Since the start of the high school baseball season, Hudson Hardesty has competed in over 70 baseball games between the school season and summer club baseball season.
These past few months have been important for Hardesty as he works to showcase his talent for colleges. That’s led Hardesty to take four trips to Atlanta for various national competitions, including the Preps Baseball Future Games, which brings ...
Overland Park — As a kid, Ochai Agbaji loved going to basketball camps held by professional athletes. He remembers seeing those who accomplished his ultimate goal and were giving back to the community.
Now, as a guard for the Toronto Raptors, Agbaji wants to give back in the same way, so he started The Young Agbaji Foundation. On Friday at the MOKAN Training Facility in Overland Park, he and his foundation ...
Sydney Street wasn’t sure what his basketball future would look like.
Street — who is from Canberra, the capital of Australia — has played basketball for most of his life. At 18 years old, he's right at the age of heading off to college, and he didn't know whether his next step would be coming to the United States to play at a university there.
That’s when Street found a basketball camp held on the ...
A year ago, Zane Shaw wasn’t sure what his college baseball prospects would look like. Coming off an injury in his sophomore year, he had something to prove to colleges.
Then, Shaw and the Free State baseball team went 28-2 and won the Sunflower League and 6A state championship, with Shaw being a top pitcher for the team. That got him phone calls and visits with Division I schools, one of which was ...
Andrew Smith has always played baseball.
From tee-ball through his high school career, “there’s never really been a time where I haven’t felt like playing,” Smith said.
Now, Smith is set to continue his playing career in college after he committed to Allen Community College. The commitment fulfills a lifelong dream for the Free State graduate.
“I’ve always loved the sport and have always pictured ...
The 2025 Kansas team in the High School Baseball National Championship Series went 2-2 in a national tournament over the weekend, with three Free State Firebirds on the team.
Ben Graves, Ryker Mahnke and Zane Shaw joined some of the top 2026 and 2027 baseball players in the state on the roster and made it to the semifinal round of the national tournament.
The HSB-NCS included all-star teams of rising juniors ...
