Damon Hicks enters his second season as head coach of the cheerleading and dance teams in 2011-12.

Hicks has spent the more than a decade running Damon's CTA in which he coaches all-star cheer and dance competition teams, power tumbling competitions and choreographs state-championship caliber routines within Adair County and surrounding areas.

Last season, Hicks led the Blue Raider cheer squad to a fourth place at the Mid-South Conference Championship. In addition to competing at the MSC, the Lindsey Wilson cheerleading and dance squads performed at various athletic and community events on and around the Lindsey Wilson campus.

Prior to starting Damon's CTA, Hicks co-owned and managed Premier Cheerleading and Tumbling in Somerset, Ky., where he coached All-Star teams and tumbling. Hicks served as the program director at Tammy Jo's Studio in Greenup, Ky., in the late 90s and was an administrator for All-American Cheer and Dance in Honolulu, Hawaii for eight years.

Hicks is a certified coach by the American Association of Cheerleading Coaches & Administrators (AACCA) and is a certified tumbling coach by the United States Tumbling Association (USTA) and the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU).

Hicks has one daughter, Marque.

Hicks graduated from The Ohio State University in 1991

Collegiate Coaching Career

Contact Information

Office: Resident Life Offices
Phone: 270-384-7409
Fax: 270-384-8078
Mail: 210 Lindsey Wilson Street, Columbia, KY 42728
E-Mail: hicksd@lindsey.edu