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Mizzou's 'business as usual' ends with Reed-Francois' arrival

Desiree Reed-Francois gives a high five to Truman on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, as she is introduced as the University of Missouri's 21st Athletic Director at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Mo. Reed-Francois is the first woman to hold the position. Photo by Christian Gooden,

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Five years to the day that Missouri introduced Jim Sterk as the school’s new athletics director, MU went through the same routine Wednesday, parading his successor through the same room at Memorial Stadium as the pep band played the same fight song and cheerleaders and Truman the Tiger again greeted the new AD in front of a throng of supporters and media.