For some high school football seniors, the frustrations of a season-ending knee injury can led to the usual frustrations: there is no way to make an impact and it’s the end of the road in athletics. Dr. Mark Adams has proven that it doesn’t have to be that way, that someone who loves sports can… Read more »
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Team: U.S. Olympic team
Dick Ault
This St. Louis native went from Roosevelt High School to become a track star at the University of Missouri from 1946-1949. Ault won the Big 6 220-yard low hurdles in 1946 and 1947, then the Big 7 title in the same event in 1948 and 1949. He was also the conference champion in the 440-yard dash in… Read more »
“Dee” Boeckmann
A pioneer in U.S. women’s track and field and a St. Louis native, Delores “Dee” Boeckmann was on the first women’s Olympic team in 1928, running in the 800 meters in Amsterdam but failing to reach the finals. During the 1920s, she held numerous track records from the 50-yard dash to the mile. She was… Read more »
Dick Boushka
A native of St. Louis, MO, but a product of Campion High in Wisconsin, Dick Boushka (pronounced BOO-shka) was named first-team All-Missouri Valley Conference three times (1953-55) during his SLU career. In his senior season, 1954-55, Boushka was a member of The Valley championship team that went 20-8 and advanced to the NIT Tournament. His… Read more »
Bill Bradley
Bill Bradley displays a truly unique combination of brilliance, athletic ability, and leadership skills. He is an American Hall of Fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former three-term Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President in the 2000 election. Bradley was born and raised in Crystal… Read more »
Christian Cantwell
For him, it was Freshman Year or Bust. That was the scary reality. You see, the college track and field coach offered only a token scholarship and, more worrisome, the finances back home likely weren’t enough for anything beyond if it all didn’t work out. Christian Cantwell loves telling the story from the spring of… Read more »
Columbia Orthopaedic Group
The longtime former president of Columbia Orthopaedic Group sometimes sits back and just beams. And why not? Just look how far sports medicine has come since the 1950s. “It used to be a joke in the ’70s and ’80s that sports medicine was a ‘bucket and a sponge at the end of the bench!’” said… Read more »
Alberta Lee Cox
Alberta Lee Cox, a 1949 graduate of Raytown High School, was a standout player and coach in basketball. Her playing experience spanned 20 years as a member of the National AAU team, participating in tournaments that ranked fifth or better in the nation, and in two World Tournaments in 1957 and 1964. She was a… Read more »
Dwight Davis
Dwight Filley Davis Sr. (July 5, 1879 – November 28, 1945) was an American tennis player and politician. He is best remembered as the founder of the Davis Cup international tennis competition. He was the Assistant Secretary of War from 1923 to 1925 and Secretary of War from 1925 to 1929. Davis reached the All-Comers… Read more »
Lori Endicott-Vandersnick
Lori Endicott Vandersnick, who attended Willard High School and helped the volleyball team win the 1981 Missouri state championship, helped the United States to the bronze medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics. In high school, she was an all-conference selection in 1982, 1983, and 1984. She also played basketball and was All-State in the sport in… Read more »
Ginny Fuldner
Ginny Fuldner accomplished the ultimate in the world of amateur sports at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, where she won a gold medal in the 400m freestyle, which she also recorded a new Olympic record. In addition to her gold medal at the 1964 games, she won a bronze medal in the 100m backstroke.… Read more »
John Furla
The 1904 Olympic Games were held in St. Louis in conjunction with the World’s Fair. Furla, a Greek immigrant, represented the United States in the Marathon. It was blistering hot day, and only 14 of the 31 runners finished the race with Furla finishing 13th. It is said he might have won the race except… Read more »
Emily Scott Githens
Little kids often have big dreams. Many grow up wanting to be teachers, or professional athletes, or be just like mom and dad. Emily Scott Githens? She knew early on that she wanted to be an Olympic athlete, a bold goal if ever there was one for a girl from Springfield. A world champion as… Read more »
Harriett Bland Green
Harriet Claiborne Bland (February 13, 1915 – November 6, 1991), later Harriet Bland Green, was an American sprinter from St. Louis, Missouri. Bland nearly qualified for the 1932 Summer Olympics team and protested the decision to exclude her. She qualified for the 1936 team but was told that there was no money to send her… Read more »
William Greenblatt
Back in middle school, he took photos on a Polaroid camera and, during high school, would photograph football games while he stood on the sidelines in his marching band uniform. At age 16, William Greenblatt was working for a St. Louis camera store when Fred Sweets walked in one day. Sweets’ father was the publisher… Read more »
Brutus Hamilton
Brutus Hamilton was a track and field athlete who grew up next to President Harry S. Truman’s family farm. In high school, and later at the University of Missouri, he excelled in all track and field events, finally winning a spot on the 1920 U.S. Olympic team. He won a silver medal in the decathlon… Read more »