If Kansas center Bryce Foster is a race car, then, as offensive line coach Daryl Agpalsa puts it, the restrictor plates are now off. As of Friday’s practice, the 13th overall of KU’s fall training camp, it’s full speed ahead for Foster. The coaching staff has gradually ramped him up since the conclusion of the first four-practice cycle of training camp. “We feel really good with where he’s at and ...
The Kansas soccer team’s quest to build on its first-year success under head coach Nate Lie begins, at least unofficially, on Friday. The Jayhawks will travel to the Iowa Soccer Complex for an exhibition against the Hawkeyes at 1 p.m. It’s the first sporting event of the 2025-26 athletic calendar at KU, but it arrives pleasantly late for Lie and his team as opposed to last season, when KU had to travel to ...
When Kansas coach Lance Leipold talked about Leroy Harris III at Big 12 media days on July 9, he noted that the defensive end from Brentwood, Tenn., had “an opportunity to redshirt.” Three weeks later, though, with some early practices in fall camp under his belt, Harris had become for Leipold “a guy that continues to show up on a daily basis and (is) getting better at the defensive end spot.” The true ...
Defensive tackle might be one of the deepest positions on the Kansas football team this season. The Jayhawks have at least six legitimate veteran options on the interior line, as part of a defense that features significant numbers of newcomers at virtually every other position. Sixth-year senior Kenean Caldwell says the tackles aim to be the “engine” of the defense this season: “It looks like us playing ...
The Big 12 Conference’s coaches don’t expect the Kansas volleyball program to take a step back in its first season under head coach Matt Ulmer. KU was picked to finish second in the league’s preseason coaches' poll on Wednesday, matching its position from last year’s final conference standings, despite a significant offseason roster overhaul under its new coaching staff. The Jayhawks received four ...
Levi Wentz may be in some sense one of the most experienced players on the Kansas roster, as a sixth-year senior, but he’s still young in the game of football as a whole. “Levi is one of those guys that his ceiling is huge,” wide receivers coach Terrence Samuel said. “He was kind of a guy that was playing out of position, that type of thing, coming up, and now he’s starting to blossom and see things ...