Free State swimmer Ella Marsh finished her first year as the Sunflower League champion, 6A state champion and now a National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association All-American.
Marsh earned an All-American consideration time at the Sunflower League meet, in which she finished the 200-yard individual medley in two minutes, 4.21 seconds, which was also a league record. Two weeks later, Marsh beat that time to ...
Former Free State pitcher Zac Thornton has thrown 21 1/3 innings since being called up to the New York Mets in May, and over the last 18 innings, nobody has scored a run against him.
On Tuesday, the former Firebird earned his first MLB win by pitching six scoreless innings in a 4-0 win over the Milwaukee Brewers. Thornton — who recently changed the spelling of his first name to remove the "h" — finished ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Fifty local youngsters piled into the gym at Oak Park High School on Saturday morning for the second annual Young Agbaji Foundation Basketball Skills Camp, hosted by former Kansas guard Ochai Agbaji.
“We had a really good turnout,” Agbaji said. “It’s a busy weekend with AAU tournaments, but we still had a good turnout. (There were) more younger kids than the older kids, but that’s ...
Free State senior Sarai Preston’s first love was softball, but it wasn’t her last.
Preston grew up in a sporting house, and that included throwing around the football. Playing flag football was a small consideration before she got to high school with other clubs, but it didn’t work out.
Then, right before her junior year, that opportunity came with Free State.
“I was just going to play softball, flag ...
Former Lawrence High pitcher Grant Cleavinger has found a professional home after signing a contract with the Chicago White Sox.
Cleavinger went undrafted in the MLB Draft but signed with the White Sox on July 16 and was assigned to the Arizona Complex League White Sox, the rookie-level circuit operated by Minor League Baseball.
This signing comes after Cleavinger spent four years as a relief pitcher in ...
Amid the music, whistles, celebrations and, eventually, a slip-n-slide, Free State’s flag and tackle football teams spent four days this week as ambassadors for football.
Free State held a flag football camp from Monday to Thursday that consisted of hour-and-a-half sessions for two youth age groups each day. Flag football coach Adam Barmann and tackle football coach Kevin Stewart coached the girls and boys, ...
