The Geary County Girls Softball Association registration dates for this summer are April 1st, 15th, and 29th.

Registration will be at the Junction City Dillon’s on West 6th Street from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm each date.

The cost is $45 per child.

MANHATTAN, Kan. – Coming off a productive spring camp which provided more much needed water time, the Kansas State women’s rowing team is set for the program’s first trip to Florida when it heads to Sarasota, Florida, to race in the inaugural Sunshine State Invitational on Friday and Saturday.

 

“This race is going to be interesting for a couple of different reasons,” head coach Patrick Sweeney said about the first time the Wildcats will venture to the Sunshine State since the program became a varsity sport in 1996-97. “One, we are going up against Tulsa, so we will be able to see if there is a difference from what we did last week. The other is how do we compare with some of the other school’s that will be at the race, such as Alabama, Miami and UCF. The meet will provide us some variety, more than anything else. It will be nice to not be racing against the same teams over-and-over. It will be fun.”

 

K-State raced Tulsa to open its spring slate two weeks ago. At that race, the team’s 2V8 and 3V8 each recorded first-place finishes, with times of 6:54.80 and 7:07.31, respectively, while the 1V8, 1V4 and 2V4 each finished runner-up in their respective races.

 

The team then stayed in Tulsa for the remainder of the week to participate in its spring camp, which provided Sweeney the opportunity to assess where his team is at heading into the meat of the racing season.

 

“It was a very good camp,” Sweeney said. “It is always a stressful time for the athletes because it is coming into their selections — who is going in the first, second, third, fourth, fifth boat — but they handled it really well. I am really pleased with the amount of work they did and how they came out of it at the end. They are in good shape.”

 

Friday’s action is slated to begin at 2:20 p.m., CT, with Second Varsity 4 race, while Saturday’s action will begin at 7 a.m., CT, First Varsity 8 race. A complete schedule of events can be found here.

 

For the latest on K-State women’s rowing, follow @kstatesports and @KStateROW on Twitter using the hashtag #KStateROW or on the team’s Facebook page.

 

—www.kstatesports.com—

 Josh Brunner
Graduate Assistant | Athletics Communications

Eleven new banners will be going up in the Bradley Gym at Saint Xavier High School in Junction City, according to a Facebook post by Saint Xavier graduate Dan Zoeller.

They will help tell the history of Saint Xavier Catholic School in sports, cheerleading, forensics and scholars bowl. The banners will date from the early 1920’s to the present day. These will be a running banner of all the championships that have been won.

This presentation is open to the public at 1:45 p.m. in the Bradley Gymnasium on April 18th.

MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State opens its on-field preparations for the 2017 football season on Wednesday afternoon as the Wildcats will hit the field for the first of 14 practices leading up to the Purple/White Spring Game in late April.

 

Beginning today, K-State will practice each Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday over the next three weeks, culminating with the spring game, which will kick off at 1:10 p.m., on Saturday, April 22, in Bill Snyder Family Stadium.

 

Fresh off a victory in the 2016 Texas Bowl – the Wildcats’ seventh-straight bowl berth – K-State will look to build momentum from a 9-4 campaign, including a 6-3 mark in Big 12 play and fourth-place finish.

 

K-State returns 44 letterwinners and 14 starters from last year’s squad. In total, the Wildcats bring back 179 starts from the 2016 season, the most in 10 years. Included in the returning starters are eight players who earned All-Big 12 honors, featured by first-teamers Winston Dimel, Will Geary, Byron Pringle, D.J. Reed and Dalton Risner. Reed was named the 2016 Big 12 Defensive Newcomer of the Year, while defensive end Reggie Walker earned Big 12 Defensive Freshman of the Year honors.

 

College Football Hall of Fame head coach Bill Snyder will begin his 26th year at the helm of the Wildcats with a 202-105-1 record. Snyder, who ranks first in the FBS in wins among active coaches at their current schools, became the 26th FBS coach all-time to reach 200 career wins last season but just the sixth to coach at only one school.

 

Tickets for the 2017 Purple/White Spring Game are on sale for $5 through the K-State Athletics Ticket office online at www.k-statesports.com/tickets, by phone at 1-800-221-CATS or at the main ticket office inside Bramlage Coliseum. The game will be shown world-wide on K-StateHD.TV and can be heard across the K-State Sports Network.

 

K-State opens the 2017 campaign on Saturday, September 2, with the ninth-annual K-State Family Reunion against Central Arkansas. Following a contest against Charlotte on September 9, the Wildcats travel to Nashville, Tennessee, to take on SEC foe Vanderbilt on September 16. K-State opens Big 12 play at home on September 30, with a matchup against Baylor.

 

The priority deadline for season-ticket purchases is Friday, April 21. A limited number of single-game tickets go on sale online only on June 20. All seven home games in 2017 are anticipated to sell out quickly and extend the Bill Snyder Family Stadium sellout streak to 40 games.

 

 

AP – Frank Mason III of Kansas has been unanimously selected to the 2016-17 AP All-America team.

Mason, who averaged 20.8 points and 5.1 assists this season, received all first-team votes from the 65-member national media panel that selects the weekly AP Top 25.

Joining Mason on the first team on Tuesday were fellow senior Josh Hart of Villanova, sophomore Caleb Swanigan of Purdue, freshman Lonzo Ball of UCLA and junior Justin Jackson of North Carolina.

Hart, who averaged 18.9 points and 6.5 rebounds, received 62 first-team votes.

Swanigan led the nation with 26 double-doubles and was the only Division I player to average 18 points and 12 rebounds this season. He was on 61 first-team ballots.

Ball received 54 first-team votes. He averaged 14.6 points and 7.9 assists and has already announced plans to enter the NBA draft.

Jackson helped the Tar Heels reach the Final Four, averaging 18.1 points. He was on 24 first-team ballots.

Votes were based on the regular season and conference tournaments.