Girls basketball

One of the top basketball players in the Kansas City metro will be a Jayhawk next year. Catch up quick: S’Mya Nichols, a senior at Shawnee Mission West High School, last month signed a national letter of intent to play...

Terry English, the girls’ basketball coach at Bishop Miege High School, has announced his retirement after 45 years of coaching at the private Catholic school in Roeland Park. English began his coaching career in 1975 when the girls’ basketball team...

In 1983, the Shawnee Mission East girls basketball team beat Schlagle by 40 points in the state championship game, earning the first state title ever by a Shawnee Mission girls team. Now, 36 years later, that team has been inducted...

During Terry English’s 40-year tenure as the Bishop Miege girls coach he’s created a family atmosphere that was on display on Friday night as the community celebrated English’s 800th game he won. The accomplishment happened on Dec. 9, at McPherson...

On a night dubbed “Terry English Night” the Bishop Miege girls honored their coach with a performance against St. James he could be proud of as the Stags community celebrated his 800th victory from Dec. 9. Miege shutout the Thunder...

After the votes were cast and tabulated and the winners announced, the girls basketball team at Shawnee Mission South swept the top three spots on the Sweetheart Court. Liz Holmes was named the queen, Rakeya Martin was named the first...

Olathe East had a plan against Shawnee Mission North: Don’t let freshman LeLe Love beat them. The Hawks flashed an aggressive zone at the Lady Indians — double-teaming, and sometimes triple-teaming Love — that forced 21 turnovers in SM North’s...

Picture it: You’re driving down the street and you pull up to a stop light and look over and see Bishop Miege senior Hunter Bentley in the car next to you. There’s a good chance she’s singing at the...

One word to describe Shawnee Mission East’s girls win against Shawnee Mission West: gritty. It started with Josie Clough knocking down a three to open the second half and SM East turning SM West over on four of the first...

The rivalry between Shawnee Mission East and Shawnee Mission South hasn’t been the most friendly in recent years, but a group of students at both schools are trying to fix it. The two sides have held meetings on how to...

Three halftime adjustments were all Bishop Miege needed to do Friday night as they pulled away from Mill Valley in the second half of their 57-36 victory. Assistant coach Jeff English said in the second quarter the Lady Stags started...

St. James 43, SM West 40 Leading Scorers SM West Kennedy- 9 Lee- 8 Hines- 7 St. James Kempf- 14 Goetz- 9 Kaufman- 8 With 14.5 seconds remaining and trailing by two, Shawnee Mission West coach Ryan Foster drew up a play to go for the win against St....