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Richard Nickels

  • Class
    1976
  • Induction
    2012
  • Sport(s)
    Men's Basketball
Richard Nickels ’76

Nickels was a three-year member of the men’s basketball team and played on the 1974 and 1975 Iowa Conference Championship teams. He played in 82 games in three years and finished with 1,244 points, which ranks 14th on the program’s list of all-time leaders.  Nickels lives in Waukesha, Wis. where he works in the Department of Parks and Land Use for Waukesha County. He has been president of the Prairie Ridge Homeowners Association for seven years and serves on the Izaak Walton League of Milwaukee County, a conservation-based organization.
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