A local coaching legend and a state championship team got the nod for Missouri Sports Hall of Fame's 2025 induction class.
Northwest Missouri State head tennis coach Mark Rosewell and the 1982 Maryville High School football team will be enshrined during a ceremony in November.
Robert Marsh, the president of the hall of fame made the formal announcement this morning in Kansas City.
Rosewell, the 29-time MIAA Coach of the Year and 30-time conference champion, is entering his 42nd year as the leader of Bearcat tennis. The Lexington, Missouri native owns more than 12-hundred career victories, 45 NCAA Tournament appearances, and has been selected as the ITA Region Coach of the Year 7 times.
He didn't believe it initially when word came down that he was going into the hall.
"When I got the call I was at practice," Rosewell said. "I thought it was John Coffey or somebody playing a prank on me at first. It was just kind of a generic call, but then I found out that it was correct. But really excited (to be inducted)."
It's an honor that Rosewell doesn't take lightly, especially with a group that features many friends and respected peers.
"These are things you're going to remember the rest of your life. That's really half the fun of it and what you look forward to."
The 1982 Spoofhound football team was the first to win a state title in program history.
Under the direction of head coach Mike Jordan, Maryville followed up a week 1 loss with 12 straight wins, capped by a 23-nothing victory over Duchesne at Arrowhead Stadium to seal the championship season.
Current Maryville athletic director Matt Webb was in Kansas City for the announcement.
"It's very humbling, I'm very honored to be here and accepting this on their behalf," Webb said. "I'm looking forward to the enshrinement ceremony and getting that group together and celebrating a team that's very deserving."
Others from the area going into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame include longtime Benton AD and coach Mike Ziesel, former Savannah standout basketball player Taren O'Brien Martin, and Fairfax multi-sport star Melvin Rogers.
The induction ceremony will be held November 23rd in Kansas City. Bios for local inductees are listed below.
The Class of 2025:
- Mike Moustakas – Kansas City Royals
- Central High School Boys Track & Field Era of 1964-1972
- Allen Wright – Kansas City Chiefs Equipment Manager
- Rhesa Sumrell – Missouri Western & University of Central Missouri Softball Coach
- Melvin Rogers – Missouri Valley College Multi-Sport Athlete & Benefactor
- Brad Gaines – High School Football & Basketball Coach
- Jim Carr – CEO & President of the NAIA
- Al Wallace – Sports Broadcaster
- Maryville High School 1982 State Football Championship Team
- Mike Ziesel – St. Joseph Benton High School Coach & Athletic Director
- Tim Richardson – Lee’s Summit & Lee’s Summit North High School Soccer Coach
- Mark Rosewell – Northwest Missouri State Tennis Coach
- Marty Kilgore – Metropolitan Community College Baseball Coach
- Helen Wilson – Mizzou Tennis Standout & Kansas City-area Tennis Instructor
- Davin Winkley – Hickman Mills High School & Rockhurst University Basketball Standout
- Park Hill High School Volleyball Era of 1987-2000
- Monachino Father-Son Coaching Duo of St. Pius X High School
- Taren O’Brien Martin – Savannah HS Basketball Player
- Smithville High School Girls Track & Field Era of 1981-1991
- Tim Crone – Blue Springs High School Coach & Athletic Director
- Sam Brown – Excelsior Springs, Grandview & William Jewell Football Coach
Mark Rosewell – Northwest Missouri State Tennis Coach
Rosewell has been coaching college tennis for 43 years, and his teams have produced 1,289 career victories. That includes 1,267 victories in 41 seasons at Northwest Missouri State – the most of any coach in any sport there. Since 1984, his Northwest Missouri State teams have won 30 MIAA regular-season championships (14 women, 16 men), 10 MIAA Tournament championships (9 men, 1 women) and have made 45 NCAA Division II Tournament appearances (23 men, 22 women). The 2014, 2016 and 2021 men’s team reached the Round of Eight. Two men’s players won regional titles, and a men’s doubles team won regionals. Six Northwest Missouri State men have earned MIAA MVP honors. The 1997 and 2003 women’s team reached the national quarterfinals. Along the way, Rosewell has coached 136 MIAA champions and 108 first team All-MIAA performers. He also is a seven-time ITA Regional Coach of the Year (Women – 1998, 2006; Men – 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021). He previously coached at his alma mater, the University of Central Missouri, where he competed in tennis. Rosewell is a 1973 graduate of Lexington High School, where he also played baseball and wrestled. He is in the Lexington Minute Man Hall of Fame, as well as those for Missouri Valley Heart of America and the United States Tennis Association.
