A number of student-athletes from area high schools made their collegiate plans official on Wednesday. Free State’s Turner Corcoran, who was the top-ranked football recruit in Kansas in the Class of 2020, signed his national letter of intent to play at the University of Nebraska. Corcoran, a 6-foot-6, 270-pound four-star lineman, plans to enroll early to join the Cornhuskers for spring ball. He will also ...
The Tour of Lawrence will be bringing cyclists back to the University of Kansas next summer. For the first time since 2014, the event will have a race on the collegiate campus during its tour. Cindy Bracker, who has been the race director since 2018, said that KU will be the location for the third and final day of the event. The 2020 tour is slated to take place July 3-5 in Lawrence. Bracker wanted to include ...
It has been a busy start to the basketball season, which is a good thing. Multiple area basketball teams got some much-needed game action last week in midseason tournaments. It gave those respective teams a better idea about ways to improve before the start of the new semester. While many area squads still have at least one game left before winter break, let’s take a look at a few things that we learned ...
It was an important week for both city swim teams. The boys swim squads of Free State and Lawrence High had two tough tests in as many meets this week. In Wednesday’s quadrangular in Manhattan, FSHS placed third with 303.5 points and the Lions claimed fourth with 289 points. MHS won the event with 375 points. All three of those programs were back in action in the Olathe Invitational on Friday. Free State ...
Coach of the year: Mike Paramore, Perry-Lecompton Under Paramore, Perry-Lecompton advanced to the state championship game for the second time in program history. The Kaws ultimately finished as a runner-up in Class 3A. PLHS finished with a 9-4 record, which included a stretch of six consecutive wins before the Kaws fell to unbeaten Andale in the title game. Athlete of the year: Turner Corcoran, Free ...
Coach of the year: John Tollefson, Tonganoxie Under Tollefson, the Chieftains earned plenty of hardware during the postseason. Tonganoxie’s boys cross-country team won the Frontier League title and secured a regional crown as well. THS also ended up taking home a third-place finish at the Class 4A state cross-country meet. Athlete of the year: Henry Nelson, Bishop Seabury To cap off his stellar career, ...