Chase Fickert, a Choctaw tribal member, is a junior at Wilmington High School in Wilmington, Ohio.
He has played on the varsity basketball team since he was a freshman and has maintained a 4.0 academic record in his junior year. Due to his outstanding play, he was selected as the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper’s Small School Boys Basketball Athlete of the Week for Jan. 20, 2025.
He earned over 41% of the vote scoring 21 points, including 5 of 6 three-point shots, in his team’s 52-46 win over Washington Court House.