Jessie Hicks (born December 2, 1971) is a former professional basketball player. She was chosen to be a member of the 2013 ACC Women's Basketball Tournament Legends Roster, a class of 12 former-student-athletes who represent three decades of basketball.

Personal life

Hicks earned a degree in criminal justice in 1993. She later earned a master's of education in guidance and counseling. She has two children.

WNBA

Hicks was selected with the 12th overall pick in the

1997 WNBA Draft The 1997 WNBA draft was the inaugural draft held by the WNBA through which teams could select new players from a talent pool of college and professional women's basketball players. Unlike later drafts, this draft was unique because there were thr ...

by the

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. In her debut game on June 21, 1997, Hicks played for four and half minutes and recorded only one rebound as a statistic, as the Starzz fell to the Sacramento Monarchs 61 - 73. She would only play for the Starzz her rookie year, averaging 3.2 points and 1.4 rebounds in 10 minutes per game.

Pregnancy and Fight Back into the WNBA

At the end of her rookie season, Hicks would discover that she was pregnant. She would be placed on the injury reserve list for the Starzz as she recovered from giving the birth of her son, Jamon Emmanuel Hicks. She was eventually waived by the Starzz on April 30, 1999. Hicks has spoken publicly about the pregnancy, her difficulty with recovering and her determination to get back into the league afterwards. Saying "The doctor gives you six weeks to get your body back to normal. I didn't recover like that. Three months, it took me. And I'd gained a lot of weight — 60 pounds. But I had the desire to get back into shape." Hicks would not return to the WNBA until the spring of 2000 (2 and a half years after the final game of her rookie season) where she signed to the

Orlando Miracle The Orlando Miracle were a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in Orlando, Florida. It began play in the 1999 WNBA season. The Miracle relocated, in 2003, to Uncasville, Connecticut, where the team became the Connecticut Su ...

's training camp and made the final roster going into the 2000 season. As an appreciation token for her drive and determination to return to the league, she started for the Miracle in their season opener on May 31, 2000. However, this would be her only game that year where she was a starter as the Miracle decided to start

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at the center and power forward positions for every other game of the season. She would play for the Miracle for four years (in the fourth year, the Miracle moved to Connecticut and became the Connecticut Sun with her most productive one being her third year, averaging 6.1 points and 3.3 rebounds per game. The fourth year (as a member of the now Sun) would be the only time Hicks would make the playoffs in her career, but the Sun were swept in the Eastern Conference Finals by the

Detroit Shock The Detroit Shock were a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. They were the 2003, 2006, and 2008 WNBA champions. Debuting in 1998, the Shock were one of the league's first expansion franchises. ...

. After the 2003 season ended, Hicks signed as a free agent with the

San Antonio Silver Stars The San Antonio Stars were a professional basketball team based in San Antonio, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The team was founded in Salt Lake City, Utah, as the Utah Starzz before the ...

on February 4, 2004. In 27 games for the Silver Stars (starting in 10 of them), Hicks averaged 13.7 minutes per game along with 4.7 points and 2.1 rebounds as the Stars finished with the worst record in the league (9-25). Because the Stars missed the playoffs, Hicks final WNBA game ever ended up being the last regular season game of the Stars' schedule that year on September 17, 2004. On that day, the Stars defeated the Charlotte Sting 82 - 65 with Hicks recording 2 points, 4 rebounds a 1 block in her final game.https://www.basketball-reference.com/wnba/boxscores/200409170SAS.html

Career statistics

Regular season

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2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

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2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

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2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

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2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

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2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

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Playoffs

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References

External links

Jessie Hicks WNBA Stats , Basketball-Reference.comLegends
1971 births Living people Basketball players from Richmond, Virginia Centers (basketball) Connecticut Sun players Forwards (basketball) Maryland Terrapins women's basketball players Orlando Miracle players San Antonio Stars players Utah Starzz draft picks Utah Starzz players {{1970s-US-basketball-bio-stub