COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Athletics Director Desiree Reed-Francois announced that the MU volleyball team has a new leader on Sunday night. Former UNLV head coach Dawn Sullivan will take the reins in Columbia. Sullivan and Reed-Francois are no strangers. The two met when Reed-Francois served as the UNLV Athletics Director, before coming to Mizzou. Sullivan
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) According to a running list of college volleyball transfers on Twitter, Mizzou outside hitters Anna Dixon and Kaylee Cox have entered the transfer portal. This comes just four days after Mizzou parted ways with head coach Josh Taylor after the team finished 9-19 last season, which was last in the SEC. As
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One day after the Mizzou volleyball season came to an end, Mizzou Athletics announced that head coach Josh Taylor will not be retained for next season. “We thank Coach Taylor for all he has done the past seven years for the volleyball program and University,” Athletic Director Desiree Reed-Francois said in a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou volleyball team ended it’s season with a 3-0 loss on the road at Mississippi State finishing the year with a 9-19 record. Jordan Iliff led the MU with 13 kills in the match, plus senior Anna Dixon had nine kills in her final game as a Tiger. The young team
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou volleyball team honored its three seniors in the final home match of the season against Texas A&M on Sunday afternoon. Outside hitters Anna Dixon, Leandra Mangual-Duran, and Brynn Carlson all received a framed jersey and flowers from head coach Josh Taylor and the coaching staff. MU did not end up
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou volleyball team took down Texas A&M in straight sets at the Hearnes Center on Saturday afternoon. After the win, head coach Josh Taylor and company have just one regular-season home game left. Senior Anna Dixon, as usual, led the attack for MU. The hitter finished with a team-high 16 kills.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou volleyball team got its first SEC win Sunday with a 3-1 home victory against Auburn. Auburn took the first set of the match, but MU showed fight to bring it back to take the next three sets and win the match. Kaylee Cox was a huge offensive force in the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou volleyball team held a 2-0 set lead going into the third set, but the other Tigers from Auburn battled back to take the match 3-2. The MU offense was led by Anna Dixon with 19 kills, plus Kaylee Cox had 13 and Jordan Iliff added 12. Most of the set
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou volleyball team fell in its SEC home opener, 3-1, to No. 18 Kentucky at the Hearnes Center on Wednesday night. The Tigers took set one over the Wildcats, 25-12, however, they couldn’t carry the momentum into the remaining sets. Senior Anna Dixon led MU in kills with a season-best 14,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou volleyball team swept Northwestern State, 3-0, in the final game of opening weekend at the Hearnes Center. With the win, the Tigers took a clean sweep in the Mizzou Invitational. MU took down both Abilene Christian and Missouri State on Friday, before finishing off the tournament with a win over
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou volleyball is 10 days away from the team’s first game of the season and to try to get in game mode, the team held the Black & Gold Match Tuesday night at the Hearnes Center. With five freshman on the Tiger’s team this year, they are already stepping into big roles
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Athletics launched a one-of-a-kind ticket program where both students and athletes can earn a profit on Friday afternoon. The new initiative will allow students to make money selling single-game tickets to any sporting event on campus. Students who sign up will earn 20 percent commission on any ticket sold. The program
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director NathalieJones brought on Mizzou volleyball coach Joshua Taylor in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the conversation in the video player above.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou volleyball team announced that former Tiger standout Alyssa Munlyn has been promoted to an assistant coach. The four-time All-American served as a volunteer assistant coach under head coach Josh Taylor in 2021, after spending both the 2019 and 2020 seasons as a graduate assistant. “I’m filled with so much gratitude
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) In the final game at the Hearnes Center this season, the Mizzou volleyball team captured its first home win of the year over the Tennessee Volunteers, 3-2. The Tigers won three-straight sets to claim the win and improve to 5-24 overall this season. Freshman Kayla Burbage led Mizzou with 19 kills, along
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou volleyball team dropped its second-to-last home match of the season, 3-1, to Mississippi State on Sunday afternoon. With the loss, the Tigers drop to 4-22 on the season with one conference win against Auburn in October.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou volleyball team fell to 3-12 overall, after South Carolina swept the group it their first home SEC matchup of the season. The Tigers managed to find some momentum in the second set, however, the Gamecocks’ Kyla Manning proved to be too much. She had a match high 11 kills and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou volleyball team is still on the hunt for its first win of the season after going 0-3 in the Mizzou Invitational on Saturday. The action started on Friday morning, when the St. Louis University Billikens swept MU, 3-0, to start the tournament and it all ended on Saturday with another
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou fans got their first look at the 2021 Mizzou volleyball team in the group’s annual Black and Gold scrimmage on Friday night. Following the 2020 season, the Tigers lost quite a bit of experience, including standout Kylie Deberg, Tyanna Omazic, and Dariana Hollingsworth-Santana. However, MU did return one key piece: junior
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OMAHA, Neb. (KMIZ) The Mizzou volleyball team fell short of its first Sweet 16 run since 2017, following a loss to No. 9 Ohio State in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The Buckeyes took down the Tigers in straight sets, 3-0, on Thursday afternoon. OSU opposite hitter Emily Londot come off of the
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