COLUMBIA The Rock Bridge boys soccer team did not get off to a encouraging start when it begins its season with back-to-back losses last weekend at the Midwest Soccer Classic in Quincy, Ill.

“Every season starts with a clean slate,Atletico Madrid shirt,” Bruins coach Kyle Austin said. “We were disappointed after losing the first two games. Nobody likes to lose. But we know were young and we know at times we will suffer.”

Not pushing too hard seems to be working. The Bruins won their final game of the tournament to go 1-2, then they won their home opener Tuesday. Matt Kelly scored the lone goal in Rock Bridge’s 1-0 win over Rolla that evened the Bruins’ record at 2-2.

“It was the best game of the season so far,Juventus shirt,” Austin said. “We dont have any season expectations yet. Right now,AS Roma shirt, were just trying to improve every game.”

Rock Bridges next game is set for 5 p.m. Friday against Moberly at the Moberly Shootout.

Austin lost a lot of experience from last years team, which had 12 seniors. This year,Paris Saint Germain shirt, the Bruins have seven seniors, only two of which were starters last year, making this years squad much younger than last years.

This years captains are Brady Wulff, Ryan Taylor and Danny Baird and other key players include Kelly and Sam Stoeckl.

COLUMBIA — On any given weekday during the basketball season,Juventus shirt, Kevin Bryant walks into Douglass High School about the time most students are leaving. On days after a Douglass game,Sevilla shirt, he brings a tape of the game with him for the coaches and players to review. Bryant has been taping the games for the Douglass Bulldogs for the past four seasons. But his involvement with the team goes beyond just filming.

Bryant is the father of Douglass senior Landon Boone. He is the security director at the Mid-Missouri Mental Health Center, and he usually stops by basketball practice on his way home from work.

“I’m there to do whatever the coaches need to have done,” Bryant said.

He has certainly been true to his word by helping the program in the offseason. Bryant has coached many of the Douglass players in various summer basketball leagues since they were in middle school. Alsohe has coached them in AAU competition, the Sturgeon summer league and he even had them play in the adult division of the Moonlight Hoops league in the summer at Douglass Park because he thought it would make the team better.

“I try to push them to give 100 percent all of the time,” Bryant said.

His players agree.

“He just doesn’t give us a break when he coaches us in the summer,” Brandon Gleeson, a Douglass junior, said.

However,AS Roma shirt, Bryant’s efforts to help the team aren’t limited to coaching in the summer.

“He is our biggest fan,” said Boone, who says that Bryant is a catalyst in building a sense of community around the team and within the team.

At last season’s senior night game, Bryant had shirts made that read “Douglass Bulldogs” on the front. On the back they read “Family Grows, Plays and Stays Together.” Every two weeks or so, Bryant will have the team over to his house for dinner and to watch game tapes or play video games.

“To me, Douglass Basketball is like a big family,” Bryant said.

Bryant has also done a lot of one-on-one training with his son, especially in Boone’s first three years of high school. He admits, though, he has backed off the personal training with his son a little this year.

“I figure that if he doesn’t have it by now, he isn’t going to get it,” Bryant said.

It is safe to assume that Boone does, in fact, have it. He has scored more than 1,000 points in his high school career.

Bryant plans to see his son go on to play college basketball,Paris Saint Germain shirt, but he also wishes to see the other Douglass players and the team as a whole succeed. He is sure to be found filming games from the stands, just to lend a hand at the rest of the Bulldogs’ games this season.

NORMAN, Okla. Interim Big 12 Commissioner Chuck Neinas said Saturday the conference has no plans to expand further before next season, though that doesn’t mean a move back to 12 teams couldn’t happen eventually.

Leaders of the conference’s schools have been divided over whether the league is best with 10 schools, where it settled after losing Nebraska and Colorado before this season, or finding a way to expand back to 12.

With Texas A&M and possibly Missouri headed to the Southeastern Conference, the Big 12 has added West Virginia and Texas Christian University this year in an attempt to stabilize.

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“We’ve got to get our house in order. We’re pretty good with 10 or, if Missouri stays, 11,” Neinas said Saturday after helping with the unveiling of a statue of former Sooners coach Barry Switzer across the street from Oklahoma’s Owen Field.

