It’s the stuff of storybooks. As a teenager, he played high school football at Columbia Hickman. In his 60s, he became a National Football League scout, assisting in the Kansas City Chiefs’ turnaround. And, in between, Randy Ball lived a dream as a football coach and enjoyed incredible success in colleges. Put it this… Read more »
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Kent Fewell
Some folks don’t choose a career until they’re well into college. For Kent Fewell, he had a pretty good idea even as a grade-schooler. “In elementary school and well into junior high, my favorite subject was P.E.,” Fewell said. “It seemed like the coaches I had and teachers I had I enjoyed. And I said,… Read more »
1979-1999 Era Hickman High School Girls Swimming
Successful coaches are often measured by the same metric: winning. How many championships do you have? What’s your record? But if you’ve ever spent time in the athletics arena, you know winning is a small notch on the measuring stick of success. And championships alone never tell the entire story. Oh, sure, winning matters. It’s… Read more »
Dr. Leo Lewis III
For the sons of successful pro athletes, it’s often a challenge to emerge out of the enormous shadows of their dads. Fortunately, Leo Lewis III carved out quite a football career for himself, with a lineage from Columbia Hickman High School, on to the University of Missouri and then the National Football League’s Minnesota Vikings,… 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 »
Bob Murrey
Robert “Bob” Murrey was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. His family moved to Waynesville, Missouri when he was 14 years old. There, he attended high school, graduating in 1946. As a high school student, he led the Waynesville High School basketball team to a third-place finish in the one-class Missouri State High School Basketball Tournament… Read more »