Missouri State Bears News

ST. LOUIS – Missouri State track and field was represented by five student-athletes – Edna Dar, Rochelle Etienne, Calandra Henry, Brooke Jenkins and Rachel Lacey – on the Missouri Valley Conference Track & Field Scholar-Athlete Team that was announced Wednesday by the league office.   Student-athletes were named to the …

SPRINGFIELD – Missouri State head football coach Bobby Petrino will be the featured speaker at the annual Bears Fund football preview luncheon on Thursday, June 17.   The 2021 Missouri Valley Football Conference Coach of the Year will headline the event, which will take place at The Old Glass Place …

COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Missouri State has withdrawn from the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field West Preliminary Round currently taking place here due to positive COVID-19 test results within the team’s Tier I personnel, which consists of student-athletes, coaches, and staff.   Due to contact tracing, the team’s NCAA qualifiers …

SPRINGFIELD – Missouri State’s Drake Baldwin, Mason Hull and Trey Ziegenbein earned the Bears’ team awards this season, head coach Keith Guttin announced Friday. Hull was named the A.E. “Ted” Willis Most Valuable Player in a vote of his teammates, Ziegenbein earned the Dave Dickensheet Outstanding Pitcher Award, and Baldwin …

COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Missouri State track and field’s Madison Meredith continued her remarkable spring season and advanced in one of her two events Thursday night at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field West Preliminary Round.   Meredith surged out to a personal-record time of 11.42 seconds in the 100-meter …

SPRINGFIELD – Missouri State has hired Anthony Evans to the newly-created position of Video Coordinator on its women’s basketball staff, head coach Amaka Agugua-Hamilton announced Thursday. Evans has five years’ experience in Division I athletics at Auburn University and spent the 2020-21 academic year as the head junior varsity coach …

SPRINGFIELD – Missouri State head women’s basketball coach Amaka Agugua-Hamilton announced Wednesday the addition of Bianca Webb to her staff as Director of Operations. Webb comes to Missouri State following several years working with the Auburn University basketball programs, most recently in the same position for the AU women’s team. …

SPRINGFIELD – Five members of the Missouri State track and field team head to College Station, Texas to compete at the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field West Preliminary on May 27-29.    Jessica Haney, Calandra Henry, Timeka Jordan, Madison Meredith and Nakaja Weaver will represent the Bears across four …

CARBONDALE, Ill. – Missouri State got RBI singles from Cam Cratic in the seventh and ninth innings Tuesday to send its single elimination Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Tournament opener to extra innings, only to see Valparaiso get a two-run double in the top of the 10th to secure a 6-4 …

St. LOUIS – Missouri State has four representatives on all-Missouri Valley Conference baseball teams, it was announced by the league on Tuesday. Reliever Trey Ziegenbein made the First Team, Drake Baldwin is the Second Team catcher, and Mason Hull and Grant Wood were selected to the Defensive Team. Ziegenbein leads …