WRITER: David Rodish

LHS, FSHS girls basketball teams gain preliminary game experience with summer league contests

Shawnee — The high school basketball season is over five months away, but the Lawrence High School and Free State High School girls basketball teams are laying the groundwork for their upcoming seasons. The two teams compete weekly in the Three KC Summer League at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School. For both squads, the summer league games are an opportunity for young players to get early experience. For ...

Lawrence community sends LHS volleyball coach off with celebration after 17 years

Former Lawrence High School Athletic Director Ron Commons said hiring Stephanie Scarbrough as the head volleyball coach was one of his easiest decisions. Scarbrough, a two-time state champion as a Chesty Lion in the late 1990s, returned to her alma mater in 2007 to take over the top gig. Being a former Lion helped, but her tenacity, dedication and understanding stood out in the interview process for ...

Former Lion coaching Sam Houston offense to success through conference realignment, new challenges

Conference realignment has affected almost every NCAA Division I school in some way or another. But the Sam Houston Bearkats have faced turnover at an increased rate. The team spent over 30 years in the Southland Conference before moving to the Western Athletic Conference for two years. This season, the Bearkats moved again to Conference USA. “It’s been a journey,” Sam Houston assistant baseball coach ...

Former LHS baseball coach returns to Falmouth Commodores of Cape Cod Baseball League

For years, the Stoll family spent summers in Massachusetts watching baseball and living what Brad Stoll called a “Norman Rockwell” life. Stoll became an assistant coach of the Falmouth Commodores of the Cape Cod Baseball League, one of the top college summer leagues in the country, back in 2009. For the next seven years, he and his family lived there over the summer and experienced the beauty of New England ...

LHS baseball teammates commit to Hutchinson CC, set to play together for eighth year

Since sixth grade, Brooks Jones and Sam Stoll have been teammates. The duo spent three years in youth baseball together before their high school careers at Lawrence High School. Their time as teammates isn’t over yet, despite having graduated in May. Stoll, a Hutchinson Community College recruit since August, became the unofficial lead recruiter on Jones once the latter decommitted from Tulane ...

Former Free State track athlete wins D-II triple jump and team championship in track finals

Auna Childress needed to relax. Childress said she joked with some media in Pittsburg that she saved her best stuff for her last outdoor meet, but in reality, the anxiety was intense. Fear of not being able to help her team raced through her mind. It was the NCAA Division II national track meet, and she and the Pittsburg State track and field team had a lot to prove. There was a lot to think about in not a lot ...