Tahj Edwards was excited when he met his new football coach, Jason Thoren, and heard how the new offense would focus heavily on the run game. Edwards, a running back for Lawrence, is gearing up for a final season with the Lions and wants to show colleges what he is capable of. With football ...

For the second time in his tennis coaching career, Stephen Hudson will become Lawrence High School’s next boys and girls tennis coach. Hudson took over the job at Lawrence High in 2006 before leaving after the 2010 school year. Hudson continued to coach in different capacities around De ...

Initially, Emerson Sloop was in it for the doughnuts. Sloop first became interested in refereeing soccer games at around 12 years old when she saw that the referees got doughnuts after soccer tournaments she played in. Almost five years later, Sloop has around 2,500 games under her belt as a ...

Jah’ir Johnson’s goal for the spring track and field season was pretty simple: Don’t stay on junior varsity. Johnson, a senior who started at linebacker for the Lawrence football team, had spent his spring throwing shot put for the Lions track and field team, but most of his experience ...

Eudora’s girls track and field team finished second in the 4A state meet in Wichita on Saturday after having won the state meet last year. The Cardinals finished second with 67 points, which was 24 points behind the first-place Andale. The team got 36 points from its jumps, 26 from its ...

The spring sports season concluded its regional and quarterfinal rounds this past week, and several local athletes made plays to get their teams wins in the biggest moments. Here are this week's selections for Athletes of the Week: Harper Dye, Lawrence Dye hit .800 in Lawrence softball's ...