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MSHSAA Cross Country Moves
To Columbia Beginning This Year
By Jim Wieners
For the first time since 1975, the Missouri State High School Activities Association Cross Country Championships will be in Columbia, after 43 years in Jefferson City.
On Nov. 9, the MSHSAA Cross Country Championships will be at the Gans Creek Cross Country course. It has a two-Kilometer course and a three-kilometer course. It is located in southeastern Columbia, across E. Gans Road from Father Tolton Regional Catholic High School. The meet begins at 9 a.m. with the Class One Boys Championships and ends at 1:30 with awards ceremonies for Class Four meali8sts and state trophies.
Beginning in 1976 and ending in 2018 the MSHSAA Cross Country Championships were on a golf course in Jefferson City. It was first known as the Hough Park Club and was renamed the Oak Hills Golf Course in the early to mid 1980s. From 1963 to 1975, the Boys Cross Country Championships were in Columbia at the A.L. Gustin Golf Course on the University of Missouri Campus. Since the MSHSAA Boys Cross Country championships began in 1949, through 1962, the meet was in St. Louis, at Forest Park. The Girls Cross Country championships began in 1979 so this will be the first time they will be running in Columbia.
Past state boys champions from North County at A.L. Gustin include Riverview Gardens (no longer fielding the Sport) in 1963 and the former Prep North (now the All Saints Academy-St. Rose Philippine Campus on St. Catherine St.) in 1975. In Girls Cross Country Hazelwood Central won state in 1986 at Oak Hills Golf Center.
SOCCER — Coming in 2020, MSHSAA Girls Soccer will be playing their final year at Swope Soccer Village, Kansas City. In 2021, the State Championships return to Fenton and play at the World Wide Technology Soccer Park, where the Boys are playing since 2016. The Girls were at Swope since 2017 and before that both Boys and Girls were at two Blue Spring High School campuses in Fall 2011-Spring 2016.
Before the Spring of 2012, Girls held the MSHSAA championships at Soccer Park (a. k. a. Anheuser Busch Center) since the MSHSAA Championships began in 1985 although the 1995 championships were at St. Louis University (Hermann Stadium) because of floodwaters from the Meramec River went over Soccer Park. Until the fall of 2011 and since the fall of 2016, the MSHSAA Boys Championships are in the St. Louis area (Soccer Park [A-B Center] Fall 1986-Fall 2010, Fall 2016-present. Lindenwood University Fall 1978-1985. Washington University hosted the 1977 championships. Before that, O‘Fallon Tech [now Gateway STEM] hosted MSHSAA Winter 1972, 1974-Fall 1976. The first years were at Musial Field-St. Louis University [now Herrmann Stadium Winter 1970-1971, 1973 and Normandy High Winter 1969.).
GOLF –– The 2019-2020 State Championships are at Freemont Hills Golf Course, Nixa (Girls Class One), Silo Ridge Golf and Country Club, Bolivar (Girls Class Two) Meadow Lake Golf Course, New Bloomfield (Boys Class One), Columbia Country Club (Boys Class Two), Rivercut Golf Course, Springfield (Boys Class Three) and Old Kinderhook Golf Course, Camdenton (Boys Class Four).