“We’ll be very strong and solidified, and then once you get that,Napoli shirt, you do your homework first and everything else takes care of itself.”

Neinas said the Big 12 expansion committee hasn’t met since deciding last week to add West Virginia instead of Big East rival Louisville.

“The expansion committee will continue to look at the landscape of college athletics and at some point will make a determination what they feel is the best size for the conference,” Neinas said.

Neinas refused to comment extensively on the status of Missouri, which the Big 12 left off its list of 10 teams expected to compete in the conference next season when it added West Virginia. The SEC also inadvertently posted on its website last week that Missouri had been admitted to the league, then had to step back from that premature announcement.

“We would anticipate that might happen, but … it’s a work in progress,” Neinas said when asked about the Tigers being left off the list of Big 12 teams for next season.

When asked about a time frame for Missouri’s decision to stay or go, Neinas said: “Selfishly, I hope sooner rather than later.”

SEC Commissioner Mike Slive in Tuscaloosa, Ala., for the game between No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Alabama, declined comment on Missouri.

“That’s for another day,Juventus shirt,” he said.

Neinas also said the Big 12 is considering whether it could create a network in collaboration of the schools other than Texas and Oklahoma. Texas already has its own Longhorn Network, and Oklahoma is planning one of its own.

“That would be basically a network that could serve the members that don’t have their own institutional-branded networks. We would have a nice inventory to put together, and we’re exploring that,” Neinas said.

Neinas said the league is not contractually allowed to call its channel the Big 12 Network but it could find another name for it. It’s also unclear what, if any, content related to Texas and Oklahoma could appear on the channel.

“We’re not that far along,Benfica shirt,” Neinas said. “We’re just getting started to see if we can. We’ve got to work on a format, a business plan, all of that first.”

Neinas also said Texas Tech was considered a logical fit to replace Texas A&M as the annual Thanksgiving opponent for Texas but “that has not been finalized.”

The Missouri soccer team is ranked sixth in the Big 12 Conference preseason coaches’ poll. The Tigers’ Melissa Peabody, a senior forward,Juventus shirt, and Elyse Nikonchuk,Fulham shirt, a sophomore midfielder, were named to the Preseason All-Big 12 team.

Texas A&M is the top ranked team,Italy football shirt, earning 10 first-place votes. Texas was ranked second, and Colorado third.

Peabody was second on the team in scoring last season with eight goals and six assists for 22 points. She had the winning assist against Eastern Illinois in the Tigers first NCAA Tournament victory.

Nikonchuk was fourth on the team last season with 10 points and was selected to the U.S. under-19 national team.

COLUMBIA — Senior linebacker Van Alexander has been through this before.

It was announced Thursday that the injury to Alexander’s right knee during Tuesday’s practice was not a sprain,Ajax shirt, as was initially thought,Italy football shirt, but a torn ACL. The injury is one of several Alexander has suffered over the course of his career with the Missouri football team. Alexander suffered a sprained foot in the spring before his freshman season that required surgery and a groin injury which hampered him throughout his sophomore campaign.

“I really feel bad for him because he’s been through it,” Missouri coach Gary Pinkel said. “But he’s tough. He’s a tough guy and it’s going to take a great deal of rehab but he’s good enough to do it and the good news is he can be 100 percent by Illinois, 100 percent by the opening game and he will be.”

Pinkel said Alexander will have surgery on Monday.

The injury is a blow to a linebacking corps already severely lacking depth. Junior Sean Weatherspoon and senior Brock Christopher are the only linebackers remaining that have started more than one game.

“It hurts us a lot,” Weatherspoon said. “It really hurts the chemistry of the defense.”

But like his coach, Weatherspoon remained confident in Alexander’s work ethic.

“I’m pretty sure Van’s going to put in the work with rehab and everything to get back on the field at least by the second week of the season and maybe by the first week,l.a.galaxy shirt,” Weatherspoon said. “It does kind of mix up the chemistry, but it does give (sophomore linebacker) Luke Lambert an opportunity to step up,Juventus shirt, so he can feel comfortable with the No. 1 defense.”

Weatherspoon said he also thinks Alexander’s positive outlook will benefit his recovery.

