3 years ago
Kansas Wesleyan had four student-athletes named to the 2021 KCAC Volleyball Preseason All-KCAC team as selected by conference coaches and released by the conference office on Tuesday. The group is made up of returning 2020 All-KCAC first and second-team performers. Emily Monson (SR/Cheney, Kan.), Maddy Beckett (JR/Halstead, Kan.), Morgan Bryand (JR/Wichita, Kan.) and Elizabeth Hardacre (JR/Kensington, Kan.) were selected to the Preseason team. Monson had a ...

3 years ago
LAWRENCE, Kan. – Former Kansas guard, Jeremy Case, has been named an assistant coach for Kansas men’s basketball, head coach Bill Self announced today. A member of the 2008 National Championship team, Case had been serving as interim assistant coach since April 2021, and has been on the KU staff in multiple roles since 2016. “I’ve known Jeremy ...

3 years ago
Kansas Wesleyan was picked to finish fifth in the 2021 KCAC Men's Soccer race as the results of the 2021 KCAC Men's Soccer Preseason Poll were released on Tuesday by the conference coaches. The poll was conducted by the conference coaches. KWU is coming off a 4-8-2 season in 2020-21 and a 4-5-1 KCAC record. The ...

3 years ago
Our High School Football Preview Tour continues to roll on. The Meridian Media sports staff is previewing the 2021 season, venturing to different parts of central Kansas. The latest stop was in Bennington, home to the Bulldogs. Head coach Bryan Shamburg returns for his second season. The Bennington alum and former assistant had the challenge of navigating through ...

3 years ago
KANSAS CITY -- With two runners on and two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning, the Royals needed a run to break through a tie game. Who better to step to the plate than Salvador Perez? The Royals' catcher delivered an opposite-field single to score Whit Merrifield and Nicky Lopez in the Royals’ 7-6 win over the ...

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Kansas Wesleyan was picked to finish third in the 2021 KCAC Women's Volleyball Preseason Poll conducted by conference coaches and released on Monday by the conference office. The Coyotes are coming off a fourth-place finish in 2020 after going 16-8 in the KCAC regular season which concluded last March. KWU was 20-13 overall last season. Wesleyan received ...

3 years ago
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State head coach Bruce Weber announced changes to his coaching staff on Monday (August 16), which included the promotion of Nate Michael to video coordinator and the additions of former Wildcat lettermen Curtis Kelly and Zack Price as graduate student managers. Michael, who enters his third season on the coaching staff, was promoted to video coordinator after a spending the last ...

3 years ago
Wichita State men’s basketball head coach Isaac Brown unveiled his full non-conference schedule Monday. Start times and television assignments will be announced next month when the American Athletic Conference releases its 18-game league slate. The defending AAC champion Shockers appear seven times at Charles Koch Arena, beginning with a Nov. 3 exhibition game against Missouri Southern and the Nov. ...

3 years ago
It will be year 2 for the Brad Nicks era for the Abilene Cowboy football program this fall.  Abilene went 0-6 last season under the then first year head coach, and was unable to play three games because of Covid.  Despite only being his second year as Head Coach, Nicks brings plenty of experience to ...

3 years ago
KANSAS CITY -- Kris Bubic had already allowed three runs by the time he worked Lars Nootbaar into a two-strike count in the first inning Sunday afternoon, but Bubic also had two outs and was looking to get out of the frame with minimal damage and a minimal pitch count. Instead, he danced around the zone to Nootbaar, ...

3 years ago
The Kansas City Chiefs kicked off the preseason with a victory on Saturday night as quarterback Shane Buechele led a go-ahead, touchdown-scoring drive in the final minutes of regulation to defeat the San Francisco 49ers, 19-16, at Levi's Stadium. Trailing by three points with two minutes and 37 seconds remaining in the game, Buechele – who ...