Top 10 Mid-Missouri sports stories of 2021
ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman and ABC 17's Nathalie Jones put together a list of the Top 10 Mid-Missouri sports stories of 2021.
TOP 10 LIST
- Mizzou hires Desiree Reed-Francois as athletic director
- Mizzou fires athletic director Jim Sterk
- NCAA allows student-athletes to profit off their name, image and likeness
- Mizzou football signs record-breaking recruiting class
- Mizzou softball team hosts Super Regionals
- Mizzou begins construction on new indoor football facility
- The Border War returns
- Karissa Schweizer competes in two events at the Olympics
- The Daniel Boone Little League softball team finished third at the World Series
- Blair Oaks wins a softball and volleyball state title | Boonville wins its first ever girls basketball state title
HONORABLE MENTIONS (In no particular order)
- Full capacity crowds return to sporting events
- Mizzou men's basketball makes the NCAA Tournament
- Tyler Badie breaks Mizzou's single-season rushing record
- Columbia's Gans Creek Cross Country course hosts the SEC and MSHSAA Championships
- The Cardinals won a record 17 straight games
- The Chiefs lost to Tampa Bay in Super Bowl LV
- Mizzou wrestling rejoined the Big 12
- Longtime Mizzou soccer coach Bryan Blitz retired
- Mizzou hired Stefanie Golan as its new soccer coach
- Tolton's Audrey Rischer broke the state record with a 12-under 60 at Meadow Lake Acres Country Club in New Bloomfield.
- The Boonville football snapped Blair Oaks' 44-game conference winning streak
- Mizzou QB Connor Bazelak entered the transfer portal
- Texas and Oklahoma agreed to join the SEC
