JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Lincoln head softball coach Jason Ollison and head women's basketball coach Drea Mize have been named as "Missouri's Best" at their positions in the 2023 edition of Missouri's Best Magazine.
 
Ollison, in his first year as the head coach of the Lincoln softball team, spent the last six years working at Versailles High School, including serving as the head softball coach in 2020 and 2021. In each of those years, Versailles broke the school record for victories in a single season, with Ollison and his staff earning the Tri-County Conference Coaching Staff of the Year award following each season. Ollison, who simultaneously organized and managed all of the Morgan County Athletic Club's youth programs, finished his tenure at Versailles with a 34-20 record.
 
From 2017 through 2022, Ollison also served as the head baseball coach at Versailles, leading the program to its first ever district runner-up finish in 2021. Ollison previously was the head baseball coach at Benton County R-IX in Warsaw, Mo. in 2016 as well as the head baseball coach at Greenridge High, where he took a team that had won just four games in 2013 and led the program to district runner-up finishes in 2014 and 2015.
 
Now in her third year as the head coach of the Lincoln women's basketball team, Mize led the program to its best start in four seasons in 2021-22.  In her first year leading the program, Mize directed a Blue Tiger squad that excelled at forcing turnovers, as LU created an average of 16 takeaways per game, the second-most in the MIAA. LU additionally finished sixth in the conference, and 43rd in NCAA Division II, with 176 total steals. The Blue Tigers also excelled at the line, making 318 free throws, the 12th-most by any Division II program.
 
Mize spent the previous two years as the head coach at Central Florida College, where she led the Patriots to 31 victories and a berth in the FCSAA State/NJCAA District tournament.  Mize took over a program that had won just eight games and increased its win total each season, improving to 12 wins in 2018-19 and a 19-victory campaign in 2019-20.