{"id":10933,"date":"2024-12-10T11:14:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T16:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=10933"},"modified":"2024-12-10T11:14:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T16:14:27","slug":"mizzou-athletics-is-making-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2024\/12\/10\/mizzou-athletics-is-making-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizzou Athletics is making history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Mizzou<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The momentum at Mizzou Athletics is undeniable! Across programs, our talented student-athletes are competing at the NCAA\u2019s highest levels and bringing so much pride to Tiger fans in Missouri and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many recent highlights:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Men\u2019s Basketball defeated<\/a> the (former) No. 1 team in the country: the Kansas Jayhawks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 The same day, we learned that No. 19 ranked Mizzou Football is heading to the TransPerfect Music City Bowl in Nashville<\/a>. They\u2019ll take on the Iowa Hawkeyes on December 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mizzou<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Mizzou Volleyball continued their historic post-season tournament run with a win against the SMU Mustangs<\/a>. This will be the team\u2019s first trip to the Sweet 16 since 2017. They\u2019ll face the Kentucky Wildcats this Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mizzou<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Last Saturday, Women\u2019s Basketball won their fourth-straight game<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Quarterback Brady Cook was named SEC Football Scholar-Athlete of the Year<\/a>. It’s the second consecutive year he\u2019s received this honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Illustration<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to all Mizzou student-athletes and coaches! I\u2019m also grateful for the strong leadership of AD Veatch and the incredible support of our fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These wins show the dedication of Tigers to compete for championships and the drive of our entire campus to achieve excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The momentum at Mizzou Athletics is undebiable! Across programs, our talented student-athletes are competing at the NCAA\u2019s highest levels and bringing so much pride to Tiger fans in Missouri and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}