“If you know Van he’s a crazy guy,” Weatherspoon said. “He’s always cracking jokes and making people laugh, and I didn’t see any change in him today. He’s always here for the team.”

WIDE RECEIVERS IMPROVING: The Missouri offense lost several key contributors from last season including tight end Martin Rucker and wide receivers Will Franklin, Jason Ray and Greg Bracey, who all saw significant playing time.

But quarterback Chase Daniel has been impressed with the new group’s performance thus far this spring.

“You look at Jeremy Maclin and he’s obviously getting a whole lot better,” Daniel said. “And Forrest Shock has really stood out too. Tommy (Saunders) has really made some plays, and Jared Perry especially when you look at him and what he’s been able to do, and we got a pretty good receiving corps.”

Former Missouri basketball player Jon Sundvold, former Missouri football coach Al Onofrio and former Missouri and St. Lois Cardinals football player Mel Gray will be inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in January.

Sundvold, Onofrio and Gray are three of 15 people to be inducted. The Columbia College volleyball program will also be honored.

One of only two players in Big Eight history to play on four consecutive league championship teams, Sundvold played on Missouri teams that had a cumulative record of 100-28.

A guard from Blue Springs, he twice won all-conference, all-district and all-Big Eight Tournament honors, and was an all-American in 1983. Sundvold is one of only four players to have his jersey, No. 20, retired. He played professionally for the Seattle SuperSonics, San Antonio Spurs and Miami Heat.

He was a second-team choice on the Big Eight’s all-decade team and was named the MVP of Missouri’s own all-decade team in the 1980s. Sundvold was a 1990 University of Missouri Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame inductee.

He owns Sundvold Capital Management in Columbia and often serves as a color commentator on Missouri basketball broadcasts.

In 1971, after spending 12 years as an assistant coach, Albert Joseph Onofrio was named the head football coach at Missouri, a post he held until 1977. While his record hovered at the .500 level, he was noted for having pulled upsets, mainly on the road.

He coached four All-Americans and 30 NFL players. He led Missouri to two bowl games,Inter Milan shirt, in the 1972 Fiesta Bowl, a loss to Arizona State in Tempe, and in the 1973 Sun Bowl, a win over Auburn in El Paso, Texas. A 1993 inductee to the University of Missouri Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame, Onofrio died Nov. 5, 2004.

Gray lettered in football and track from 1968-70 at Missouri, earning All-American honors three times in track and All-Big Eight honors in football in 1969, when he caught 25 passes for 705 yards and a school-record nine touchdowns.

Gray was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals, and was an all-pro receiver during a career that lasted from 1971-82. He was chosen to Missouri’s all-century team in 1990.

The Columbia College volleyball team had a record of 167-2 from 1998-2001. Columbia College participated in four straight NAIA National Volleyball championship matches, winning three. Columbia College holds the NAIA record for consecutive home court wins with 126.

Other inductees include: Jim Edmonds, outfielder, St. Louis Cardinals; Emmitt Thomas, cornerback, Kansas City Chiefs; Jamie Quirk, catcher, Kansas City Royals; Mickey Owen, catcher, St. Louis Cardinals; Richard Lehman, sports medicine, St. Louis; Rex Sinquefield, chess, St. Louis; Lawrence Walls, football coach,Juventus shirt, Sumner High School, St. Louis; Jim Pearson, golf/football coach, Kickapoo High School, Springfield; Richard Hantak, NFL official, St. Louis; Ellen Port, golf, St. Louis; Clyde Lear, sports media,Real Madrid shirt, Jefferson City; Gene Ruble,Glasgow Rangers shirt, basketball, Missouri State University; New Haven High School basketball; St. John’s, Springfield.

COLUMBIA Most professional athletes have probably been
dreaming about their careers since they were children. But Missouri womens soccer player
Kristin Andrighetto said the idea did not come to her until the opportunity
presented itself during the fall soccer season.

“Growing up there wasnt a pro womens soccer league, so I
guess it never crossed my mind,” she said. “I didnt even think of doing it until I got invited to the
tryout .. Of course every little girl wants to be Mia Hamm. I guess I just never considered it or
thought Id be able to do it.”

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Andrighetto was one of about 80 women to attend an open
combine last week with the Chicago Red Stars, a womens professional soccer team.

