EMPORIA – Free State girls basketball suffered a lackluster offensive performance on the final day of the Glacier’s Edge Tournament, falling to Blue Valley 49-33 in the fifth-place game on Saturday at Emporia High School. Free State head coach Summer Frantz said she was proud of her team ...
With January almost over, the winter sports season is entering its final full month, and teams and athletes are preparing for postseason competition and peaking at the right time. Here are this week's selections for Journal-World Athletes of the Week: Addie Fulscher, Free State Fulscher ...
Tatum Clopton's story is one of perseverance, courage, rebirth and the triumph of the human spirit. Now a fifth-year senior in college, the former Free State High School pitching phenom fought through shoulder surgeries that could have ended her career and endured nearly three years between ...
TOPEKA — The Free State and Lawrence boys swim and dive teams placed first and second, respectively, in the Topeka High Invitational on Tuesday. The Firebirds and the Lions competed against 10 other teams, nine of which were non-Sunflower League teams. That allowed the swimmers who have ...
Free State girls basketball senior Addie Fulscher connected on a school-record eight 3-pointers on Tuesday night, helping the Firebirds hang on to a 58-57 home win against Blue Valley West, as the team improved to 6-6 on the season. “Her teammates' reactions show what that means not just to ...
The winter sports season is reaching its last month, and local teams are having senior nights for some teams' final home events of the season. In those events, local athletes showed out with big performances on memorable nights. Here are this week's selections for Journal-World Athletes of the ...