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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tony Bland will soon join the Kansas men's basketball team as an assistant coach, a source confirmed to the Journal-World on Tuesday afternoon. Bland comes to KU after most recently serving for one season as an assistant coach on Danny Sprinkle’s staff at Washington. ESPN first reported the news of his move to KU. He replaces Chase Buford, after head coach Bill Self said on Friday that Buford had accepted an ...