Nate Lie came into his first spring as Kansas head soccer coach needing to get acquainted with a new school and a new set of players for the first time since he took over at Xavier in 2017. The players weren’t new to each other, though, nor new to college soccer. Even after the retirement of longtime head coach Mark Francis, KU was able to retain the vast majority of its 2023 roster, and among that group ...
The Lawrence High softball team split a low-scoring doubleheader with Shawnee Mission East on Thursday to finish its regular season with a 9-16 record. In the top half of the doubleheader, Charlee Burghart’s third-inning RBI single to score Harper Dye went down as the Chesty Lions’ lone run, but that was all they needed thanks to Keira Norris’ 16-strikeout complete-game shutout, as they won 1-0. They ...
Less than a month after she was selected by the Connecticut Sun at No. 19 overall, and less than two weeks after she began training camp with the team, former Kansas center Taiyanna Jackson has been waived. The Sun announced the news Friday morning, a day after Jackson made her first unofficial appearance in a Connecticut jersey, scoring two points and grabbing three rebounds in an 82-79 preseason loss to New ...
One local singles player and two doubles pairings will participate in the high school state boys tennis championships beginning Friday. At the 6A level, Free State senior Jake Hedges and the doubles partnership of Lawrence High senior Logan Daniels and junior Josh Lavin will head to Wichita-Riverside Tennis Complex to take part in state competition hosted by Wichita North. Hedges advanced out of last ...
Oklahoma City — The Kansas softball team opened its matchup against Oklahoma on Thursday with three straight hits and then did not record another for the remainder of the game. Those three hits amounted to just one run. And in the ensuing innings, the Sooners did what the Sooners tend to do with their second-ranked scoring offense, piling on one score after another against multiple KU pitchers, and beat the ...
Kansas “caught a break” by getting Hunter Dickinson back for a fifth season, as head coach Bill Self put it Monday. Even though he hasn’t been a marquee professional prospect, the second-team All-American center already played four accomplished seasons in college, went through senior-night festivities and could have decided to move on. Now that he’s back, though, Self has pinpointed some areas for the ...