Chadron State College Athletics

A  graduate of East Chicago (Ind.) Central High School, Tricia is Chadron State’s all-time women’s basketball leading scorer and possessed 12 school records when she graduated in 1993. She poured in 1,869 points in 100 games for the Eagles. She averaged 16 points as a freshman, 20.3 as a sophomore, 18.3 as a junior and 19.7 as a senior. She was a three-time Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference first-team selection and was an unanimous choice as the player of the year as a senior in 1992-93. She also was a third-team NCAA Division II All-American as selected by the American Women’s Sports Federation her senior year.
For a long while, Tricia was the only CSC women's basketball player to be an All-American. However, Kaitlin Petri became one in 2009.
The school records that she still possesses include most career points (1,869), most points in a half (30), most field goals in a career (667), most 3-pointers in a game (8), most 3-pointers in a season (78) and most 3-pointers in a career (238). She also is tied for most assists in a game (10) and most field goals in a season (191).
She graduated with a 3.83 cumulative grade point average and is in her 14th year as a physical education teacher and coach at schools in the East Chicago area. She was inducted into the East Chicago Sports Hall of Fame in 2007 and was elected to the RMAC’s 12-member all-time women’s basketball team in late 2008.