Cooper Worley, Dexter High School senior has committed to play men's volleyball with Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis.
Worley has played for NSSC for four years. NSSC Volleyball stands for Nurturing Skill, Strength, and Confidence and is a boys and girls youth volleyball club located in southeast Missouri.
Dexter High School currently does not have a boy's volleyball team, but Cooper definitely wanted to play the sport during his high school career. Jack Stover is the coach for the NSSC Club out of Cape Girardeau and has mentored Cooper for the past four years.
"I will play Opposite as my position on the team," stated Worley. "They have a very strong men's volleyball program and I like the small campus atmosphere. I received a scholarship so that is good as well."
"MBU also has a great Business Degree Program," continued Cooper. "I plan to get a degree and come back to Dexter to take over the family business at Specialty Products and Services."
Worley attend the Boys USAV National Championships in 2023 in Salt Lake City, Utah and 2024 was in Dallas, Texas. This year's championship is scheduled for Minneapolis and he is hoping the team receives a bid to go there as well.
Worley was also named to the 2024 USA Volleyball All-Tournament Team in Dallas, Texas.
Worley is the son of Matt and Amy Worley. His brother and sister-in-law are Jack and Lexi Worley of Murray Kentucky.
Missouri Baptist University is a private Baptist university in Creve Coeur, Missouri. It is one of three universities of the Missouri Baptist Convention. The main campus is located on a 68-acre site near Creve Coeur and Town and County in West St Louis County, off highway 64-40.
Pictured are Cooper with Coach Young from from MBU.
The 2025 BCS Tri-County girls Basketball Tournament begins on Saturday, January 11, 2025 at Oak Ridge.
Woodland Lady Cardinals earned the #1 seed followed by #2 Meadow Heights, #3 Oak Ridge, #4 Bloomfield, #5 Greenville, and #6 Puxico.
Woodland and Meadow Heights have a bye in the first round.
Beginning at 10 a.m. on Saturday, January 11th Bloomfield will play Greenville and at 11:30 a.m. Oak Ridge faces Puxico.
On Monday, Woodland will play the winner of the Bloomfield/Greenville game at 5:30 p.m. Meadow Heights will play the winner of the Oak Ridge vs Puxico game at 7:00 p.m.
Consolation game will be the non-winner of the Bloomfield/Greenville game vs the non-winner of the Oak Ridge/Puxico game at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, January 15th.
The 3rd Place game will be at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday with the Championship game at 7 p.m.
The Kennett Indians defeated the East Carter Redbirds by a score of 60- 44 in the first round of the 68th Annual Bloomfield Christmas Tournament on Thursday, December 26th.
Kennett defeated East Carter 60 - 44 and will play Bernie at 5:30 p.m. on Friday. East Carter will play Portageville at 10 a.m.
Kennett (60) Ty Jones 13, Dyson Watson 19, Antonio Flakes 9, Zayne Franklin 5, Hyden Gilmore 8, Sire Thomas 6 FG 24, FT 7/14, F 10 (3-pointers: Watson 1, Flakes 1, Gilmore 1, Fouled Out: None)
East Carter (44) Zander Reynolds 1, Cordell Duckett 4, Chase Kearney 9, Cason Price 2, Chayse Bradshaw 15, Bryce Stahl 4, Will Baugus 9 FG 19, FT 3/11, F 10. (3-pointers - Kearney 1, Bradshaw 2, Fouled Out: None)
Game #3 of the 68th Annual Bloomfield Christmas Tournament featured the #4 ranked Bernie Mules and the #13 Portageville Bulldogs.
Bernie defeated Portageville 58-47.
Bernie (58) - Blayne Morgan 15, Jon Aycock 20, Cole Arnold 12, Hunter Massey 6, Chase Guiling 5. FG 22, FT 11/14 F 9. (3-pointers Morgan 2, Guiling 1. Fouled Out: None)
Portageville (47) - Antonio Hickenbottom 7, Evan Winsor 3, Xay Bogan 21, Parker Thompson 2, Huston Partin 5, Jack Bell 6, Eli Wheeler 3. FG 17, FT 7/11 F 11. (3-pointers: Hickenbottom 1, Winsor 1, Bogan 1. Fouled Out: None).
