KU Sports

Kansas coaches weigh pros, cons of new eligibility rules

Kansas volleyball coach Matt Ulmer believes a college athlete’s freshman year is always the most difficult. They’re away from home, integrating into a new environment and finding a role on their team. Ulmer believed that allowing those freshmen to play more here or there would be a ...

KU soccer kicks off fall sports with preseason exhibition

The Kansas soccer team’s season-opening exhibition will be, as usual, the first KU athletic competition of its academic year. It just arrives a little deeper into the Jayhawks’ time on campus this time around. Thanks to a revised calendar for the women’s soccer season, new this year, KU ...

KU goalkeepers played their own small role in World Cup festivities

Maybe one day, one of the Kansas soccer team’s goalkeepers will get the chance to play on a World Cup field. Sophie Dawe, after all, was called up to a training camp for the United States under-20 women’s national team last summer. But in the meantime, Dawe and her teammate Clara Roche got ...

How latest eligibility bombshell could affect various KU sports

It certainly seems like quite a few college athletes are about to get more eligibility, whether they were actively looking for it or not. Amid a barrage of increasingly successful lawsuits by members of the high school class of 2022 who played four straight seasons in college, then graduated ...

KU soccer notebook: Jayhawks hope to harness local enthusiasm after World Cup

In recruiting future Jayhawks, Kansas soccer coach Nate Lie doesn’t hesitate to mention how much it meant for the Algerian national team to use KU’s facilities at Rock Chalk Park this summer — how it validates their quality that they had the chance to play a role in a sporting event of ...

An early guess at a prospective 2027 KU baseball lineup

Monitoring the offseason in college baseball is an entirely different sort of enterprise than keeping track of what’s going on in basketball and football. Even with the sport’s ongoing growth, player movement receives substantially less coverage. Prospects announced as signees in the fall ...