After the Helena Lady Bengals won the 1990 state basketball championship, head coach Steve Keller spoke with the Independent Record in regards to one of his standouts, Amy Mouat. "Amy set the tone with her leadership by example," Keller said. "I have a lot of respect for her, she helped my transition here. I'll always thank her for that. I believed in Amy enough as a freshman to put her on the tournament team, and she's never let me down."

Mouat earned eight letters at Helena High from 1988-91, four each in basketball and golf. The Lady Bengals qualified for the state hoops tournament all four years she played. In the state playoffs her sophomore year, she calmly sank two free throws in the waning seconds to help beat Billings West for third place. Mouat served as HHS's cage captain her final two seasons, making first team All-State both years. As a junior, she averaged 13.2 points-per-game in spite of playing most of the season with an injured wrist, and was chosen to the Class AA All-Tournament team. In 1990, she led the club in scoring, at 14.7 ppg and steals, with 88, and was second with 102 rebounds and 80 assists. In spearheading the Lady Bengals to the state crown, Mouat averaged 17 points in the playoffs, shooting 55 percent from the field (21-for-38), and was chosen as the Class AA Tournament MVP.

For her prep career, she amassed a school record 861 points (since broken) and 229 assists. She still holds two HHS records, of 256 career steals and a 100% free throw percentage in a game (12-for-12). Mouat earned the 1991 Pat Donovan Award, for outstanding athleticism, academics, sportsmanship, citizenship, leadership and attendance. She also was selected for one of six National Asthma Athlete Scholarships, which was presented to her in New York City by Dennis Rodman of the Detroit Pistons.

She was a participant in the Montana Girl's All-Star Classic games, which took place in Butte and Columbia Falls. In 1989, she toured Europe on the USA Basketball Team, and earned the Lady Bengals Most Inspirational Golfer in 1990

Mouat graduated from HHS with a 3.5 GPA. "Her participation in school activities included student council representative, class president, Spanish Club, Chamber Ensemble and National Honor Society," according to the Independent Record. "Mouat also received superior ratings in solos, duets, trios and quartets at the State Music Festivals. Outside of school, she is involved in her church youth group, Gender Equity Committee and the Special Olympics."

After her freshman college year at St. Benedict in Saint Joseph, Minn., Mouat transferred to Carroll College, where she was a three-time All-Conference selection at guard. As a sophomore, she averaged 10.6 ppg and led the Lady Saints in steals, with 60, and assists, with 94 In 1992-93, she sported an 11.6 points average and again paced the team with 73 steals and 92 assists. Her senior year, the 5-foot-8 Mouat topped the squad in scoring (14.6 ppg), field goal accuracy (50.2 percent), free throw percentage (80.4) and steals (89), and was second in assists (89). One of her best games came in a 66-59 win over MSU-Northern, when Mouat scored 22 points in helping to stop the Skylights 64-game home win streak. She was chosen as the 1995 Frontier Conference MVP and received Carroll's Cathy Wallace Award. The Lady Saints were 36-21 her last two years.

Mouat, whom IR sports editor Roy Pace called "one of the best female basketball players ever at Carroll College," scored 1,033 career points for the Lady Saints, establishing a school career record of 2.64 steals-per-game average. She also compiled 238 assists for a 3.63 average. Her last two years, Mouat was an NAIA Scholastic All-American, as well as the recipient of the Bill Bradley Scholastic Achievement Award at the All-Catholic Tournament in Dubuque, Iowa, both years. She finished her studies at Carroll with a 3.95 GPA in pre-medicine, earning a bachelor of arts degree in biology with a minor in chemistry.

Amy Mouat-Hunter graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 2001 and is currently in her final year of residency in anesthesiology at Seattle's Virginia Mason Hospital. Married to former Carroll hoopster Tyson Hunter, they are the parents of son Eli.

Jim Gross, who coached girl's hoops for 30 years, at Helena High and Carroll College, described her as "One of best female basketball players I ever coached. She was great leader and extremely competitive. If there was a way to win, Amy would figure it out."