College Sports

The Southeast Missouri State women’s soccer squad notched a 1-1 tie in its 2022 debut on Sunday in an exhibition match at Western Illinois in Macomb, Ill., but looking at the bigger picture, the Redhawks have proven to be emphatic winners. The Redhawks were recently named as one of the 501 collegiate women’s programs to be honored with the United Soccer Coaches College Team Academic Award, and veteran SEMO coach Heather Nelson said the emphasis in the classroom begins during the recruiting process.

By ROBERT AUGSDORFER Sports Writer After having difficulties getting teams penciled in, the Three Rivers women's basketball program has a schedule set for the 2022-23 season. The Raiders will look to go undefeated in the regular season for the third straight year as they'll be eyeing that elusive national championship...

There was a noticeable absence at the initial training camp practice for Southeast Missouri State on Thursday at Houck Field.

November of 2019, when veteran Southeast Missouri State football coach Tom Matukewicz stood at mid-field of Houck Field surrounded by his joyous players, in wake of beating Murray State and clinching a share of the Ohio Valley Conference championship, seems a long time ago – because it was.

It often gets lost in the box scores and league standings that the role of a college basketball coach is to guide the development of a young student-athlete as a person and a student, as much as, if not more so, than just an athlete. That is precisely how eighth-year Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball coach Rekha Patterson views her role, and that was evident this summer in how she handled Redhawk sophomore center, Dionna Reed.

In the wake of helping the Southeast Missouri State men's track and field squad win a pair of Ohio Valley Conference championships this past year, Redhawk assistant coach Ryan Lane has been promoted to the position of associate head coach for the cross country and track and field programs.

At Saturday’s “Cement Your Legacy” community block party hosted by the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program at Arena Park, there was no shortage of Redhawk coaches, players, athletic and university officials, all mingling with the public and wearing Redhawk gear in full force. However, there was one position not filled, which is the third assistant coaching spot on third-year head coach Brad Korn’s staff, in wake of Dustin Yoder departing for a position at UC Riverside earlier this month.

The 2022-23 Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball squad will feature 10 new players, all of whom, are going to try and make an impact on the court, and on Saturday, off of it.

To remain atop the Ohio Valley Conference, veteran Southeast Missouri State women’s tennis coach Mary Beth Gunn continues to scour the entire globe in search of talent.

It would be hard to pinpoint a specific area to explain how the Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball program fell from being one of the top programs in the Ohio Valley Conference to finishing the 2021-22 season in ninth place in the 10-team league. However, being a team that brought physicality to the post is among the many areas in which the Redhawks (6-23, 2-16 OVC) struggled.

Life happens fast and in no profession is that truer than that of a college coach.

The Three Rivers women's basketball program has found a new assistant coach as Caleb Livingston was hired on to be on the bench with Alex Wiggs for the 2022-23 season. Livingston will be entering his first season coaching at the college level after coaching high school and travel basketball...

The Southeast Missouri State women’s gymnastics program won’t compete in a meet again until 2023, but that doesn’t mean that these days of summer in 2022 aren’t critical.

The schedule for the Three Rivers men's basketball team is set and the countdown is on for the 2022-23 season for the two-time national champion Raiders. The season opener will be Tuesday, Nov. 1, at Olney (Ill.) while the first couple of home games will be Nov. 4-5 in the First Midwest Bank Classic with John A. Logan (Ill.) and Richard Daley (Ill.) at the Libla Family Sports Complex...

There was an early indication that Andrew Keck may evolve into a nice baseball player at Southeast Missouri State. After all, he did go 1-for-4 with a run scored and a couple of RBI in his collegiate debut back in 2019. However, his journey to today wasn’t paved entirely.

Over the past few years, the Ohio Valley Conference football opposition for Southeast Missouri State has undergone a seismic transformation, as it has lost strong programs in Austin Peay, Jacksonville State, and Eastern Kentucky. Closer to home, The Redhawks are going to play the 2022 season, much like they did in 2021, in a strange environment, as half of Houck Field has been demolished.

The Southeast Missouri men's and women's track and field teams, highlighted by Redhawk athletes Logan Blomquist and Nicole Humphreys, recently earned United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic recognition.

Ashley and Dave Lawson haven’t endured many tribulations and trials in either of their coaching careers in recent years.

The renovation of Houck Field at Southeast Missouri State isn’t going to be complete for the 2022 football season, as some had hoped when this project got underway almost a year ago.