Dylan Edwards, a junior at Derby High School who is one of the most-sought football players in Kansas, narrowed his list of potential colleges to 10 on Friday and Kansas is among them. Edwards, a running back who was named Gatorade's Kansas Player of the Year in December, listed Oklahoma, Oregon, Wisconsin, Kansas State, Missouri, Washington, Nebraska, Kentucky and Jackson State as his other choices. A ...
Former Kansas guard Erica Haynes-Overton has decided to transfer to Tennessee State. Haynes-Overton, who is from Nashville, will return home as a sixth-year senior after playing in just five games for the Jayhawks. She decided to transfer in January, with one minute in a 71-57 win over Texas Tech serving as her final appearance. She transferred to Kansas in January 2020 from East Tennessee State, where she was ...
Alexandra Emilianov is not shy about what she expects to take home from the Big 12's outdoor track and field championships this weekend. It's the same thing Kansas' record-holding discus thrower, who is from Moldova, expected to capture a year ago. "This year, totally, third ring coming to me," she said. Emilianov, the Big 12 champion as a freshman and a sophomore, will get a final chance to capture that ...
Davion Westmoreland has made the 12-hour drive between Kansas and Georgia five times, including one Monday after his official visit with the Jayhawks ended. As it turns out, he'll be making that trip in his Dodge Challenger a bit more often. Westmoreland, a defensive end at Hutchinson Community College, committed on Monday to play football at Kansas, becoming the fourth player who has decided to transfer to ...
Deondre Doiron knows how it looks. Doiron, who on Friday decided to transfer from Buffalo to Kansas, is aware of the perception that he's yet another player following head coach Lance Leipold and some of his assistants from the Northeast to the Midwest. And while Doiron does acknowledge that's technically true, he said his decision was made more so because of what he heard about Kansas from the others who have ...
Free State junior George Thornton and sophomore Jake Hedges, the No. 2 seed, were crowned the Sunflower League doubles champions on Tuesday when they defeated top-seeded Shawnee Mission East freshman Jacob Hanson and sophomore George Kahl 8-3 at Shawnee Mission West. Free State finished second in the team scoring with 65 points, behind Shawnee Mission East’s 80 points. Seniors Minh Vu and Jared Loos, the No. ...