High School Football

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The high school football season unofficially kicked off in Missouri on Friday night, as teams across the state participated in jamborees. The season will officially kick off for week one on Aug. 25. You can watch the highlights from Friday’s jamborees in the video player above.

FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) Dana Chambers is entering his third season at the helm of the Fulton Hornets. Ahead of the 2023 season, Chambers said he’s changing some things to try to bring a winning culture back to the program. “Our four things that we’re going to focus on this year are accountability, leadership, determination and

ASHLAND, Mo. (KMIZ) Southern Boone football coach Mark Ross has had a full offseason to prepare for the 2023 season, unlike in his first year in Ashland. He said his team is bringing a natural competitiveness to the upcoming season, from top to bottom. The former Marceline head coach was hired in May of 2022,

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After their most wins in seven seasons, the Father Tolton football team is returning an experienced group in 2023, with goals of reaching further into postseason play. Former Mizzou football player Michael Egnew is entering year six at the helm of the Trailblazers. Egnew said Wednesday he’s excited about the number of

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) After getting just over .500 in his first two seasons as the head football coach of the Jefferson City Jays, Damon Wells is hoping to use his experience to his advantage this season and go deeper into a playoff run. “Our kids are winners and they believe they’re going to win

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Helias football team graduated quite a bit of depth, nearly 20 seniors, following the 2022-23 school year, but head coach Chris Hentges said his team has plenty of returning depth at skill positions headed into a new season. He said the rebuild will be coming up front. The Crusaders have

BOONVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boonville Pirates football team is coming off of their best finish in 11 years, claiming a district title with a championship win over Moberly. “Winning a district championship or just winning a championship in general is the number one thing you talk about when you come in as a coach,” said

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) In just two season at Capital City, Joe Collier has taken the Cavaliers from a one win season to seven wins last year, but he says there’s still work do to ahead of year three. “I think we found our way and that’s when we came from that one win season

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Hickman football team hosted three other teams for a round-robin style scrimmage on Friday evening at Robert M. LeMone Field. Capital City, Battle and Festus all came to Hickman. The four teams each got to face each other for 40 minutes with a running clock. During that time, each team got

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Battle football team is returning nine starters on defense and majority of the offense, but they’re working to fill the voids this summer of quarterback Justin Goolsby and running back Ricky Dunn. Head coach and former Mizzou football player Jonah Dubinski said he has already seen guys on his team step

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Hickman football team will lean on its large group of returning juniors and seniors, as work has already begun ahead of the 2023 season. Head coach Cedric Alvis said that the Kewpies are actually returning their largest group since about 2007. “Hopefully that can bring some success,” he said. “Ultimately, just