For some high school football seniors, the frustrations of a season-ending knee injury can led to the usual frustrations: there is no way to make an impact and it’s the end of the road in athletics. Dr. Mark Adams has proven that it doesn’t have to be that way, that someone who loves sports can… Read more »
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Team: University of Missouri
Mike Alden
Mike Alden has been at the helm of Missouri athletics since 1998, and it’s no shock his tenure has produced the most comprehensive run of athletic and academic success in school history. Through capital campaign efforts, Alden has overseen more than $265 million in private gifts for Tiger Athletics and, in 2014, Mizzou’s Memorial Stadium… Read more »
Mahlon Aldridge
Mahlon R. Aldridge, Jr., also known as the“Voice of the Tigers” for 28 years, started his career as a reporter for the Jefferson City News-Tribune and by officiating basketball games in the late 1930s. He initiated Missouri Tiger football and basketball play-by-play on KFRU in 1946, and after buying the station he started the Missouri… Read more »
Kim Anderson
Kim Anderson played collegiately at the University of Missouri from 1973-1977, where in 1976, he was a part of Norm Stewart’s first Big 8 Conference championship team. He led the league in scoring and was named Big 8 Player of the Year in 1977. Anderson scored 1,289 points in his career to rank among Missouri’s… Read more »
Ken Ash
The numbers paint an incredible picture of the Show-Me State Games: 25,000-plus; $619 million; $1.4 million. In order, that’s roughly the average number of participants every summer since 2004; the Games’ economic impact on Columbia in its 31-year history; and the non-profit’s annual budget. Certainly, Ken Ash, the executive director of the Show-Me State Games… Read more »
Ben Askren
The story goes that, when college coaches tried to recruit him to their campuses, they cautioned against the University of Missouri. Ben Askren heard it over and over: Mizzou’s wrestling program had never had a national champion, let alone a team national title. However, he ignored them and listened to his gut, sensing that he… Read more »
Dick Ault
This St. Louis native went from Roosevelt High School to become a track star at the University of Missouri from 1946-1949. Ault won the Big 6 220-yard low hurdles in 1946 and 1947, then the Big 7 title in the same event in 1948 and 1949. He was also the conference champion in the 440-yard dash in… Read more »
Dr. James Baker
A football tackle at the University of Missouri in 1929-30, Baker later became its first team physician in 1938. During a 40-year career, Baker served football coaches Don Faurot (MSHOF 1953 (Coaches) and 2001 (Legends), Frank Broyles, Dan Devine (MSHOF 1973), and Al Onofrio (MSHOF 2012). He also worked with basketball coaches George Edwards (MSHOF… Read more »
Gary Barnett
The plan after four years of playing football at the University of Missouri seemed straightforward enough: Go to law school and then into the real world. However, Gary Barnett stopped himself. After earning a letter on the 1968 team and graduating, he still felt the pull of the sport: The times growing up in the… Read more »
Randy Biggerstaff
Randy Biggerstaff began his athletic training career in 1973, when he became the District Athletic Trainer for the Granite City Community Unit School District after graduating from the University of Missouri. He has also served as trainer for the St. Louis Hummers women’s professional softball team, the University of Missouri football team at the Fiesta… Read more »
Ed Blaine
After graduating from Farmington, Blaine attended the University of Missouri on a football scholarship. Athletic honors included All Big Eight and All America football teams and participation in 2 Orange Bowl games. He was the second draft choice of the World Champion Green Bay Packers. He played one year with the Packers and was then… Read more »
Bryan Blitz
The whole plan was never to coach soccer, just to take a detour to a Midwest mid-major in order to earn an MBA after losing out on three New York City advertising jobs to folks holding MBAs. Bryan Blitz tells this story proudly. As he should. Because back in 1990, after serving two years as… Read more »
Tom Botts
During his tenure as head coach, which ran from 1947 to 1972, Tom Botts led the University of Missouri Tigers track and field program to eight conference championships as well as a national indoor championship in 1965. He coached 48 conference champions, 23 All-Americans, five national champions, and two Olympians in his time at MU.… Read more »
Phil Bradley
One of the most decorated athletes in University of Missouri annals, Bradley lettered in football at MU from 1977-80 and in baseball from 1979-81. Bradley was the quarterback for the Tigers and took them to three bowl games. He was a three-time Big Eight Conference “Offensive Player of the Year” and set the conference total… Read more »
Justin Britt
Growing up in Lebanon, Mo., Justin Britt was never far away from sports. “My time in Lebanon was filled with nothing but sports, from football, wrestling, all the way to track and even baseball in middle school,” he said. Britt was a multi-sport athlete in high school, participating in football, wrestling, and track & field.… Read more »
Charlie Brown
Imagine being told that you would never again be able to do the one thing you loved most. In 1964, after his sophomore season on the University of Missouri football team, Charlie Brown awakened from major knee surgery to a doctor asserting that he had likely played his last down. Instead, the former Jefferson City… Read more »