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 [...]
1970s Mary Ann Wilkerson ’72/’87 retired from the City of Savannah, Missouri as a class A water plant operator in June 2017. Carol Hartigan '73 Carol Hartigan ’73, Certification and Policy Strategist for the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and the AACN Certification Corporation, received the Lifetime [...]
Dr. Jamel Santa Cruze Wright ’00 was named the 27th president of Eureka College in July 2017. She had been serving as interim president since July 1, 2016. Dr. Jamel Santa Cruze Wright '00 Dr. Wright, a native of St. Louis, graduated from Missouri Western with a Bachelor [...]
Byron ’55 and Phyllis ’55 Myers have spent a lifetime creating a legacy of music, devoting almost all of their adult lives to the New Generation Singers in St. Joseph, Missouri. Byron and Phyllis Myers Byron founded the group in 1970 and served as musical director until 1998, [...]
The Missouri Western Alumni Association honored 13 people with 12 awards at its annual awards banquet Homecoming weekend. Eight Great Griffon Awards and Student Leadership Awards were new this year, honoring alumni from each of the University’s Colleges and three graduating seniors. The following were honored at the 2017 Alumni [...]
Natalie Redmond '00 Dear Fellow Alumni, This is my second letter as President of the Alumni Association, and I am so proud to report on all of the successes from this year’s Homecoming! It was a chilly weekend but warm with Griffon spirit. Mary Vaughan ’78, last year’s [...]
