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COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri football senior Nathaniel Peat is among the 74 running backs named to the 2022 Doak Walker Award Watch List, released by the PwC SMU Athletic Forum on Wednesday. A senior with two seasons of eligibility remaining, Peat led Stanford in 2021 with 404 rushing yards while averaging 5.1 yards per carry. The Columbia, Mo. …

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Five University of Missouri student-athletes were selected in the 2022 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. The five selections are the most for the Tigers since 2019. Pitcher Spencer Miles was selected by the San Francisco Giants in the fourth round (Pick 136) on Monday afternoon, becoming the first Tiger off the board. On Tuesday, first baseman …

Atlanta, GA – The WBCA Academic Top 25 recognizes NCAA Division I, II and III, NAIA and two-year college women’s basketball teams across the nation that carry the highest combined GPA’s inclusive of all student-athletes on their rosters for the entire season. The 2021-22 season is the 27th in which the WBCA has compiled the honor rolls. This year’s release marks the …

Kansas City, MO – The National Association of Basketball Coaches Association (NABC) has announced the 2021-2022 Honors Court recipients and the 2021-2022 Team Academic Excellence Awards.  Three Cougars earned NABC Honors Court, which recognizes men’s collegiate student-athletes in all NCAA Divisions and the NAIA, who excelled in academics during the past season. To be named to the Honors Court, a …

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Columbia, MO – The United States Marine Corps (USMC) and the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announced today that more than 1,200 collegiate and high school volleyball teams have earned the USMC/AVCA Team Academic Award this season. The award, initiated in the 1992-93 academic year, honors volleyball teams that maintain a year-long grade-point average of 3.3 on a 4.0 scale …

COLUMBIA, Mo. – The University of Missouri Department of Athletics kicked off the first of three Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) seminars Monday with education for its student-athletes on content creation and social media strategy. The summer series is a part of a new educational component to Mizzou’s NIL program which focuses on experiential learning for its student-athletes. The Tigers announced enhancements …

COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri pitcher Spencer Miles was selected in round four of the 2022 Major League Baseball First Year Player Draft by the San Francisco Giants. Miles was the 136th overall pick and the first Tiger off the board in the 2022 draft. The selection of the junior and Columbia native marks the 27th consecutive season a …

COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri gymnastics head coach Shannon Welker has announced the addition of assistant coach Whitney Snowden, who joins Mizzou following three seasons with Michigan State. “Our team and coaching staff is so excited to be able to add such an accomplished coach to our team,” Welker said. “Whitney has clearly had a positive impact on the success Michigan …

COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri Women’s Basketball season tickets for the upcoming 2022-23 season are now on sale, Mizzou Athletics announced Friday. Previous season ticket holders can renew their tickets for the 2022-23 campaign and new season ticket requests can be made by visiting ticketmaster.com/mizzou or by calling the Mizzou Ticket Office at 1-800-CAT-PAWS. The deadline to renew season tickets is Friday, …

COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri soccer head coach Stefanie Golan has announced the addition of Mario Felix to the staff as the volunteer assistant. Felix joins the Tigers after spending the past two seasons as the associate head coach at Southern Utah. He briefly served as the head coach at Chicago State before opting to be a part of …