MIKALA HICKS, a 5-foot, 9-inch outside/right side attacker from Fair Grove High School in Fair Grove, Mo., has signed on to play volleyball with the Missouri State University-West Plains Grizzly Volleyball team beginning with the 2014 season. Hicks helped guide her Eagles team to a fourth place finish last fall in the 2013 Class 2A State Championships. She was a second-team all-state honoree her junior season and first-team all-state honoree this past year. She also has been named to the Missouri Academic All-State Team in 2012 and 2013 and was a first-team All-Mid Lakes Conference Team honoree her junior and senior year. As as senior, she had 323 kills, 4.1 kills per game, 305 digs, and 3.9 digs per game. On hand for the signing were, front row from left, her mother Marsha Hicks, Hicks, her father Gerald Hicks and her sister Monica Hicks; back row, Fair Grove Head Volleyball Coach Tonya Peck, Athletic Director Jason O’Neal, Club Bear Director Sue Daughtery, Club Bear Coach Jerry Schneider, and Grizzly Volleyball Head Coach Paula Wiedemann. (Photo provided)