KQ2 Pigskin Preview: Maryville High School returns to the Hound Pound

MARYVILLE, Mo (KQTV) -- After finishing the 2025 season with a 9-3 record, the Maryville Spoofhounds are chomping at the bit to take the gridiron once again.

Head Coach Matt Webb returns for his fifteenth season in the position, leading a team with thirteen seniors returning.

"There's a lot to be said about the youth of America and how they don't do this right and how they don't do that right. I don't see it in this football team," Webb said. "Every day I see a lot of guys that I'm really proud to be their coach."

Maryville has had a long lineage of success when it comes to football.

With the collegiate team of Northwest Missouri State University bringing home six national titles, and Maryville High School claiming five.

The students in Maryville have grown up watching this success firsthand.

"The culture of Maryville is that we are a football town and we should always be winning," Senior Running Back Carson Hageman said. "We should always be trying and working harder than anyone else around us."

"There's a pride here. I always wanna go out and win, always wanna go out and compete," Senior Linebacker Will McCollough said. "We wanna go out and work our absolute hardest and continue to grind every single time."

One of the seniors returning to the field is Senior starting Quarterback Jackson Dredge.

Dredge took a moment to reflect on how far he has come in his time since taking the QB1 position.

"Whenever tough stuff would come up, it would be really hard for me to get through it," Dredge said. "But I think in my junior year, having sophomore year under my belt, just being able to get through the tough times and then whenever stuff isn't going our way, being able to overcome it and make something happen."

The Spoofhounds will begin their season by squaring off against Blair Oaks High School at 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 28, in Jefferson City.