Under Phillips, the Kickapoo Lady Chiefs were known as one of the top teams in the state of Missouri. She led her team to a 214-38 record in nine seasons, Class 5 state titles in 2003 and 2005 and a third-place finish in the 2009/2010 season. She won two state championships as a player at… Read more »
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Gary Pinkel
Paging Gary Pinkel … you are wanted by the statues … Gary Pinkel. Indeed, had public address announcers of press boxes across the Show-Me State bellowed those words, they would have been met with applause. After all, he is the man who rode off into the sunset in 2015 as the winningest football coach in… Read more »
Dave Plassmeyer
Back in the 1970s, Dave Plassmeyer was studying to become an accountant when he set aside the calculator and realized that, if he went on to that career, it wouldn’t be all that fun. Having grown up in Owensville just west of St. Louis as a big St. Louis Cardinals fan – pitcher Bob Gibson… Read more »
Richard Poe
Sometimes, the best plans don’t work out. Which is for the best. Just ask Richard Poe. In 1972, the former University of Missouri golfer detoured away from a law degree and life as an attorney by throwing everybody a curveball. Instead, he took on the role of the head golf professional at the brand-new Country… Read more »
Tim Poe
Scroll down his list of achievements as a college golf coach, and it would be naturally easy to assume that he was groomed for this since birth. However, that’s not quite accurate. You see, Tim Poe took, well, the scenic route, you could call it. A five-sport high school letterman at Iowa’s Keokuk High School… Read more »
Arvel Popp
Arvel Popp was Bill Bradley’s basketball coach at Crystal City High School. He worked in virtually all sports at the high school before he retired as a coach in 1975 after 28 years with the Hornets. He was one of the area’s most successful coaches at the time but always was associated with Crystal City’s… Read more »
Doug Potts
Beginning in 1966 and finishing in 2000 with a record of 213-132-2, Doug Potts coached the Bolivar High School football team for 35 years. A Neosho native, Potts was Football All-Time Letterman at Pittsburg State University (1961-1964) and All-Conference in 1964. Doug was named the Missouri State Football Coach of the Year in 1992 and… Read more »
Warren Powers
The call came in after his first season as a head coach of a major college football program out West. On the other end of the line was the University of Missouri athletic director and a job offer to, in essence, come back home. For Warren Powers, who grew up in Kansas City and had… Read more »
Don Provance
Ask sports folks in Springfield about the most impactful baseball coaches of the city’s high school programs, and the short list includes the name of Don Provance. In fact, in the spring of 1992, just weeks before he would call it a career, the local newspaper published a feature on Provance on the sports page.… Read more »
Howard Quigley
Talk about having a destiny to coach. As a teen, Howard Quigley kept books on ways to play baseball, football and basketball – and you could find his nose buried in them just before the start of every season. Eventually, as a baseball player at Missouri State University, Quigley realized the obvious, that the game… Read more »
Gil Rector
Gil Rector was born in Herman, MO and graduated from Higginsville High School in 1959. His first coaching job was in Carrollton, MO as an assistant to his former high school coach, Cliff Cromer. In the spring of 1968, Gil accepted the head coaching position at Lexington, where he completed his student teaching. In 1973,… Read more »
Angie Resa
In 1940, noted American author Thomas Wolfe posthumously published the classic novel You Can’t Go Home Again, a book about an author who writes a novel which frequently makes unflattering references about his hometown and its citizens. The central character, George Webber, becomes an outcast in his own town and is driven from his home.… Read more »
Brian Reynolds
Head Swimming Coach for the Drury University’s men’s program for 22 years and the women’s team for 17 years. Under his leadership, the Drury men’s program has eight NAIA national titles and two NCAA-II national championships. The women’s team has captured two NAIA national championships and has won the NCAA-II national title four times. Among… Read more »
Tim Richardson
Tim Richardson looks back at the beginnings of his soccer coaching career in the 1980s and is almost in awe with how far the game, and he, has come. With soccer gaining popularity in the Kansas City area, Richardson took over the soccer program at Lee’s Summit High School in 1985. “Initially, we didn’t have… Read more »
Lana Richmond
Long before her team would ever secure the first of 884 wins, long before the conference championships and the NCAA Tournament appearances, Lana Richmond had one demand. As coach of the Southeast Missouri State softball program, academics would be priority No. 1, as it would create the foundation to all other successes. And now look.… Read more »
Tracy Rietzke
Tracy Rietzke had a pretty good idea that coaching was in his future while he was attending college in the 1970s at Kansas Wesleyan College in Salinas, Kansas. An NAIA All-American basketball player at Kansas Wesleyan, Rietzke led the nation in field goal percentage in his senior year in 1976. His college coach, Randy St.… Read more »