For the second year in a row, the Kansas volleyball roster features the Big 12 Conference’s Preseason Freshman of the Year. In 2020, it was local prospect Caroline Crawford who earned the honor, and this year Caroline Bien received the early recognition from the Big 12 coaches. Bien, a product of St. Thomas Aquinas High, was the Kansas Gatorade Player of the Year and No. 14 overall prospect in the Class of ...
The Kansas men’s basketball roster drew one player closer to completion on Monday, when Iowa State transfer Jalen Coleman-Lands officially made the move to Lawrence. Coleman-Lands, who committed to KU in mid-May, is a 6-foot-4, 190-pound shooting guard who, at age 24, is set to begin his seventh season of college basketball. He’ll play at KU as a super senior and is only getting the opportunity for one ...
As the University of Kansas athletic department continues to move forward into post-pandemic operations, the Kansas Athletics, Inc., Board of Directors on Monday unanimously approved a $100 million budget for Fiscal Year 2022, which runs from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022. That number is in line with where KAI has been in recent years, and is just $8 million shy of the early budget formulated for Fiscal ...
For the second time this week at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials in Omaha, Neb., former Lawrence-based swimmer Michael Andrew punched his ticket for Tokyo. Already in this summer’s Olympics in the 100-meter breaststroke after setting an American record on Sunday before Monday's finals, Andrew won the 200-meter individual medley on Friday. His time of 1:55.44 was more than two seconds better than the ...
During one of the first workouts of the summer, Kansas basketball newcomer Bobby Pettiford watched fellow-freshman Kyle Cuffe Jr. come off a screen, curl into the lane and hit a floater during a drill. Cuffe came away smiling. But Kansas coach Bill Self had a different reaction. Pettiford, [who has been limited thus far with a banged-up ankle,][1] watched from a distance and recently recalled the moment. ...
For the second season in a row, Big 12 volleyball in 2021 will feature eight doubleheaders over two-day spans, with teams making half as many road trips as they normally do. The 2021 fall schedule was released on Wednesday, and it revealed that Kansas will host eight matches against Iowa State, Texas, Oklahoma and TCU and travel to Texas Tech, Baylor, West Virginia and Kansas State for eight more. “You ...