Emporia High soccer will have the opportunity to play on a professional stage this fall. The Spartans have been selected to participate in the MKSN Boys High School Soccer Showcase at Riverside Stadium, the home of KC Current II, in Kansas City, Missouri. The Black and Red will face Republic (Missouri) at 4:30 p.m. on ...

Osage City football enters the 2026 season with high expectations once again after another deep postseason run a year ago. The Indians reached the Class 2A state semifinals in 2025, finishing with a 10-2 record before their season came to an end against Nemaha Central for the third straight year. The Thunder, led by Ka...

Madison Football enters the 2026 season with plenty to build on after capturing the Lyon County League championship and finishing 8-2 a year ago. Head coach Nate Teichgraeber said he was proud of his team's perfect run through league play in 2025 and appreciated the chemistry and leadership that group brought to the fi...

Emporia State football started training camp Monday on the grass fields just northeast of Welch Stadium as installation continues of the brand new FieldTurf for Blackcreek Diesel Field. Progress was delayed on the turf by storms last week. Still, head coach Garin Higgins is happy to have the upgrade almost complete. ...

A historic season could be on the horizon for Olpe football. Head coach Chris Schmidt enters his 20th season at the helm after guiding the Eagles to 14 consecutive playoff appearances. Olpe is coming off a 7-3 campaign that ended with an overtime loss to Jackson Heights in the regional round of the playoffs. Despite th...

Emporia State Director of Tennis John Blackburn will take over as the women's head coach in 2026. Blackburn was already coaching the men after arriving as sport director in 2023. He replaces CyCy Peyroche who departed as head coach of the Lady Hornets this summer. Blackburn has led the Hornets to a 29-25 overall rec...

Emporia High School Assistant Principal and Athletic Director Beau Welch has been named the 2026 5A Girls Wrestling Administrator of the Year by the Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association. The award recognizes administrators who have supported the growth and success of high school wrestling programs. Recipients are nomin...

The Emporia State athletics department announced a new strategic plan to guide Hornet athletics through the 2028-29 athletic season. The plan, titled "The Black & Gold Standard", outlines six major objectives that will be the focus of the department. The priorities in order are competitive excellence, u...

Emporia High has turned to one of its own to lead the school's diving program. The school announced Tuesday that Haylee Weiss has been named the head coach of the Lady Spartan diving team following the retirement of longtime coach Barb Clark. Weiss, a 2019 Emporia High graduate, is no stranger to success in the pool. S...

The Emporia State football team has been selected sixth by the coaches and media in the 2026 MIAA Football Preseason Polls released on Monday. Pittsburg State and Northwest Missouri were chosen as the favorites to win the league this year after splitting last year's title. The Gorillas were favored by the coaches wit...

The NCAA Division II Management Council has recommended that the Division II Executive Board adopt emergency legislation to establish an age-based eligibility model. The proposal would create a five-year eligibility period and would be effective immediately for the upcoming 2026-27 season. It would replace the longst...

Emporia State's Welch Stadium is getting new turf ahead of the 2026 football season. Installation is in progress now for a new state-of-the-art FieldTurf system. The project is anticipated to take two weeks so the field will be ready for the beginning of Hornet fall training camp which is set to begin on August 3. I...

Head Emporia State women's tennis coach CyCy Peyroche has announced she's stepping down as the head coach of the Lady Hornets. She was the first female to be named a head coach in the history of the ESU tennis programs when she took over as the interim coach of both the men's and women's teams for the 2023 spring seas...

Former Madison High School standout Casey Helm is returning to the Sunflower State and joining the Kansas State Track and Field team. Helm was a four time Class 1A Discus champion and broke the state record with a throw of 214 feet, 1 inch. That remains the top mark in the state. Following graduation, he attended Prin...

With international football's grandest event -- the World Cup -- into the quarterfinal stage and with American football games still over a month away, there is another brand of football that has a noted ESU alum doing very well. Tonight, the Argos travel to Winnipeg to take on the Blue Bombers. Game time is 7:30 pm. Ph...