FSHS’ Kirkpatrick reopens college recruitment

With a busy summer of AAU basketball ahead before the start of her senior year at Free State High, Kennedy Kirkpatrick has reopened her college recruitment process.

At the beginning of her junior season with the Firebirds, Kirkpatrick orally committed to play at Wisconsin-Green Bay. She said Thursday that signing with the Horizon League program remains an option, but she plans on taking some trips to visit other schools, and hopes to have a finalized commitment by the end of the summer.

Kirkpatrick, a 5-foot-9 guard who plays for the Missouri Valley Eclipse AAU team, is taking visits to Missouri, Arkansas and Indiana, and said she also is interested in Northern Iowa, Villanova and Minnesota.