Despite finishing the season with just one win last year, the Lawrence football team was in just about every game. The Lions had to learn some tough but valuable lessons. Even with a lack of success in the record, the team continued to show up, get better and work hard, which culminated in a ...
Lawrence High School named Silas Dulan its first flag football coach, as the program enters its first year of varsity competition. Dulan isn’t new to girls flag football. With Lawrence Youth Football, Dulan was the head coach of the program’s inaugural middle school girls team last year ...
There are few positions in sports as high-stress as pitching. It all starts in the circle, and a game can flip with one pitch. The good thing for Lawrence pitcher and outfielder Julia Norris is that she’s confident — she doesn’t let the pressure get to her. And now, as she enters her ...
Lawrence Athletic Director Nick Wood approached Sean Dooley about filling the vacant head coach position for the Lions, and Dooley started thinking about the opportunities for him and his family. Dooley’s youngest son, Joey, is a rising junior at Lawrence and a two-year starter for the ...
Hudson Hardesty competed in the High School Baseball National Championship Series this summer with the hopes that the exposure would help in his recruitment. As it turns out, college coaches were watching and noticing Hardesty, especially as he threw his best game of his career and earned the ...
Ivy Ford was preparing for the 6A East regional tournament last year with a path to the state tournament in sight. Then came a cold. “I didn't have it until like the night before at 9 p.m.,” Ford said. “If I did try to go, it probably wouldn't have ended well. And I didn't want to risk ...