Honors followed Shawna Hicks from the time she started playing community club softball in Winnipeg. The catcher was a leader on the Grant Park-Harrow team won provincial peewee, bantam, midget and junior championships. She played for Manitoba in the 1977 Canada Summer Games and was the tournament MVP when the province won its first Western Canadian midget title in 1978. Hicks earned a berth on the national senior women’s team in 1981, was the all-star catcher at the Canadian senior championship in 1982 as well as Manitoba player of the year, and topped it all in 1983 when she was member of Canada’s gold medal winning team at the Pan Am Games
Swan Valley Star and Times October 13, 1977