Education
He graduated from Moscow High School and the University of Idaho, also in Moscow, where he played baseball for the Vandals.
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He graduated from Moscow High School and the University of Idaho, also in Moscow, where he played baseball for the Vandals.
He also coached baseball and football. Born in Eustis, Nebraska, Wicks moved with his family to the Palouse region of northern Idaho. After receiving his bachelor"s degree in 1925, he coached multiple sports at the high school level in nearby Genesee for two years, back at Moscow for three, and up at North Central in Spokane for one.
Wicks moved to Pocatello in 1931 to become assistant athletic director and head basketball coach at the University of Idaho"s Southern Branch (today"s Idaho State University), then a two-year school.
With the departure of Felix Plastina, Wicks became its athletic director in 1935 and also head football coach, posting a 29-17-1 (628) record in six seasons. After a decade, Wicks returned to Moscow in 1941 to coach basketball and baseball for the Vandals.
During World World War II, he served as an officer in the United States. Navy, then returned to coach at Idaho. Wicks later worked in the athletic department and then in university administration, as the associate dean of students.
Following his retirement from the university in 1966, he worked for the Sigma Nu fraternity.
While in Atlanta to visit the chapter at Emory University, he fell ill and died in early 1968 at the university hospital. Wicks had battled chronic lymphatic leukemia since 1960. Grace was a financial advisor in the 1950s, elected a county commissioner in the early 1960s (both very uncommon for a woman at the time), and later the local chair of the Republican Party.
She had a long run as a newspaper columnist for the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, writing past the age of 90.
A year after his death, Idaho"s recently relocated baseball field (467316°North 1170195°West / 467316. -1170195) was named for Wicks in 1969.
In the vast open area at the northwest corner of the campus which includes multiple intramural fields, the name "Guy Wicks Field" is now primarily attached to the women"s soccer field at the western edge. Baseball was dropped as a varsity sport after 1980, and women"s soccer was added in the fall of 1998.
The university"s "Guy and Grace Wicks Award" annually recognizes two outstanding seniors, based on academic success, campus activities, and service to the university and the community.
