[8] Following her college career, she played professionally in the Netherland for two seasons[9] where she gained notability in 1978 after having a two-handed alley-oop dunk.
[4] She later played two seasons in the Women's Professional Basketball League (WBL) for the San Francisco Pioneers,[7] averaging 15.7 points in 43 games.
She missed the majority of her first season, due to a stress fracture in both legs.
[11] Following the folding of WBL in 1981, Hicks returned to Europe, playing until 1994, including in Italy and Sweden.
In 1997, she tried out for the WNBA Sacramento Monarchs at age 41 but knee problems knocked her out.