Jerry Buescher began his journey to the 800-win mark during the 1960’s in Vandalia, Mo. Before that, he played basketball in college for northeast Missouri native Cotton Fitzsimmons at Moberly Area Community College. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from Lincoln University and earned a master’s at the University of Missouri. Buescher has won 12… Read more »
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Team: Republic High School
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 »
Elite 11- Class of 2015
CLASS of 2015 Brett Potts (Bolivar, Pittsburg State) Eric Czerniewski (Montgomery County, Central Missouri) Rusty Shadel (Lebanon, Missouri State) Rex Sawyer (Ava, Missouri Valley College) Steve Forbis (Republic, Missouri Southern) Lorenzo Williams (Mizzou) Chuck Blair (Camdenton, Central Missouri) Jeremy Flores (Willard, Colorado) T.J. Onstott (Lamar, Missouri Southern) Steve Newbold (Aurora, Missouri State) Justin Gerald (Hillcrest,… Read more »
Filbert Five – Class of 2019
CLASS OF 2019 Women’s Team Jill Esely Durnin (Savannah High School/William Jewell College) Dr. Tammy Erwin (Walnut Grove High School/Southwest Baptist University/College of the Ozarks) Carrie Long Green (Skyline High School/Southwest Baptist University) Brittany Percival Lyon (Hartville High School/Missouri Science & Technology) Kelsey Williams (Eminence High School/Moberly Area Community College/Lincoln University, University of Central Missouri) Men’s… 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 »
Kris Flood
On a dairy farm outside of Clever in southwest Missouri, back in the late 1970s and 1980s, Kris Flood usually could be found shooting hoops in about the only enclosed facilities nearby. “We had a few places where we could go and play basketball, mainly in hay barns,” Flood said. “My uncle laid down a… Read more »
Greg Garton
Enshrinement: Greg Garton Greg Garton still remembers the very first basketball goals in his life – one that fell out of his dad’s truck on the way home from the store (it was fixed), and another in the driveway when he was in fourth grade. Man, he wore those out. “My father always worked with… Read more »
Al Houser
His coaching career began at Corder, Missouri, where he served as the basketball and track coach. Houser spent the next eleven years at Marionville, coaching football, basketball and track. He moved on to Republic for four years before moving back to Marionville for three years. During his second stay with Marionville, his basketball teams compiled… 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 »
Howard Quigley
Talk about having a destiny to coach. As a teen, Howard Quigley kept books on ways to play baseball, football and basketball – and you could find his nose buried in them just before the start of every season. Eventually, as a baseball player at Missouri State University, Quigley realized the obvious, that the game… Read more »
1994 Republic High School Girls Basketball State Championship Team
Had a Hollywood producer cast them for a basketball movie, the opening scene probably would resembled an old western and high-noon showdown, complete with dead stares. And why not? As the curtain rose on the 1993-1994 basketball season, the Republic High School Lady Tigers were on a mission. After all, just months earlier, Republic’s Cinderella… Read more »
Gary Stanfield
He didn’t play organized sports during his childhood and attended eight different schools through the eighth grade. At times, he lived with his father, grandmother, aunt as well as in foster homes and in the Colorado State Children’s Home. However, challenging times led to a championship coach, one who gave back what was once given… 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 »
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
2017 Class – Wynn Awards
CLASS OF 2017 Tara Bailes (Springfield Catholic High School/Missouri State soccer) Teresa Baird Beshore (Springfield Catholic High School/University of Tulsa tennis & basketball) Chelsea Taylor Corp (Sarcoxie High School/Missouri State-West Plains) Aleah Hayes (Ozark High School/Texas Tech University/Columbia College volleyball) Tonya Choate McCall (Mount Vernon High School/Drury University/Cactus Tour golf) Amanda Newton Plotner (Republic High… Read more »