Thursdays schedule
consisted of a morning session focusing on technical skills, like passing and
finishing, and an afternoon session of three 20-minute scrimmages
with six players on each team. Fridays focus was on fitness testing which included a 300-yard shuttle
run, a 40-yard dash and a vertical jump followed by eight
player scrimmages. On Saturday,
Andrighetto was one of only eight players to be invited to stay for a special
training session to test footwork and fitness.

Andrighetto said that despite the rigorous training
schedule, she was not nervous about the tryout.

“It was a good nervous, so
it wasnt anything bad,” she said.
“I was just really excited to go and looked at it as a good opportunity,
so it was more fun than nerve-wracking.”

Going into the tryout, she also said she was not completely sure about playing
soccer at the professional level, but she now looks forward
to hearing if she made the team.

“It would be a cool experience,” she said. “I just kind of
wanted to see if I still wanted to play and train at a high level,Retro Football Shirts, and I think
it answered a lot of questions for me about what I want to do. If I dont make the team, Ill be
sad. But, Ill be satisfied with
just having been able to tryout, and if I make the team that would be cool.”

Andrighetto will not find out if she made the Red Stars
until the official draft on January 15. Though it takes place in Philadelphia, Andrighetto will
watch it from her computer at her home in Pleasant Hill, Calif. She hopes that her performance during the
combine was good enough to be drafted.

“I definitely think I came in as good as I could have, and I
thought I did well,” she said. “Hopefully it was enough for them.”

Volunteer assistant coach Danny Graville attested to the fact
that Andrighetto performed well at the try-out. Graville helped train Andrighetto for the combine when the
season was over and agreed to attend it with her in Chicago. When the Red Stars coaches were
notified that he would be attending, they asked if he would help out by coaching
one of the scrimmaging teams.

“It was one of the hardest things to stay neutral because I
had a team I was coaching, but I was also looking out the corner of my eye to
watch her,” he said. “I had the privilege of having meetings with all the
coaches behind closed doors and they really liked her goal-scoring
ability. I had to be fair, but the
coaches really liked her, and I got to see her stack up on the third day.”

Andrighetto enjoyed having Gravilles help and support at
the try-out.

“Since I was the only one going,Fulham shirt, I kind of asked him to go,”
she said. “He helped me to stay
focused and recover. Hed get the ice for ice baths and get groceries for
breakfast, and he was supportive the whole time and was there to get me whatever
I needed.”

To get ready for the combine,Juventus shirt, Graville prepared a schedule
for Andrighetto, which consisted of difficult two-a-day training sessions, which
included practicing technical skills, running, cardio and pool
workouts. However,Real Madrid shirt, according to
Graville, Missouris training also gave her an advantage.

“On top of her talent, the program the girls are part of at
Mizzou definitely is the main reason she was ready for that combine whether its
strength or condition or the actual coaching aspect,” he said. “The Mizzou
program is pretty blessed compared to others in the country. We have a pretty good thing going on
and going up there reinforced my confidence in our program.”

This year, Missouri (13-6-3) won the Big 12 regular season
title led by Andrighetto and five other talented seniors. Head coach Bryan Blitz said that he
received calls from coaches that were impressed with Andrighetto throughout the
season and that some even came out to watch her play. While playing for Missouri, Andrighetto was the teams leading
scorer three years, ranks first in all-time shots with 379 and is
second in goals scored with 38. This season she scored 11 goals and was named to the All-Big 12 first team
for a third time.

Blitz said that whether she makes the team or not depends on
the Red Stars needs, but that he thinks that she has the skill to play professionally.

“I think that shes matured a lot this year,” he said. “I think shes a great person, has a
great character, and this year her mental toughness has matured a lot. Anytime you score goals youre going to
be popular in the soccer world, but she has a combination of work ethic, skills,
and sophistication and the mental toughness piece is the thing thats setting
her apart from other talented players.”

It’s no secret that the shots have stopped falling for the Missouri basketball team.

That was painfully obvious to everyone in Kansas City’s Municipal Auditorium on Wednesday. The Tigers lost to Houston 57-55. The question is what to do now.

Missouri shot 32.2 percent from the floor and made only two of 16 attempted 3-pointers.

