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Team: Kickapoo High School

Horner Askins

For some former athletes, sports has a way of keeping them around, to feed their passion but also to make a major difference in the lives of young people. An excellent case in point is Horner Askins. A former high school football standout in Arkansas, he found his way to southwest Missouri as a teacher… Read more »

2021 Class – Diamond Nine

CLASS of 2021 Mannie DeCastro (Carl Junction High School/Pittsburg State University) Judy Straatmann Hadsall (Washington High School/East Central College/Springfield Slow-Pitch) Gage Jacobs (Bolivar High School/Drury University) Catlin Evans Jones (Pleasant Hope High School/Southwest Baptist University) Alan Mahaffey (Kickapoo High School/Three Rivers Community College/University of Arkansas/Minnesota Twins) Justin McMillin (Hillcrest High School/Missouri State University) Willy Morgan… Read more »

2019 Class – Diamond Nine

CLASS OF 2019 Nick Admire (Lebanon High School/University of Missouri) Charissa Fuhr (Kickapoo High School/Iowa State University) Hailee Hendricks Fury (Miller High School/Northwest Missouri State University), Colby Hughes (St. Louis Community College- Meramec/Missouri-St. Louis/Colorado Rockies) Logan Hughes (North Arkansas College/Missouri-St. Louis) Trent Oxenreider (Strafford High School/College of the Ozarks) Joey Rich (A.S.A./USA Softball) Brad Roweton (Bolivar High… Read more »

Elite 11- Class of 2022

CLASS OF 2022 Dr. Bob Arnce — Carl Junction High School/William Jewell College Joey Ballard — Missouri Southern State University Jared Beshore — Lamar High School/Missouri State University Brock Christopher — Kearney High School/University of Missouri Nathan Dunn — Marshfield High School/Missouri State University/Southwest Baptist University Dr. Jared Emery — Mountain Grove High School/Missouri State… 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 2019

CLASS OF 2019 Dr. Tony Berry (Stockton High School/Southwest Baptist University) Lanny Curnes (Reeds Spring High School/University of Central Missouri) Dre Dokes (Kickapoo High School/Northern Iowa/CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders) Tyler Evans (Strafford High School/University of Oklahoma) Chris Hanna (Springfield Catholic High School/Pittsburg State University) Beau Jackson (Branson High School/Missouri State University/Evangel University) Phil Johnson (Kickapoo High… Read more »

Elite 11- Class of 2020

CLASS OF 2020 Wayne Burch (Stoutland High School/Southwest Baptist University/Camdenton High School) Matt Burgess (Parkview High School/University of Missouri) Mark DeLozier (Kickapoo High School/University of Tulsa) Michael Fox (Meridian (Miss.) High School/Missouri State University) Jason O’Neal (Fair Grove High School/Southwest Baptist University) Kellen Overstreet (Penney High School/University of Wyoming) Mark Smith (Webb City High School/University… 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 2015

CLASS of 2015 Men’s Team Chris Harville (Rogersville/Missouri State) Steven Hill (Branson/Arkansas) Sam Singh (Ozark/Bradley) Mark Sparks (Neosho/Mizzou/Drury) Kevin Williams (Nevada/Mizzou) Women’s team Sara Bos Barnhart (Billings/Drury) Laura Granzow Buetow (Kickapoo/Denver/Canisius) Terianne Wolford Brown (Nixa/Mizzou) Alyson Young Hooten (Rogersville/Avila) Anita Rank Oplotnik (Lincoln/Missouri Southern)

Roy Green

Former Kickapoo Chiefs standout Spencer Laurie was once asked to described Coach Roy Green in two words or less.  Without hesitation Laurie replied, “Player’s coach.” And with very few exceptions, all of the players who have hit the hardwoods under Green’s tutelage during his 41 years of coaching would agree. Green has always been a… Read more »

Alex Hall

Perhaps the most memorable moment of his storied career was not on the court but just several feet from it. At halftime of the NCAA Division II national basketball championship game in 2013, with Drury University having trailed by 17 points at one point, Alex Hall was dead set on changing the narrative. “I remember… 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 »

Kickapoo High School Girls Basketball Program

Walk into the gym at Kickapoo High School, and it’s understandable why jaws drop in awe. See the banners of the six girls basketball state championships? And the retired jerseys of 24 All-State players? However, in the fall of 1973, before the Lady Chiefs’ first ever practice – and just a year after federal Title… Read more »

1993-1995 Era Kickapoo High School Boys Cross Country

Sift through the old scrapbooks of Kickapoo High School’s boys cross country teams of the mid-1990s, and you might be left in awe – even more so than if you happen to stroll by the trophy case at the Springfield school. There’s one touting the 1993 team competing in the University of Kansas Invitational and… Read more »

Scott Loveland

All these years later, it’s easy to look at the stats and the successes and assume that he was destined to play the part. The part being the state’s top small-college quarterback of the mid-1980s. However, Scott Loveland will tell you his career wasn’t designed that way. “Honestly it was after my senior football season… Read more »