In 2011, Hermann’s Linda Lampkin was named a member of the inaugural class of the Missouri High School Volleyball Coaches Association Hall of Fame. In 33 years, she has compiled a record of 793-277-39. Her teams have won 17 conference and 28 district championships, while going to the Final Four 20 times, bringing home the… Read more »
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Jean Larrick
She arrived at Springfield in 1968 and, after helping the tennis team at Missouri State University to success, realized she didn’t want to put away her racquet for good. Jean Larrick loves to tell this story, just as she loves tennis. In 1980, she was hired by Jodie Adams (MSHOF President’s Award 2017) to be… Read more »
Bud Lathrop
Bud Lathrop was born and raised in the Kansas City suburb of Raytown. He attended Raytown High School and excelled as a prep basketball player from 1950 to 1954. He then attended William Jewell College and earned a coaching/teaching degree in 1958. His coaching career began at Mound City High School, where he served as… Read more »
Benny Lawson
He could have had a career as an accountant, handling the important work every year of doing other people’s taxes. Yet, deep down, Benny Lawson missed the game of football. In the mid-1950s, he had played on two conference championship teams at Seneca High School and so, after already having earned a bachelor’s degree, he… Read more »
Jon Leamy
Teamwork. That’s the way Jon Leamy describes the success of his career. The wins as Missouri State University’s longtime men’s soccer coach? Those were churned out by hard-working, dedicated players. The game plans? Developed by extremely committed, passionate coaches. And the longevity of the program? Credit the administration, from the presidents to the athletic directors… Read more »
Erv Leimer
Erv Leimer began his 32-year coaching career at Bismark High School in 1942. He led the Indians to the Missouri Championship with a total enrollment of only 84 students when the tournament consisted of only one class. After a year at Brentwood High School, Leimer initiated the basketball program at Lutheran Central and had a… Read more »
Jim Lemen
Sometimes, life pulls the string on your coaching whistle and leads you on a path you never envisioned – and for the better. Jim Lemen had never heard of The John Burroughs School in St. Louis until he was well into a master’s degree program at Harvard University in 1963. At the time, John Burroughs… Read more »
Ric Lessmann
Listening to old baseball stories never gets old, and veteran baseball coach Ric Lessmann likely has a million of them. Here’s one of the more memorable ones: Recruiting for his team at Meramec Community College and doubling as a scout for the Cincinnati Reds in the late 1980s, Lessmann got a tip about Brian Boehringer,… Read more »
Dennis Licklider
Dennis Licklider of Holts Summit, served as the head coach for the boy’s and girl’s track and field teams at Jefferson City High School for 24 years. In those years, his teams have posted a dual meet record of 237-5 and have won 106 major championships and 40 District Championships. With 20 undefeated seasons under… Read more »
Roberta Licklider
While serving as Head Volleyball Coach for 11 years at Jefferson City High School, Roberta logged 32 years as the Assistant Girls Track Coach. Under her guidance, the Lady Jays sprint team recorded 93 Individual and Relay Championships at the District and Sectional level, and six State Championships. Her athletes also recorded 69 All-State (Top… Read more »
Harry Lineberry
In 1979, with his heart tugging on him to return to coaching high school runners, a northern Missouri native turned his eyes to the southwest corner of the state and a town called Neosho. Harry Lineberry didn’t know what he was getting into. And Neosho didn’t know what it was truly getting. For both, fortunately,… Read more »
Becky Lipasek
Talk about soldiering on and fighting the good fight. In the late fall of 1992, there coach Becky Lipasek was, leaving the lonely gym of El Dorado Springs High School with her volleyball program having won a combined 15 games in her first three seasons. Quit? No way. “I have a survivor’s mentality,” Lipasek said.… Read more »
Dr. Pat Lipira
Dr. Pat Lipira is the winningest coach in Missouri Southern State University history (total wins across all sports). Lipira coached the Lions’ softball team from 1982-2000 and the volleyball team from 1981-1987. She has a 632-275 (.697) overall record as a softball coach, but compiled a 439-162 (.730) mark while Lions were a member of… Read more »
Emil “Liz” Liston
A native of Stockton, Missouri, Liston attended Michigan College of Mines where he was a star football player. In September 1918, Liston was hired by Wesleyan University as coach of the school’s football team. He left Wesleyan in June 1919 to play professional baseball for the Wichita, Kansas team in the Western League. After spending… Read more »
Yancey Little
For Yancey Little, being a coach was the plan from the start. “I always wanted to be a coach,” Little said. “I watched my dad coach men’s fastpitch softball through the years, learned a lot and it intrigued me. Then, when my oldest brother Marty began coaching high school, my desire to coach grew.” And as… Read more »
Ben Loeb
Back in the mid-1980s, anybody would have understood had Ben Loeb went off into the business world. After all, a marketing degree and an MBA were already in his back pocket. And yet there he was, on a college campus again and trying to earn a high school teaching certificate. You see, the ultimate goal… Read more »