Bob Timmons, who set the foundation for championship cross country and track programs at Wichita’s East High and the University of Kansas, died Tuesday in Lawrence. He was 91.
Former KU athletics administrator Richard Konzem, Timmons’ stu...

Maize senior Keiryn Swenson was named Kansas’ Gatorade female track athlete of the year for the second season.
Swenson, who has signed with Arkansas to play basketball and throw the javelin, won the Class 6A title with a throw of 162-5 last mo...

Around 100 Wichita-area youths participated in the track portion of the fourth VarsityKansas.com free Skills Day.
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Heights boys track coach Steve Crosley taught hurdles, North track coach Ty...

Heights’ Creighton Sanders wins first gold
Heights junior Creighton Sanders craves being busy. Sitting on the couch irks him. Relaxing bores him.
So when it was suggested that he pick up the javelin and add to his already busy spring – he ...

After Jaylyn Agnew won her third state high jump championship for Andover last spring, she told her dad, Jay, “I might as well go for four.”
It’s good that the Agnews had that conversation on record, because that’s one of th...

Maize’s Swenson breaks 6A javelin record
When Keiryn Swenson found out she had missed the state record by three feet, the Maize senior looked over her shoulder, toward the field, as if she was silently asking for just one more throw.

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Wichita South senior Kaden Griffin entered Friday’s competition with Class 6A’s best distances in the long jump and the triple jump — and then he finished fourth in both, with results well below his highs.
Deeply disappointed, Grif...

Class 6A
Boys
Final Team Scores
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Class 6A
Boys
Team Scores (7 of 18 Events)
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Clint Johnson stood on the hill outside the shot put ring during the Class 5A state track and field meet on Friday at Cessna Stadium. In his 13th season as the Shawnee Mission South throws coach, he wasn’t watching one of his own athletes.

He w...