COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) More than 700 kids participated in Tyreek Hill’s youth football camp at Cosmo Park on Sunday afternoon. This is Hill’s fourth camp so far this summer. He said each of his camps are unique, but the goal remains the same. “I wasn’t always the tallest or the biggest or the fastest –
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The second annual Stan Utley and Mid-America Youth Golf Foundation Championship will be held from July 26-29 at The Club at Old Hawthorne in Columbia. Utley will be the host for the second straight year. Last year’s inaugural event was named the American Junior Golf Association’s Newcomer of the Year. “The inaugural
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Here are the local scores from Wednesday, June 9, 2021. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. MINK League baseball Nevada (5) Jefferson City (2) FINAL Chillicothe (10) Sedalia (9) FINAL
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Special Olympics Missouri State Summer Games are back! More than 700 athletes, coaches and volunteers participated in the event on Saturday at Hickman High School. The athletes competed in multiple sports – including track & field, volleyball, swimming and powerlifting. “The Games were sidetracked by a tornado in 2019 and the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Before the 2021 track and field season, a Frederick Douglass High School athlete had never won a district, a sectional, or appeared at state. However, that all changed with Brady Whelihan. The Douglass graduate is the first athlete in school history to capture a district and sectional championship and to appear at
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Saturday was the final of day of state championship track and field at Adkins Stadium in Jefferson City. Mid-Missouri added on a lot more state champions, as the action wrapped up. Check out a full list of local results below. GIRLS’ 3,200 METER 1st – Souther Boone’s Alexandra Volkart 2nd –
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Both Helias Catholic and Camdenton will come home with state champions after Friday’s Class 4 State Championship meet. The Crusaders’ Dominic Crisostomo captured the title in the boys’ pole vault with a score of 4.59. In the same event, Camdenton’s Dan Lapine finished in sixth place. Later in the day, the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Class 5 State Championship for track and field managed to get underway, despite some inclement weather in Jefferson City, on Thursday afternoon, with multiple local schools taking home hardware. Capital City’s Kiara Strayhorn made history. She became the school’s first-ever state champion, after finishing in first in the girls’ 100 meter
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Calvary Lutheran track and field team took fourth place overall at the Class 1 State Championship at Adkins Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The team finished just four points behind the third place finisher. You can find a full list of local results below. GIRLS’ 3,200M 5th – Calvary Lutheran’s Maddie
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Multiple Mid-Missouri schools finished in the top-five in the Class 2 state championship at Adkins Stadium. Check out video from Friday’s races, events, and award ceremonies in the video player below. https://youtu.be/m6B-wpOnP1E BOYS’ 3200M 3rd – New Bloomfield’s Nathan Hinrichs 4th – New Bloomfield’s Caleb Distler GIRLS’ HIGH JUMP 4th –
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HALLSVILLE, Mo (KMIZ) For nearly the last half century, Hallsville has had the same baseball coach. Barry Koeneke outlasted 17 Royals managers, 10 Cardinals skippers, and eight Mizzou football coaches in his time with the Indians. “Somewhere along the line, I guess I developed some sense of loyalty that sometimes, you know, you gotta hang
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FAYETTE, Mo. (KMIZ) The 2021 Central Methodist softball team ended up being a pretty unexpected group of girls. It’s composed of every grade, including a couple of “super seniors.” Due to COVID-19, college athletes received an extra year of eligibility, however, the decision to return was not easy one. “Some of them had different things
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou baseball standout Andrew Keefer is on his fourth collegiate stop in five years. There’s been a lot of change in his life, but one thing has stayed consistent. His walk-up song. “I just never had a second doubt that was going to be my walk up song,” Keefer said. Keefer’s walk-up
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FAYETTE, Mo (KMIZ) The Central Methodist University softball team earned the series sweep over Evangel on Saturday afternoon, following big performances from the Eagle bats. In the first game of the day, CMU overpowered Evangel at the plate, in a 10-0 win. Senior Kelli Gorman recorded two home runs in the outing, one of which
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Here are the local scores from Friday, April 30, 2021. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BASEBALL Jefferson City (2) Helias (4) FINAL Linn (0) Fatima (6) FINAL Mexico (5) Fulton (7) FINAL Marshall (16) Moberly (0) FINAL Stover (2) Calvary Lutheran (12) FINAL Waynesville (3) Camdenton (13) FINAL Belle
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ST. LOUIS (KMIZ) Cardinals star catcher Yadier Molina is on the 10-day IL with a right foot tendon strain. The team announced the move on Tuesday afternoon. Molina initially hurt himself during an at-bat on Friday night in Cincinnati. The nine-time All-Star returned to the lineup on Monday after missing two games. He was 0-3
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LUBBOCK, Texas (KMIZ) The Moberly Area Community College women’s hoops team will face Eastern Arizona in the first round of the NJCAA Tournament on Tuesday afternoon. “I was just so excited for our girls, especially, you know, these young women qualified last year and won the region and won the district and didn’t get to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri native DeAnna Price set the American hammer throw record at the Tom Botts Invitational on Friday night. You can watch the record-setting throw and hear from Price in the video player above. Her throw of 78.60 meters is the top mark of any woman in the world this year. It’s also
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s golf team claimed its first overall, team win of the season, finishing the tournament at 25-under par. MU and Kansas State were neck-and-neck over the two days, however, the Tigers pulled ahead by seven strokes. Rock Bridge alum and MU golfer Ross Steelman won the overall tournament, closing out
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FORT WORTH, Tx. Columbia-native J’den Cox will not compete in the 2020 Olympic Trials, after missing weight on Friday morning. USA Wrestling removed him from the 97 kg bracket following Friday morning’s weigh-in. Cox had earned a spot in the semifinals after he won a medal at the 2019 Worlds competition. Cox is on a
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