It was a season plagued by injuries and bad luck for the women’s basketball team. After a 9-1 start to the season, the promising team lost three starters and finished the regular season 11-17. On a second tie-breaker, the Griffons qualified as the No. 12 seed in the MIAA Championships. Missouri [...]
Sundance Wicks was hired as the new head men’s basketball coach in March. Sundance Wicks Wicks joins Missouri Western fresh off the NCAA Division II national championship game as the associate head coach at his alma mater, Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. He brings extensive experience [...]
A new pavilion on the west end of Craig Field at Spratt Memorial Stadium will be built and donated by Steve Craig, the benefactor for whom Craig Field and the Craig School of Business are named. Work began this past fall. “The pavilion will provide the finishing piece to the [...]
What began as a pretty ordinary season became anything but, as Griffon volleyball won its first-ever regular-season MIAA championship and advanced to the NCAA Central Region semifinals. After beginning the season 7-8, the Griffons won 15 of 16 of the next matches. On senior night Nov. 11, the Griffons ran [...]
Griffon women’s soccer has been making history and steadily improving the last few years, but 2017 was a real breakout season. For the first time since soccer arrived on campus in 2005, the team was a contender for the conference title and advanced to post-season play. Overall, more than 30 [...]
Football’s first season under Head Coach Matt Williamson ’96 ended with a 4-7 record. Eleven Griffons received a total of 12 All-MIAA honors, including Cody Lindsay, who was named first-team linebacker. The three-time honorable mention All-MIAA selection led all MIAA linebackers with 17.5 tackles for loss and 6.5 sacks. Lindsay, [...]
The inaugural Griffon men’s and women’s cross country season began with the women taking first place and men taking third in their first-ever competition, the Bearcat Open in Maryville, Missouri. The women claimed the team championship by 34 points with six of the top-nine individual finishers, including champion Kaitlyn Shoemaker [...]
Director of athletics Josh Looney named Eric Kramer associate director of athletics for compliance and sports administration last fall. Kramer had served as the associate director of athletics for internal operations and academics 2014-15, assistant athletic director for compliance and academics 2011-14, and the compliance and academics coordinator 2007-11. Since [...]
Josh Looney Josh Looney is the University’s new director of athletics, replacing Kurt McGuffin, director of athletics since 2011, who became director of intercollegiate athletics at the University of Tennessee at Martin. Looney, who was director of athletics at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania, began his duties in [...]
