If an athlete could be inducted into a collegiate Hall of Fame twice, Diamond Dixon would have as good a shot as any:Once for her athletic achievements. Once more for what her name has meant to the KU program.A 2012 gold medalist, leader of an outdoor national championship team, 14-time ...
Kansas junior standout runner Sharon Lokedi continued her record-setting season Thursday, shattering a few records in the 5,000-meter run at the Kansas Relays at Rock Chalk Park. Lokedi, from Eldoret, Kenya, broke her own school record in 15:42.76, smashing a facility record set in 2016 by ...
After competing in the various rounds of the third annual Kansas Relays Street Pole Vault, the seven athletes were called back to the stage. This time, the voice doing so was not one from a Kansas Relays official, nor that of PA announcer Cal Butcher, whose voiced boomed over the speakers in ...
If Royals general manager Dayton Moore had taken the podium during the World Series parade of 2015 and announced, “We’re hiring a new manager,” and that was the first Ned Yost had heard of it, it would have come as no less a surprise than what happened in the wake of a successful USA ...
It seemed fitting that Michael Stigler’s quest for the 2016 Olympic Games started in earnest Saturday at the 2015 Kansas University graduate’s favorite home meet — the Kansas Relays.“For me to open up (the outdoor season) here kind of brought a little bit of different energy into my ...
Reese Hoffa, all 5-foot-11, 325-pounds of him, mimicked a fashion model as he walked down the runway toward the circle during introductions before the sixth-annual Downtown Lawrence Olympic Shot Put competition Friday at the intersection of Eighth and New Hampshire streets.It was all business a ...
Cale Wagner, a Nebraska freshman competing unattached, led the Kansas Relays decathlon Wednesday after the first day of competition.Wagner led with a score of 3,795 points following the first five events, and Texas Tech’s Kaylee Hinton led the heptathlon with 3,193 points.
Kansas University officially announced Wednesday that the Street Pole Vault Exhibition will be held in conjunction with the Kansas Relays.The exhibition is set for 5:30 p.m. on April 21 in the parking lot of the Salty Iguana restaurant near the corner of Sixth and Wakarusa streets in western ...
