(From MSSU Lions Athletic News) Robert Corn and Tongula Givens Steddum will be inducted into the MIAA Hall of Fame as part of the 2021 Class on Monday, June 7 at the Kansas City Music Hall in downtown Kansas City.
Corn and Givens Steddum are part of a group of 11 individuals and five teams to be inducted in this year's class. This year's invitation only event will feature recognition of 2020 Hall of Fame class and the 2020-21 MIAA Winter Student-Athletes of the Year, presented by Summit Pointe Financial Group.
The evening will also include announcements for this year's winners of the MIAA SAAC Mentor of the Year, the Dr. Bob Boerigter Officiating Award of Excellence and the 2020-21 MIAA Commissioner's Cup, presented by McCownGordon Construction. McCownGordon has also agreed to sponsor the invitation-only post-event reception.
The event will begin at 6:30 pm and will be broadcast live on the MIAA Digital Network. The 2020 MIAA Awards Celebration was canceled due to COVID.
As a basketball player, Robert Corn was a tenacious defender who provided the leadership that enabled Missouri Southern to reach the quarterfinals of the NAIA Basketball Championships in 1978. Co-captain of the 1977-78 team, Corn helped the Lions finish 27-9 and capture both the CSIC and NAIA District 16 championships.
But that performance as a player pales to what the Benton, Ill., native accomplished as coach of the Lions. Corn retired in 2014 following 25 years as the head coach at his alma mater, including a 1999-00 season that saw the Lions finish with a 30-3 record and an Elite Eight win in the NCAA D-II Tournament in Louisville, Kentucky.
Corn left the program as the winningest coach with 413 career wins. He currently is third-best in all-time wins by a men's basketball coach in the MIAA.
He guided the Lions to two MIAA regular-season titles (1999-2000 and 2010-2011), as well as three MIAA Tournament Titles (1993, 2000, 2014). He coached the team to five NCAA Tournament Appearances in 1993, 2000, 2011, 2012, and 2014.
Corn went on to work in the Development Office at Southern following his retirement as a coach and retired from that position last year. Corn and his wife, Cindy have two sons, Rob and Scott and reside in Joplin.
Givens Steddum last competed in track & field as a Missouri Southern State University student-athlete in 1995, yet her name continues to dominate the school's history of track & field. Givens Steddum still holds many of the top 10 outdoor marks in both the triple jump and the long jump. Indoors, Givens Steddum has many of the top ten marks ever in the long and triple jump. She is one of two women in school history to surpass 41 feet in the outdoor triple jump and one of three to surpass 19 feet in the indoor long jump.
Givens Steddum was MSSU's first ever female individual National Champion with her outdoor triple jump victory in 1994 which she followed up the next year winning the indoor triple jump at the National Championships in 1995. Throughout her career at MSSU Givens Steddum earned All-American honors 9 times. She collected three MIAA high-point individual awards during her Southern career and held each Southern record in the triple jump and long jump at the time of her graduation and held the MIAA meet record for the outdoor triple jump until 2018.
In 1993, Givens Steddum was named MSSU's Female Athlete of the Year and claimed the honor again in 1995. The same year she also won the E.O. & Virginia Humphrey Award, given to the institution's outstanding student-athlete of the year.
In the 2003 indoor season, she had the third-best U.S. women's triple jump mark and the eighth-best long jump, while posting the 45th best triple jump in the world. Givens Steddum trained at MSSU in 2000 and went on to qualify and compete in the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Trials.
Givens Steddum and her husband Chris, have a son, Colby and reside in Dallas, Texas.
With Corn and Givens' induction, Southern has 11 individuals and one team in the MIAA Hall of Fame.
He guided the Lions to two MIAA regular-season titles (1999-2000 and 2010-2011), as well as three MIAA Tournament Titles (1993, 2000, 2014). He coached the team to five NCAA Tournament Appearances in 1993, 2000, 2011, 2012, and 2014.
Corn went on to work in the Development Office at Southern following his retirement as a coach and retired from that position last year. Corn and his wife, Cindy have two sons, Rob and Scott and reside in Joplin.
Givens Steddum last competed in track & field as a Missouri Southern State University student-athlete in 1995, yet her name continues to dominate the school's history of track & field. Givens Steddum still holds many of the top 10 outdoor marks in both the triple jump and the long jump. Indoors, Givens Steddum has many of the top ten marks ever in the long and triple jump. She is one of two women in school history to surpass 41 feet in the outdoor triple jump and one of three to surpass 19 feet in the indoor long jump.
Givens Steddum was MSSU's first ever female individual National Champion with her outdoor triple jump victory in 1994 which she followed up the next year winning the indoor triple jump at the National Championships in 1995. Throughout her career at MSSU Givens Steddum earned All-American honors 9 times. She collected three MIAA high-point individual awards during her Southern career and held each Southern record in the triple jump and long jump at the time of her graduation and held the MIAA meet record for the outdoor triple jump until 2018.
In 1993, Givens Steddum was named MSSU's Female Athlete of the Year and claimed the honor again in 1995. The same year she also won the E.O. & Virginia Humphrey Award, given to the institution's outstanding student-athlete of the year.
In the 2003 indoor season, she had the third-best U.S. women's triple jump mark and the eighth-best long jump, while posting the 45th best triple jump in the world. Givens Steddum trained at MSSU in 2000 and went on to qualify and compete in the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Trials.
Givens Steddum and her husband Chris, have a son, Colby and reside in Dallas, Texas.
With Corn and Givens' induction, Southern has 11 individuals and one team in the MIAA Hall of Fame.
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