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Joe Vargas answers 10 questions
Central Kansas
Mom, Renee, and football coach, Justin Price, try to match his answers. Joe Vargas, Winfield High's star centerfielder and running back, looks for a senior-laden Winfield baseball team to build on the success of the football team. Vargas hopes to beat Ark City in baseball this spring, just as the football team did in the fall, is a huge Cornhusker fan and would rather throw a guy out at the...
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Hutch Doubles Player Ben Braun Triples Up
Central Kansas
After placing second in doubles at Class 5A state last spring, Ben Braun pairs up with Ben Fangman, brother of his former partner, Luke Fangman, who graduated. League rivals Craig Knox and Will Exline of Salina Central, who defeated Braun and L. Fangman in the state final last May, also return. Braun, a junior, once attended the French Open and is interested in clay as a playing surface, and yet...
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Hunter Hageman's Got Heart
Central Kansas
After missing his entire sophomore season due to heart surgery to repair a narrowing artery, Hunter Hageman has finally gotten back to where he wanted to be as a senior. The Kingman High starting point guard still takes medication, is limited in the weightroom on doctor's orders and will never get back his sophomore season in which he would have started alongside his brother, but what Hageman is accomplishing on...
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Clearwater High and Sara Hoover have big expectations this basketball season
Central Kansas
Five-foot-ten junior post player Sara Hoover is in the midst of her first season as a starter for Clearwater girls basketball. Following a 15-7 season, Clearwater was off to a stong start in December, including a season opening win over state-ranked Haven. Hoover listens to All I Want For Christmas before games, bleeds K-State purple and prefers fixings on her hot dog. ...
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Northwest's Kyle Caylor exchanges his helmet for headgear, going 10 rounds in Triple Play with coach and dad
Central Kansas
Defending 215-pound Class 6A state wrestling champ Kyle Caylor is looking to repeat in his junior season. Caylor, also a national champion in Greco-Roman and Freestyle, switches out his helmet for headgear this December, following the Wichita Northwest football season, which ended at Derby in the state quarterfinals. Caylor goes for the pin on the mats, says his signature move is the college shrug and he hopes to wrestle in...
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Big Play Croitoru Runs Routes With Pops and Coach Mike Lee
Central Kansas
Senior Andover High wideout Alex Croitoru averages over 25 yards per catch, thanks to his 30-inch vertical leap and coach Mike Lee's offense which will be featured in American Football Monthly next month. After a season opening loss to Buhler, Croitoru and Andover High had reeled off seven consecutive wins through Week 8, including the school's first-ever win over crosstown rival Andover Central. Here's 10 questions with Alex, his father...
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Central Kansas
Junior Morgan Feist was voted team MVP for Collegiate volleyball in 2007 as a sophomore, leading the team in kills. Feist gives her takes on the Olympics, home football games and the Big Apple. ...
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Heath Carroll will do his best in 2008 to put Wellington back on top, right where his dad, Preston, and coach, Linn Hibbs, had it in the early 1980s
Central Kansas
Heath Carroll, a quarterback in youth football and junior high, moved from fullback to center on the offensive line in 2007. The talented leader is versatile, willing to do whatever his coaches ask of him. Preston Carroll, his father who played tight end, cornerback and kicker for Tom Young on Wellington's 1982 state title team, and Heath's coach at Wellington, Linn Hibbs, the quarterback for the state runner-up Crusaders in...
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George Sellew introduces the area to the game of lacrosse.
Central Kansas
George Sellew played his first season with the Wichita Renegades lacrosse team this spring. A junior at Andover High, Sellew moved to Wichita over the summer of 2007 from Massachusetts, where he took up the game competitively at 10 years old. The Renegades club, coached by David Sherman, formed five years ago and played its inaugural season against varsity competition this spring. The team, consisting of students from seven area...
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Sedgwick High three-sport athlete Lawon Kingsley answers ten questions with his dad and uncle
Central Kansas
Lawon Kingsley runs cross country and plays basketball and golf, a rare combination. Kingsley, a junior, averaged 18 points per game in basketball this season and was named the MVP of the Heart of America League. He also has qualified for the state golf tournament the past two seasons. Lawson's uncle, Ed, coaches him in cross country and golf ...
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