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South Central Kansas Player Watch List
Bryce Brown, Wichita East
With 1,850 yards rushing in 2007, Brown broke his own single-season City League rushing record. Committed to Miami, he ranks among Wichita’s best ever.
Brett Soft, Maize
The Big 12 is looking at the 6’4”, 200-pound wideout with great hands. With 1,422 yards on 81 catches last fall, he broke existing state records.
Jaydan Bird, Conway Springs
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South Central Kansas Football Preview 2008
1. Derby Panthers (5-5)
Entering his third season at Derby, coach Brandon Clark took the program from winless in 2005 back to .500 last fall. Derby, once no stranger at state, will contend in the playoffs for the first time since Tom Young’s final season in 2003.
When Clark arrived at Derby, one player hand-cleaned over 300 pounds; this off-season, 12 cleaned over 300 and six over 320.
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Return To Glory
Everyone follows in someone’s footsteps. For Steve Young, it was Joe Montana. For Kevin Garnett, Bill Russell. Every Kansas City Royals third baseman from now to eternity will play in the shadow of the incomparable George Brett.
Lelin George, head football coach at Conway Springs the past three seasons, carries the legacy of Mark Bliss on his shoulders. Bliss led Conway’s legendary run through Class 3A beginning a... More
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Hulding On
Maybe it was cautious optimism, or wishful thinking or perhaps a bit of denial, but everyone in Mulvane, with fingers tightly crossed, seemed to share the same thought after star football player Huldon Tharp suffered a knee injury at summer camp.
Maybe, just maybe, it’s not too serious.
Tharp could simply ice it down, take a little R & R, and all would be right in Wildcat world.
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Naked Football
It was June of 1996. The previous fall, Dick Purdy had won his fifth state title in six seasons at Lawrence High, marking the end of the Lions’ 17-year grip on Class 6A football in Kansas. In the coming fall, Olathe North would assume its reign over 6A, winning its first of seven state titles over the next eight seasons, six of them under Gene Weir.
While Weir was... More
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Year in Review 2007-2008
The magazine launched its first issue in August 2007, featuring Wichita East High’s Brown Brothers on the cover (“Pair of Aces”). Arthur Brown, a senior linebacker this past fall, and Bryce, a junior running back, delivered the area’s and state’s most intriguing storyline entering the 2007 prep football season.
Arthur, who enrolled at Miami University in January 2008 and played spring ball for the Hurricanes in April, was... More
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The Real Battlefield
Chris Thompson
Douglass three-sport athlete entering the Marine Corps
What was the highlight of your high school athletic career?
Senior year of basketball season because we won ten games. My previous three years, we only won a total of seven games. We also had some wins over opponents we had never beaten before.
What made you decide to sign up for military service?
I signed up because... More
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Road Scholar
Many a wise person has made the comment that if only they could bottle the energy and exuberance of young kids, they would be rich. Diandra Milliner’s parents may have figured out how to capitalize on this age-old problem. They have parlayed a young girl’s talent into the wealth that comes with a full-ride college athletic scholarship.
Milliner, a freshman at Maize High who is being recruited by several... More
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So Much Success
When Ethan Ungles popped out his chest, dipped his head over the finish line and emitted a victorious yelp at the end of the 200 meter dash, something other than his golden day at the state track meet was coming into focus.
Memorial Day Weekend was a coup for the Renwick School District. While Ungles won the 100 and 200 and ran a leg on the state-title winning Andale... More
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Keeping the Game in Motion
The whistle blows, stopping what might appear as chaos to the uninitiated; another blows moments later and the smooth sport of basketball resumes. The crowd’s attention falls on the athlete looking for an open teammate and the defender hoping to snare an errant pass. Kurt McAfee, the one responsible for the whistle and necessary interruption, wipes the striped sleeve of a referee’s jersey across his forehead and begins another journey... More
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The Tradition Continues
If a little boy grows up peeping through a knothole in a green-painted fence with dreams of someday hitting a walk-off home run to win the World Series, and a little girl visualizes sinking a half-court shot at the buzzer to win an NCAA Championship for the Tennessee Vols – what drives the hundreds of swimmers that knife through the waters at swim clubs across the country year after year?
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Question and Verdict:Feature 1
Some of the numbers are close to matching up. The NCAA Division I numbers 341 colleges and universities across America in its membership, while the Kansas State High School Activities Association has 361 senior high member schools.
The organizations’ postseason basketball tournaments both grant entry to a similar number of schools. The NCAA whittles down its 341 schools to 65 for its postseason tournament; the KSHSAA, its 361down to... More
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Getting Out of the House
What do you do when your kids want to play competitive sports, but they don’t attend public or private schools? Meeting this need became the catalyst for home school parents like Wichitans Kenny Collins and Joel Jackson to start their own athletic programs.
Fifteen years ago when Collins’ oldest son Brian was in junior high, he and a number of other boys his age said they wanted to play... More
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On Their Behalf
He does it for the kids. It is as simple as that.
They play his way, which is old school. His way, which means play hard. His way, which means discipline. His way, which means focus on the classroom and good behavior in the hallways.
The kids play his way, which means kids that might not get a chance to go to college often do after going... More
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The KC Question
When any Wichita area soccer team makes it to the state final – they can bank on full support from the city’s soccer community.
That’s because Kansas City teams have drawn a battle line in the sand over the past 22 years, winning 34 out of the 47 state soccer titles ever awarded in Kansas. From 2004-07, eleven of the past twelve titles in Class 6A, 5A and 4-1A... More
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The Kansas Football Coaches Association put five proposals before the Kansas State High School Activities Association this past spring regarding...
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Heath Carroll
Heath Carroll will do his best in 2008 to put Wellington back on top, right where his dad, Preston, and...
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Brick By Brick
by: Jim Misunas
Verlin Dreiling built houses. His son, Randy, has built a football program.
Coach Randy Dreiling, winner of the...
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