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Washington is the largest hop producing state in the country. [1] Hops were first introduced to the state's Puyallup Valley by Ezra Meeker in 1865 and spread around the Puget Sound region. The first Yakima Valley hops were planted in 1868 by Charles Carpenter, a New York emigrant.
In 1991, the stadium was renamed the Plaster Sports Complex in honor of Robert W. Plaster, chairman of Evergreen Investments of Lebanon, Missouri.Mr. Plaster donated funds for major renovations of the stadium, including expansion of the stadium to its current capacity, including the addition of an upper deck which seats 8,500, 24 luxury suites holding 10 each, a 40-seat luxury box and a new ...
The Missouri School of Mines, later the University of Missouri-Rolla and now the Missouri University of Science & Technology, joined in 1935 to bring membership to six schools. The membership remained at six until Lincoln University joined in 1970, followed by the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 1980.
University of Missouri–Kansas City: Kansas City: Summit: Lindenwood Lions and Lady Lions [a] Lindenwood University: St. Charles: Ohio Valley: FCS [b] [b] Missouri Tigers: University of Missouri: Columbia: SEC: FBS: Missouri State Bears and Lady Bears: Missouri State University: Springfield: Missouri Valley: FCS [c] Saint Louis Billikens ...
The UHSP athletic teams are called the Eutectics. The university is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the American Midwest Conference (AMC) for most of its sports since the 2014–15 academic year; while its men's volleyball and women's lacrosse teams compete in the Heart of America Athletic Conference (HAAC).
Early on in the school's history, the athletes were referred to as the "Fighting Teachers" (one of the school's early names was "Indiana State Teachers College"), until the students chose the name "Sycamores," due to the abundance of sycamore trees in Indiana and especially in the Wabash River Valley; though it is believed that the students voted on "Sycamores" on a lark, never thinking it ...
Missouri State's first football team was fielded in 1909 and the first coach in program history was Walter Langston who went 4–2 in his only season as head coach. Prior to 1923, the team competed as an Independent. From 1923 to 1980, Missouri State were members of the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletics Association (now Mid-America ...
The Northwest Missouri State Bearcats are the athletic teams for Northwest Missouri State University, located in Maryville, Missouri. The Bearcats play in the NCAA Division II . Northwest is a founding member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association in 1912 and has remained in the conference ever since.