High School Football

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The high school football season will kick off on August 27 in Missouri, however, teams got to go through one more dress rehearsal. High schools across Mid-Missouri hosted their annual jamborees with multiple other schools in attendance. The Hickman Kewpies hosted both the Rock Bridge and Battle football programs on Friday night.

BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boonville football team will lean on its veteran starters as the group will kick off the 2021 season on August 27 against the Pleasant Hill Roosters. Boonville is coming off of a 6-4 campaign in the 2020 season, under the leadership of head coach Greg Hough. The Pirates did return the

HALLSVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) The Hallsville football team has already captured back-to-back district titles, but now the Indians want to take it a step further. Head coach Justin Conyers said that he feels, if his group continues to click, that this could be the roster that brings Hallsville back to a district title game and beyond.

WARDSVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) The last time Blair Oaks and Maryville met on the football field, the Falcons walked away with the Class 3 state championship. For the fourth-straight season the Falcons and the Spoofhounds will open up play against each other. Head coach Ted Lepage has captured three titles as Blair Oaks’ head coach, in

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jonah Dubinski era is underway at Battle High School. The former Rock Bridge and Mizzou standout took over the program in late July after Atiyyah Ellison accepted a job on the MU football staff. Dubinski inherited a strong team from a season ago. The Spartans went 8-2 overall, including a district

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Battle Spartans will be looking for a new head football coach just about 40 days away from the start of the 2021-2022 season, after Atiyyah Ellison resigned on Monday. Battle Athletics confirmed to ABC17 that Ellison is moving on from the program to pursue another opportunity. He took the helm of

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Jays are adjusting to a new face at the helm of the football program, as summer workouts continue at Adkins Stadium. Back in January, the school district named Damon Wells as its new head football coach and athletic director. He comes to Mid-Missouri from Rifle, Colorado, where he

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Hickman football has already built a bond through summer workouts, according to head coach Cedric Alvis. “A lot of the bickering and different things that we’ve had that have been kind of our Achilles heel in the past, so far early on fingers crossed, we’ve been encouraging kids through things,” he

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Battle football team started summer workouts with a clean slate, which included a slew of new coaches and players. Head coach Atiyyah Ellison said it is good to hit the reset button at the end of each season. “You don’t want the kids to focus on their past accomplishments and think

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Helias Crusaders started up summer workouts as the reigning class four state champions, however, if you ask the team, that win means nothing for this season. “As I told them, that’s not going to bring us one win this year,” Helias head coach Chris Hentges said. Hentges added that the

FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) It is Dana Chambers Jr.’s first summer as Fulton’s head football coach, however, the territory itself is pretty familiar. Chambers Jr. graduated from Fulton High School in 2003 and, back then, he played both linebacker and tight end for the school. Fast forwarding to 2021, Chambers is back where it all started.