The Face of Spartan Athletics

With integrity, respect, responsibility, sportsmanship and servant leadership, Missouri Baptist University’s cheer and dance teams are flying to new heights and making history. One of the teams, co-ed cheer, qualified last season for the NAIA Competitive Cheer and Dance National Championships in Michigan. The STUNT team also qualified for nationals, which was hosted by MBU.

Faces of the Great Outdoors

With the cool fall weather in the air, many students are spending time in the great outdoors. Students at Missouri Baptist University are busy competing in fall sports and enjoying fellowship with other students as we emerge from a pandemic that kept us hidden behind face coverings for more than a year. MBU photojournalists Patrick Griffey and Autumn Heaton captured the faces of MBU Outdoors, Spartan football and Spartan cheer that we have missed while they were hidden under face masks.

Listening to the Lord, Leading by Example

When Ethan Metzler graduated in spring 2019, he believed his time at MBU was over. However, when the position of resident director at Pillsbury-Huff Residence Hall became available, he felt the Lord call him to lead the building of young men he was a peer with just one semester before. Regardless of the position change, Metzler continues to deeply and meaningfully connect with everyone he is around at MBU, pointing to Christ through his actions.

The Overseas Experience

American football is a sport that has really taken off in other countries like Serbia, Denmark, and even Germany. MBU has a student athlete who took the opportunity to play overseas, now he’s back to share his experience. Photo provided via Keenan Savage Instagram Keenan Savage (right) smiles and signs autographs with his teammates on […]

MBU Envisions Home Field Advantage

With three different sports requiring a turf field, Missouri Baptist University’s athletic department is looking to deliver with the second-phase construction of Spartan Field. Photo by Stacy Rohan Construction for Spartan Field started in 2013 and already hosts sporting events such as soccer and lacrosse games, and it plays host to the MBU football team’s […]

Sports, a Second Parent

Kids from poverty stricken neighborhoods and broken homes can learn the qualities of good character through athletics. Kids learn how to work in teams, to be hardworking, to set goals and even understand responsibility for the first time. Copyright-free image from Google Growing up in inner-city areas can have detrimental effects on adolescents, but those […]

MBU Homecoming BBQ Tailgate

MBU hosted their third annual Homecoming Football game last Saturday. Students, faculty, and staff met to roast marshmallows and grill hotdogs and hamburgers. MBU’s dance team performed right before Spartan Walk to pump up the crowd.

MBU Homecoming Game

Missouri Baptist University celebrated its Homecoming Week roughly midway through the fall semester. To finish off the week, MBU faced off against St. Ambrose University for MBU’s third-ever Homecoming football game.