When Kansas coach Lance Leipold talked about Leroy Harris III at Big 12 media days on July 9, he noted that the defensive end from Brentwood, Tenn., had “an opportunity to redshirt.” Three weeks later, though, with some early practices in fall camp under his belt, Harris had become for Leipold “a guy that continues to show up on a daily basis and (is) getting better at the defensive end spot.” The true ...
The Big 12 Conference’s coaches don’t expect the Kansas volleyball program to take a step back in its first season under head coach Matt Ulmer. KU was picked to finish second in the league’s preseason coaches' poll on Wednesday, matching its position from last year’s final conference standings, despite a significant offseason roster overhaul under its new coaching staff. The Jayhawks received four ...
Kansas kicker Laith Marjan says that whenever he misses a field goal, he takes it personally. Fortunately for Marjan, he didn't miss often in 2024 — at least during games. In his first year as a collegiate placekicker, after serving as a kickoff specialist at East Carolina, Marjan went 16-for-17 with South Alabama, with just the one kick from 50 yards into the wind against Northwestern State providing a ...
Levi Wentz may be in some sense one of the most experienced players on the Kansas roster, as a sixth-year senior, but he’s still young in the game of football as a whole. “Levi is one of those guys that his ceiling is huge,” wide receivers coach Terrence Samuel said. “He was kind of a guy that was playing out of position, that type of thing, coming up, and now he’s starting to blossom and see things ...
Kansas strength coach Matt Gildersleeve likes to stress that his conditioning program adapts to the needs of individual players — as he says, “you meet them where they’re at.” In the case of defensive tackle Marcus Calvin, when Calvin entered the program in 2023, that meant meeting a player at the point of coming from a high school that didn’t have a barbell in its weight room, as Gildersleeve has ...
Former Kansas point guard Dajuan Harris Jr. has signed with the Kortrijk Spurs, the team announced on Sunday. The Spurs, also known as the House of Talents Spurs, play in the BNXT League, the top basketball competition for Belgium and the Netherlands. The team is located in Kortrijk in the Belgian province of West Flanders. This is the first overseas professional contract for Harris, who is coming off a brief ...