COLUMBIA, Mo. – Longtime Mizzou Baseball head coach Tim Jamieson (1995-2016) was named 2026 Kiwanis Club of Columbia Don Faurot Sportsperson of the Year Award, the club announced Tuesday.
Jamieson led the Tigers to 698 wins during his 22-season tenure as skipper of the Tigers, trailing only Gene McArtor (733) on Mizzou’s all-time coaching victories chart. Jamieson currently serves at the program’s Director of Program Development.
“I am honored and appreciate being recognized by the Kiwanis Club, especially being included with the list of highly successful people who have received this award before me,” Jamieson said. “I have been blessed with great athletic and human experiences during my career and have had the good fortune to be able to share those experiences with a host of very talented people.”
As the head man, Jamieson coached eight All-Americans and 10 Freshman All-Americans and saw 75 of his Mizzou players drafted, including four first rounders. Jamieson was inducted into the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in May of 2023.
As head coach of Missouri from 1995-2016, Jamieson’s teams topped the 30-win plateau on 15 occasions and captured nine NCAA Regional berths, including seven-straight appearances from 2003-09. He was a two-time conference coach of the year and piloted Mizzou to its last two conference crowns — the 1996 Big 8 regular-season championship and the 2012 Big 12 Tournament title.
A highly-respected developer of talent, Jamieson has helped mentor Major League Baseball All-Stars Max Scherzer, Ian Kinsler, Aaron Crow and Kyle Gibson. Additionally, he has seen a total of 22 of his former pupils play in the big leagues. In addition to Scherzer (Toronto), two more of his former Tiger standouts — Tanner Houck (Boston) and Pete Fairbanks (Miami) — currently hold spots on Major League 40-man rosters. In total, Jamieson’s big-league protégés have totaled 15 MLB All-Star nods, three Cy Young Awards and two Gold Glove Awards.
In addition to producing MLB players, Jamieson coached a pair of MLB managers (Jayce Tingler, Tony Vitello) during his Mizzou head-coaching tenure. Tingler had a stint as manager of the San Diego Padres from 2020-21 while Vitello was named manager of the San Francisco Giants during the 2025 offseason, hiring Tingler as his bench coach along with another former Tiger, Hunter Mense, as his hitting coach.
Jamieson joins previous Mizzou honorees Doug Smith (1991), Norm Stewart (1994), Fred Wappel (1995), Corby Jones (1999), Cindy Stein (2001), Brad Smith (2006), Mike Alden (2009), John Kadlec (2010), Gene McArtor (2014), J’den Cox (2016), Karissa Schweizer (2018), Brian Smith (2019), Ron Edwards (2024) and Charles A. Allen (2025) as a recipient of the Don Faurot Sportsperson of the Year Award.
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