Kansas defensive end Bai Jobe is entering the transfer portal after one year with the program, his trainer Sean Cooper announced on X on Sunday night. Jobe will look for his third school in three seasons, with three years of eligibility remaining. A native of Senegal, he played high school football in Norman, Oklahoma, and was the top player in his state and a four-star recruit entering college. He spent a ...
Eight individual University of Kansas athletes and two more relay teams posted first-place finishes on Saturday, the final day of the 102nd Kansas Relays, at Rock Chalk Park. “Anytime we get to compete in our hometown, I’m really excited,” KU coach Stanley Redwine said in a press release. “There’s areas where we can get better, but overall I thought it was a great meet.” For KU, it was a healthy ...
The Kansas baseball team beat Kansas State twice on Saturday at Hoglund Ballpark to complete the Jayhawks’ first sweep in the Sunflower Showdown since 2019. The result allowed KU to vault two games ahead of the Wildcats in the Big 12 standings, back into a three-way tie for second place in the conference at 12-6 in league play, and 31-10 overall. It also completed an unbeaten 4-0 week for the Jayhawks to ...
In a fitting series of results given the meet’s name, the University of Kansas experienced some of its greatest success in a series of relay races on Friday, the second day of the 102nd Kansas Relays. KU claimed its first two victories of the three-day meet in a pair of 4x800-meter relays on Friday morning. The women’s 4x800 team of Bethany Druse, Marisa January, Aaliyah Moore and Emmaculate Jemutai surged ...
In its first exhibition match of the spring, Kansas head coach Matt Ulmer said, his team was “horrible.” The road contest against Wichita State saw the Jayhawks regress after they had made strides in their first spring practices under Ulmer and his newly constructed staff. “It was really nice, though, because we got film,” Ulmer said. “And then I made them watch point for point, play for play, of ...
A pair of freshmen finished in third place in their respective 5,000-meter races as the top finishers from the Kansas track and field team on the opening day of the Kansas Relays. Kaitlyn Swartz, from Papillon, Nebraska, finished with a time of 17 minutes, 59.84 seconds to take third in the women’s event. She had previously competed in the 5K in the fall as part of KU’s cross-country team. Swartz spent ...