Scroll down his list of achievements as a college golf coach, and it would be naturally easy to assume that he was groomed for this since birth. However, that’s not quite accurate. You see, Tim Poe took, well, the scenic route, you could call it. A five-sport high school letterman at Iowa’s Keokuk High School… Read more »
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Team: University of Central Missouri
Sandbothe Family
Back in the 1980s, if folks running Missouri’s tourism board wanted to attract even more eyes to the state, it could have included this line without anybody thinking twice: Sandbothe Family Basketball Machine. No, it wasn’t a factory that produced basketballs. More accurately, it was a seemingly endless assembly line of Sandbothe children – seven… Read more »
Tom Smith
A true legend of the coaching profession, the 2012-13 season was the last for Missouri Western State University Head Men’s Basketball Coach Tom Smith as he announced his retirement in December of 2012 after 38 years of being a head coach and more than 45 years in the coaching profession. Born in Gary, Indiana, in… Read more »
Rhesa Sumrell
Rhesa Sumrell says softball wasn’t even the sport she enjoyed most as a young person. She was a multi-sport athlete growing up “My trajectory into the game of softball was more of a logistical business situation,” she said. “I wouldn’t say it was my favorite sport, but it became the sport that I spent most of… Read more »
Emmitt Thomas
Emmitt Thomas returned to his football roots in Kansas City in 2010, joining the Chiefs as the defensive backs coach. Thomas played cornerback for 13 seasons with Kansas City (’66-78) and finished his career with a franchise-record 58 interceptions. 2011 marked Emmitt’s 31st season as an NFL assistant coach and his 44th overall NFL campaign.… Read more »
2003 University of Central Missouri Baseball Team
All these years later, Brad Hill and his players still laugh about it. But somebody had to say something. Had to put their foot down. Early in the 2003 season, the University of Central Missouri baseball team delivered a lethargic performance. Unacceptable, Hill recalled, especially in a premier program. And so he gathered the team… Read more »
University of Central Missouri Volleyball Program
Enshrinement: UCM Volleyball Program In the early 1970s, three professors – Dr. Jessie Jutten, Dr. Dean Martin and Dr. Millie Barnes – launched women’s sports at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg. Among them was volleyball in 1970, with graduate assistants coaching the first five seasons and physical education majors making up most of… Read more »
University of Central Missouri Baseball Program
Tucked into a hillside in Warrensburg sits one of the most impressive baseball facilities in the country – complete with synthetic turf, four rows of chair-back seats between the dugouts, a grandstand of chair-back seats and dugout heaters. Oh, and see that Morton building nearby? It houses indoor batting cages, a weight room and the… Read more »
Dr. Ronald VanDam
Ronald Leonard VanDam was born January 22, 1937, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the son of Rev. Leonard and Marian Perkins VanDam. He married Jonell Willis on May 30, 1964. Dr. VanDam had a distinguished career as Head Athletic Trainer and Professor at the University of Central Missouri for 31 years. Following his arrival on campus in… Read more »