New Kansas volleyball coach Matt Ulmer has placed a significant emphasis on strengthening his team’s roster with international recruits. Since the Jayhawks wrapped up their first spring with Ulmer at the helm in late April, KU has signed a trio of players from Central Europe, including most recently, and perhaps most notably, Jovana Zelenović on Friday. Zelenović is a 6-foot-7 opposite hitter from Novi ...
It was a charmed few months on the football field for former Kansas tight end Mason Fairchild. At the end of the fall he had won a state championship as part of the coaching staff for his alma mater, the powerhouse Andale High School; by the end of the spring, he had become a United Football League champion as a player. Indeed, after a brief series of stints with the New Orleans Saints prior to the 2024 NFL ...
New Kansas assistant coach Jacque Vaughn’s contract will pay him a base salary of $360,000 per year over the course of two seasons with the program. The contract was released to the Journal-World on Wednesday afternoon in response to a Kansas Open Records Act request. KU announced the hiring of Vaughn, a former Jayhawk legend and NBA head coach for the Orlando Magic and Brooklyn Nets, on May 21, more than a ...
Updated 9:38 a.m. Friday, June 20, 2025: The return of Kansas baseball is about eight months away after the Jayhawks’ memorable season ended early in the NCAA Tournament, but fans might be able to get something vaguely resembling it in St. Cloud, Minnesota, this summer. Four members of next year’s KU team — returning star first baseman Brady Ballinger, a pair of JUCO transfers in infielder Tyson LeBlanc ...
Outgoing Kansas senior Brady Counsell on Wednesday afternoon became the first Jayhawk ever to receive a Gold Glove award from the American Baseball Coaches Association and Rawlings Sporting Goods. The honor, which in Counsell’s case recognizes his defensive play at third base, is only given to one player at each position in all of Division I. Counsell, who transferred to KU from Minnesota for his final year ...
The Kansas men’s basketball roster, newly refreshed though it may be, will still almost certainly look quite different when the season tips off at Allen Fieldhouse on Nov. 3. KU has made a habit in recent years of adding players as late as August, such as the likes of Johnny Furphy and David Coit, and head coach Bill Self has said he’s looking for another big man and a hot-shooting guard. KU’s recent ...