Seven former student athletes became members of the Athletics Hall of Fame on Sept. 30.The class of 2016 included, from left, George Hayward ’75 (Meritorious Service), Eric McDowell ’04 (football 2000-03), Jill (Johnson) Brock ’08 (women’s basketball 2004-08), Michael Cobbins ’07 (football 2003-06),), Eric Keeler (men’s basketball 1995-97), Lindsey [...]
Two members of the 2015 Griffon football team gained positions on the 2016 regular season NFL team rosters. Michael Jordan (Rams) and Leonard Wester (Buccaneers) joined Greg Zuerlein (Rams) and Davis Bass (Titans) as Griffons in the NFL this season. Wester made the active roster in Tampa Bay out of [...]
Missouri Western’s first-ever head coach for the men’s and women’s cross country and track and field teams was hired in August 2016. The teams will begin competing in fall 2017. Coach Marc Bierbaum Marc Bierbaum, who was an assistant women’s cross country and track coach at the University [...]
On Nov. 17, 2016, Director of Athletics Kurt McGuffin announced that football head coach Jerry Partridge ’86 was relieved of his coaching duties. “Coach Partridge has been a part of Griffon football for most of his adult life as a player, assistant coach and head coach, and I thank him for his [...]
Soccer For the third consecutive season, Griffon soccer had its best season in program history. Head coach Chad Edwards’ team set a new Missouri Western soccer record, winning 11 games in the regular season, earning a record-breaking 10th win of the season on Oct. 28 against Northwest Missouri State. Both [...]
1980s David Slater ’82 received an award for outstanding service from the Missouri Municipal League. He is currently serving his sixth two-year term as mayor of Pleasant Valley, Missouri. He is also serving his fourth one-year term as chair of the Metro Mayors Caucus, representing 84 communities in Jackson, Clay, [...]
When Rick Dierenfeldt ’11 enrolled at Missouri Western, he had a plan. At the time, he was working full-time as a police officer, and he wanted to earn an associate degree so he could get promoted. It was a good plan, but it didn’t quite work out that way. He [...]
Challenging. Adventurous. Fun. And outdoors. That’s what Melissa Cairns ’16 was looking for in an internship this past summer. She found all that and more when she was hired as a Class V whitewater rafting guide at Ace Adventure Resort in West Virginia. For those not familiar with whitewater rapids [...]
For those not familiar with the field of teaching English as a second language, it may just seem like a lot of alphabet soup – ESL, ELL, ESOL, TESOL, MELL – but to Ryan Rumpf ’02, it’s a career he wouldn’t trade for anything. It’s a career that took him [...]
