MALICKI

A generous estate gift from longtime University of Wyoming supporters Mary Shafer-Malicki and Pat Malicki will support UW student-athletes, boosting their success in competition and in the classroom.

“I’ve been a fan of University of Wyoming athletics since I was 10 years old,” says Pat, a Wyoming native and two-time graduate of UW. “I’ve learned how academically successful student-athletes are, and I wanted to contribute to that success as well as to support something I love.”

“Besides being a big sports fan myself, I also am very interested in student-athletes,” says Mary, who married into the Wyoming family. “We have been women’s basketball scholarship supporters for years, so it was just natural to want to continue to support them in their success on and off the court.”

Mary and Pat are season ticket holders not only for women’s basketball but also for men’s basketball and football. Although they now live in Denver, they attend almost all of the UW home football games and about half of the basketball games. They also attend the Mountain West Conference basketball tournament in Las Vegas and football bowl games.

Pat was born in Greybull and grew up in Riverton. He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from UW in 1978 and went on to earn his law degree from UW in 1982. Mary grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Oklahoma State University in 1983. Mary and Pat met in 1981 while they were working at the Beaver Creek Gas Plant near Riverton. They married in 1983.

Pat served as recovery counsel at the FDIC, claims counsel at Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. in Denver, and litigation manager at Dun & Bradstreet in Chicago. Mary served as president of Amoco/BP Netherlands in The Hague; business unit leader in Aberdeen, Scotland, for BP; director general of BP Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City; chief operating officer of BP Angola in Luanda, Angola; and CEO of BP Angola in London.

Mary is a former chair of the UW Foundation Board of Directors, and she also is a member of the Industrial Advisory Board for the UW Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering.