The Mahaffeys are a baseball family. Professional career paths for family members have focused primarily on dentistry and medicine, but, make no mistake about it. The Mahaffeys are a baseball family. And so it is that Dr. Brian Mahaffey, a star baseball player for Missouri State University and then a team physician for 16 years… Read more »
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Team: Kickapoo High School
Doug Middleton
He grew up in Springfield, often spending summer evenings at Fassnight Park or Meador Park and watching his dad and friends’ dads play fast-pitch softball. That was back when men’s fast-pitch softball was a big deal, and no one quite knew the influence it would have on Doug Middleton. “Growing up, we’d run around those… Read more »
Natasha Neal Moore
NaTasha Neal Moore grew up in Springfield playing a variety of sports. Softball. Track. Volleyball. She tried them all. But her path to basketball stardom was written in the stars long before she ever graced the earth. Born in Portugal while her parents were playing professional basketball, Neal Moore had basketball in her heart from… Read more »
Jim Pearson
A graduate of Missouri Valley College, Jim played football for the Vikings under Coach Ashford from 1951 to 1955. After his graduation, Pearson held positions as an assistant football coach and head golf coach at high schools in Missouri and Illinois. In 1971, he was named the first head football coach at Springfield’s Kickapoo High… Read more »
Stephanie Phillips
Under Phillips, the Kickapoo Lady Chiefs were known as one of the top teams in the state of Missouri. She led her team to a 214-38 record in nine seasons, Class 5 state titles in 2003 and 2005 and a third-place finish in the 2009/2010 season. She won two state championships as a player at… Read more »
Sue Schuble
In her 25th year as the head basketball and volleyball coach at Kickapoo High School, Sue Schuble has had a tremendous career in both sports. A graduate of Raytown High School, Southwest Missouri State University and the University of Maryland, Schuble began her coaching career in 1973 at Kickapoo. As head basketball coach, Schuble has… Read more »
Kurt Thompson
Sometimes, a job that you don’t pursue ends up being the spring-board to huge success. Which is why Kurt Thompson’s start as a head football coach seems almost to believe. Back in 1990, at age 23 and after his second season as an assistant coach at Webb City High School, Thompson’s phone rang one February… Read more »
Anthony Tolliver
He grew up in Springfield, playing basketball in his family’s driveway, as well as over at the Boys & Girls Club of the Ozarks and with an AAU team full of future high school buddies. Anthony Tolliver will never forget those days, not only for the good times but because his want-to to better himself… 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