The winningest coach by percentage in NCAA volleyball history at the time of her retirement in 1998, Washington University’s Teri Clemens guided her team to seven NCAA Division III national championships in 14 years. Owner of a 529-77 (.873) career record, Clemens coached the Bears to the school’s first NCAA title in 1989. Her teams… Read more »
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Jim Conzelman
St. Louis native Jim Conzelman was a football player and coach, baseball executive, and advertising executive. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1964 and was selected in 1969 as a quarterback on the National Football League 1920s All-Decade Team. Conzelman played college football for the 1918 Great Lakes Navy Bluejackets… Read more »
Oliver DeVictor
Oliver DeVictor served as an athletic trainer at Pennsylvania State University, University of Pittsburgh, Washington University-St. Louis and University of Missouri. During his career, his teams made 10 bowl trips, including three to the Rose Bowl. He retired as head athletic trainer at the University of Missouri in 1958 after 23 years of service
Mark Edwards
You can make a case that Mark Edwards and Washington University in St. Louis took a chance on each other and it worked out beautifully. There he was in 1981, 35 years old and already an NCAA Division I assistant coach but being asked by university officials to return home. The mission? Oh, just dust… Read more »
Nancy Fahey
As the head coach at Washington University in Saint Louis, Nancy Fahey has led the Bears to five NCAA Division III National Championships including back-to-back undefeated national championships in 1999 and 2000. In both 2000 and 2011, she was named the WBCA D-III Coach of the Year. Fahey has reached the Final Four 10 times… Read more »
Ric Lessmann
Listening to old baseball stories never gets old, and veteran baseball coach Ric Lessmann likely has a million of them. Here’s one of the more memorable ones: Recruiting for his team at Meramec Community College and doubling as a scout for the Cincinnati Reds in the late 1980s, Lessmann got a tip about Brian Boehringer,… Read more »
Dr. Matthew Matava
You look at the resume and see all the years he has provided medical care for St. Louis’ premier NCAA Division III athletics department and the city’s National Hockey League and National Football League franchises and come to a conclusion. That is, that Dr. Matthew Matava planned this from the start. Not exactly. “I played… Read more »
Bruce Melin
Melin received both his bachelor’s (1944) and master’s (1948) degrees from the University of Minnesota. He joined the faculty and athletic staff of Washington University in 1949 and served for 28 years before retiring in 1977. He continued working as an athletic trainer for some time after his retirement. In 1986, Melin received the Washington… Read more »
Sanford “Sandy” Pomerantz
Sandy’s basketball career began at the University City Senior High School, where he was a first-team All-American basketball star. Following high school, he went on to play for the University of Cincinnati Bearcats and won the 1960 Missouri Valley Conference Championship. After transferring to Washington University in St. Louis, he earned All-American honors. An MVP… Read more »
Mike Todorovich
During his high school career at Soldan High School in St. Louis, Mike Todorovich lettered in four sports – basketball, football, baseball and track and was All-State in basketball and football. In 1941, he was selected to play in the Missouri High School All-Star Football game played in Jefferson City and to the first All-State… Read more »