Yamirra Woods spent a lot of time watching wrestling videos in the days before her first high school wrestling match. Woods, a sophomore at Lawrence High School, decided to try something new this year. She’d always been told that she was strong, so wrestling seemed like a natural sport for ...

Boys and girls wrestling and boys swim and dive teams around Lawrence are in postseason competitions, and the local freshmen have had standout performances for their teams. Here are this week's selections for the Journal-World Athletes of the Week: Anabella Ackerman, Lawrence Ackerman made ...

Former Free State wrestlers Matthew Marcum and Eric Streeter have qualified for the NJCAA National Championships. Marcum (197-pound weight class) and Streeter (149-pound weight class) graduated from Free State in 2023 as state champions with over 100 high school wins and joined the Labette ...

Bowling is commonly a casual pastime. But during his 16 years as Lawrence High School bowling coach, Larry Burton has seen bowling change lives. “I enjoy seeing the kids that may not fit in at school, being able to do something that keeps them in school,” Burton said. “There’s been ...

Lawrence traveled to Olathe North for a pair of basketball games, losing both. The girls lost 85-66, and the boys lost 60-33. In the girls basketball game, the Lions played a well-rounded offensive game. They hit 3s, got to the free-throw line, and distributed the ball, which resulted in 66 ...

For the last two years, the backs of the state wrestling shirts for Lawrence and Free State were spacious, with only two names printed. The shirts this year will look fuller as nine wrestlers qualified between the two schools. Six Lawrence girls qualified for state in the 6A East regional at ...