Jim Redd
Football Student-Athlete/Coach/Athletic Director
Northwest Missouri (1963-2001)
Redd was a football player, football coach and Director of Athletics for Northwest Missouri from 1963-2001. As a player, Redd was an All-MIAA First Team defensive lineman and an All-MIAA Second Team offensive tackle in 1965. He also won the 1965 MIAA Sportsmanship Award, which at the time was considered the highest student-athlete award given by the MIAA.
As head coach, he led Northwest to the 1979 MIAA championship and was named MIAA Coach of the Year. As an assistant, he helped the Bearcats to two MIAA Championships, in 1972 and 1974.
He served as Director of Athletics at Northwest Missouri from 1993-2001. As the AD, Redd spearheaded a number of facility upgrades including improvements to the football stadium, Herschel Neil Track, a new softball field, a new soccer pitch, tennis courts, and the Lamkin Activity Center, which includes Bearcat Arena. Under Redd's supervision, Northwest teams won 30 MIAA Championships and earned the MIAA All Sports Trophy in 1998. Also during Redd's tenure, the Northwest football team won back-to-back NCAA Division II National Championships in 1998 and 1999.
As a member of the MIAA Institutional Representatives Council for more than eight years, Redd was active in conference affairs and was among the leaders in the conference to effect much change and growth over that time period.
After his departure from Northwest in 2001, Redd went on to become the Athletics Director and Physical Education and Recreation Chair at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, where he served until 2009. He helped establish physical education and recreation majors, and his Cardinal teams won many Heart of America Athletics Association Championships with numerous NAIA postseason appearances. He is currently the principal at Archbishop O'Hara High School in Kansas City, Missouri.
Redd was inducted into the Christian Brothers College High School Alumni Hall of Fame in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2000, he was inducted into Northwest's "M" Club Hall of Fame in 2002, and was inducted into Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 2008. In 2010, he received the Northwest Missouri State University College of Education "Lifetime Achievement Award".