One of the Mountaineers’ most explosive weapons was playing the best football of his career when his junior season came to a sudden halt in early November due to a right knee injury suffered during a non-contact practice drill ... has diligently rehabilitated the injury and is expected to be at or near 100 percent when fall camp opens ... after missing the final two months of the 2009 season and all of spring drills, he enters 2010 listed as the backup to fellow senior B.J. Frazier at the ‘Z’ wide receiver position but is expected to return as a major contributor at receiver and on special teams if healthy ... is already ASU’s all-time leader with 2,253 career kickoff-return yards (the only player in school history with 2,000 yards on kickoff returns) ... also comes into his final season as the sixth-leading receiver in ASU history with 116 career receptions and ranked seventh in ASU’s all-time annals 1,588 receiving yards.

2009: Served as the Mountaineers’ primary ‘Z’ wide receiver for the first eight games of the season before suffering a season-ending right knee injury during a non-contact drill at practice on Nov. 3 ... despite playing in only eight games, earned second-team all-Southern Conference recognition as a wide receiver and kick returner from the league’s coaches and was voted the SoCon’s first-team return specialist by the conference’s media ... led team with four touchdown receptions, ranked second with 37 receptions and third with 514 receiving yards at the time of his injury ... was also the SoCon’s leading kickoff returner when his season came to a close with a 24.9-yard average ... after amassing just 231 yards and a touchdown on 18 catches over the first five games of the season, he exploded for 283 yards and three touchdowns on 19 receptions over the next three outings (at Wofford, vs. Georgia Southern, at Furman) ... caught six passes for a then-career-high 96 yards in comeback win at Wofford ... erupted for the first 100-yard and multi-touchdown games of his career in the next week’s rout over GSU, finishing with seven receptions for 104 yards and two scores in the 52-16 win ... continued the stellar play with six catches for 84 yards and a touchdown the next week at Furman ... suffered the season-ending knee injury at practice three days after the win at FU ... returned 21 kickoffs for 522 yards on the season ... had at least one return of 30 yards or longer in 5-of-8 games, including each of his final four.

2008: Appeared in all 14 games, making 12 starts at wide receiver (primarily as the M receiver) ... led ASU in receptions (56) and receiving yards (735) ... his 56 receptions were nearly twice as many as the next leading pass-catchers on the team (Ben Jorden and T.J. Courman had 29 catches apiece) ... hauled in multiple receptions in all 14 games ... opened the campaign with a season-best nine receptions for 80 yards at LSU ... notched two receptions in each of the next four games, capped by his first career touchdown catch, a four-yarder in the second quarter of ASU’s blowout win over No. 12 The Citadel ... torched Samford the following week for 78 yards on six receptions, including scores from 50 and 11 yards that gave him the first two-touchdown performance of his career ... tallied three receptions for 63 yards at Georgia Southern, including ASU’s biggest catch of the season for a 15-yard gain on fourth-and-five that led to the Mountaineers’ game-winning touchdown with under three minutes to play ... went on to put together five-straight 60-yard efforts from Oct. 11 (Samford) - Nov. 8 (Chattanooga) ... put an exclamation point on the impressive stretch by hauling in his fourth touchdown of the season in the 49-7 win at UTC ... registered a season-high 94 yards on five catches, including a 27-yard touchdown, in ASU’s 37-21 win over South Carolina State in the postseason opener ... also rushed seven times for 29 yards on the season and returned 30 kickoffs for 701 yards (23.4 ypr) ... his 1,465 all-purpose yards were over 500 more than the closest Mountaineer in the category (Armanti Edwards — 941) and nearly 1,000 more than the nearest ASU wide receiver (Brian Quick — 496).

2007: Racked up yardage in five different statistical categories — passing, rushing, receiving, kickoff returns and punt returns — in first collegiate season ... shattered school record for single-season kickoff return yardage with 1,030 yards, 332 more than the previous ASU record of 698 set by Pat Swisher in 1977 ... also set school record for kick returns in a season (43) ... 24.0-yard average on kick returns tied for the fifth-best mark in school history ... ranked second in SoCon in total kick-return yardage and sixth with 1,516 total all-purpose yards (1,030 kick return, 339 receiving, 55 punt return and 92 rushing) ... also completed 4-of-5 passes for 83 yards and a touchdown while playing quarterback in the second half of a blowout win over Gardner-Webb ... in first collegiate game, caught four passes for 63 yards and returned seven kicks for 151 yards in season-opening win over Michigan ... hauled in a 24-yard catch and run from Edwards on ASU’s final offensive play to set up the game-winning 24-yard field goal ... returned only two punts of the season for 55 yards versus Lenoir-Rhyne, including an ASU season-best 32-yarder ... turned in an impressive performance in loss at Wofford with three catches for 18 yards and three kickoff returns for 126 yards, including a 95-yard touchdown that gave ASU its first kickoff return for a score since Jimmy Watkins also had a 95-yarder versus Wofford in 2000  ... in addition to passing prowess versus Gardner-Webb, also notched season highs for rushes (9), rushing yards (35) and longest rush (17 yds.) ... set season bests with five catches for 69 yards in win over Western Carolina ... totaled a season-best 184 all-purpose yards with four kick returns for 110 yards, three receptions for 66 yards and two carries for 14 yards in national quarterfinals win over Eastern Washington ...  returned four kicks for 110 yards in national semifinals win over Richmond ... hauled in longest reception of the season, a 41-yarder, versus Delaware in national championship game ... became the first Mountaineer to post 90 or more kick return yards in back-to-back games since Jermane Little in 2002 when he posted 126 kickoff return yards at Wofford and 97 at Elon ... accomplished the feat a second time with 104 kick return yards in the national quarterfinals vs. EWU and 110 in the semifinals against Richmond.

2006: Redshirted ... often played the part of the opposition’s best offensive athlete on the scout team.

High School: Amassed over 3,100 yards of total offense (2,300+ passing, 800+ rushing) and 37 touchdowns to lead Strom Thurmond to the 2005 South Carolina 3A state championship ... named S.C. 3A State Player of the Year by High School Sports Report and second-team all-state by The State.

Personal: Full name is Cicory William Hillary ... born January 10, 1988 (22 years old) ... son of Margie and Peter Hillary ... uncle, Ira Hillary, played wide receiver at South Carolina and for the Cincinnati Bengals ... brother, Antwaun, played quarterback at Catawba College earlier this decade ... another brother, Aramis, is a quarterback at Coastal Carolina ... majoring in communication - organizational/public.