In his 17th season leading Griffon baseball, Coach Buzz Verduzco reached his 500th win on May 14 at the MIAA Tournament. The Griffon defeated Emporia State, 6-5 to earn the longtime coach his milestone. The next day, the team earned a spot in the MIAA Tournament Championship game, falling to [...]
It’s customary for Griffon softball to have an outstanding season, but the 2016 Griffons exceeded expectations. Picked to finish fourth in the MIAA, Coach Jen Trotter’s team earned both the MIAA regular season and tournament championships, finishing the season 45-13. The team’s 23 MIAA wins were the most ever for [...]
It was a season for the ages – the Griffon women’s golf team qualified for the Division II National Championships in Aurora, Colorado. The team finished 12th at the national event with outstanding freshman Shi Qing Ong finishing tied for 34th, individually. The team made history when it earned its [...]
1970s Kayla (Morgan) Schoonover ’77 was appointed to Missouri Western’s Board of Governors by Gov. Jay Nixon in June. Schoonover, from Fairfax, Missouri, is a special education instructor for Mound City R-2 Schools. Her term will end on Oct. 29, 2017. Dave Scheer ’79 was inducted into the St. Louis [...]
For Megean (McCloud) Weldon ’11, it really all started with a walk around the neighborhood on Earth Day in April 2015. Weldon liked to mark Earth Day with an environmentally friendly activity, so that year, she and her husband, Ben, decided to take a walk around their neighborhood and pick [...]
For Dr. Yevgeniy Kondratenko ’03, his experience in graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign made him realize that he had received a great undergraduate education in the Department of Chemistry at Missouri Western. After graduation, Dr. Kondratenko was accepted into the PhD program in chemical engineering at [...]
In today’s world of “everyone is a winner,” and everyone gets a trophy for participating, a St. Joseph high school girls’ basketball team showed the state what a true winner and a real champion looks like. And a Missouri Western alumnus coached them every step of the way. In March [...]
Dear Fellow Alumni, Mary Vaughan '79 This is a great time to be associated with Missouri Western; so many good things are happening. As the first Association president living outside the St. Joseph/Kansas City area, I am excited to serve you this year and travel the 300 miles [...]
No Excuses University They may only be 9 or 10 years old, but Nichole Chavez’s third-graders at Eva Baca Elementary School in Pueblo, Colorado can tell you what a Griffon is and the meaning behind it, what sports are played at Missouri Western, some of the degrees the University offers, [...]
