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Ella Slicker, a Shawnee Mission East freshman, is the Kansas Class 6A state champion in golf, capping off an impressive debut season as a Lancer in which she went undefeated in all the tournaments in which she played. Driving the...

Shawnee Mission East's boys cross country team won this year's Kansas Class 6A state championship this past weekend, the program's first in more than half a century. The upshot: The Lancers boys' squad won its first state title in 55...

For the fourth year in a row, the Shawnee Mission East girls' tennis team is once again Kansas Class 6A state champions. The upshot: The team title came with a notable accomplishment for the senior duo of Bryson Langford and...

The Milwaukee Brewers have drafted Robert Moore, a Shawnee Mission East graduate and son of Kansas City Royals President Dayton Moore, who went on to star at the University of Arkansas after his Lancer career. What happened: Milwaukee selected Moore...

Anne Deedy, a 2022 Shawnee Mission East graduate, began her swimming career when she was just 3-years-old. She’s swam competitively since she was 6, and now she’s qualified for All-American time in the 100 breaststroke — and All-American time consideration...

Debbie Katzfey, athletic director at Shawnee Mission East, is finishing up her last few months as a Lancer. This fall, Katzfey will trade in the Columbia blue to become a Blue Valley Northwest Husky — as both the athletic...

Shawnee Mission East brought home another tennis state championship this school year. The boys’ tennis team won the 2022 title, just months after the girls’ tennis team won state in fall 2021. The victory: Coach Andy Gibbs said the team took...

Jahir Contreras, a Shawnee Mission East senior, is once again a Kansas state wrestling champion. Contreras, whose older brothers wrestled before him, began wrestling as a young child in first grade, but it didn't take at first. He left the sport...

Shawnee Mission East's boys' bowling team made a bit of local history this week. The squad won the state championship on Thursday — the first time a Shawnee Mission team has won a Kansas scholastic bowling championship since the beginning...

Shawnee Mission East’s boys swim and dive team are state champions. The 18-person squad brought home first place at the 6A state championship on Saturday from the 6A state meet in Topeka. Several swimmers broke school records at the state meet....

The Prairie Village Planning Commission on Tuesday approved a 7,600-square-foot, two-story addition to Shawnee Mission East. Why it matters: The addition will add multipurpose learning space, two classrooms, storage and an outdoor learning space to SM East, according to city...

Shawnee Mission East's highly decorated journalism department has brought in several more national recognitions this year. Ten SM East students are finalists for awards given out by the National Scholastic Press Association for their work at two student-led publications: The...