• Home
  • News
    • Business
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
    • Legislature
    • Politics / Govt
  • Sports
    • High School Sports
    • The Bill Pollock Show
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support

Missourinet

Your source for Missouri News and Sports

You are here: Home / Sports / Campus of Missouri Southern doubles as a shelter for now (PODCAST)

Campus of Missouri Southern doubles as a shelter for now (PODCAST)

June 10, 2011 By Bill Pollock

Missouri Southern's athletic center turned into a shelter

Just two weeks prior to the tornado ripping through Joplin, Missouri Southern State University just signed up with the Red Cross to use the school’s facilities as a shelter should disaster strike the area. Little did anyone know, including Athletic Director Jared Bruggeman, that they would be called upon quickly.

Listen to MSSU A.D. Jared Bruggeman (10:00 mp3)

Bruggeman recalls he didn’t know how severe the storms were. In fact, he didn’t see the damage personally until Tuesday. His life and everyone in Joplin change in an instant on May 22nd. He and his family was safe and out of harm’s way, but he drove to the campus to check up after the high school graduation.

The staff at MSSU converted the gym from commencement ceremony into a shelter moving bleachers and getting cots set up. In addition to providing temporary sleeping quarters, the campus also was home to a make shift triage, a temporary morgue, and offices for FEMA, Child Disaster Services and Americorp.

Bruggeman says it will be a long time before the campus gets it’s facilities back, but as the coaches prepare for their season and share hallway and office space with these organizations, they still have a job to do and a responsibility to bring a sense of normalcy back to the community.

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: Joplin, Missouri Southern, Sports

Subscribe to our daily newsletter


Tweets by Missourinet

Sports

Pinson helps deliver big win for Mizzou at Tennessee

Mizzou … [Read More...]

25th ranked Lady Bears get past Drake

Missouri … [Read More...]

Mahomes has cleared NFL concussion protocol

Patrick … [Read More...]

Bieniemy’s window closing. “Yes I do want to be a head coach”

Seven head … [Read More...]

Kansas City T-Bones are now the Monarchs

The Kansas … [Read More...]

More Sports

Tweets by missourisports

Archives

Opinion/Editorials

TwitterFacebook

Copyright © 2021 · Learfield News & Ag, LLC