COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Congratulations to our Week 4 SportsZone Football Friday Play of the Week Nominees! You can watch the nominees in the video player above and then vote for your favorite play here. Nominee No. 1: Hickman’s Bredun Bursey evades pressure, rolls out and finds Brock Camp, who leaps up to grab the touchdown
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS SOFTBALL Mexico (6) Tolton (7) FINAL Tolton (8) Battle (9) FINAL Rock Bridge (5) Helias (4) FINAL Tolton (15) Marion C. Early (1) FINAL Battle (8) Mexico (3) FINAL Helias (3)
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Year-after-year, Tolton football continues to climb, as the program reached the highest point its seen yet with its first-ever district title win in 2023. Head coach Michael Egnew has been there for each step up the ladder. Over the course of the past five seasons, he’s seen it all. From a one-win
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) When the Hickman Kewpies travel to Marquette on week one of the high school football season, it will be a full circle moment for first-year head coach Justin Conyers. He has plenty of experience in the coaching world, but the 2024 season will be his first time coaching in his house. Conyers
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) When former Duke standout forward Mark Mitchell transferred to Mizzou in the offseason, it gave Tiger fans a big reason to rejoice after a long, winless SEC season. However, the move meant a lot more than anyone realized to one member of MU hoops. “It’s actually crazy how everything happened,” senior guard
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PARIS, France (KMIZ) Mizzou swim and dive alum Clement Secchi can now add an Olympic medal to his trophy case. The former Tiger standout earned a bronze medal for France as a part of the men’s 4×100-meter medley relay team on Sunday in Paris. Secchi swam for his home country in the third leg of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The difference between the 2023 and 2024 offseason for Battle football coach Matthew Herman is night and day. Less than a year ago, he was taking the reigns of a program just weeks before kickoff. Now, he’s in the midst of a building a culture that will last. In his first season
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on Eli Hoff, the Mizzou Athletic beat writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the full conversation in the video player above.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on Mizzou volleyball coach Dawn Sullivan in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down to preview the upcoming 2024 season. You can watch their full conversation in the video player above.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Just months after retiring from competition at the U.S. Olympic wrestling trials, Mizzou legend J’den Cox will coach for his country. On Tuesday, USA Wrestling announced that Cox will serve as the national freestyle and resident coach for the team. In this role, USA Wrestling said that the Columbia-native will work with
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EUGENE, Oregon (KMIZ) Former Mizzou star Karissa Schweizer will compete in her second-straight Olympic Games in a little more than two weeks and, on Tuesday, she learned she is officially a double-qualifier. Schweizer made the final United States roster for both the 5,000 meter and 10,000 meter events, placing third in both at the Olympic
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on WIN for Columbia’s Mitzi Clayton to chat about the second-annual WIN Every Day seminar on this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can learn more about the seminar on WIN for Columbia’s website. You can also watch their full conversation in the video player
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EUGENE, Ore. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou track and field star Karissa Schweizer is headed to the Olympic games, once more. The 28-year-old captured a third-place finish in the women’s 5,000 meter final, on Monday night, to punch her ticket to the 2024 Paris Olympics. The 14:45.12 mark is the second-fastest 5k performance in Schweizer’s career. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former SportsCenter anchor and Mizzou alum John Anderson is returning to Columbia to join the Missouri School of Journalism’s staff, beginning in Jan. 2025. The school said that Anderson’s final SportsCenter episode will air on Friday, June 28, however MU added that he does still plan to remain active in the sports
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on Mizzou track and field coach Brett Halter ahead of four Tigers’ trip to the NCAA Championships in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch their full conversation in the video player above.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Classes one through three wrapped up the first weekend of action at the MSHSAA Track and Field Championships at Adkins Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Three Mid-Missouri athletes captured state championships in the final day of weekend one. As teams, the Eldon Mustangs’ boys and girls squads both finished as the second
Continue Reading STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (KMIZ) Mizzou wrestling legend and two-time world champion J’den Cox retired from wrestling at the U.S. Olympic Trials on Friday night. As the crowd gave the Columbia-native a standing ovation, he left his shoes on the mat, a universal sign of retirement, after losing to the No. 4 seed Kollin Moore. Cox
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ROLLA, Mo. (KMIZ) Nearly two months after ex-Mizzou Athletic Director Desiree Reed-Francois left Columbia for the same job at Arizona, MU Athletics and the UM System Board of Curators said they are ‘slowly narrowing down,’ candidates. On Thursday, the Board of Curators met at Missouri S&T, in part, to discuss the upcoming renovations to the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Wednesday, April 17, 2024. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS BASEBALL Helias (1) Rock Bridge (7) FINAL Gateway Legacy Sr. High (0) Hickman (10) FINAL Rolla (1) Jefferson City (14) FINAL Capital City (6) Smith-Cotton (5) FINAL Moberly (1) Hannibal (8)
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are your local scores from Tuesday, April 16, 2024. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS SOCCER Kickapoo (2) Rock Bridge (1) FINAL Jefferson City (0) Hickman (6) FINAL Fatima (2) Blair Oaks (3) FINAL Battle (0) Osage (8) FINAL Moberly (0) Southern Boone (3) FINAL California
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