Great Falls High’s Nora Klick commits to Lady Griz
For Nora Klick, this was always a dream.
The senior-to-be at Great Falls High verbally committed to the University of Montana women’s basketball program and head coach Robin Selvig on Tuesday.
She officially visited the Missoula campus on Monday, and on Tuesday made her pledge right before heading back to Great Falls.
“You could say it was meant to be,” she said.
Klick, who averaged 14.1 points and 8.7 boards per game in her junior season, has grown up attending the basketball camps in Missoula and developed a comfort level with the coaching staff.
“That was a big thing for me, is the coaching staff and communication,” Klick said. “Their assistants are just great. I know them all and they just talk very well with the girls … Robin Selvig … is one of the best coaches in the nation. He knows what he’s doing. That’s really exciting for me to be able to play for someone like that.”
A first team All-State selection and Tribune Super-State pick, the 6-foot wing received the offer a month or two ago, she said. It was her only offer. She received varying interest from schools like Yale, Montana State, Colorado State and some NAIA programs.
“They were the first people, college to come in contact with me,” she said.
Klick is a versatile player who can play inside and out.
“With any program, wherever I can help in at,” Klick said of what her future role might be. “I think shooting guard is definitely something and then power forward. It’s kind of a wherever-they-need-me sort of a deal.”
Klick, who has a history with future teammates McKenzie Johnston and Jace Henderson that provides a certain comfort level, often imagined of playing college basketball inside Dahlberg Arena.
“It’s been something that as a little girl, I’d go the camps and I’d look up and go, ‘Oh my God, how cool would it be to play here,’” Klick said. “My parents can come watch me. That will be nice.”
What would also be nice is a healthy back, and at the moment, Klick doesn’t have one. A herniated disc in her lower back has plagued her ever since she was a freshman in high school.
She will finally get it fixed and have surgery on Thursday. She will be out four to five months, she said.
“It’s just been bugging me here for quite a while, so it’s kind of one of those things where I am getting tired of it,” she said. “I just wanted to get it taken care of.”
Klick hopes to pursue an education in health and human performance; she wants to get into personal training when she’s older.
She also wants to play basketball at the highest level, which is exactly what she will be able to do.
“Ever since I was a little girl,” Klick said, “it’s always been a dream to play (Division) I (basketball).”