Parkview High School’s famed Jolly Green Giants, Missouri State’s 1952 and 1953 NAIA national championship men’s basketball teams and two notable basketball figures – coach Gary Stanfield and former Missouri State Lady Bear Karen Rapier – are now inductees of the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. All were honored during the Basketball Tipoff Luncheon sponsored… Read more »
The recruiting letter still remains a favorite memory all these years later — the motivational words written by then-Missouri State Lady Bears assistant coach Cheryl Burnett, the envelope postmarked in the summer of her high school freshman year. Certainly, it changed Karen Rapier’s life – and arguably the direction of Lady Bears basketball program –… Read more »
Parkview High School’s famed Jolly Green Giants, Missouri State’s 1952 and 1953 NAIA national championship teams and two notable basketball figures – coach Gary Stanfield and former Lady Bear Karen Rapier — will soon be inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. All will be honored during the annual Basketball Tipoff Luncheon sponsored by… Read more »