Former Kansas basketball walk-on Terry Nooner, a one-time fan favorite at Allen Fieldhouse from 1997-2000, is leaving his job as the Associate Head Coach with the KU women's program to take the head coaching gig at Wichita State. Kansas women's coach Brandon Schneider announced the move in a news release Monday afternoon. Nooner spent the last three seasons on Schneider's staff after coming back to KU ...
Years after she last made history by running for the Jayhawks, former University of Kansas All-American and national champion Sharon Lokedi was at it again this weekend at the Kansas Relays. In a ceremony on the final day of the 100-year anniversary of the history-rich track meet, Lokedi became the first female and first international student-athlete to have her silhouette added to KU’s famed Rim Rock Farms ...
After competing in the Kansas Relays as a freshman in 2019, Rylee Anderson always just assumed the iconic meet would be a regular part of her college experience. Four years later, the KU senior finally got back there, winning the high jump on Friday to bookend her KU career with wonderful Kansas Relays memories. Anderson also won the event in 2019, clearing 1.75 meters that year and 1.83 (6 feet) on Friday. ...
Two more members of the Kansas football team on Wednesday announced their plans to enter the transfer portal when the window opens this weekend. Wide receiver Kelan Robinson, a redshirt sophomore from Grand Prairie, Texas, and walk-on place kicker Grant Glasgow, a freshman from Lawrence High, both shared their plans on social media. Robinson, who caught a touchdown during the recent Spring Showcase event ...
On opening day of the Kansas Relays at Rock Chalk Park on Thursday night, KU junior Chandler Gibbens paced the 5,000-meter run, a worthy featured event for the start of the 100-year anniversary of the historic meet. The reason had everything to do with who Gibbens has become since the calendar flipped to April, transforming from a promising athlete with big time potential into the kind of runner who has ...
When Kansas track and field coach Stanley Redwine met with the media on Wednesday to preview the 100-year anniversary of the Kansas Relays, which begin on Thursday and run through Saturday evening, he joked that new meet director Tim Byers had an afro on top of his head when he took the job. Now bald, Byers laughed when he heard Redwine’s quip, but he was willing to acknowledge that bringing back the ...