For the last two years, the backs of the state wrestling shirts for Lawrence and Free State were spacious, with only two names printed. The shirts this year will look fuller as nine wrestlers qualified between the two schools. Six Lawrence girls qualified for state in the 6A East regional at ...
Overland Park — The Free State boys and girls basketball teams both suffered cold shooting performances, falling in convincing fashion at Shawnee Mission South on Friday night. Free State girls can’t keep pace in 36-point loss The Free State girls kept things close through the first ...
This past weekend featured three Sunflower League Championships in boys swimming and diving, girls wrestling and boys wrestling. At these tournaments, local area athletes competed and starred in various events. Here are this week's Journal-World Athletes of the Week selections: Lou Elsten, ...
Former Free State Firebird and current Northwest Missouri State Bearcat Caely Kesten hit 1,000 career points in college with a 21-point game against Rogers State on February 8. Kesten joined the Bearcats in the 2020-21 season, starting nine games and appearing in 17. She started seven of her ...
Free State’s boys swim team finished fourth in the Sunflower League Championships at the Shawnee-Mission School District Aquatic Center with 224 points, while the Lawrence team placed ninth with 131 points. Free State’s 200-yard medley relay team placed seventh at 1 minute, 45.22 seconds. ...
The Free State wrestling team won the Sunflower League meet at Shawnee Mission West on Saturday with 220.5 points, 52.5 points ahead of second-place Gardner Edgerton. “It’s awesome to win the league,” Free State coach Randy Streeter said. “We’ve only won the league twice in the last ...