Feature /// Tyler Gosney


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Most professional athletes strive, and never succeed, in winning just one championship ring.


Though he’s quick to remind you he’s not a pro athlete, Tyler Gos- ney is a pro at creating and maintaining one of the most iconic play-  


  from the team’s 2019, 2022 and 2023 championship seasons. Still, the diamond-and-ruby encrusted baubles, of which four ver-  owners of the team, are not what drives the Monroe City, Missouri, native to keep up the grueling year-round work of caring for the  


obviously I’m privileged and thankful that the Hunt family is kind   getting that ring or not. Although it’s a privilege, it’s not ultimately what’s driving me.”


“I’m going to be really honest, that has nothing to do with what I enjoy about my job. If I never got one of those rings I would still enjoy


24 /// November 2024


 It was 2019 when Gosney landed his full-time job with the Chiefs


 Sandwiched in-between were groundskeeping jobs and intern-


          completed his bachelor’s degree after obtaining his associate’s degree in Commercial Turf and Grounds Landscaping in 2014 from State Technical College in Linn, Missouri.     shoot higher.


So taking advantage of Missouri’s A+ Scholarship program, which


provides merit-based full scholarships for academically-eligible students to obtain a two-year community college/vo-tech degree,


Ri gs Not Th Thi g Fo Chiefs


CHAMP Story By: Scot Thompson


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