In the VWFL/VFLW, Hickey won seven premierships, represented Victoria on three occasions and featured in the VFL Women's team of the year.

[1] She was born into a family with a strong history in Australian rules football; her great, great uncle, Pat Hickey, played in the inaugural round of the Victorian Football League in 1897 for Fitzroy and won two premierships with the club,[2] her grandfather's cousin was Geelong legend and Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee, Reg Hickey, she's related to former Port Adelaide captain and coach, Matthew Primus, and her father, Peter Hickey, played an extensive career in Mildura.

[6] Hickey was forced to miss the entire 2012 season due to her ACL injury and upon her return in 2013, she rejoined the Darebin Falcons and won her third VWFL premiership; in the grand final, she was awarded the Lisa Hardeman Medal as the best player on the ground.

[12] In the same year, she was recruited by the Melbourne Football Club with the eleventh selection in the 2013 women's draft[13] and played in the inaugural women's AFL exhibition match against the Western Bulldogs at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in front of approximately 8000 people in a thirty-two point win.

[28] In July 2016, Hickey was announced as one of two marquee player signings for the Melbourne Football Club, alongside Daisy Pearce.

[30] She debuted in Melbourne's inaugural match against Brisbane at Casey Fields in a fifteen-point loss, where she recorded thirteen disposals and three marks.

[32] The next week, she kicked her first AFLW goal in the fourteen point win over the Western Bulldogs at Whitten Oval,[33] and she was named in Melbourne's best players by AFL Media and The Age.

[37] In May 2018, prior to the 2018 AFL Women's signing period, Hickey was announced as one of four Melbourne players, along with Richelle Cranston, Erin Hoare and Anna Teague, to join Geelong in the newly expanded competition.

[50] Hickey is currently in a relationship with former teammate Danielle Higgins, and they share a son, named River, born in 2024.