Tag: Athletics
Legendary records, unbreakable focus: Owen Fraser
Owen Fraser doesn’t chase awards as a member of the Missouri S&T men’s track and field team, but they keep finding him.
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Missouri S&T student, staff member recognized for administering lifesaving CPR
Lucas Stone, a senior in engineering management from Columbia, Missouri, and Lance Ringhausen, associate director of sports medicine and head athletic trainer, were recognized today for administering lifesaving CPR to a Missouri S&T student who collapsed the evening of Jan. 16 at the Gale Bullman Building.
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Nathan Swadley: finishing strong
Less than 90 minutes before check-in time for the biggest meet of his collegiate track and field career, while other student-athletes were warming up for the event, Missouri S&T student Nathan Swadley was in a suit and tie, seated at a desk in a converted racquetball court, discussing mathematical models with his instructor and classmates […]
Read More »Missouri S&T Academy of Miner Athletics inducts new members
Five former student-athletes from Missouri University of Science and Technology and Missouri S&T’s athletics director were inducted into the Academy of Miner Athletics during a ceremony held Friday, Oct. 8, at the Signature Event Center in Rolla. The academy recognizes alumni who have brought honor to the university’s athletic department through their accomplishments on the […]
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Staying in the game
When the COVID-19 pandemic sent colleges and universities across the county to online instruction and the public into lockdown, household supplies like toilet paper and hand soap and kitchen staples like rice and flour became hot commodities that were difficult to come by. College athletes faced a different kind of shortage. “Everyone knew gyms would […]
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Missouri S&T athletics conference to postpone most of fall intercollegiate season
Missouri S&T’s athletics conference, the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC), announced today (Monday, July 27) that it will postpone the majority of the fall intercollegiate season until the second semester as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision, voted on by the conference’s Council of Presidents, was made based on guidance from the athletics […]
Read More »Missouri S&T announces new director of athletics
Missouri S&T has chosen a new director of athletics and recreation to lead the Miner Athletics program. Melissa Ringhausen, associate director of athletics at McKendree University in Lebanon, Illinois, will head the program starting this summer. She will succeed Mark Mullin, S&T’s director of athletics since 1992, who will retire in September. Missouri S&T conducted […]
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S&T Miners to offer swim lessons to area kids
NOTE — Lessons have been rescheduled to April 20-30. See updated release. The Missouri S&T Miner swimming team will offer swimming lessons to area children this spring. The classes will be held Monday, March 30, through Thursday, April 9, at the Missouri S&T swimming pool in the Gale Bullman Building, located at 10th Street and Bishop […]
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Missouri S&T alumni John and Kristie Gibson champion Miner Athletics with gifts of $6.4 million since 2017
Missouri S&T alumni John Gibson and Kristie (Capps) Gibson have transformed Miner Athletics over the past two years with a series of gifts and pledges totaling $6.4 million. The largest individual donors to the university in the past decade, they continue to champion S&T student-athletes in competition and in the classroom. Their recent pledges of […]
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Missouri S&T honors student lifeguard with life-saving award
Missouri S&T Police Chief Doug Roberts and Ron Smith, chief of Rolla Fire and Rescue, surprised a Missouri S&T student Tuesday, Nov. 27, with an award for his life-saving efforts while working as a lifeguard on campus.
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