Emporia swimming and diving tied for second in Thursday's meet in Emporia. Derby won the meet with 507 points. Olathe South and Emporia each finished with 337. Chesney Erkel secured a bronze medal in the 500 Yard Freestyle (6:38.67) and Rylan Navarro was fourth (6:45.43). Collin Moody, Beckett Schultz, Brayden Shaw, ...

Emporia State junior linebacker Landon Boss has been named the 2025 D2CCA Super Region 4 Defensive Player of the Year. The Osage City native is 1st Team All-Super Region 4 after being named the MIAA Defensive Player of the Year. He registered 100 tackles, 17.5 tackles for loss with ten sacks in 2025 while accounting ...

Former Emporia State baseball coach Bob Fornelli has been selected to the 2026 class of the Kansas Baseball Hall of Fame. The Lenexa native coached at three programs in the Sunflower State and has over 1,000 career wins. Fornelli played collegiately at Emporia State and joined the staff at Butler County Community Col...

The Emporia State track and field teams begin the indoor track and field season this weekend. The MIAA released their preseason rankings on Thursday and the Hornet men are slotted sixth while the Lady Hornets are tied for ninth. Pittsburg State was the unanimous choice to win the league in both polls with the Washbur...

The high school basketball girl/boy games against Lebo and Flinthills have been canceled for Friday.

Emporia High boys wrestling starts a new season on Saturday. Brook Medrano returns to lead a Spartan team that sent seven to the 5A State Tournament a year ago. Jackson Goodman (132), Garrett LeBlanc (165), and Jose Vargas (285) all return with experience competing at state. Coach Medrano has a full room of athletes r...

Kansas State football coach Chris Klieman announced his retirement from coaching on Tuesday. The 58 year old finishes a 32-year career in coaching with including the last seven years in Manhattan. Klieman said in a press conference that he was putting family first. That conflicts with widely available reports from th...

Emporia girls basketball scored the first six points of the game as they never trailed Tuesday in their win over Wichita North, 56-19, in Emporia. A sloppy first quarter saw the black and red come out on front 10-4. The Lady Spartans grew the advantage to 13 at the break, 24-11. Emporia won the third, 18-8 and surre...

The high school basketball season gets underway this week. Plenty of area teams have been ranked in the Preseason top 10 by the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association. Boys: Olpe 1st in 1A Division 1 Burlingame 9th in 1A Division 1 Lebo 7th in 1A Division 2 Girls: Osage City 3rd in 3A Chase County 9th in 2A Marais des ...

All-District for 6-Man Football in District 1 has been released. Marais des Cygnes Valley finished second to Peabody-Burns in 2025. The Trojans saw their season end in the Regional round to Otis-Bison. MdCV placed Gus Ford, jr. (RB/DL), Josh Ulupano, jr. (OL), Ty Calderwood, sr. (WR/LB/P), Ricky Traver, so. (Flex/Ret...

Emporia High girls wrestling is coming off the best season in school history. Head Coach Shawn Russell saw the first two gold medals in program history. Kensley Medrano (120) and Alexa Castillo (235) each reached the top of the mountain in 5A. Coach Russell understands his team won't be able to sneak up on anyone. Th...

The Emporia State women's basketball team scored the first six points of the game and never trailed on the way to a 91-55 victory over Saint Mary on Sunday at White Auditorium in Emporia. The Lady Hornets started the game on a 14-4 run and led 21-12 at the end of the first quarter. They extended the lead to as high a...

The Emporia State men's basketball team's comeback fell short in an 85-83 loss to Northwestern Oklahoma State at Percefull Fieldhouse in Alva, Okla. on Saturday. The Hornets and Rangers battled early before E-State stretched their lead to eight with just over seven minutes to go in the first half. Northwestern took c...

The Emporia State men's basketball team couldn't keep up with #19 Oklahoma Baptist in a 69-48 loss at the Noble Sports Complex on Friday afternoon in Shawnee, Okla. The Hornets battled early but gave up a 17-2 run to fall behind 20-10 midway through the first half. ESU scored nine of the next 11 to pull within three,...

Emporia High girls basketball returns to the court Tuesday to begin a new year. Bill Nienstedt takes control of a team that went 4-17 a year ago. This will be the second stint for Coach Nienstedt, who led the program from 2001-2013. Coach Nienstedt will have plenty of girls on the roster. The Lady Spartans open the y...