Mizzou Links for Wednesday, August 3

Wow.

On Tuesday morning, Easton/NFCA announced their All-America Scholar Athletes, and our fair Missouri Tigers found themselves with a record-breaking number of selections. A DOZEN Tigers found themselves honored, up from 11 a year ago, and the team as a whole finished with a 3.43 GPA, per MUTigers.com’s press release.

To earn such an honor, they must record an annual GPA of 3.5 or better for the 2021-22 school year. Impressive!

Congrats to the honorees:

• Kendyll Bailey, Gr. 2B (Grain Valley, MO): second consecutive season earning such honors; majored in Health Science w/ an emphasis in Leadership & Policy, with minor in Business Administration in UG; pursuing Health Administration graduate degree
• Kara Daly, Fr. 3B (Jefferson City, MO): majoring in Health Science w/ an emphasis in Health & Wellness Services
• Gabi Deters, So. C (Bowling Green, MO): majoring in Education w/ minor in Human Development & Family Studies; departed from team mid-season 2022
• Vanessa Hollingsworth, Fr. INF (Forney, TX): majoring in Health Science w/ an emphasis in Health & Wellness Services
• Alex Honnold, So. RF (West Des Moines, IA): second season earning such honors; majoring in Parks, Recreation & Sport
• Jayci Kruse, Fr. P (Coto de Caza, CA): majoring in Health Science
• Megan Moll, Jr C/UTIL (Eureka, MO): second season earning such honors; majoring Chemistry
• Chan’tice Phillips, So. OF (Kansas City, MO): majoring in Psychology
• Emma Raabe, Sr. 1B (Omaha, NE): second season earning such honors; majored in Business Administration w/ emphasis on Management
• Megan Schumacher, Jr. P (East Fishkill, NY): majoring in Elementary Education
• Kimberly Wert, Sr. DP (Melfa, VA): third season earning such honors; majored in Psychology and Health Science w/ emphasis on Rehabilitation Sciences
• Brooke Wilmes, Gr. CF (Johnston, IA): second consecutive season earning such honors; majored in Sports Management with a minor in Business in UG; pursuing Positive Coaching & Athletic Leadership graduate degree

On to the Links!

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Yesterday at Rock M

• Nate’s new piece is about math. It’s time to count to 85!
• IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Parker has been really doing the football beat writer thing for us, attending practices and pressers and such. Check out his work: Camp Notebook Day 1 | Fall Camp Media Day wrap up

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More Links:

Football

• St. Louis Post-Dispatch: A look at the Mizzou Tigers football wide receiver Dominic Lovett (Dave Matter)
• PowerMizzou/Rivals: Commitment Analysis: Shamar McNeil (Sean Williams) | Battle for QB1: “This isn’t happiness camp” (Gabe DeArmond) | Notebook: Getting to know some Tiger transfers (Gabe) | Notebook: Next up (Gabe)

Other Mizzou Sports

• Now former Mizzou Baseball players Spencer Miles (Giants), Josh Day (Diamondbacks) and Drew Garrett (Phillies) have signed contracts after the MLB Draft, according to Chris Kwiecinski of the Columbia Tribune. Want to relive draft night? Visit my July 20 links.
• Love to see this from Torin Montgomery

Hoops

• Isiaih (at the Show Me State Games, with an assist from Jontay)!!!

• Great photos here… love the black & white

Mizzou in the Pros/Former Mizzou Stars

• Well, I LOVE this. Congrats, Coach! After a great playing career, Carroll and his agent, Priority Sports, announced that he will be an assistant coach for the Bucks!

• And in other former MU players excelling in the coaching world, Lindenwood University (StL) has brought Ryan Howard as a volunteer assistant.

• PowerMizzou wrote about the day Mizzou Football was born again. As someone who desperately wanted a Brad Smith jersey for Christmas but could only find a Chase Daniel one (a worthy trade off- I still have it), I loved this article.
• Trey Harris checking in with his new team, the Harrisburg Senators!

• WES.CLARK!!

UPDATE: They WON the TBT!

• In PHX’s 87-63 loss (ew) to the Connecticut Sun on Tuesday, Sophie C had 15 points in her 35 minutes starting on 5-14 shooting (3-9 from three, 2-3 FT), to go with 3 REB, 2 AST, 1 STL, 2 BLK, 2 TO and 3 PF. She was -22 (not the worst?).

• Tanner Houck (Boston Red Sox) got the save in the Red Sox’s 2-1 victory over the Houston Astros. He pitched 1.2 innings and allowed no hits or… anything. His season ERA is 3.15.

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