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2025 Journal-World All-Area Track and Field Team

Coach of the Year: MaryJo Swann, Eudora Eudora's girls track and field team placed second overall in the 4A state meet with three state champions in four events. Player of the Year: Hanna Keltner, Eudora Keltner finished her Eudora career as a state champion in the 3200-meter run and the ...

KU and K-State alumni teams will again host pre-TBT scrimmage

JHX Hoops, the Kansas alumni team in The Basketball Tournament, and Purple Reign, its Kansas State counterpart, have announced that they will face off in a scrimmage prior to the start of TBT. The game, which the teams are promoting as the second annual Wheat State Summer Showdown, is set for ...

Returning players who need to make the biggest steps forward for KU next season

The Kansas football team is relying on a greater proportion of transfers for significant contributions during the 2025 season than it has in any other year under Lance Leipold. The ultimate fate of the Jayhawks, though, may well depend on the ability of certain returning players to grow into ...

KU hires Gonzaga’s Derrick as rowing coach

Kansas athletic director Travis Goff announced on Friday that KU has hired Gonzaga head coach Andrew Derrick as its new rowing coach. In his five seasons with the Bulldogs, Derrick led his team to four straight West Coast Conference titles followed by one second-place finish. Gonzaga compiled ...

Smalls-Allen gives KU its second defensive tackle in the 2026 class

Lucas Smalls-Allen, a 6-foot-4, 260-pound three-star defensive tackle from Blessed Trinity Catholic High School in Roswell, Georgia, announced his commitment to the Kansas football class of 2026 on Friday morning. He joins recent addition Carter among the defensive tackles, as well as ends ...