Monett Monthly Sports

High expectations and top-level goals are the norm for Monett football this season. 

While the baseball season has ended in Missouri, the postseason honors have rolled in for the Cubs.

The Monett Soccer Club hosted the Monett World Cup Tournament in June for ages U8, U9, U10, U13 and adult. Twenty total teams competed in the two-day knockout tournament at Burl Fowler Stadium, with proceeds from the event benefitting the Club's fall season.

A gifted athlete at Monett, senior Vayla Smith, saw her hard work rewarded this season with a national letter of intent to run collegiately for Central Missouri University in Warrensburg.

Turns out, Monett did not need to look that hard to find its next head softball coach, as the district named alumna Kaesha George to the post.

The Monett boys golf team won the 2025 Big 8 Conference championship. Jaxon Bailey, pictured, became a four-time Big 8 individual champion. August Black, Bryce Hoyt and Brady Rhea earned all conference honors for the team. Bailey and Black went on to compete at Class 4 Boys Golf State at Silo Ridge Golf & Country Club in Bolivar.

Evan Snarey, right, stretches to pass the baton to Dante Ungeni in a relay event at the Monett Invitational on April 8.

For nearly a quarter of a century, Michael Calhoun, has been a fixture as the head coach of Monett baseball and as the third base coach.