Keiryn Swenson, who will be a senior at Maize, has made an oral commitment to play basketball at Arkansas. She will also throw javelin.
Swenson, an All-Metro basketball selection in March, was named Kansas’ female Gatorade track athlete of the yea...

Maize’s Keiryn Swenson, who will be a senior, was named Kansas’ female Gatorade track and field athlete of the year.
Swenson, who has made an oral commitment to play basketball at Tulsa and was a 2014 All-Metro selection, won the Class 6...

Nebraska’s Miles Ukaoma, a senior from Maize, outkicked the field in the final 100 to win the 400-meter hurdles Friday night at the NCAA track and field championships.
Ukaoma, who finished sixth at the NCAA meet a year ago, finished in 49.23 seco...

Six hundred yards into the mile race, Jim Ryun was bumped in the tight pack of runners. He stumbled off the track to the infield.
“I wasn’t even sure I’d finish the race,” he said.
That was 50 years ago Thursday at the Compt...

Class 6A
Boys
Final Team Scores (18 of 18 Events)
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From JV to state champ
During Nick Giusti’s junior season, he was a junior varsity sprinter.
On Saturday at the state track and field meet, Giusti, a Carroll senior, celebrated winning the Class 5A 110 hurdles in 14.62 seconds.
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For the past four years, Taylor Needham has spent the better part of her life with Carlea Holt, whether it be on the Cheney track and field team, at school, or just hanging out on the weekend.
They had trained together, cried together, won together, an...

The label attached to Deron Thompson at the 2011 state track and field meet was the sort of designation sprinters crave — one of the state’s fastest athletes.
It was a label Thompson earned by finishing fourth in the Class 6A 200 meters a...

Friendship prevails
For almost three years, Andale’s Abbie Maxwell had consistently finished ahead of teammate and best friend Leah Reichenberger in both of the hurdle events.
That came to an end at the beginning of May, when Reichenberger took ...

Andale senior Ethan Meyer had heard how it would be easy for him to win a Class 4A title in the pole vault, had heard that he had to win because the Indians needed his points to contend for another team title.
The pressure intensified Friday when he m...