College Coaching Highlights

2 MCCAC Conference Championships

NJCAA Region XVI Championship

4 straight 20+ win seasons (92-34 - 73.1% over that span)

2 Teams in Final NJCAA National Poll

Highest NJCAA National Ranking: #2

NJCAA All-American

Academic All-American

10 NJCAA All-Region Players

14 MCCAC All-Conference Players

31 Players earned 4 year basketball scholarships in 5 years

5 NCAA DI post players in the past 3 seasons

High School Coaching Highlights

3 Conference Championships

2 Conference Tournament Championships

3 Missouri District Tournament Championships

3 straight 25+ win seasons (93-23 80.2% over 4 years of)

3 straight top 10 finishes in Missouri HS Final Poll

Highest MissouriState Ranking: #1

3 Missouri All-State Players

13 All-Conference Players

9 players earned basketball scholarships

Murray State University ’s Rob Kennedy scores over Tyler Hansbrough of North Carolina in the first round of the 2006 NCAA National Tournament.  Kennedy spent his freshman season in JUCO working with coach Kish on foot-work and post-play at Mineral Area College.

Former MAC Cardinal and current Lindenwood University point guard Dantwan Chillers nails a big three-pointer in the 2006 NAIA Final Four.  The Lions dropped a semi-final contest to the eventual National Champions from College of the Ozarks (MO).

Tony Webb earned NJCAA All-American honors in 2006 at Mineral Area College.  Webb averaged over 12 points a game in his freshman season as a Cardinal, helping MAC win a Regional Championship, a second straight Conference Championship, and finishing at 28-5, with the #13 spot in the final National poll..

Coach Kish's Players that Have Moved to the Next Level

Players in BOLD signed NCAA DI

Junior College Players Developed

Darryl Butterfield (University of Missouri) 

Curtis Muse (University of NorthTexas) 

Jonathan Jackson (University of NorthTexas)

T. J. Britton (Missouri Southern)

Ralph Mata (Lincoln University)

Tremaine Wilkerson (Oklahoma City University)

Rob Kennedy (Murray State University)

Aaron Jackson (Univ. of Missouri St. Louis)

Kenny Burke (Southwest Oklahoma State Univ.)

Ray Peterson (Univ. of the Incarnate Word)

Ryan Byrne (Missouri Baptist University)

Dantwan Chillers (Lindenwood University)

Matt Foster (Lindenwood University)

Branko Veljovic (Hannibal-LaGrange)

Alan Sanders (Lindsey-WilsonUniversity) 

Ryan Belcher (Southeast Missouri)

Kareem Matthews (Austin-Peay)

Demarius Bolds (Missouri Western)

Scott Martin (Central Arkansas)

Derrick McKeller (Midwestern State)

Eugene Granger (Anderson University)

Nate Garrett  (Fontbonne University)

Mike Walker (Missouri Baptist University)

Chuck Walls (Harris Stowe)

Kwanza Wright (Harris Stowe)

Tim Wright (Robert Morris)

Bryant Lyles (McKendree) 

Joe Anderson (Harris Stowe)

Darryl Wilson (Drury University)

Cory Daniel (St. Ambrose) 

Terry Edwards (Crichton)  

Bobby Coleman (Rocky Mountain) 

   Darryl Butterfiled played for Coach

   Kish at Mineral Area College in 2005-

   06 earning All-Region honors.  He

   signed a NLI to play basketball at the

   University of Missouri in the High

   Major Big XII Conference for new

   head coach Mike Anderson.

 High School Players Developed

Jason Maynard (Williams’ Baptist)

Jon Beck (Arkansas State University)

Ryan Weatherspoon (Mineral Area College)

Ronald Watson (East Central)

David Enderle (Mineral Area College)

Dustin Cauble (Southwestern University)

Chris Sisk (Missouri Baptist)

Tim Lowrey (Rend Lake)

Mike Workman (Lindenwood University)

  Jon Beck played for Coach Kish at

   Scott City High School, earning All-

  State Honors and setting a Missouri

  State High School record for 3 pointers

  made in a single game at 16.  Jon played

  Division I basketball at Arkansas State

  University, where he led the Sun Belt

  Conference in 3 point FG% as a senior .

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East Central Basketball Camp 2006