Up in north central Kansas, word reached a high school girls basketball coach that Glendale High School in Springfield, Missouri needed to fill the same role. This was 1992, weeks after Nyla Milleson had guided Junction City to a state third-place finish. Which already was quite a story. Seven years earlier, she had switched her… Read more »
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Stephany Jackson Powell
She can still remember it all like it was yesterday: Her final two holes in the Missouri Women’s Senior Amateur. Her heart racing and wondering if it really was her time. And, then, finishing the job. “The tears,” Stephany Jackson Powell recalled of finally conquering the mountain, so to speak, for her first major state… 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 »
Jack Roberts
Jack Roberts, a Drury standout in the sport of basketball, is the first Drury athlete to be inducted into the Drury Hall of Fame not only for his athletic success while at Drury, but also for his contributions to society after his graduation from Drury. Jack graduated from Drury on May 30, 1949 following a… Read more »
Jeff Rogers
He was only about five years older than the seniors when hired to coach the Glendale High School boys soccer team and, given he had walked across a college graduation stage a year before, you figured that Jeff Rogers would need a few years to let the program marinate into his winning formula. Instead, Glendale… Read more »
Steve Rogers
Steve Rogers was born in Jefferson City and raised in Springfield. He was drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 1st round of the 1971 amateur draft. Rogers averaged 14 wins per season between 1974 and 1985, with his most productive season coming in 1982 when he collected a career-high 19 wins, pitched four shutouts, and… Read more »
Mark Stratton
[For details, check out our flier] In the summers of his youth, a broken axe handle served as his makeshift baseball bat, while his family’s front yard in Monett was a daily sandlot. And, even if his youth team wasn’t scheduled to play, he’d throw on his wool uniform and bike to the city field,… Read more »
Jeanette Tendai
These days, it’s hard to imagine that girls basketball in southwest Missouri wasn’t a big deal in the 1970s as it is now. But that was the reality. In fact, long before she starred for the then-Southwest Missouri State Lady Bears, Jeanette Tendai had no team to call hers until the eighth grade. Think it… Read more »
Jim Whytlaw
A longtime high school coach, Jim Whytlaw likes to put it this way about his career: “I have always told my wife that my tombstone should say, ‘He yelled because he cared.’” He certainly showed the way for 37 years (1973-2010) as a swimming and diving coach — including 34 successful years at Glendale High… Read more »
2021 Class – Wynn Awards
CLASS OF 2021 Denise Buchanan (Glendale High School/University of Kansas) Val Sauer Crawford (Rolla High School/University of Missouri) Lindsey Bourne-Green (Joplin High School/University of Oklahoma) Lynne Miller (Grand Island, Nebraska High School/Missouri State University) Chealsey Russell (Kickapoo High School/Rice University/Tulsa University/McKendree University) Amy Lodes Witte (Lindbergh High School/Columbia College) Callie Newton-Woods (Republic High School/Drury University
2018 Class – Wynn Awards
CLASS OF 2018 Shelley Seider Davis (Rich Hill High School/Pittsburg State University) Brianne McGuirk Madura (Missouri State University) Lorin Opfer –– Glendale High School Alix Opfer — Glendale High School Kasey Opfer — Glendale High School Brenda Hayes Raynor (Branson High School/Missouri State University) Trudi Spain (Missouri State University) Dana Ozbun Stillwagon (Doniphan High School/Southwest… Read more »