The Kansas cross-country teams are coming off a season in which they finished middle of the conference on both teams but retained most of their top runners. In 2024, the Jayhawks’ men’s team finished seventh in the Big 12 conference and 12th of 29 teams in the NCAA Midwest regional, while the women’s team finished eighth in the conference and 13th of 33 teams in the regional. KU cross-country coach ...
Braden Wilmes stood in the hallway of Southwest Middle School as an eighth grader after meeting Free State football coach Kevin Stewart and debated whether he’d play football. Wilmes had played football almost every year since kindergarten and started playing tackle football in second grade. But he was unsure if he wanted to play when he enrolled at Free State. He liked the sport, but he wasn’t sold on it. ...
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 ...