“There’s no way to explain it,Santos shirt,” junior guard Jimmy McKinney said. “Guys have been having tough nights and tough times putting the ball in the basket. There’s really nothing you can do about that. You go out there and shoot the ball and sometimes it just won’t fall. “You just got to continue to shoot the ball. Hopefully,Juventus shirt, eventually it will go in.”

What remains to be seen is how, or if, Missouri will overcome this shooting drought.

“When they won’t fall, we just have to try to get our teammates shots, rebound and defend,Dortmund shirt,” sophomore guard Thomas Gardner said. “Those are the things we can control. Tonight we did that and we just came up short.”

Ultimately, coach Quin Snyder will have to find a way to pull the Tigers from their funk.

“We just have to hang in there,l.a.galaxy shirt,” Snyder said, “keep grinding and I know we’ll get better.”

“Grind” seems right for the Tigers. Missouri looked reluctant to push the ball into the low post for points under the basket in its first four games but made a concerted effort to do so against Houston.

The Tigers scored 28 points in the paint on Wednesday and used the interior game to keep it close. If the outside shooting troubles continue, the inside game will have to compensate even more.

Perhaps a change in atmosphere will lend itself to a changed team. The Tigers shot 34 percent from the floor in two games at Municipal Auditorium.

“We’re not coming back here,” senior guard Jason Conley said. “I don’t like this gym.”

Something was different, and it took several innings for the Missouri softball team to adjust.

The pitches from Radford, the defending Big South champions, were considerably slower, which caused the Tiger hitters to swing too early. The pitches ranged from 55 to 60 mph. Typically the team is used to seeing pitches in the upper 60s and lower 70s. After about six innings the Tiger hitters were able to make adjustments, and they started making better contact. The adjustment helped propel the Tigers (8-2) to a 7-6 victory against Radford in 10 innings in their final game of the 2010
Leadoff Classic in Columbus, Ga.

“Their pitchers throwing that slow was definitely a source of frustration,” said Missouri coach Ehren Earleywine by phone. “We didn’t adjust to well, it took us awhile.”

Junior Abby Vock
picked a great time for her first hit of the season. In the bottom of the tenth inning, the game was tied at 6. With the
bases loaded and one out, Vock, who had been hitless in 13 at bats this season,Glasgow Rangers shirt, sent the game-winning hit into center field.

“I just tried to stay back on the ball and hit it into right field,” Vock said by phone. “It is a really good feeling to win a close
game like that.”

Missouri pitchers,Juventus shirt, Jana Hainey,AS Roma shirt, Lindsey Muller and Chelsea Thomas, did not issue a walk. They gave up 10 hits, including four home runs. Thomas (6-1) got the win pitching six innings and striking out seven batters.

The game went back and forth,Paris Saint Germain shirt, with neither team leading by more than a run. In the sixth inning, with the game was tied at 3, utility player Gina Schneider hit her first home run of the season to give the Tigers the lead. In the seventh inning, Thomas was two outs away from securing the victory before giving up a solo home run to Radford pinch hitter Meredith Moore to tie the game at 4 and send the game into extra innings.

“I was really surprised at how well they (Radford) were able to hit the ball,” Earleywine said.

The Tigers ended up winning all five games in the 2010 Leadoff Classic.

“There are a few things we need to address on offense, but we are still finding ways to win,” Earleywine said.

The Tigers will end their 12-game road trip Wednesday when they
travel to Edwardsville, Ill., to play a doubleheader against
SIU-Edwardsville. The first game will start at 2 p.m.

COLUMBIA — The story of Mizzou Freeride,Juventus shirt, a ski and snowboard club for MU students, started 16 years ago when MU senior Mike Neustedter was in kindergarten in San Jose, Calf.

Neustedter says that a random conversation his mother had with the mother of another student in his class named Paige Volden led to a meaningful friendship.

“I don’t remember exactly, but I think our moms were talking about getting golden retrievers,Inter Milan shirt,” Neustedter said. “Our moms became friends, and that is how we met.”

Volden said the meeting came up often as children.

“We used to always joke around saying that we were related by our dogs.”

Neustedter and Volden did not have any relatives living in California and soon their families developed a close friendship.

“After we met, our families had Thanksgiving together every year,Birmingham shirt,” Neustedter said.

