Feature /// Hall of Famer Tim Abney


Story By: Kary Booher, Missouri Sports Hall of Fame Photography by: Lincoln University


Missouri Sports Hall of Fame Abney Inducted Into


Back in the late 1970s, on the campus of Lincoln University, the men’s basketball team created a real sense of pride.            


Tournament. Around that time, people were already talking about two comebacks: a preseason tournament title against none other than Saint Louis University, after having trailed by 14 points; and   The point guard on those teams? That was Tim Abney, who later be- came part of the fabric of Lincoln Athletics – which is why the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame is proud to induct Abney with the Class of 2024.   school. He was recently named Lincoln’s athletic director after eight years as assistant athletic director. In that role, he served as an advisor and coordinator for each of Lincoln’s student-athletes. 


  two MIAA regular-season championships and four NCAA Division II


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  manship Award.


Abney later coached the women’s basketball team for a decade (1999-2009), with Lincoln winning 72 games, making him the sec- ond-winningest coach in program history behind Leo Lewis. His   And to think he almost never went to school there. “Initially, I was being recruited by the University of Arkansas,” said Abney, a 1974 graduate of Kansas City’s Central High School. “After that fell through, I received a call from Don Corbett, the head men’s basketball coach at Lincoln University. He sold me on Lincoln, and the rest is history.”


Abney certainly is an inspiring story, as he put in the work to          9 guard and grew to 6 feet before graduation (and then 6-2 as a Lincoln freshman).


“(In high school), I learned that I was a hard worker and had a never-give-up attitude,” Abney said. “I started my career as a


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