Twenty-six spring sport student athletes were named to the MIAA Academic Honor Roll, with three picking up Scholar Athlete Awards: Cody Childs, baseball; Madison Romjue, golf; and Morgan Rathmann, softball. The St. Joseph Convention and Visitors Bureau estimated the economic impact of the March 2015 MWSU/Apple Market Softball Classic at $250,740. An estimated [...]
The 46th year of Griffon football will feature six home games, and for the first time in a number of years, no night games at Spratt Memorial Stadium. Renovations to the stadium that began in May of this year have left the stadium without lights for the 2015 season. For the [...]
Scott Groner was named Male Athlete of the Year and Erica Rottinghaus was named Female Athlete of the Year at the Missouri Western/St. Joseph News-Press 16th annual Student-Athlete Honors Banquet in April. During the 2014 season, Groner, a senior football player, made the MIAA Academic Honor Roll and was named [...]
The softball team ended its 2015 season at the NCAA Division II Central Regional Tournament for the eighth time in 11 years. The team had a 36-21 record overall and 17-10 in the MIAA. Senior infielder Tiffany Gillaspy was a standout for the Griffons this season. She was named a [...]
Basketball recap Men’s basketball completed the season with a 71-58 win over Southwest Baptist University. The win wrapped up the team’s regular season with a 12-14 overall record and an 8-11 mark in MIAA play. The men played in the first round of the MIAA tournament as the No.10 seed. [...]
1910s The Junior College was just one year old when it started a men’s basketball program, and there has been a team every year since. An attempt to field a football team was made in 1916, but it was not to be. Sometime in the 1917-18 school year, the Griffon [...]
All fall sports teams had winning regular seasons The volleyball team posted a 22-8 overall record, producing the most wins since 1998. Its 16-6 conference record also marked the most conference wins in school history. Outside hitters Erica Rottinghaus and Jesse Thorup led the team in kills with 396 and [...]
Zack ’74 and Mary ’76 Workman recently made a pledge over the next five years to the Missouri Western State University Foundation to support the development of an academic resource room in the Griffon Indoor Sports Complex. Initial plans include converting a break-out room in the GISC to a study [...]
It’s been a whirlwind seven months for new golf coach Greg Dillon. On the women’s side after six events, the best team finish was a third place showing in the Northwest Missouri State Fall Invitational. Individually, sophomore Callie Wilson and freshman Madison Romjue led the team with an 84 scoring [...]
