Lawrence High School has been recognized for its sports program that aims to be inclusive and provides students with disabilities opportunities to compete. The Special Olympics recently named LHS a Unified Champion School, an honor bestowed on schools that meet the organization’s standards ...
With opening night of the 2020 football seasons just four days away, Lawrence High and Free State released their attendance plans on Monday. Both schools will cap their attendance for home games at two spectators per student participant. Those spectators will be identified ahead of time and ...
The Lawrence High boys soccer team opened the 2020 season with a 2-1 victory over Manhattan High on Friday night at LHS. Manhattan (0-1) and LHS were tied 1-1 at halftime, and the Lions scored the lone goal of the second half to secure the victory. LHS seniors Mason Anderson and Alec Murphy ...
WICHITA (AP) — Kansas high school can move their fall sports seasons to the spring under a newly approved plan. The Kansas State High School Activities Association Board of Directors voted 53-21 Friday to approve a proposal establishing an “Alternative fall” schedule, The Wichita Eagle ...
Story updated at 8:08 p.m. Friday: The Lawrence school district has reversed course on its plan to delay some “high risk” sports because of an increase of local COVID-19 cases. A day after announcing it would delay competitions of certain sports and activities, the Lawrence school ...
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 ...
Former Lawrence High football standout Amani Bledsoe will get another shot in the NFL in 2020 after signing a contract with the Cincinnati Bengals. Bledsoe, who starred at LHS from 2013-15 and went on to play three years of college football at Oklahoma from 2016-18, spent last season on the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Lawrence High School is turning to one of its own to lead its athletic department into the future. Former LHS girls basketball and softball coach Nick Wood, who graduated from the school in 1996, was formally hired as the school's new athletic director and assistant principal during the ...
MaxPreps recently named Mike Lewis’ Lawrence High boys basketball program one of the 10 most dominant in the state during the past decade, sparking a sense of pride and fond memories from those who were a part of the ride. “A tremendous honor,” former LHS standout Anthony Bonner said ...
All these years later, most of the coaches and players on the Lawrence High baseball state title team of 2000 can recall the Lions’ only two losses that season. “Doubleheader at Shawnee Mission East,” said former LHS catcher Curtis Ledbetter, a senior on that team. “They had our ...
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 ...
It’s been more than a year since former Lawrence High basketball standout Anthony Masinton-Bonner decided to transfer from Colorado State to finish his college eligibility elsewhere. And after a summer stint at Missouri State that ended with him stepping away from the game altogether last ...
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 ...