Head Coach Gary Pinkel
 
Head Coach Gary Pinkel
  
 
Pinkel Named Missouri Athletic Club Award Recipient

Tiger Coach Named M.A.C. Personality Of The Year

Nov. 20, 2008

St. Louis, Mo. - University of Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel is the 2008 winner of the Missouri Athletic Club's "Sports Personality of the Year" Award.  He will receive the award at the MAC's Jack Buck Sports Awards Banquet on Monday, Dec. 15.  Pinkel, in his eighth season at Mizzou, has guided the Tigers to a 9-2 record in 2008 and to the program's second-straight Big 12 Conference North Division championship - the first back-to-back conference or division titles at MU since 1941-42.

Pinkel, with a record of 58-39 (59.8%) at Mizzou, stands as the third-winningest coach in program history.  The Tigers will play in their fourth-consecutive bowl game this year for only the second time in school history (1978-81 was the other such stretch).  Pinkel's overall career record is 131-76-3 (63.1%).

The Sports Personality of the Year Award, which Jack Buck helped establish in 1970, is voted on by members of the MAC and annually honors the top St. Louis sports figure.  The banquet will be broadcast live on KMOX Radio, and will air on Charter Cable on tape delay.  Pinkel becomes the third football coach from Mizzou to win the Sports Personality of the Year award.  Al Onofrio won the award in 1972 and Warren Powers in 1978.  Mizzou basketball coach Norm Stewart received the honor in 1992.


 

 

   The MAC's Jack Buck Sports Awards Banquet is regarded as the premier sports banquet in St. Louis and has honored some of the biggest names in sports history like Bob Gibson, Joe Torre, Lou Brock, Ozzie Smith, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Brett Hull, Jimmy Connors, Marshall Faulk and Albert Pujols.  Admission is available for $125 per person.  The event is open to the public and always sells out, so make reservations now by calling 314-539-4470.  The event begins with a cocktail reception at 6 p.m., followed by dinner at 7 p.m. and the program at 8 p.m.  The Missouri Athletic Club is located in downtown St. Louis at 405 Washington Ave.

 

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