2015-16 Women's Cross Country & Track and Field Roster

Mark Wagner
Mark Wagner

Rickitha Hicks

  • Position:
    Sprints
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Experience:
    0
  • Hometown:
    El Dorado, Ark.
  • High School:
    El Doardo HS

Summary

Biography

2016 Outdoor Season: Set the new Little Rock school record in the 200 with a time of 23.95 seconds at the Sun Belt Championship (May 13), taking third place in the conference with that time...Also finished sixth in the league in the 100 with a time of 11.70 seconds...Helped break the school record and win the Sun Belt Championship in the 4x100 relay with a time of 45.22 seconds...Also broke the school record in the 4x100 twice earlier in the year with times of 46.03 seconds at the Memphis Invitational (April 29) and the Little Rock Invitational (April 8)...Her 100 time of 11.70 seconds at the Sun Belt Championship is now the second-fastest time in program history...Won the 100 at the Little Rock Invitational and the Rhodes College Invitational (March 18).

2015-16 Indoor Season: Was one of the Trojans' top sprinters during the indoor season, competingi n 60-meter dashes, 200-meter dashes and 400-meter races as well...Ran a season-best 7.58 seconds in the 60-meter dash at the Sun Belt Championship (Feb. 22), setting a new school record in the process...also ran the 60 in 7.65 seconds at the SBC Championship and 7.76 seconds at the Jaguar Invitational...Ran a season-best 200-meter dash in 24.73 seconds at the ASU Invitational (Jan. 22), setting the third-best time in Trojan history...Also ran the 200 in 25.18 seconds at the Jaguar Invitational and 25.37 seconds at the ASU Kickoff Klassic (Dec. 6)...Had her best 400 of the year at the ASU Invitational (Jan. 22) with a time of 1:01.20...Competed for the Trojans in three 4x400 relay races, helping the team to a season-best time of 3:53.46 at the Sun Belt Championship.

2015 Outdoor Season: Came in 11th place as part of the 4x100 relay team at the Victor Lopez Classic (April 4), running with the team in its 47.87-second effort...Also took 14th in the 100 in 12.35 seconds and 13th in the 200 in 25.18 seconds at that meet...At the UALR Open (April 11), placed third in the 200 with a time of 25.37 seconds...Also took third in the 100 in 12.18 seconds at that race...Finished seventh at the UCA Open (April 19) in three events: the 100, 200 and 4x100 relay...At the Red Wolf Open (April 25), took 11th place with a 12.18-second 100-meter dash...Part of the Trojans' ninth-place 4x100 team at the Sun Belt Championships (May 10) who finished in 47.16 seconds...Also took 16th in the 100 and 13th in the 200.

2014-15 Indoor Season: Placed third in the 55-meter dash in 7.39 seconds at the A-State Kickoff Klassic (Dec. 8)...Finished third in the 200 at that meet as well, racing in 26.14 seconds...Part of the 4x400 relay team that took third in 4:10.54...Took seventh place in the 55-meter finals at the A-State Scarlet and Black Invite (Jan. 26), running in 7.42 seconds...Also led Little Rock in the 200 with a 10th-place finish of 26.37 seconds...Part of the DMR team at the A-State Invite (Jan. 31), placing fourth in 13:13.86...Finished eighth in the 55 at the same meet in 7.37 seconds...Also finished 11th in 26.13 seconds in the 200 at the same meet...Led Little Rock with a 7.91-second time in the 60-meter dash at the Samford Invitational (Feb. 18)...Also finished 27th in the 200 with a 25.85-second race...Placed 20th in the 60-meter dash at the Sun Belt Championship (Feb. 23)...Came in 22nd in the 200 in 25.95 seconds.

2014 Outdoor Season: Set PRs in the 100 and 200 at the Sun Belt Outdoor Championship (May 10), running 11.94 seconds in the 100 and 24.57 seconds in the 200...Also ran with the 4x400 team at the conference championship, helping Little Rock to a seventh-place finish and two points...Set a then-personal record in the 100 in 12.05 seconds at the A-State Red Wolves Open (April 26), placing sixth in the field and running the fifth-fastest time in school history...Took ninth place in the 200 in 25.05 seconds in the same meet...Moved to eighth all-time at Little Rock in the 200 when she ran 25.18 seconds at the UCA Open (April 19)...was also fifth in the 100 in 12.33 seconds at that meet...Won the 200-meter dash at the UALR Open (April 12) in a time of 24.60 seconds...Placed eighth in the 200 at the Rhodes Open (March 15)...Also finished in the top 10 in the 400 (seventh) at Rhodes, running the race in 1:00.17...Was Little Rock's top finisher in the 100 at the Ole Miss Open (March 22), taking 10th place...Also placed 14th in the 200 at that meet.

2013-14 Indoor Season: Started her Little Rock career with a bang, running 7.21 seconds in the 55-meter dash to move to fifth all-time at Little Rock while also placing third at the Arkansas State Kickoff (Dec. 2)...Ran in the third-place 4x400 race at that same meet...Took seventh in the 55-meter race at the Arkansas State Invitational (Jan. 24)...Came in eighth in the 200 at that same meet...Placed eighth in the 55 and fourth in the 200 at the Tennessee State Invitational (Feb. 1), scoring five points for Little Rock...was 32nd in the 200 at the Samford Invitational (Feb. 8)...Placed 10th in the 55 and 17th in the 200 at the Sun Belt Championship (Feb. 24), tying the school record in the 60 with 7.72 seconds...Now fifth all-time at Little Rock in the 200 with runs of 25.38 on back-to-back weeks at Tennessee State and Samford.

Prior to Little Rock: Ran track in high school at El Dorado High…Named her school’s Player of the Year in 2011…Won a state championship in 2010 and 2011…Given her school’s award for Best Sportsmanship.

Personal: Daughter of Sonya Bridges and Ricky Hicks…Has two brothers, Cedric and Jamareon, and two sisters, Cretia and Teisha…Born in El Dorado, Ark.

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