osterman and Stacey Shockley to mention a few. Upon graduation from Western, Wickens worked in the marketing department of the Big Sky Conference. She then moved to ICON Health and Fitness Inc. where she was the Packaged Goods product line manager. There, she developed her own patent-pending product, the StayBall.