Whitey Herzog managed four different major league teams, five years with the Kansas City Royals from 1975-’79 and over 10 years with the St. Louis Cardinals from 1980-’90. His 1,281 victories rank 25th on the all-time list for managers in the big leagues. Herzog logged eight years in the majors as a player, including stints… Read more »
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Holly Hesse
She has spent her career living a dream. Of coaching college softball. Of the sun often anchored above her shoulders. Of readying young women for the real world. And compiling wins. Yes, good luck ever trying to pull Holly Hesse away from the game. “I like to say that when I was 18,” Hesse said,… Read more »
Steve Hesser
It’s an iconic image that brings a smile to many in Springfield: The coach of the Drury University men’s basketball team, standing on a ladder, holding up a cut-down basketball net and showing it off. The photo is of Steve Hesser celebrating Drury winning the 2013 NCAA Division II national championship after the Panthers rallied… Read more »
Ed Hickey
Hickey was a football and basketball coach. He coached basketball at his alma mater, Creighton University (1934–1943, 1946–1947), St. Louis University (1947–1958), and Marquette University (1958–1964), compiling a 429–230 record. His greatest success came at St. Louis University where he posted a career won-loss record of 212-89. This includes an NIT championship in the 1947-48… Read more »
Andy Hill
Andy Hill – Assoc. Head Coach / Quarterbacks Coach – Missouri Tigers At the time of his Missouri Sport Hall of Fame induction, Andy Hill had coached 13 seasons under Gary Pinkel and 18 seasons overall at the University of Missouri, making him the longest tenured coach on the Tiger football staff. In fact, only… Read more »
Barry Hinson
He remembers it as if it was yesterday. The note handed to him by a campus security guard, with instructions to call the athletic director at Missouri State University just up I-44 in Springfield. This was way before the general public carried cell phones, and Barry Hinson wondered what it could be. At the time,… Read more »
Tom Hodge
In far southwest Missouri, in the quaint Newton County community of Seneca, the townsfolk hard work and love their high school football Indians. To longtime coach Tom Hodge, they are the reason why he enjoyed so much success and why the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame is inducting Hodge with the Class of 2016. “We… Read more »
Dana Hoeper
Need an inspiring story? Want to point to a mom whose mental strength led her into coaching, and then led teenage girls golfers to success? And helped them accomplish far more than the hardware in a trophy case? Dana Hoeper certainly is worthy of a centerpiece story on the Sports page. In late 1999, with… Read more »
Larry Holley
Think Larry Holley loved coaching from the start? Get this – his first basketball job was at Harrisburg, where he coached six teams (boys and girls varsity, JV and junior high) without an assistant coach and lived in a mobile home across the street. “I coached 91 games that year,” Holley said, “and I’m proud… Read more »
Ron Holtman
Ron Holtman patrolled the sidelines as head coach at Country Day/MICDS for 39 years. He coached his football teams to seven Missouri Class 3 championships, another three appearances in the state semifinals and a total of 16 appearances in the Missouri playoffs. The MICDS athletic field complex was named for him in 2001, and with… Read more »
Al Houser
His coaching career began at Corder, Missouri, where he served as the basketball and track coach. Houser spent the next eleven years at Marionville, coaching football, basketball and track. He moved on to Republic for four years before moving back to Marionville for three years. During his second stay with Marionville, his basketball teams compiled… Read more »
Dick Howser
Leading with a quiet confidence and professionalism that understated his fierce determination, Dick Howser took the Royals to the top of baseball. He will always be remembered for leading Kansas City to its first World Series Championship in 1985. In just over five full seasons, he managed the Royals into postseason play three times. Howser… Read more »
Denny Hughes
In sports, you never know when your number is going to get called. Even for coaches. In 1980, Helias Catholic High School in Jefferson City hired a 1976 graduate to be a freshman football coach and assistant varsity basketball coach, with the baseball coach later asking him to volunteer in the spring. Denny Hughes was… Read more »
Denny Hunt
On a bus ride home from a basketball game, with his senior season at Summersville High School coming to an end, Denny Hunt felt the real world tugging on his letter jacket. Going into business? Well, he had jotted that down as a potential college major. Yet that wasn’t him. And so he sought out… Read more »
Steve Hunter
For years, Steve Hunter’s basketball teams “pressed the dog out of you.” Those were his words and for good reason. In the early 1990s, after about seven years as a high school coach and clearly frustrated, Hunter and assistant Rick Boyce installed their own version of the run-and-jump press while at West Plains High School,… Read more »
Kay Hunter
Kay Hunter learned at an early age to make the most of life’s opportunities. Whether they came in the form of honing her athletic and competitive skills on the recess yard or taking advantage of a limited slate of girls athletic options as a high schooler, the Mount Vernon native wasted few chances to build… Read more »