Nolan Deitrich has been asked often over the summer by the Free State baseball team if he was going to be the one taking over the program. “I got to see almost everybody four times a week, and then our freshman group I got to see them almost every day this whole summer,” Deitrich said. “I was kind of getting those questions with their curiosity of what was going to happen. I just told them to be patient ...
Lawrence Athletic Director Nick Wood approached Sean Dooley about filling the vacant head coach position for the Lions, and Dooley started thinking about the opportunities for him and his family. Dooley’s youngest son, Joey, is a rising junior at Lawrence and a two-year starter for the Lions. His daughter Jordyn is entering her freshman year at Lawrence and expects to be an immediate contributor to the ...
Owen Lester has spent the summer playing baseball across multiple states with his club team, competing in tournaments that get exposure to college programs. After a tournament in Atlanta, Lester and the coaching staff at East Carolina University got in touch, and within a few weeks, Lester was in Greenville, N.C. on a visit. “I liked it all,” Lester said of the visit. “Talking to their coaches, their ...
Hudson Hardesty competed in the High School Baseball National Championship Series this summer with the hopes that the exposure would help in his recruitment. As it turns out, college coaches were watching and noticing Hardesty, especially as he threw his best game of his career and earned the tournament’s “Best Pitcher” award. After his performance, the coaches at Nebraska were in attendance. “They ...
Lawrence High School's next basketball coach won't have to go far to settle in. Sean Dooley, the longtime men's basketball coach at Baker University, will lead Lawrence's boys basketball program after the hiring was approved by the USD 497 school board on Monday. "Sean Dooley brings a wealth of experience to Lawrence High School," Lawrence interim principal Mike Gillman said in a statement. "His passion for ...
Ivy Ford was preparing for the 6A East regional tournament last year with a path to the state tournament in sight. Then came a cold. “I didn't have it until like the night before at 9 p.m.,” Ford said. “If I did try to go, it probably wouldn't have ended well. And I didn't want to risk getting other people sick ... It was really unfortunate because I was checking the brackets and a lot of the girls would ...