The Kansas soccer team needed 149 minutes to get its first goal of the 2023 campaign; it needed just 28 to get three more. After falling behind 1-0 at Loyola Chicago Sunday afternoon following a long-distance free kick from Amanda Cassidy that just barely clipped the hand of goalkeeper Melania Pasar, KU was undaunted. Head coach Mark Francis said the players told him in the huddle, 'We're in this, let's just ...
Five players tallied at least seven kills and Kansas won a pair of hotly contested sets that went to extra points on its way to a 3-1 home exhibition win over South Dakota on Saturday. Junior opposite hitter London Davis led the way with 10 kills, closely followed by returnees Caroline Bien and Rhian Swanson and transfers Toyosi Onabanjo (Iowa) and Reagan Cooper (Texas Tech). Camryn Turner, a preseason ...
When Ethan Vasko opted to leave Kansas in late spring, the conventional wisdom was that redshirt sophomore Ben Easters would slide smoothly into Vasko’s No. 3 spot, as the lone scholarship quarterback behind Jalon Daniels and Jason Bean. Cole Ballard’s performance has quickly disabused the KU football community of that notion. Offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki told reporters at the team’s media day ...
One of the more entertaining storylines at fall camp for the Kansas football team this year — and a succinct reflection of the team’s increased experience, as well as the trust it has built among its coaches — is the offense’s ongoing creation and presentation of plays to offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki. The process is intended to foster an increased level of investment in the offense, Kotelnicki ...
With the island of Maui devastated by wildfires, and the town of Lahaina that hosts college basketball's Maui Invitational acutely so, the Kansas men's basketball team is doing its part to aid relief efforts. KU Athletics announced Friday afternoon that the Jayhawks will travel to Champaign, Illinois, for a charity exhibition game against the University of Illinois at State Farm Center at 5 p.m. on Oct. 29. ...
JB Brown's work as a weak-side linebacker in Kansas football training camp has frequently pitted him against the Jayhawks' stable of powerful running backs. “They’re a bunch of physical and fast dudes," Brown said after a recent practice. "I’ve hit heads with Dev (Neal) and (Daniel) Hishaw a couple times." But Brown might be better prepared for that contact than anyone else on the roster. Teammate Rich ...