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Team: Glendale High School

Mark Bailey

In baseball, everybody’s got a story – some better than others. And, for Mark Bailey, his is the stuff that Little Leaguers dream of. Sure, he was often one or two years younger than most of his classmates while playing on ball fields and public parks in Springfield during the 1970s. In fact, he was… Read more »

Stephanie Bates

Life in small-town Missouri always fit Stephanie Bates like a warm jacket. Growing up in Salem, a community of 4,400 at the time, she developed her love for sports in large part due to her experiences watching her older brother and a host of cousins participate in athletics and from the encouragement of her sports-minded… Read more »

Howard Bell

He might have played pro baseball if not for a car wreck in his early 20s, and who knows where his journey would have taken him. Fortunately, the baseball gods had a great plan for Howard Bell as a high school baseball coach. “He was a kid magnet,” said Mark Stratton, the longtime Glendale High… Read more »

Steve Boyce

He took on two monumental coaching tasks in high school swimming in Missouri – first in St. Louis, where the Parkway South program had had almost no success, and the next in Springfield, where a Hall of Famer left him the keys to the competitive Glendale program. Steve Boyce stared down both and, it seems,… Read more »

2018 Class – Diamond Nine

CLASS OF 2018 Clint Anderson (Willard High School, Crowder College & Charleston Southern University baseball) Nolan Fogle (Plato High School baseball & USSSA/ASA/NSA softball) Tina Ruble Helm (Lebanon High School & Southwest Baptist University softball) Jamie Holmes (Republic High School, Crowder College & Columbia College softball) Greg Lindstrom (Glendale High School & University of Missouri baseball),… Read more »

2015 Class – Diamond Nine

Class of 2015 Jack Burrell — Humansville and Southwest Baptist Brad Simmons — Glendale High School and the Kansas City Royals Kelly Snider — Hillcrest High School the Oklahoma Sooners and the Los Angeles Dodgers Barry Short –Mansfield High School, Three Rivers Community College and the New York Mets Jim Lumpe — Glendale High School,… Read more »

2016 Class- Diamond Nine

CLASS OF 2016 Marin Whorton Cooney (Ozark) Sophia Alexander Denning (Strafford/Drury) Bob Detherage (Hillcrest/Royals) Bill Helfrecht (Glendale/Missouri State) Brent Maggard (Sparta/Crowder/Southern Arkansas) Kristen Marshall (Glendale/William Jewell) Troy McMain (Willard) Christian Overstreet (Nixa/Missouri State) Tom Wilson (Bolivar/Detroit Tigers)

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 »

Filbert Five – Class of 2020

CLASS OF 2020 Stephanie Williams Burgess (Wheaton High School/Labette County Community College/Missouri Southern State University) Mikaela Burgess (Webb City High School/Pittsburg State University) Callie Carroll (Logan-Rogersville High School/Drury University/Missouri State University) Jordan Garrison-Garcia (Osceola High School/Creighton University) Heather Harman (Walnut Grove High School/Drury University) Jenny Anderson Sledge (Kickapoo High School/University of New Orleans) Men’s Team… Read more »

Filbert Five – Class of 2021

CLASS OF 2021 Women’s Team Kyndal Clark – Branson High School/Webb City High School/Drake University, Nebraska Kelsie Cleeton – Hillcrest High School/College of the Ozarks Hannah Cook – Ozark High School/University of Alabama Marla Douglass – Mountain Grove High School/Oklahoma State University/Missouri State University Katie Gariss Marsh — College Heights Christian High School/Missouri Southern State… Read more »

Wayne Fredrick

You look at the track record of success now and assume he was born with a golf club in hand, that he spent every summer day of his teens fine-tuning his short game all before dominating in college. But … “Coming out of high school,” Wayne Fredrick said, “I wasn’t very good.” Then, in the… Read more »

Glendale High School Baseball Program

The safe assumption would have been a modest start, maybe a few challenging years before building up toward a tradition and earning a huge dot on the state sports map. Obviously, the Glendale High School Baseball Program tossed that script in the trash bin. In 1967, only three seasons after their inaugural 1964 spring, the… Read more »

1975 Glendale High School Girls Tennis State Championship Team

In 1974, Linda Sisco was a young physical education instructor at Glendale High School when the principal and athletic director asked her if she would like to coach the girls’ tennis team. She had played tennis herself but had never coached a team. The federal Title IX legislation had passed just two years earlier, allowing… Read more »

1976-1980 Era Glendale High School Girls Golf

The Ozarks have enjoyed a rich history in the sport of golf, and most aficionados of the sport know the names of Horton Smith and Payne Stewart. At the high school level, the game has had a number of wonderful storylines. Among them was one based in the heart of Springfield. The story goes that… 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 »