Each week during the University of Kansas’ winter and spring sports seasons, the Journal-World staff will select one athlete from a KU men’s sports team and one from a women’s sports team as athletes of the week. For the week of April 14-20, the selections are Alex Breckheimer and Ebba ...
The Kansas baseball team beat Kansas State twice on Saturday at Hoglund Ballpark to complete the Jayhawks’ first sweep in the Sunflower Showdown since 2019. The result allowed KU to vault two games ahead of the Wildcats in the Big 12 standings, back into a three-way tie for second place in ...
Among Kansas’ 15 total victories between Friday and Saturday's action at the Kansas Relays were two notable first-place finishes from athletes who clinched personal records in the women’s pole vault and men’s long jump. Decathlete Tayton Klein locked in on the long jump this weekend ...
Eight individual University of Kansas athletes and two more relay teams posted first-place finishes on Saturday, the final day of the 102nd Kansas Relays, at Rock Chalk Park. “Anytime we get to compete in our hometown, I’m really excited,” KU coach Stanley Redwine said in a press ...
After falling behind by three runs, the “never-die Hawks,” as Jackson Hauge dubbed them last week, found their way back into the game, as a four-run seventh inning propelled the Kansas baseball team to a 5-3 win in the opening game of the Sunflower Showdown on Friday night at Hoglund ...
