WRITER: Henry Greenstein

KU volleyball to open season against Vanderbilt in AVCA First Serve event

Kansas will begin its 2025 volleyball season on Saturday by competing in the AVCA First Serve event, beginning with a match against Vanderbilt at 3 p.m. The contest will take place at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska, and will be televised nationally on FS1. It brings together a KU team in its first season under new head coach Matt Ulmer, following Ray Bechard’s retirement after 27 seasons at the ...

Tight end Bruhn poised to 'play a lot' as redshirt freshman after offseason improvement

Kansas strength and conditioning coach Matt Gildersleeve wasn’t totally sure what to make of Carson Bruhn when he first arrived in Lawrence. The 6-foot-6 tight end from Sioux Center, Iowa, came to KU as a three-star prospect in the 2024 recruiting class, recruited primarily by former offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki before he left for Penn State. “Maybe when he first got on campus, I go, ‘Where’s ...

KU tops Utah Valley 3-2 to complete unbeaten homestand

The Kansas soccer team weathered an anxious final stretch after Utah Valley's Ruby Hladek scored off a late corner kick, withstanding the Wolverines' last few attacks and claiming a 3-2 victory at Rock Chalk Park on Thursday night to remain unbeaten. Senior forward Lexi Watts scored twice, including once 34 seconds in off a long-distance service by Livvy Moore for a tally that was the fastest goal in Rock Chalk ...

The players left off KU's depth chart who are most likely to contribute in 2025

A depth chart doesn’t tell the whole story. Last season, defensive tackle Blake Herold, then a redshirt freshman, didn’t get a spot on Kansas’ depth chart coming out of fall camp, as he was passed up in favor of several upperclassmen. He made it on the depth chart by the third week of the season thanks to his high-level play. By the end of the 2024 campaign, Herold had played 277 snaps and become KU’s ...

KU announces sellout for season opener, reveals stadium's capacity

The Kansas football team's season opener against Fresno State on Saturday at 5:30 p.m., which will be the first game in the revamped David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, has sold out. KU Athletics announced the news on Wednesday afternoon, while also revealing for the first time this season's official capacity for the stadium, following the completion of the first phase of the Gateway project: 41,525. That is ...

Stewart back on track after offseason injury

When he arrived on campus in the spring of 2024, not too long ago, Harry Stewart III made a strong first impression. Not only was the then-freshman running back “built like a monster,” as teammate Daniel Hishaw Jr. puts it now — “He’s still built like a monster,” in fact — but position coach Jonathan Wallace called Stewart “almost like Devin Neal all over again” in terms of how eager he was to ...