Maryville High School 1982 State Championship Football Team
In a quaint community in northwest Missouri, in a town called Maryville, a group of teenagers helped put the place on the state sports map in 1982. The Maryville High School football team captured the school’s first state championship, winning Class 3 in a 23-0 victory against Duchesne at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. Coached by Mike Jordan, the Spoofhounds finished the season 12-1, winning their final 12 games after a tough loss to Shenandoah. In the championship game, they generated 254 yards of total offense, with quarterback Jon Baldwin throwing for 119 yards on 11-of-27 passing and Frank Grispino and Paul Barger combining for 96 yards rushing. Maryville set the tone early, taking the opening drive 59 yards in 13 plays to score the first touchdown. And the defense? It held Duchesne to only 112 total yards of offense. That season, the Spoofhounds pitched four shutouts, won a thriller in the regular-season finale to capture their first Midland Empire Conference championship since 1977 and then found more magic. They upset St. Pius X in the playoff opener, held off Boonville in the quarterfinals and rallied to beat Republic in the semifinals.
Melvin Rogers – Fairfax High School/Missouri Valley College & Benefactor
Rogers was one of the most interesting athletes to walk across the sports page back in the 1960s. At Fairfax High School, he earned All-District in football, All-State in basketball and then was part of a two-man track & field team that led Fairfax to the Class C Indoor state championship. Rogers won four events, totaling 32 points himself, or 5 ½ more than the state runner-up team. He also shattered the state pole vault mark (12 feet, 7 ¼) in a regular-season meet. Despite drawing interest from football coaches at the University of Missouri, Rogers enrolled at Missouri Valley College in Marshall. Unthinkable and improbable in the modern age, he competed in three sports – football, basketball and track – and lettered in all three. In football, he was part of the team that reached the Tangerine Bowl in 1958 and scored the Vikings’ only touchdown. A knee injury cut short his football and basketball careers, but he still competed in track. Rogers graduated in 1961 and later earned a pharmaceutical degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City before launching Rogers Inc., a pharmacy that helped the athletic departments of Missouri Western State University and Northwest Missouri State University.
Taren O’Brien Martin – Savannah High School Basketball Standout & Women’s Coach
A native of Savannah, Martin graduated from Savannah High School, where she was a three-sport All-State athlete in tennis, basketball and track. A starting point guard on the basketball team, she led her team to a runner-up finish three times. On the track, she placed second in the state in the 4×800 relay. In 2021, she was inducted to the Savannah Hall of Fame. Martin played at Illinois State from 2000 to 2004. In her senior season, she averaged 11.4 points, 4.6 assists and 2.6 steals a game, while leading the Redbirds to the team’s best record since 1996-97. She received Illinois State’s Jill Hutchison Endowed Scholarship in 2003 and the Jill Hutchison Coach’s Award for her leadership and performance. Martin was the first Redbird to record 300 assists, 250 made free-throws, 150 steals and 100 3-pointers. From there, Martin was the head coach of Eureka College outside of St. Louis, from 2010 to 2013. She was the 2012 St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC) Coach of the Year, and her 2012 team won 21 games – the program’s fourth 20-win season. She is now in her 13th season as the top assistant of the University of Alabama-Birmingham women’s basketball team, having helped them to 211 victories, a Conference USA regular-season championship and five postseason berths.
Mike Ziesel – St. Jospeh Benton High School Coach & Athletic Director
Ziesel’s remarkable journey in the world of education and athletics spans over four decades, marked by his unwavering dedication, leadership, and impactful contributions to the communities he served. He gave 42 years to high school athletics in St. Joseph, coaching basketball and serving as athletic director. He was 331-137 as a basketball coach, including 316 wins in 19 seasons (beginning in 1984) at Benton High School. His 1985, 1990 and 1992 boys teams earned Class 3 third-place finishers – their first Final Four appearance since 1941. He was the Class 3 MBCA Coach of the Year in 1989 and 1992, and the News-Press Coach of the Year in 1989 and 1994. Those were Benton’s first Final Four appearances since 1941. Ziesel spent the final 15 years of his career as the school’s athletic director, with the athletic department seeing the baseball team (fourth in 2005, state champs 2007) and girls basketball team (2007 state champs, 2014 fourth place, 2016 state champs) reach the Final Four. The Omaha, Neb., native began his career as an assistant basketball coach at Bishop LeBlond, helping them win the 1977 state championship in Class 2. He later assisted LeBlond’s 2023 girls state runner-up team and coached the Special Olympics boys basketball team.
