KUsports.com - 2006 Kansas Relays

Time for new beginning

Posted Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008

On a bright, sunny late-April day, there’s perhaps no better place to watch a track meet than Kansas University’s Memorial Stadium, site of the Kansas Relays for 80-plus years. “It is beautiful,” ninth-year KU track coach Stanley Redwine said of the annual spring carnival held in and around KU’s massive 50,000-seat football/track facility. Read more.

Reaching the pinnacle

Posted Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008

Saturday, Tim Weaver began one of the longest — but certainly most rewarding — journeys of his life. The former Kansas Relays meet director left Kansas City International Airport in the early morning, for San Francisco where he and other U.S. Track and Field officials and some competitors flew 13 hours to Beijing, China, site of the 2008 Olympic Games. Read more.

Former Relays director traveling to Olympics

Posted Friday, July 18, 2008

Former Kansas Relays meet director Tim Weaver, a manager on international track and field teams for five years, was selected for that same role on the United States team staff for the 2008 Olympic Games next month in Beijing. Read more.

Kansas Relays ending run at Memorial Stadium ... or is it?

Posted Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Kansas University track great Wes Santee said the 2009 Kansas Relays would be the last held at Memorial Stadium, but KU officials said the move to a dedicated facility southwest of Allen Fieldhouse wasn't a done deal. Read more.

‘Batman’ earns first Olympic berth

Posted Monday, June 30, 2008

Bershawn “Batman” Jackson, who has won the last four Kansas Relays 400 hurdles titles, now is an Olympian in the event. Read more.

6Sports video: Olympic contender races at Relays

Posted Monday, April 21, 2008

If you attended the Kansas Relays on Saturday, there's a chance you saw a future Olympian in action. Read more.

6Sports video: Final day of Kansas Relays concludes with a few broken records

Posted Sunday, April 20, 2008

As the saying goes: all good things must come to an end. And on Saturday, the 81st Kansas Relays came to a close - but not before a few records were broken along the way. Read more.

Breaking the tape

Posted Sunday, April 20, 2008

Bershawn “Batman” Jackson continues to perform superhuman feats at the Kansas Relays. “I need to buy a cape. Look for it next year,” the 24-year-old Miami native said Saturday after winning his fourth straight Relays 400-meter hurdles title and fifth in six years at Memorial Stadium. Read more.

Keegan: Touted hoopster doesn’t look it

Posted Sunday, April 20, 2008

Few of those sitting in the sun at Memorial Stadium early Saturday afternoon had any clue that months from now the girl wearing “Sequoyah” on her jersey and handing the baton to her sister in the 4X200-meter high school relay race could transform the perception of a Kansas University athletic program. Read more.

Kansas Relays notebook

Posted Sunday, April 20, 2008

Nichole Denby, who was named Most Outstanding Female Performer at last year’s Kansas Relays, won the 100 hurdles in a time of 12.78. Competing for Total Sports, she bested Josannne Lucas of Trinidad Tobago, who was timed in 13.05. Read more.

Lion starts strong as legend looks on

Posted Sunday, April 20, 2008

Before the start of the Saturday’s 1,600-meter run at the final day of the Kansas Relays, Lawrence High’s Dylan Hedges had a vision. Read more.

Ex-Jayhawk hurt winning javelin

Posted Saturday, April 19, 2008

A group of chilled-to-the bone track and field fans filed past former Kansas University great Scott Russell at the start of the men’s javelin finals Friday night outside Memorial Stadium. Read more.

Going the distance

Posted Saturday, April 19, 2008

Distance dominated the local scene at Friday’s first day of high school action at the Kansas Relays. Behind a time that was more than 17 seconds better than her previous best, Free State High’s Kyra Kilwein placed eighth in the 3,200-meter run and anchored the Firebirds’ distance medley relay team to a 13th-place finish, 10 places better than it was seeded. Read more.

‘Batman’ returns to hurdles at Relays

Posted Saturday, April 19, 2008

The most outstanding performer of the 2007 Kansas Relays is back in town and wants everybody to know it. “You’re going to see ‘Batman’ in action. Like the movie, ‘Batman Returns,’’’ 24-year-old hurdles sensation Bershawn “Batman” Jackson said Friday at Memorial Stadium. Read more.

Tonganoxie’s Grizzle wins girls javelin title — again

Posted Saturday, April 19, 2008

If not for a foot scratch on her final throw of the 2007 Kansas Relays, Tonganoxie High senior Roxi Grizzle would be a three-time javelin champion at the prestigious track and field event. Read more.

6Sports video: Relays welcomed with dreary weather

Posted Friday, April 18, 2008

Gray skies, temps in the 40's, wind chill in the 30's and drizzle...sounds like Kansas Relays Weekend! And, as luck would have it, it is... Read more.

KU’s Agafonov nails hammer toss

Posted Friday, April 18, 2008

The weather conditions for Day Two of the Kansas Relays seemed to resemble the difference in success Kansas University junior Zlata Tarasova is having compared to KU senior — and fellow Togliatti, Russia, native — Egor Agafonov. Read more.

6Sports video: Agafonov enjoys back-to-back wins

Posted Thursday, April 17, 2008

Kansas senior Egor Agafonov leaves his mark on the Kansas Relays. Read more.

And they’re off!

Posted Thursday, April 17, 2008

Four events and five hours in, Kansas University’s Jacob Breth must have felt he had a crick in his neck from staring up at the decathlon field above him Wednesday afternoon during the 81st annual Kansas Relays. Read more.