When Kansas football’s starting nose tackle, super-senior Sam Burt, suffered an arm injury in the first quarter of the Jayhawks’ season opener, the defensive line needed one of its younger interior players to step in and fill Burt’s important role. It turned out redshirt freshman Caleb ...
The Kansas volleyball team is well aware of what awaits this weekend, with big, bad, No. 1-ranked Texas coming to town. But rather than being nervous or intimidated by the task, the Jayhawks are beaming with excitement. “We’ve grown up watching these girls play,” freshman outside hitter ...
When his Kansas football team returns to competition on Oct. 16 after an open week on the schedule, head coach Lance Leipold expects to see in-game evidence that the Jayhawks maximized their extra practice time.And Leipold will be looking for upgrades all over the field.“The good and the bad ...
The top prospect in the Kansas football program’s 2019 signing class, redshirt sophomore defensive end Steven Parker hasn’t yet made an impact for the Jayhawks this fall. But KU defensive coordinator Brian Borland said he wants to get the athletic edge rusher more involved.A 6-foot-4, ...
The Kansas women’s basketball program has been picked to finish last in the Big 12 Conference by the league’s head coaches, the Big 12 announced on Thursday. KU, which finished in last place last season with a 3-15 conference record, received 17 points during the voting for this season’s ...
Three victories at the recent Sunflower Showdown swim meet earned University of Kansas senior Kate Steward the first Big 12 Women’s Swimmer of the Week honors of the season, the Big 12 Conference announced this week. The Bartlesville, Okla., native and two-time Big 12 champion kicked off her ...
It could have been any number of her Kansas soccer teammates who greeted freshman Raena Childers following her first collegiate goal earlier this season. But as fate would have it the first Jayhawk who congratulated the freshman midfielder happened to be the teammate she knows best — her ...
University of Kansas sophomore Luke Kluver was named the Big 12 Conference golfer of the month for September this week after a stellar start to the fall season. The Norfolk, Neb., native won the Gopher Invitational at 10-under par and also carded two other top-10 finishes, tying for sixth at ...
