Two-Minute Drill

SEMO Football head coach Tom Matukewicz and the Redhawks have been back hard at work preparing for the 2019 season, with official team practice underway for just over a week.

Coach Tuke said he is excited about the shape the team is in, and the team has shown great effort thus far. All the coaches and team e are excited to be back having fun and back to work.

SEMO is coming off a historic 2018 campaign which resulted in it posting a 9-4 overall record, finishing second in the Ohio Valley Conference at 6-2 and claiming only the second NCAA Playoff berth in program history.

Southeast Missouri student-athletes Grace Powderly and Claire Morrill, both biomedical science majors, spent a week in Honduras undertaking various tasks to assist communities abroad this summer.

Powderly and Morrill are Cape Girardeau natives who attended Notre Dame High School. Powderly will be a sophomore on the women's tennis team and Morrill will be a sophomore on the track & field team this upcoming 2019-20 school year.

Southeast Missouri senior linebacker Zach Hall was named Ohio Valley Conference Preseason Defensive Player of the Year and the Redhawks were picked second in this year's OVC Preseason Poll.

Hall led a group of six Preseason All-OVC selections for SEMO. Senior quarterback Daniel Santacaterina, senior wide receiver Kristian Wilkerson, senior defensive tackle Clarence Thornton, senior outside linebacker Justin Swift and junior defensive back Bydarrius Knighten also claimed Preseason All-OVC accolades.

Jason Collins has joined the Redhawks Gymnastics program as an assistant coach. Collins comes to SEMO after spending one season at Yale. Prior to Yale, he worked as the vice president, chief athletic office, director of men's gymnastics and women's elite team coach at EVO Athletics.

SEMO Head Coach Ashley Lawson said he brings a wealth of gymnastics knowledge and experience and will make an instant impact in the gym, and he is strong on the technical side of gymnastics.