Ever since Lance Leipold took over as Kansas football coach in 2021, the KU football players have exclusively selected team captains who have been with the Jayhawks for the entirety of Leipold’s tenure. Yes, as recently as 2024, KU had two captains who came to Lawrence in 2020 in Jalon Daniels and Luke Grimm and two who arrived in 2021 in Devin Neal and Cornell Wheeler. This season, it is quite possible that ...
It is often said that nervousness and excitement are two sides of the same coin, or at least that is often said by people around me when they have to hear about how irrationally anxious I am about almost everything almost all of the time. Whatever the case, Kansas fans are likely experiencing some combination of those two emotions — the exact proportion probably depends on one’s level of general optimism ...
As much as Matt Ulmer and the Kansas volleyball team might look forward to experiencing a packed Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena this season, they’re not going to get the chance to do so until Sept. 26. Indeed, KU’s first Big 12 match of the Ulmer era, a Friday night battle with Arizona State, is also its first home match of the season. Outside of practices and last Saturday's alumni scrimmage, the Jayhawks ...
The Kansas baseball roster was not, as head coach Dan Fitzgerald would put it, decimated by the 2025 MLB Draft in the same way it had been the previous summer. KU did have a pair of key players forgo their senior seasons to sign professional contracts. Alex Breckheimer, the Jayhawks’ closer in 2024, was a 16th-round selection of the St. Louis Cardinals, and center fielder Derek Cerda went to the Chicago White ...
A sophomore year can go one of two ways, to hear Kansas soccer coach Nate Lie tell it. In one case, a sophomore can keep moving forward, can “kick on,” as Lie says: “You go from (a) freshman, getting your feet wet, steady player, ups and downs, and then sophomore year they look like they have ownership, they look like they have leadership and they take that huge step. I’ve seen that.” And then on the ...
Head coach Lance Leipold and his staff have always tried to implement what they call a “culture of competition.” If the Kansas football team succeeds in 2025, it will be as a direct result of that culture. Gone is nearly everyone who had a firm grip on a starting spot in 2024. Many of those players had held those places for years at a time as they helped rebuild the Jayhawks. In are dozens of new ...