Coach of the year: Steve Heffernan, Free State Heffernan’s Firebirds made history this season by winning their first state title in boys cross-country. Free State bought into a team-first mentality this year under Heffernan, who has been at the helm since 1998. Athlete of the year: Ben ...
Coach of the year: Kyle Billings, Perry-Lecompton In just his first season at the helm, Billings helped guide the Kaws to their first substate title since 1996. Perry-Lecompton cracked the top 10 in Class 3A for the first time in decades despite having to face some elite squads in the Big ...
First-year head coach Chris Linner really hasn’t had much of an adjustment period with his team before the Free State girls basketball squad is scheduled to begin the 2020-21 campaign. Free State will start things off with a road matchup against Blue Valley Northwest at 1:30 p.m. ...
Baldwin’s girls cross-country reclaimed ultimate bragging rights by capturing a state title at the Class 4A state meet Saturday afternoon at the Wamego Country Club. It marks the team’s third state crown in four years. After not winning the team title a year ago, the Bulldogs returned to ...
Free State’s boys cross-country team is trying to treat it like any other race even though there is so much at stake during Saturday’s Class 6A state meet at 4 Mile Creek Resort in Augusta. The Firebirds, who are the No. 1 team in Class 6A, enter the event as the favorite to win a state ...
Two days before its opening-round matchup with Wichita North, Lawrence High quarterback Jackson Dooley had probably the best practice of his career. LHS head coach Steve Rampy actually told Dooley that, calling him to deliver the message about 30 minutes after Wednesday’s practice had ended. ...
For the third year in a row, Free State’s boys cross-country secured a regional crown. The Firebirds had five runners finish inside the top-14 on their way to a first-place finish at the Class 6A regional meet on Saturday at Frontier Trail Middle School. Free State scored 38 points as a ...
Baldwin senior Grady McCune set another record this week to add to a long list of achievements throughout his soccer career. McCune recorded all five assists in Baldwin’s 5-1 win over Midland Academy Monday night at BHS. Not only was McCune responsible for every score in that win, but it set ...
Free State senior Keegan VanPelt will end a sensational high school tennis career this weekend at the Class 6A state tournament. The two-day event, which is slated to take place at the College Boulevard Activity Center, will begin Friday and end Saturday. VanPelt, who is coming off a ...
Free State's boys cross-country team earned a win its own meet at the Baldwin City Golf Course on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. Bishop Seabury's sophomore Oona Nelson finished third in the varsity girls race. Photos by Chance Parker/Lawrence Journal-World
Baldwin — Free State’s top cross-country runners wasted little time after finishing the boys race, in which all five athletes ended up inside the top five as individuals on Saturday at the Baldwin Golf Course. Junior Ben Shryock, senior Christopher Stone, senior Ethan Sharp, junior Jack ...
Bishop Seabury sophomore Beck Oldridge is coming off an impressive week, where he scored five goals in three matches to help his team extend its winning streak to four games. After struggling out of the gate, the Seahawks appear to be hitting their stride as a team and are now 5-2 on the ...
Perry-Lecompton’s football team cruised to a 41-13 road win over Winfield Friday night to stay undefeated this season. The Kaws (5-0, No. 2 in Class 3A) jumped out to a 19-0 lead in the first quarter, and the defense eventually held Winfield (1-4) to 33 yards of total offense in the second ...
Senior linebacker Cole Mondi had the honor of leading the breakdown of a socially-distanced huddle following Lawrence High’s first varsity football practice in two weeks. “It felt great,” Mondi said. “Everybody’s energy today was surprisingly unbelievable. Us not being together, and ...
Bishop Seabury sophomore Oona Nelson came away with another first-place finish during Tuesday’s Tonganoxie Invitational. Nelson finished first as an individual in the varsity girls division, marking her second victory of her second season competing in high school cross-country. She finished ...
In a battle between a pair of top-three teams, Perry-Lecompton (No. 2 in Class 3A) came away with much-deserved bragging rights after a 28-14 road win over Holton (No. 3 in Class 3A) on Friday. The Kaws, who are coming off a runner-up finish last season, are now 3-0 to start the year. Both ...
Free State’s volleyball team clawed its way back to .500 for the first time all season with a much-needed road sweep at the Shawnee Mission North triangular on Tuesday. The Firebirds, who are now 4-4 on the year after losing their first four matches of the season, secured a pair of 2-0 ...
Area football teams Tonganoxie and Perry-Lecompton remain undefeated following wins in Week 2 of the 2020 season. THS — which is ranked No. 3 in Class 4A — jumped out to a double-digit lead in the first half in an eventual 24-14 home victory over Louisburg on Friday. Perry-Lecompton (No. 2 ...
Thursday’s boys soccer city showdown is slated to take place earlier in the year compared to previous seasons, and there is a lot less on the line than there was the last time these two teams met. Lawrence High, which has raced off to a 3-0 start, will be looking to prove something when it ...
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 ...