Wyoming hires state native Sundance Wicks as new coach

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Wyoming hired Sundance Wicks as its new head coach on Sunday, three days after Jeff Linder departed to take an assistant coaching job at Texas Tech.

Wicks, 43, is a native of Gillette, Wyo., and served as an assistant coach with the Cowboys from 2020-23.

Wicks coached Green Bay to an 18-14 record last season and was named Horizon League Coach of the Year. He had inherited a