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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Year: 2014
Steve Alford
A few years back, sports journalists and fans around in the basketball-crazy state of Indiana, created an unofficial list of the five greatest products from the state’s prep ranks. It was a list that went beyond normal all-state or all-America honors or college or even professional heroics. It’s not clear if the list was written… Read more »
Empire Bank
Empire Bank has been serving the Ozarks since 1956 and offers a host of community based banking and financial services in Springfield, Nixa, Ozark, Highlandville, Marshfield, Strafford, Fair Grove, Pleasant Hope, Republic, and Battlefield. Empire Bank’s holding company, Central Bancompany, has been ranked four years in a row by Forbes Magazine as one of America’s… Read more »
Tom Banks
Banks was a high school All-American in 1965 and represented Alabama in the Junior Olympics. At Auburn University he was a First Team All-SEC center as sophomore, First Team All-SEC 1968, First Team All-SEC center 1969 and Auburn co-captain, and Third Team All-American 1969. He played in the 1970 Senior Bowl in and was drafted… Read more »
Charles Brown
Charlie Brown is only the second person to honored with the President’s Award. A graduate of Lebanon High School and the University of Missouri, Brown has long been active in sports around Missouri. He served as the district and national chairman for Mizzou’s Tiger Scholarship Fund, and served a ten-year term on the University of Missouri Alumni… Read more »
Kelly Chase
Signed as an undrafted free agent by the Blues in 1988, Chase played 12 seasons in the NHL, 7 with the Blues. A bruising defender, he racked up more than 2,000 penalty minutes in his career. Highly active in the St. Louis community, in 1998, he received the King Clancy Memorial Trophy. This award is… Read more »
Teri Clemens
The winningest coach by percentage in NCAA volleyball history at the time of her retirement in 1998, Washington University’s Teri Clemens guided her team to seven NCAA Division III national championships in 14 years. Owner of a 529-77 (.873) career record, Clemens coached the Bears to the school’s first NCAA title in 1989. Her teams… Read more »
Gerry Davis
St. Louis native, Gerry Davis started umpiring Major League Baseball in 1982 and is the 3rd most senior umpire in the league. He has umpired five World Series, nine League Championship Series and eleven League Division Series. He has also worked in the All-Star Game four times. With his assignment to the 2014 A.L. Wild… Read more »
2014 Class – Diamond Nine
CLASS OF 2014 (Inaugural Class) Bruce Long (Southwest Baptist University/Philadelphia Phillies) Greg Carlton (Joplin Parkwood High School) Chris Dufner Brad Beattie Scott Loveland Doug Middleton Charlie Slavens Mike Tennant Jim Winn
Dave Duncan
Dave Duncan, who retired after the 2011 campaign, began his career with the Kansas City Athletics in 1963. He made his major league debut on May 6, 1964 at the age of 18, becoming the youngest player in the American League at the time. Duncan’s biggest contribution to baseball came as a pitching coach, the last 16… Read more »
Nancy Fahey
As the head coach at Washington University in Saint Louis, Nancy Fahey has led the Bears to five NCAA Division III National Championships including back-to-back undefeated national championships in 1999 and 2000. In both 2000 and 2011, she was named the WBCA D-III Coach of the Year. Fahey has reached the Final Four 10 times… Read more »
Filbert Five – Class of 2014
CLASS of 2014 Alex Hall Fred Johnson Mike Wiebe Karrie Penner-Welch Hannah Wilkerson
Bonus Frost
Born in Lutie, Missouri, Bonus Frost grew up in Springfield and started playing fast pitch softball at the age of 10. By the age of 18, he was already a star on the Triple A fast pitch circuit. A fleet, left handed hitting outfielder, Frost played in 14 national tournaments, posting a career batting average… Read more »
Rich Grawer
Grawer led the DeSmet Jesuit basketball program to three state titles in the 1970’s, and set a record for consecutive wins among large schools in the state of Missouri with 63. He would later become the head coach at Saint Louis University and, in 1985, began a streak of six consecutive winning seasons, culminating it… Read more »
Alex Hall
Perhaps the most memorable moment of his storied career was not on the court but just several feet from it. At halftime of the NCAA Division II national basketball championship game in 2013, with Drury University having trailed by 17 points at one point, Alex Hall was dead set on changing the narrative. “I remember… Read more »
Sam Hamra
The President’s Award was established to honor individuals who have gone above and beyond the norm in their efforts to aid the growth and prominence of the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. Mr. Hamra personifies that criteria. A leading Springfield attorney and business owner, Hamra has served on many boards and the University of Missouri’s… Read more »