COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) Columbia Public Schools is moving forward with its high school football season, but there are new restrictions for fans and players. Fan attendance will be very limited. CPS said it will give players one “player card,” to give to a guest of their choosing. The guest will be the only spectator allowed
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) After months of uncertainty, the first week of high school football is here. Our SportsZone Football Friday game of the week for week one is the matchup between the Staley Falcons and the Rock Bridge Bruins. You can watch the game live on KZOU over the air channel 17.3. Here is a
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City School District announced its COVID-19 policies for the upcoming fall sports seasons on Tuesday. Jefferson City and Capital City High School will both start their seasons with a 20% capacity limit. Both football teams will play their home games at Adkins Stadium, so there will be about 1,200
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) In a year full of distractions, the Tolton football team isn’t having any of it. “We don’t worry about the elements that we can’t control. We worry about the elements that we can,” said Michael Egnew, Tolton’s football coach. One element the Trailblazers said they are hoping to control on week one,
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WARDSVILLE, Mo (KMIZ) Blair Oaks said a group of brothers have not only brought successful seasons to the Falcons, but an attitude to live by. Falcons coach Ted LePage said the Hair siblings bring a very specific type of leadership to the table. “They’ve all given humility first and service of others. When you talk
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HALLSVILLE, Mo (KMIZ) The Hallsville Indians are working to repeat the most historic season in town history, but under much different conditions than years past. In 2019, the Indians claimed the town’s first district title under new head coach, Justin Conyers. Conyers is still with the team, however, the 16 seniors who helped him get
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HALLSVILLE, Mo (KMIZ) The Hallsville Indians said it may take them a few weeks to get into the groove of actually meeting other teams after a summer of isolation. The Indians had their first full-contact scrimmage on Saturday and said, while its good to get the team tackling, they would usually have a lot more
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo (KMIZ) Jefferson City high school football teams said being back on the football field feels like home after everything that’s happened. “Everything outside of the football field feels a little odd, but when we’re out here it feels like August, feels like football,” said Scott Bailey, Jefferson City’s football coach. Helias, Capital
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) Columbia’s high school football practices look a lot different this year, featuring: masks, social distancing, and no contact. It’s a long list of things for coaches to worry about. “They don’t really realize, some of them, how important their behavior is going to be moving forward,” said Atiyyah Ellison, Battle’s football coach.
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. UPDATE 8:21 p.m.: Columbia Public Schools delayed the start of the school year until Sept. 8. CPS Athletic Director David Egan said CPS practices will continue until at least the end of the week. High school football teams across Mid-Missouri held their first official preseason practices on Monday. MSHSAA is allowing high school
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ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman brought on Jefferson City School District athletic director Ehren Earleywine in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the entire interview in the video player above. Earleywine said all of the members of the Central Missouri Athletic Conference met in Sedalia on Sunday to discuss the upcoming
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou football players L’Damian Washington and Jerrell Jackson are hosting a football camp August 3-6 in Columbia. The four-day camp will be held at West Middle School from 10-11:30 a.m. each day. Kids ages 10-18 can participate. Here’s a link to find out more details on the camp. Washington said there
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo (KMIZ) Jefferson City’s football team has been through a lot of changes in the past few months: a new coach, a pandemic, and a young team. Scott Bailey began coaching the Jays in early June. “There were rumors in the coaching circle that Coach Walker was going to resign,” Bailey said. Bailey
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ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman spoke with Columbia Public Schools’ new athletic director David Egan. You can watch the full interview in the video player above.
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HALLSVILLE, Mo (KMIZ) The Hallsville Indians just started full-team practices about two weeks ago and despite all the work that has to be done, the staff said they are just excited to be back. “Just to be honest with you, just really happy to be back, if you can’t tell,” said Hallville football coach Justin
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Rock Bridge football team continued its summer workouts on Thursday amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Head coach Van Vanatta said there are several safety measures in place to keep everyone healthy and safe. The team is split up into stable groups of 25 players. The groups rotate to different areas, and there
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The Hickman football team is holding team workouts with safety precautions in place to keep players and staff healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Head coach Cedric Alvis said the team is split into stable groups of 25 players. Each group works out in a specific zone until it’s time to rotate. Each zone is cleaned
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Jefferson City hired a new football coach on Tuesday. Scott Bailey will replace Terry Walker as the head coach of the Jays. Walker resigned last week. Bailey comes to the capital city from Lamar High School. He was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 2018. JC Schools today
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The devastating 2019 Jefferson City tornado could end up leading to new facilities for future Jefferson City High School athletes, according to JCPS athletic director Ehren Earleywine. “It provided a real silver lining for our future facilities because across the street most of those houses were wiped out, and it provided
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou defensive lineman Tre Williams spoke with reporters for the first time since 2018 on Monday night. Hear from the former Rock Bridge standout in the video player above.
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