2025-26 Rock M’my Awards

It’s yet here! It’s awards play astatine Rock M Nation, and we’ve sewage A LOT to observe from nan 2025-26 schoolhouse twelvemonth complete nan adjacent fewer weeks.

A twelvemonth aft nan gymnastics programme made history successful their first Four connected nan Floor, nan women’s play squad KILLED it and had a program-changing year. Newcomer Ahmad Hardy did each nan things. We yet saw Trent Burns play successful an existent hoops game. Collier Dyer won a nationalist title. Maya Sands was SEC Libero of nan Year (again). Gymnastics sewage its highest classed triumph ever complete Florida. The Kellie Harper era of women’s hoops officially began. Mark Mitchell recorded TWO 30-plus constituent games successful SEC play. Women’s javelin was classed no. 1 nationally. Marissa McCann threw a cleanable game. Baseball collapsed its SEC losing streak. Addi Lawrence recorded 5 9.95 scores connected beam successful nan first six meets. The women’s transverse state squad earned an at-large bid to NCAAs for nan first clip since 2016. Men’s Hoops knocked disconnected nan defending nationalist champs. Drew Rogers won an SEC title. Cierra Harrison threw a nary hitter. Monica Wanjiku was named a Freshman All-American for conscionable nan 2nd clip successful nan program’s history. Hannah Horton was SEC Specialist of nan Year. National champ Keegan O’Toole moved from wrestling connected nan mat to coaching Tiger Style to beryllium nan next… him. Jason Crow, Jr. signed pinch nan Tigers. Grace Slaughter dropped 33 connected Northwestern. The database goes connected and on. There were a batch of bully things going connected successful CoMo successful 2025-26, and we intend to talk astir it.

And because we ever strive to do things a spot otherwise astir here, we created our ain award, nan Rock M’my, backmost successful 2023-24. It’s grown exponentially since then. Consider it to beryllium portion Emmy, portion Espy, and each parts emotion of Mizzou Athletics. (pronounced Rock Emmy)

I encouraged our unit to not conscionable see nan awesome sports and nan apical dogs, but to excavation beneath nan aboveground and prime worthy nominees from arsenic galore teams arsenic possible. Luckily, Rock M Nation is represented by a divers group of writers pinch knowledge astir a assortment of Mizzou sports, truthful this wasn’t excessively overmuch of an ask.

While this is my babe and I put it each together, this monolithic task would not imaginable without nan activity of our writers, truthful convey you Aaron Segal, Dan Murphy, Dylan Heinrich, Hannah Henderson, Henry Chappell, Josh Matejka, Margo Jenkins, Matthew Gustafson, Nate Edwards, Quentin Corpuel, Sammy Stava and Sophie Silvers for your contributions! You’re simply nan best.

13 Mizzou sports were represented successful nan grant nominations this year— I grouped aquatics & dive and way & field/cross state together crossed genders arsenic 1 arsenic they compete alongside 1 different astatine meets— and here’s really nan distribution shook out.

We person 9 different grant categories this year, pinch 2 caller additions — Best Interview and Best Coach — added to nan mix. The schedule will beryllium arsenic follows:

With each nomination, you’ll besides find a spot of backstory, truthful you, nan fans, tin make an informed decision, because astatine nan extremity of each post, you’ll vote. Forget to formed your ballot 1 day? No large deal. I’ll supply links to nan different awards from nan preceding posts, and you’ll spot them each wrapped up successful a bully small virtual achromatic and golden front present for easy viewing.

Once each nan votes for each grant person been tabulated complete nan adjacent fewer weeks, nan winners will beryllium announced, and that student-athlete/team will triumph our wholly superior grant that will undoubtedly beryllium nan top triumph of their lives frankincense far.