COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Just days after stepping down from his head coaching position at Battle High School, Atiyyah Ellison announced he will be the Director of Player Development for the Mizzou football team. The MU and NFL alum will be working with student-athletes to cultivate life skills, as they focus on their football career and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Battle Spartans will be looking for a new head football coach just about 40 days away from the start of the 2021-2022 season, after Atiyyah Ellison resigned on Monday. Battle Athletics confirmed to ABC17 that Ellison is moving on from the program to pursue another opportunity. He took the helm of
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Jays are adjusting to a new face at the helm of the football program, as summer workouts continue at Adkins Stadium. Back in January, the school district named Damon Wells as its new head football coach and athletic director. He comes to Mid-Missouri from Rifle, Colorado, where he
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Battle Spartans announced that Central Methodist alum Ben Pallardy will be the new head of the boys basketball program, on Thursday afternoon. The hire comes after long-time head coach Brian Meny announced his retirement in June. Pallardy will be entering his 13th season coaching hoops, after most recently working as an
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) There’s a hint of Rock Bridge on the Capital City football field this summer. Former Bruins defensive coordinator Joe Collier is the new head coach of the Cavaliers. He brought four assistant coaches with him to Jefferson City, including Jonah Dubinski. The former Mizzou offensive lineman is the Cavs new offensive
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Hickman football has already built a bond through summer workouts, according to head coach Cedric Alvis. “A lot of the bickering and different things that we’ve had that have been kind of our Achilles heel in the past, so far early on fingers crossed, we’ve been encouraging kids through things,” he
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Battle football team started summer workouts with a clean slate, which included a slew of new coaches and players. Head coach Atiyyah Ellison said it is good to hit the reset button at the end of each season. “You don’t want the kids to focus on their past accomplishments and think
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Helias Crusaders started up summer workouts as the reigning class four state champions, however, if you ask the team, that win means nothing for this season. “As I told them, that’s not going to bring us one win this year,” Helias head coach Chris Hentges said. Hentges added that the
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) It is Dana Chambers Jr.’s first summer as Fulton’s head football coach, however, the territory itself is pretty familiar. Chambers Jr. graduated from Fulton High School in 2003 and, back then, he played both linebacker and tight end for the school. Fast forwarding to 2021, Chambers is back where it all started.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Battle has a new girls’ basketball coach after the school made it official on Thursday evening. Dustyn Yung will take the helm of the Spartan program. Yung is coming to Battle from Moberly Area Community College, where the women’s basketball team has qualified for the NJCAA Tournament for two years straight. He
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Battle boys basketball coach Brian Meny is calling it a career. He announced his decision on social media on Thursday night. Meny coached high school basketball for 26 years, including the last five seasons at Battle. https://youtu.be/9HPcjiogCzU “Proud of what we have accomplished but sad,” Meny said on Twitter. “Sad to leave
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OZARK, Mo. (KMIZ) The Blair Oaks Falcons fell to Kennett in the state championship game, 16-5, on Thursday evening. Mike DeMilia’s finished in second place in Class Four. The Indians took an early 4-0 lead over the Falcons in the first inning, however, Blair Oaks responded in the bottom half of the frame to make
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OZARK, Mo. (KMIZ) St. Pius X captured the state title over the Linn baseball team, 10-5, on Thursday afternoon. However, the second place finish is the highest in Wildcat history. Linn started the game with a big first inning, taking the 3-0 lead courtesy of a sacrifice fly and a Hayden Phillips two-out RBI. But,
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OZARK, Mo. (KMIZ) The Blair Oaks baseball team beat Hollister 3-2 on Wednesday to advance to the Class 4 state championship. The Falcons scored three runs on just two hits. They scored all three of their runs in the second inning. Wil Libbert had 10 strikeouts in 5.2 innings. He didn’t allow a single run.
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OZARK, Mo. (KMIZ) The Linn baseball team has punched its ticket to the state championship game for the first time in school history. The Wildcats beat Elsberry 10-0 in the Class 3 state semifinals on Wednesday. Linn will now face St. Pius X on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. in the Class 3 state championship game.
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OZARK, Mo. (KMIZ) The St. Elizabeth baseball team fell 3-0 in the Class 1 State Championship against Oran on Tuesday afternoon. The Hornets were out to defend their 2019 state title, after the pandemic canceled out the 2020 season. Caleb Heckemeyer’s group has made it to the final four for the past three straight seasons,
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OZARK, Mo. (KMIZ) The St. Elizabeth baseball team beat Leeton 2-0 on Monday to advance to the Class 1 state championship game for the third straight season. St. Elizabeth scored both of its runs via the sacrifice fly. Hornets standout Brock Lucas pitched a complete game shutout with eight strikeouts on the mound. The Hornets
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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) The Jefferson City Jays are final four bound for the sixth time in program history, following a shutout win over Republic on Saturday afternoon. Jays’ pitcher Jacob Roettgen shut down the Tigers offense with more than ten strikeouts in the outing. Jefferson City’s one and only run came in the seventh
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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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