Kansas City, Mo. — Picked to tie for 12th in the Big 12 prior to the season, still just sixth place in the league by the end of the regular season, the Kansas soccer team stunned the conference by winning the league tournament on Saturday night. Makayla Merlo’s penalty kick went down as ...

Kansas City, Mo. — The corner flag was Kansas’ friend on Wednesday night. The Jayhawks scored two goals, one on either side of halftime, off corner kicks, and held on after conceding once midway through the second half to upset second-seeded Texas Tech 2-1 at CPKC Stadium. Raena Knust and ...

The Kansas soccer team has already experienced one rematch against a team it had just beaten, and one against a team it had lost to earlier in the regular season. Despite facing a different sort of challenge on each occasion, the Jayhawks emerged from those matches against Arizona State and ...

Kansas City, Mo. — Ahead of the second overtime of Saturday night's Big 12 Conference soccer tournament match between Kansas and West Virginia, Kansas coach Nate Lie and his staff discussed a potential penalty kick order. Lie didn’t address his team until about 30 seconds remained in the ...

Kansas City, Mo. — First-team all-conference selections Lexi Watts and Caroline Castans scored once each, and the Kansas soccer team weathered a sudden momentum swing midway through the second half to beat Arizona State 2-1 at CPKC Stadium. In the 58th minute of Wednesday’s match, with KU ...

Kansas head coach Nate Lie felt some pressure to reach the Big 12 tournament at CPKC Stadium in his first year with the program. “You don’t want to be the team that’s sort of the home team,” he said, “and then have to watch it from the sidelines.” At the time of his arrival from ...