Kansas athletic director Travis Goff will go into the Ring of Honor of his alma mater Dodge City High School this fall, the school's alumni association announced Tuesday. Goff, who is a 1998 alumnus of the school, will enter alongside a fellow collegiate athletic director, Ross Bjork of Ohio State, who recently made the move from Texas A&M. "Both of us are incredibly proud of our roots and the values that ...
Twice on Wednesday night the second-seeded Free State softball team gave up a run by a fraction of a second, and twice the Firebirds shook it off as though nothing had happened. In the fourth inning, seventh-seeded Manhattan finally got to FSHS ace Elsa Carrillo when Isabelle Peabody worked her way into a favorable count, then drove the ball to the corner in right field. She rounded third as the Firebirds were ...
The postseason came to an abrupt end for Lawrence High’s baseball and softball teams against a pair of higher-seeded schools on the fields of the Blue Valley District Athletic Complex on Wednesday afternoon. LHS softball fell 10-0 to Gardner Edgerton in six innings. The Blazers’ pitcher Ava Yokley held the Chesty Lions scoreless, while Anna Fitzgibbons went 4-for-4 at the plate and Charlee Latteman went ...
The Kansas baseball team avoided disaster over the weekend, bouncing back from a blowout loss at home to 12th-place Houston with back-to-back wins to claim the series. The Jayhawks certainly didn’t make it easy, as Saturday’s victory in particular required a comeback from down 8-1. And now KU’s (29-18, 15-12 Big 12 Conference) task gets substantially more difficult, as it will conclude the regular season ...
The Kansas men's basketball program fleshed out the back end of its roster a bit more on Tuesday when it earned a commitment from Will Thengvall, a 6-foot-4, 185-pound guard from Wichita's Kapaun Mt. Carmel High School who will serve as a walk-on for next year's Jayhawks, per multiple reports. Thengvall averaged 17.6 points per game as a senior for a team that won a state title. He was named to The Wichita ...
Three Free State golfers ranked among the top five individual performers from non-advancing teams in 6A regional play on Monday and will advance to state competition. While Free State did not qualify as a team — it came in fourth place of nine teams — senior Jack Randall and sophomores Cash Nelson and Henry Thompson performed well enough at Olathe-Prairie Highlands Golf Course on Monday to make it to next ...