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 »
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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 2011
CLASS of 2011 The Lauries of Springfield The Howards of Marshfield The DeGraffenreids of Bolivar The Combs of Bradleyville The Andersons of Sedalia
Filbert Five – Class of 2018
CLASS OF 2018 Women’s Team Melissa Grider (Marion C. Early High School/Marshfield High School/Missouri Southern State University) Jeni Hopkins (Greenwood Laboratory School/Pittsburg State University/Missouri State University) Jenni Lingor (Tahlequah, Okla. High School/Missouri State University) Addy Roller (Purdy High School/Wayne State University/Drury University) Suzanne Nyander Sutton (McDonald County High School/Missouri Southern) Men’s Team Mert Bancroft (Buffalo… Read more »
Dr. David Glover
For most athletes, their final game is the end of a great era, but the game goes on. Fortunately, it has a way to welcoming some back with open arms. And so there Dr. Dave Glover was in the mid-1980s, a former All-State football lineman practicing medicine in Warrensburg, when the call came in. “My… Read more »
Mandee Berg Holeyfield
She played on the dusty softball fields in and around Kansas City in her youth, learning from her four older softball sisters as well as her dad-coach. And, like many athletes, Mandee Berg Holeyfield couldn’t help but watch other teams – that is, the better teams with slightly older athletes – and wonder, “What if?”… Read more »
Jerry Hughes
These days, there is nothing small about so-called small college athletics, and Jerry Hughes – the longtime athletic director of the University of Central Missouri – has been among its champions. Just walk across the Warrensburg campus. A $6 million fundraising effort has led to the football team’s new locker room, strength and conditioning center… Read more »
Kip Janvrin
Influenced by his dad, who was a teacher, coach and athletic director, Kip Janvrin’s quest to positively impact the lives of young athletes as a coach hit a roadblock in his early 20s. You see, as a decathlete, he also had eyes on the Olympics. So you can imagine how the real world was grabbing… Read more »
Earl Keth
Earl Keth led the Mules basketball team to national prominence in the late 1930’s. He was the star of the 1937 and 1938 teams that won the first two National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball (NAIB) championships. He was chosen to the Chuck Taylor All-America Team for the 1937-38 season, becoming the Mules’ first All-American in… Read more »
Billy Key
Billy Key arrived at Missouri Science & Technology — then Missouri-Rolla — in 1964 to become the head men’s basketball coach and four years later, was named to replace the legendary Gale Bullman as athletics director. He retired from coaching following the 1986-87 season with the most coaching wins in school history but remained as… 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 »
Peggy Martin
Enshrinement: Coach Peggy Martin Her love for sports developed years before passage of federal Title IX legislation, by women who created athletic opportunities for high school and college female students. Peggy Martin has never forgotten them. Just as she has never forgotten how she, a native of south Alabama, found her way to Missouri and… Read more »
Dr. Reed Maxson
Dr. Reed Maxson was a hero before he settled down to a long and successful career in medicine. During World War II, he served in Europe, treating the wounded in the heat of battle. Maxson was born in LaHarpe, Kansas, and graduated from the University of Kansas Medical School in 1942. He immediately joined the… Read more »
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 »
Lynn Nance
Granby native Lynn Nance excelled on the Missouri hardwood in high school, at Southwest Baptist College and in the professional ranks with the St. Louis Hawks. Named one of the Top 100 Missouri Athletes of the Century, he went on to become one of the most prolific college basketball coaches in the state’s history. Between… Read more »
Kirk Pedersen
For Kirk Pedersen, his arrival to the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg in the mid-1980s wasn’t supposed to be anything more than a pit stop on the way back to rural Iowa. There he was, a college graduate in need of a job, so he figured a graduate assistant role for UCM track and… Read more »