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As a budding distance runner growing up in Fairway, Wyatt Haughton said he always dreamed of competing internationally one day for the USA Track and Field team. That became a reality this week when Haughton's family and friends gathered at...
Three matches into the 2024 season, the women’s soccer team at the University of Kansas has two wins and a draw. But for St. James Academy graduate Lexi Watts, there’s another victory of sorts tacked onto that ledger. Watts, a junior...
It’s been a homecoming welcome party this week for Collin Wiles, the former Blue Valley West High School pitching standout who made his second start for the Kansas City Monarchs Tuesday night in front of family and friends at...
Like the redemption tour by the USA women’s gymnastics team at the Paris Olympics, there are some Kansas junior golfers who’ve been on their own path toward easing the pain of past experiences. The latest step back for the golfers...
From Eli Lovich’s perspective, the two-time Kansas Class 6A state champion from Blue Valley West couldn’t have been in a better spot than the batting cage upon learning this week that he’d been taken by the Chicago Cubs in...
Kansas City is home to Blue Valley Southwest High School graduate Ben Kudrna. But as the Kansas City Royals pitching prospect prepares for Saturday’s Major League Baseball Futures Game as part of All-Star Game weekend in Arlington, Texas, there...
It isn’t the spot gymnast Leanne Wong of Overland Park wanted on the U.S. Women’s Olympic Team. At lat week's U.S. Olympic team trials in Minneapolis, Wong wasn't able to lock down one of fourth berths on the team, in...
Since he first started playing baseball at the age of seven in Olathe, Kendall Diggs has always considered himself a good hitter. Now, the St. Thomas Aquinas High School graduate hopes to give the fifth-ranked Arkansas Razorbacks a lift...
Half the field of eight at the Kansas Class 6A state softball championship, which starts Thursday in Lawrence, is made up of Johnson County schools. But the biggest surprise is clearly Olathe South, the field's No. 8 seed. The Falcons are...
Senior athletes from faith-based private schools in Johnson County will continue to show off their talents at colleges around the country. Throughout the fall and spring, high school seniors from private schools around Johnson County have been signing letters of...
In less than a year, a Shawnee Mission East graduate has gone from training in Arizona to becoming a bobsled athlete for Team USA. It's not a path the one-time all-state prep football standout had in mind when he graduated...
At this time a week ago, there was uncertainty as to whether Rockhurst University would even play another collegiate baseball game or not this season. And Blue Valley North graduate Jake Canent, a senior relief pitcher for the Hawks, would...