Griffon volleyball was not able to defend its 2017 MIAA Championship, finishing the season 15-17, but there were some outstanding individual performances. Six Griffons were named All-MIAA, and Missouri Western had players at each position ranked among the best in the MIAA. Junior Stephanie Doak was named second-team All-MIAA despite [...]
Despite returning just six upperclassmen from a record-breaking 2017 season, the soccer team kept pace with its new standards. Missouri Western finished the season 12-7 overall for the second most wins in program history. The Griffons qualified for postseason play for a fifth consecutive season, the only five extended seasons [...]
The 2018 Griffon football team saw a return to Missouri Western’s winning ways. The Griffons finished the regular season 6-5 and accepted an invitation to the Agent Barry Live United Bowl in Texarkana, Arkansas. It was the first postseason trip for the program since advancing to the NCAA Division II [...]
In July, Missouri Western dedicated the Bill Snyder Pavilion in Spratt Memorial Stadium to honor the longtime Kansas State University head coach. The pavilion was built and donated by Steven L. Craig, the benefactor for whom Craig Field and the Craig School of Business are named. It was Craig who proposed [...]
Yuriy Litvinski Yuriy Litvinski was named the new head coach of men’s and women’s cross country and track & field teams in July 2018. He had been the assistant at Idaho State University, an NCAA Division I school since 2016 and women’s assistant coach at Angelo State University [...]
For the second year in a row, Griffon women’s golfer Shi Qing Ong played in the NCAA Division II National Championships in May 2018. The junior birdied a three-player, one-hole playoff for one of the final two individual qualifying spots. Ong finished the tournament in a three-way tie for fifth [...]
Missouri Western athletics started a new tradition last year, and it looks to be one with some staying power. In 2017, head football coach Matt Williamson ’96 hadn’t been on the job very long when he was pondering what could be Griffon football’s tradition. Williamson fondly remembered his time as [...]
With a 2-1 win on a walk-off single over Washburn on March 3, Head Coach Buzz Verduzco became Griffon bseball’s all-time wins leader. It was his 541st win at Missouri Western, moving him past the only other man to ever lead the program, Doug Minnis. Head Coach Buzz Verduzco [...]
The men’s basketball team finished the regular season strong to make the MIAA tournament on a tie-breaker as the No. 12 seed. Unfortunately, there was no underdog run for the Griffons who saw their season end in the first round of the tournament with a loss at No. 5-seed Central [...]
