Photo gallery: Only in Lawrence 2012 – Sports

photo by: John Young

Front row from left, Matthew Marcum, 6, Eric Streeter, 7, Nolan Bradley, 7, Cael Lynch, 9. Back row from left, Hunter Haralson, LHS junior, Reece Wright-Conklin, LHS senior, Randy Streeter, Alan Clothier, SJHS 8th grade, Caden Lynch, LHS Junior.

photo by: John Young

Free State soccer coach Kelly Barah shares a laugh with participants in his Boot Camp program Saturday, April 7, 2012 in the weight room at FSHS.

photo by: John Young

Former Lawrence High School baseball coach Ron Garvin hits balls to players so they can practice fielding during a little league baseball practice Saturday, April 7, 2012 at the YSI sports complex. Garvin helps coach his grandson's baseball team.

photo by: Mike Yoder

KU basketball coach Bill Self celebrates an over-time win against Missouri, Feb. 25, 2012. At center, behind Self is KU Public Safety Sgt. Gary Wieden, who has had the job of "guarding" Self for the past two years. Self considers Wieden a good luck charm, and the only time Wieden hasn't been guarding Self? A rare home loss to Texas in 2011.

photo by: Mike Yoder

Danny Lenz, local program director for Douglas County Special Olympics, left, gives some instructions to swimmer Ben Clark, 18, during training at the Lawrence Indoor Aquatic Center Saturday, April 14, 2012.

photo by: Nick Krug

Kansas University student Katy Sackuvich, a fifth-year senior from Olathe, is part of the reason Allen Fieldhouse stays clean following home games. Sackuvich and other members of the Betty's and Horror Zontals, the women's and men's ultimate Frisbee club teams, which spends about six hours, four to six times a year cleaning the historic building.