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Team: Aurora High School

Tony Armstrong

It’s almost as if an author dreamed up one of the most compelling American sports stories, grabbed a notepad and, lo and behold, produced a New York Times best-seller. After all, how else to explain Tony Armstrong’s coaching career? He was the kid who once shot hoops in a southwest Missouri armory and years later,… Read more »

Aurora High School Football Program

In Aurora, Kelly Stadium is a perfect setting under the Friday night lights of small-town high school football: See the graying grain elevators just down the road? They tower over everything, reminding all that this is a blue-collar community that proudly wears its red. Red, that is, for the Houn’ Dawgs. What a tradition. Grade-schoolers… Read more »

Elite 11- Class of 2018

CLASS OF 2018 Dr. Travis Brawner (Branson High School/Missouri State University) Kegan Coleman (Lee’s Summit North High School/University of Central Missouri) Dr. Kenny Downing (Aurora High School/University of Missouri/Canadian Football League) Dr. Preston Estes (Marionville High School/Missouri State) Derek Jensen (Lebanon High School/Missouri State) Roy Kaderly (Marshfield High School/Mizzou/Missouri State) David McNeel (Greenfield High School/Mizzou/Canadian Football League)… Read more »

Elite 11- Class of 2015

CLASS of 2015 Brett Potts (Bolivar, Pittsburg State) Eric Czerniewski (Montgomery County, Central Missouri) Rusty Shadel (Lebanon, Missouri State) Rex Sawyer (Ava, Missouri Valley College) Steve Forbis (Republic, Missouri Southern) Lorenzo Williams (Mizzou) Chuck Blair (Camdenton, Central Missouri) Jeremy Flores (Willard, Colorado) T.J. Onstott (Lamar, Missouri Southern) Steve Newbold (Aurora, Missouri State) Justin Gerald (Hillcrest,… Read more »

Elite 11- Class of 2016

CLASS of 2016 Chuck Banta (Springfield Parkview/Mizzou) Ben Nichols (Springfield Glendale/Colorado/Atlanta Falcons/ Denver Broncos/Rhein Fire), Lee Coleman (Springfield Hillcrest/Missouri State/Evangel) Isaac Sooter (Sarcoxie/Evangel) Darrin Newbold (Aurora/Missouri State/New York Jets/Oklahoma Outlaws) Anthony Frazier (Springfield Greenwood/Mizzou) Robert Clardy (Marshfield/Southwest Baptist) Wes Kemp (St. Louis De Smet/Mizzou) Lance Crayton (Springfield Catholic/Missouri State) Steve Mayfield (Aurora) Landon Zerkel (Webb City/Missouri… Read more »

Mike McClure

You don’t spend nearly 40 years broadcasting local high school and college sports if you don’t love what you do. And Monett’s Mike McClure has had a love affair with sports since he was a young boy. McClure caught the broadcasting bug as a youngster by listening to Jack Buck (MSHOF 1980) call Cardinals games… 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 »