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November 2008 Alumni News
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Proud fans and students poured through JQH Arena with pure excitement and delight as a new era of Bears and Lady Bears basketball began November 22 and 23. Basketball game attendees explored the new JQH Arena from the beautiful grand entrance, through the spectacularly chronicled Legacy of Competition and Hall of Fame, around the expansive concourse and into the maroon seats from which they cheered both the Bears and Lady Bears to victory in the first contests held in the newest state of the art building on the Missouri State campus. Dedication ceremonies held before each game recognized those who contributed toward the creation and completion of this facility, named for John Q. Hammons in recognition of his $30 million gift. The facility has more than 11,000 seats, 24 private suites, more than 100 loge seats, 55 courtside seats, a team souvenir store and a ticket office.
Washington DC area alumni chapter celebrate the season
Construction management students take first place in competition
Missouri State representative to visit North Carolina
University Ad Team to create US Intelligence Community Brand Strategy
Tearneys endow scholarship, library fund
Missouri State purchases Willow Brook facility for $1,975,000
Certified Public Management development beginning in Missouri
Holiday gift idea
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Athletics News The Missouri State Lady Bears’ 61-52 victory over Arkansas State gave the MSU women their first notch in the win column in 2008-09, and capped a memorable opening day at JQH Arena. Missouri State’s freshmen trio of Casey Garrison, Jaleshia Roberson and Lacey Boshe accounted for 47 of the Lady Bears’ 61 points. Read more...
Kirby Leads Football Bears' Improbable 27-24 Overtime Road Comeback
Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving claim three trophies at Henderson State
Men’s Soccer Bears fall 1-0 in Missouri Valley Conference Championship
Cheruiyot Places 66th at NCAA Division I Cross Country Championship
Men’s Soccer nets five All-Missouri Valley Conference honors
Former Bears' standout Ahearn signs with NBA's San Antonio Spurs
Volleyball Bears Lose Season Finale to No. 11 Wichita State, 3-0 |
Missouri State University students will benefit in several ways from two new endowed funds established by James F. and Mary Asher Tearney. The Tearneys established an endowed scholarship for education or engineering students and an endowed fund to purchase library materials. 
A brick in the Brick Bear Paths at the Robert W. Plaster Student Union would make a great holiday gift for alumni, students and friends of the University. See how you can reserve your brick to honor someone special at 
Missouri State (2-1) got 16 points, six rebounds and three steals from Kyle Weems to outlast Arkansas, 62-57 in the Bears' inaugural game at JQH Arena. Chris Cooks added 15 points for the Bears, including a key layup with 18.5 seconds left. Cooks was 6-of-10 shooting from the floor, and beat the shot clock with 18.5 remaining to extend MSU's lead to 60-57. Spencer Laurie and Ryan Jehle added free throws for the Bears with under 12 seconds to play to seal the win. 
Sophomore Pasca Cheruiyot placed 66th in the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championship in Terre Haute, Indiana. Her time of 20:56.70 in the 6K race is the fifth fastest at that distance in Missouri State school history. The overall winner was Texas Tech's Sally Kipyego, a former classmate of Cheruiyot's in secondary school in Kenya.