Sophomore Michael Hester managed to qualify for the finals of the men’s 400 meter race by running 49.68 seconds, just three one hundreths of a second faster than Aaron Lecesne of Colby CC. Regardless of how narrow the margin of qualification was Hester will be in the final tomorrow, and he’s sure he will run [...]
Kansas freshman Tianna Valentine and senior Paris Daniels tied for the fastest time of the 100 meter preliminary round at 11.64 seconds. Neither of them felt satisfied and both expect to improve their time for tomorrow’s final round. Valentine’s personal record is 11.48 seconds and Daniels’ personal record is 11.28 seconds. The cold and wet [...]
Sophomore sprinter Alisha Keys had a quick jump out of the blocks just as she had planned in the second preliminary heat of the women’s 200 meter race. It was the finish of the race that didn’t go as Keys had hoped. “I think I just got tired there in the last 30 and just [...]
Kansas senior Angel Goodrich will be headed back to Oklahoma — the state where she won three 3A state titles at Sequoyah High School — as the 29th overall pick by the Tulsa Shock in the third round of the 2013 WNBA Draft. It will be a quick turnaround for Goodrich from college basketball to [...]
It is decision time for the 12 teams of the WNBA. Tonight at 7 p.m. each organization will decide which college seniors they are willing to bet the future of their franchises on in the 2013 WNBA Draft. The Phoenix Mercury might as well have already announced their first selection, as it is sure to [...]
The Kansas softball team lost to Texas 5-4 in the second game of Friday’s doubleheader as the Longhorns went 3-0 against the Jayhawks this weekend. Sophomore Alicia Pille’s ninth complete game of the season wasn’t enough in the teams’ first game on Thursday with a 5-0 victory by Texas. The score was 2-0 in favor [...]
In the final minute of the 93-63 loss by Kansas to No. 2 Notre Dame in the Sweet 16, senior point guard Angel Goodrich sat on the bench staring down at the ground. To the right of Goodrich, senior teammate Monica Engelman gazed straight ahead with a look of disappointment. Senior forward Carolyn Davis covered [...]
The Kansas Jayhawks started hot against Notre Dame, shooting 7-for-9 in the opening five minutes of the game before the first media timeout. It did not last, as Notre Dame senior point guard Skylar Diggins pushed her team to a 40-27 halftime lead. The No.2 ranked Notre Dame Irish offense showed its firepower by keeping [...]
Carolyn Davis will step onto the court today in the moments before the most important game of her life, knowing that this is where her path was leading all along, to this Sweet 16 matchup with Notre Dame. Whether it is a destination or just another stop on the road will be determined today. Most [...]
Senior forward Carolyn Davis will experience her first taste of Sweet 16 action on Sunday against Notre Dame in Norfolk, Va., after missing last season’s run because of a torn ACL. This year, it’s been sophomore guard Natalie Knight that has had to watch and cheer her teammates on from the bench throughout March. Knight [...]
Kansas coach Bonnie Henrickson had not given up hope as of Thursday before an afternoon practice. But after scouting her team’s next opponent for a couple days, Henrickson still had not found a weak spot in the Notre Dame Irish, led by dynamic senior guard Skylar Diggins. “I haven’t been through everything,” Henrickson said, “but, [...]
Monica Engelman sat at the press conference inside Allen Fieldhouse on Tuesday afternoon flanked by her two fellow senior teammates, 5-foot-4 guard Angel Goodrich on her right and 6-foot-3 forward Carolyn Davis on her left. About 17 hours earlier in Boulder, Colo., Engelman dropped a career-high 27 points on the No. 4-seed South Carolina Gamecocks, [...]
“Pure joy,” Kansas coach Bonnie Henrickson said with a perfectly simple way to describe the emotion for Kansas after a 75-69 victory over South Carolina in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Senior guard Angel Goodrich jumped into the passing lane of South Carolina guard Ieasia Walker’s inbound pass from the half-court side line [...]
This game was expected to be a defensive battle by most, but the first half turned into an offensive shootout. Senior guard Monica Engelman has led the way for the Jayhawks with 18 points on shooting 7-for-12 from the field and 2-for-3 from behind the arc.Engelman has been aggressive on offense by attacking the paint. [...]
Senior Forward Carolyn Davis has admitted there were times late this season when doubt entered her mind. After a string of four straight losses against the Big 12, Davis wondered if the Jayhawks really had a shot at making the NCAA tournament. “We lost a lot of games down the stretch,” Davis said. So, when [...]
