Southeast Track & Field

At any given Cape Catfish game, you can find the architect of success for the franchise standing atop the hill glancing over a baseball diamond that he has carried in his heart since he was a boy.

Former longtime Southeast Missouri track and field coach Joey Haines passed away at age 76 on Tuesday. Haines coached the Redhawks from 1982-2008. He is among the SEMO Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2008. Haines was inducted into the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2014. He was also inducted into the Ohio Valley Conference Hall of Fame in 2009...

Long after their Southeast Missouri State track & field careers came to a close, Blake Smith and Chris Navarro are still working to make an impact in the local sports landscape. Nestled on top of a plot of gravel north of Cape Girardeau lies a makeshift palace dedicated to improving performance. Smith and Navarro established Prep Athletics on August 2020 intending to provide coaching to local athletes of all ages, designed for them to succeed in their specific sports...

There rarely is a shortage of negativity in the daily news cycles, and intercollegiate athletics is never immune to such.

For the second time in three years, Southeast Missouri State has won the OVC Commissioner's Cup. The Redhawks won eight Ohio Valley Conference championships during the 2022-23 school year. The football team took a share of the championship after defeating rival Murray State 52-22. The Redhawks won the coin flip that determined whether SEMO or UT Martin would receive the automatic berth to the NCAA FCS Playoffs...

Notre Dame alum and Saint Louis sophomore Evan Bruenderman will compete in the triple jump at the west preliminary of the NCAA Division I Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championships, held May 24-27 at California State University, Sacramento in Sacramento, Calif...

Southeast Missouri State (26-27, 14-8 OVC) entered its final series of the season needing to sweep Eastern Illinois (31-18, 11-11 OVC) in order to at least win a share of the Ohio Valley Conference regular-season championship. The Redhawks missed their chance on Thursday when the Panthers knocked in 15 hits to win 10-2 at Capaha Field. The Redhawks have now lost eight games in a row...

Connor Moore was competing for a state championship just a year ago. Fast forward to last weekend, and the Cape Central alum played a pivotal role in Southeast Missouri State capturing the men’s Ohio Valley Conference championship. SEMO had a one-point lead on conference newcomer Little Rock with the 4x400-meter relay, the final race of the event, left to run. ...

Last weekend the SEMO track and field team competed in the Ohio Valley Conference track meet in Edwardsville, IL. The Redhawks fared well as both the men’s and women’s teams placed first and were crowned OVC Outdoor Conference Champions. This is the fifth time both teams have won the OVC in the same year and the first time since the 2014 season. SEMO head coach Eric Crumpecker said he was proud of the way both teams performed...

For Notre Dame senior Greg Dennis, Tuesday, May 9, was the day one chapter ends and another begins. As his high school career came to a close, Dennis signed a letter of intent to join the Southeast Missouri State track and field team, the local Division I college that is becoming the home for many Notre Dame athletes...

The Redhawks made it seven consecutive Ohio Valley Conference victories on Sunday after taking a 10-0 victory in five innings against Tennessee Tech. After 11-0 and 9-1 wins on Saturday, Southeast Missouri State put an exclamation point on the weekend series with a five-run fifth inning to claim a mercy-rule win...

The Southeast Missouri State Redhawk teams had a busy Sunday, with diamond sports combining for three wins while the track and field team had a few standouts in its final day at Mississippi State's Bulldog Relays. Redhawk track and field roundup The Southeast Missouri State track and field team competed in the Bulldog Relays this past weekend, with three athletes taking gold medals on Saturday at Mississippi State...

The SEMO Men’s and Women’s track and field teams competed in the Ohio Valley Conference Indoor Championships in Birmingham, AL. The Women’s team scored 183.50 points and captured their eighth OVC championship and first since 2013 while the Men’s team scored 128 points and finished in third place...