In high school, Volden and Neustedter developed a love for snowboarding, a sport that helped them stay involved in each other’s lives when they went to college. Neustedter went to California-San Diego and Volden enrolled at California-Davis. The two met often on breaks and long weekends to go snowboarding in Lake Tahoe, Nev.

Even though he considered himself a recreational snowboarder, Neustedter said he was getting caught up in a culture that can be all-consuming.

“Snowboarding is really its own lifestyle,” Neustedter said, “I knew that I needed to get away from it to focus on my education and get a degree.”

In the summer of 2005, Neustedter transferred to MU to major in strategic communications. He thought he had left the winter sports world behind.

In October of 2005, it began to look as if Volden would be getting off the snow too, when she starting losing her eyesight. In just two weeks, Volden went from having perfect vision to being legally blind. That December, she was diagnosed with a rare form of Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy or Leber’s disease. Volden’s vision deteriorated for eight months before stabilizing. Volden was left with a visual acuity of 20/800, meaning that what most people can see 800 feet away, Volden can only see at 20 feet.

Still, though her vision was a blur at best, Volden knew that she wanted to keep snowboarding. Neustedter knew that he wanted to help her.

During Thanksgiving and winter break of 2005, Neustedter and Volden hit the slopes of Lake Tahoe again. It wasn’t the same as before.

“Well, at first we didn’t know exactly what we were doing.” Neustedter said.

Neustedter would snowboard in front of Volden, having her follow his line with vocal cues. Just following Neustedter down a smooth line wasn’t enough for Volden. She and Neustedter started to become more confident and soon they were pushing the limits of what a blind snowboarder can do.

“In the early days, I even tried to have him guide me off of jumps,” Volden said.

“Usually, if I saw a jump off to the side of a run, I would tell Paige to just go just a little farther, then stop and wait for me while I hit the jump,” Neustedter said. “She got bored with that.”

The two worked out a system, and soon Volden was bringing a new meaning to the term blind jump. Neustedter would go over a jump first while Volden waited just up the hill. Then, he would go back to Volden and have her follow him towards the jump. As Volden approached the crest of the take-off, Neustedter would shout “Now!” to let her know that she was about to leave the ground. Needless to say, the two drew quite a bit of attention in their bright-orange Blind Skier and Guide vests.

“We had a lot of people stop and ask us questions,” Neustedter said. “People couldn’t believe that someone blind was jumping a snowboard.”

Neustedter and Volden were able to enjoy skiing together again,l.a.galaxy shirt, but they soon realized they would be better off with some formal training. So, over Thanksgiving break of 2006, Neustedter and Volden went to blind skiing classes. Neustedter became a certified ski guide and Volden switched from a snowboard to skis, which are easier to stop or slow on command.

Neustedter didn’t have much time to use his new certification, though, he was due back at school in Missouri. But he had developed a new attitude. Instead of trying to get away from snowboarding, Neustedter made it a goal to bring snowboarding and skiing to MU.

“I used to think snowboarding was just a distraction,” Neustedter said. “But now I know how much of a positive it can be in someone’s life. I figured if someone who was blind can enjoy skiing, why can’t there be a snowboard club at Mizzou?”

During the 2007 school year, Neustedter began the process of creating a ski and snowboard club at MU and in November of 2007, MizzouRec Services approved a club officially called Mizzou Freeride. Although the club has only 12 members, Neustedter said he expects it will have at least 20 by next winter and that he intends for the club to help others and be competitive as well.

Neustedter has been talking with the Gateway Disabled Ski Program, which trains blind skiing guides and works with blind skiers at the Hidden Valley ski resort in St. Louis. Neustedter said the program desperately needs volunteers, and he is hoping Mizzou Freeride will be able to provide assistance for the program.

Neustedter said he wants the club to make a difference for years to come, but after he graduates in December, he is thinking about going back to snowboarding much more often with Volden.

Volden has talked with the U.S. Paralympic team, but said she is not sure if she will train full time for the 2010 games in Vancouver, British Columbia. If she does, Neustedter said that he would like to be her official guide for the games, and he might move to Colorado after he graduates so that he can train with her.

Nothing is definite yet, only that the U.S. Paralympic team probably won’t be crazy about having Neustedter try to guide Volden off of jumps.