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 »
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Year: 2018
Michelle Langsford Dickemann
It’s almost as if a Hollywood writer penned the script for a box-office smash. In fact, you can almost envision the movie trailer hyping it this way: Michelle Langsford Dickemann wasn’t your average swimmer. She soared in the pool, becoming the first girl from Springfield to win a high school state championship and eventually told… Read more »
Jacquie Dowdy
She grew up a years before public schools fielded athletic teams for girls, but that didn’t stop her from playing sports against the neighborhood guys or hanging around the football field. Even better, Jacquie Dowdy never forgot the positive influence of athletics on young people. That was especially true in her nearly four decades working… Read more »
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 »
Doug Elgin
Doug Elgin, who in 30 years has brought a firm and steady hand to the Missouri Valley Conference as its commissioner, is quick to share the credit for MVC success with others within the organization. Elgin salutes the MVC Presidents Council for taking ownership of league membership issues, and also points to the remarkable continuity… Read more »
Elite 11- Class of 2018
CLASS OF 2018 Dr. Travis Brawner (Branson High School/Missouri State University) Kegan Coleman (Lee’s Summit North High School/University of Central Missouri) Dr. Kenny Downing (Aurora High School/University of Missouri/Canadian Football League) Dr. Preston Estes (Marionville High School/Missouri State) Derek Jensen (Lebanon High School/Missouri State) Roy Kaderly (Marshfield High School/Mizzou/Missouri State) David McNeel (Greenfield High School/Mizzou/Canadian Football League)… Read more »
Mike Essick
He had long dreamed the dream. Of coaching a high school baseball team. Of teaching teenagers about the game he loved. Of filling out lineup cards and winning games and, well, everything else great about it. Truth is, Mike Essick had to climb from the very bottom to get there. In fact, the journey began… Read more »
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 »
Mike Garrett
It’s been deemed by the Sporting News as the most iconic play in Kansas City Chiefs history. The “65 Toss Power Trap,” ordered by coach Hank Stram and forever captured on the grainy footage of NFL Films, in essence secured the Chiefs’ Super Bowl IV victory in January 1970. Mike Garrett, the man who scored the 5-yard… Read more »
Dale Gildehaus
For St. Francis Borgia Regional High School football coach Dale Gildehaus, it’s more than the incredible number of wins and losses or all the trophies. It’s about faith, family, his players and coaches, and the Borgia Regional High School Community in and beyond Washington, Missouri. In fact, in today’s world of “what have you done… Read more »
Bernard Gilkey
The story goes that, in spring training 1989, the plan of then-St. Louis Cardinals farmhand Bernard Gilkey – to advocate for an opening day assignment with the club’s Double-A Texas League affiliate – just about backfired. You see, newly installed farm director Ted Simmons “gave me the business,” Gilkey recalled, laughing of course. Actually, it… Read more »
Irv Goode
Who hasn’t been in a practice where a coach implore players to be ready for anything, that you never know when your time may come? If football coaches ever need a great example, they should tell the story of Irv Goode. Drafted in 1962 to play center for the National Football League’s St. Louis Cardinals… Read more »
Rick Grayson
Whenever Rick Grayson ultimately sinks his final putt, those eager to follow him as one of Springfield’s next great golf gurus probably will feel like the act after Elvis has left the building. Certainly, his resume wows, given Grayson has been a Professional Golf Association (PGA) teaching professional for 33 years. But that’s just skimming… Read more »
Ann Luetkemeyer Gulshen
Back in the fall of 1975, Ann Gulshen couldn’t believe her ears. It had been three years since passage of federal Title IX legislation that forced public schools and universities to offer athletics to girls. And as she entered her senior year, Eldon High School planned to offer volleyball and called it, “the biggest thing… Read more »
Dante Hall
Ask the man known as “The Human Joystick” of his favorite play of a mile-long NFL highlight reel and he smiles that trademark smile. You see, Dante Hall figures Kansas City Chiefs fans assume it’s the one against the Denver Broncos in 2002. They actually might like his favorite one better. And his final quote,… Read more »
Jim Halliburton
He has been in and around competitive swimming for so long that folks may assume the H in water’s chemical name, h2o, stands for “Halliburton.” Yes, Jim Halliburton has given his life the sport. Not that anyone is surprised. After all, he went undefeated as a Ladue High School swimmer decades ago, broke Big Ten… Read more »