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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Comfortable is rarely a positive word when a coach uses it to describe a team. Typically, comfort means players aren’t pushing each other, and starters aren’t worried about their spots. However, for Free State boys basketball, the team is becoming comfortable in the best sense of the word and familiar with each other and the coaching staff. Before this year, the Firebirds had three boys basketball coaches ...