Shawnee — The Free State softball team crawled one game closer to repeating as state champs on Thursday and all it took to get there was pushing past Olathe South and a 3-and-a-half hour rain delay. As it turned out, neither was much of a problem, and the second-seeded Firebirds topped the Falcons, 6-0 at Shawnee Mission District Softball Complex. Leading 1-0 heading the top of the fourth inning, the ...
For four years, Free State softball seniors Tatum Clopton, Georgia Rea and Sara Roszak have been fixated on winning a class 6A state title. In 2018, as freshmen, they wanted to prove that they could play on the highest level high school softball had to offer and helped the Firebirds bring home the program’s first ever softball state title. A year later, as sophomores and defending champs, it was all about ...
Junior college prospect and University of Kansas basketball signee Sydney Curry announced Wednesday that he was reopening his recruitment. Curry, who committed to KU last November, just hours before the Jayhawks tipped off the season against top-ranked Gonzaga on Thanksgiving, said on social media that his decision boiled down to making sure he “made the best decision for me and my future.” He added: ...
Kansas Athletics lost two longtime, highly respected members of its administrative family on Tuesday, when former KU Athletic Director Monte Johnson and former Associate AD Larry Keating died at the ages of 84 and 76. Of the two, Keating worked at KU most recently, serving in his role for 16 years before retiring in 2019. After already building a long and distinguished career in college athletics, Keating ...
Transfer guards Remy Martin and Jalen Coleman-Lands officially joined the Kansas basketball program on this week, when their paperwork arrived at the KU basketball offices. That allowed Kansas coach Bill Self to share his thoughts on the two most recent commitments, veteran guards who bring a combined 251 games of college basketball experience, including 185 starts. Martin, a two-time first team all-Pac 12 ...
The 2021 Kansas baseball season came to an end Tuesday night in Oklahoma City when KU closer Jonah Ulane walked in the winning run in an 8-7 loss to West Virginia. The Jayhawks and Mountaineers were playing for the fourth time this season, this time in a play-in game to get into this week’s eight-team Big 12 tournament at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark. For a while, it looked as if the ninth-seeded ...