Michael Stigler had his Friday all mapped out. Venture out to Rock Chalk Park. Jog. Stretch. Pretty simple.The Kansas University senior — like most collegiate competitors at the Kansas Relays — had his plans wrecked Thursday night, though, when forecasts of severe Saturday weather moved the ...
One never really knows what to expect out of the Downtown Lawrence Shot Put. Not even its defending champion, Christian Cantwell.Not once before had the fifth-annual springtime spectacle turned out a repeat winner. Nor had the Eldon, Missouri, native and former Mizzou Tiger ever competed in ...
Five years of interviewing shot putters and watching them compete sparked a light bulb in my head, a genuinely good idea, one I’m putting down on paper here before it dies of loneliness or gets trampled by the debris that flies around up there in stops and starts, billions of tumbleweeds ...
Kansas University All-American Lindsay Vollmer took the overnight lead in the heptathlon as the Kansas Relays kicked off Wednesday at Rock Chalk Park.Vollmer, the 2013 NCAA heptahlon champion, was the top scorer in all four events Wednesday: the 100 (13.63 seconds), high jump (1.70 meters, or ...
Michael Stigler’s 48.44 time in the 400-meter hurdles, set at the Texas Relays, remains the fastest mark in the world thus far in 2015.He’s a must-watch at this weekend’s Kansas Relays for anybody who hasn’t seen him float so smoothly over the hurdles. The 400-meter final is scheduled ...
Kansas University athletic director Sheahon Zenger is taking a different tack to return the Kansas Relays to its former glory.Rather than bring in a few big-name national track stars to make headlines at the Relays, as has been the case in the recent past, Zenger — after discussions with KU ...
Just about everything in life has a face. Here, Bill Self is the face of basketball, Jim Ryun the face of the mile, Mike Amyx, barber shears in hand, the face of Lawrence politics.The fifth-annual Downtown Lawrence Shot Put, scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. today on Eighth Street, between Mass and ...
Lindsay Vollmer had just set a Kansas Relays record Thursday at Rock Chalk Park, with her heptathlon-winning score of 5,767 points. Instead of basking in the victory or pondering her place in Kansas University history, though, the senior’s mind entered an inner-debate. Part of her wanted an ...
