The Lawrence High and Free State football teams will get two cracks at each other this season, one at home and one away. LHS will host Free State in Week 3 on Sept. 18, and the Firebirds will welcome the Lions to their place in Week 8 on Oct. 23, which was the regularly scheduled date of this ...
High school sports in Lawrence are slated to begin this fall, a Lawrence school district administrator said Monday. But the district may soon have the opportunity to move some fall sports seasons to the spring, if it wants to. During a work session on Monday, the Lawrence school board ...
The Lawrence High and Free State High varsity football teams are looking for new Week 1 opponents following Friday’s decision by the Olathe and Shawnee Mission school districts to suspend fall sports because of the spread of COVID-19 in Johnson County. LHS football’s season opener with ...
The Lawrence school district is planning on taking measures to help keep students safe while they participate in athletics and activities amid the coronavirus pandemic this fall. Some of those measures include limiting use of locker rooms and providing specific guidelines for each athletic ...
The Lawrence school district is set to begin fall sports in August, despite not starting the academic year until after Labor Day. Julie Boyle, spokeswoman for the Lawrence school district, said Friday that the school district had decided it would follow the guidance of the Kansas State High ...
The summer conditioning program for Free State High School’s football team has been shut down after a student-athlete tested positive for the coronavirus. Julie Boyle, a spokeswoman for the Lawrence school district, said the team’s workout program has been suspended through Aug. 6 because ...
A motion to delay the start of fall high school sports competitions in Kansas failed by a vote of 5-4 during Tuesday’s meeting of the Kansas State High School Activities Association’s executive board. As a result, all fall sports and activities programs will be allowed to start practices ...
The Kansas State High School Activities Association on Wednesday released a set of guidelines for upcoming fall sports seasons, but many of the specifics will remain in the hands of local school districts and administrators. The guidelines are broken up into two parts: a set of general ...
New Free State wrestling coach Randy Streeter has big goals, and he thinks a key part of bringing success back to the school's wrestling room is to create a family atmosphere. And he's got a bit of a head start in that regard, as some of the wrestlers are already family to him. Two of ...
Originally planning to release guidelines for the upcoming fall sports seasons on Friday, the Kansas State High School Activities Association hit pause on that move in response to Gov. Laura Kelly’s Wednesday announcement that Kansas schools will not start until after Labor Day. Instead, ...
Bishop Seabury basketball standouts Zach Bloch and Juju Ramirez, along with Free State’s Miles Branch, are all headed to prep schools next season. While their absence from the Lawrence hoops scene figures to change the outlook of both teams, their coaches said they were looking forward to ...
Former Kansas linebacker Joe Dineen Jr. has officially retired from football and has taken the first step in what he hopes will be a long and successful coaching career. Dineen, who starred at Free State High before becoming one of the top linebackers in the Big 12 from 2015-18, announced ...
Although she never got to throw a pitch for the Firebirds this season, Free State junior Tatum Clopton has been named the Gatorade Kansas Softball Player of the Year for the second year in a row. Adjusted to account for the COVID-19 pandemic that shut down most spring sports seasons across ...
Plans to tear down Wichita State’s Cessna Stadium have been approved by the Kansas Board of Regents, but the venue may not have hosted its last state high school track meet. The stadium will be empty this weekend, when the 2020 all-classes state track and field meet was supposed to take ...
Friday was supposed to be the start of something historic for the Free State softball team. Winners of back-to-back Class 6A state championships the past two seasons, the Firebirds were poised to make a run for a third consecutive state title and were considered by many as the favorites to ...
Although he has been a LeBron James fan for as long as he can remember, Free State senior Tate Fanshier never really envisioned the two being connected in any way. However, at 7 p.m. Saturday, on every major network in America, that’s exactly what will happen. In association with The ...
The Kansas State High School Activities Association has identified June 1 as the start date for a variety of summer programs, provided coaches follow “all group gathering restrictions and social distancing expectations” outlined by local health officials and school administrators. The ...
The Kansas State High School Activities Association continues to work toward hosting many of its regular summer activities for high school students but does not yet know how or what that might look like. “The biggest question on everyone’s mind, spoken or unspoken, is when do we get to ...
The first four episodes of “The Last Dance” documentary on Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls have brought back dozens of childhood memories for Free State boys basketball coach Sam Stroh. But none of them quite stack up to the night he met his idol at a fundraiser in New York City. ...
Free State teammates DK Middleton and Alyus Wisdom revealed the destinations for their basketball futures this week and both will be staying close to home. Middleton, an all-Sunflower League first team selection during the 2019-20 season, announced his commitment to Johnson County Community ...