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Tweet For the first time in coach Ermanno Ritschl’s tenure as golf coach at the school, SM East this year will be the host school for the Kansas 6A high school golf championship tourney. Meadowbrook Country Club in Prairie Village will be the site of the tournament, which will be played Monday, May 20. SM [...]
Tweet More than 350 young tennis players from 24 clubs hit local tennis courts last week for the Kansas City JTL tennis tournament, the culmination of the summer season for the sport at area country and racquet clubs. The players slogged out their finals matches in 12 singles categories at Homestead Country Club Friday. Results [...]
Tweet If you were going to have to spend the day outside yesterday, about the best reason would be a swim meet, don’t you think? Dozens of young swimmers packed the pool at Homestead Country Club Thursday for the finals of the MOKAN Swim League’s 2012 championships. The City of Mission Swim Club took home [...]
Tweet The camaraderie that propelled Indian Hills Country Club swimmers last week to take their second Country Club Swim Association of Kansas City championship title in a row was forged in part by the swimmers rallying around an Indian Hills parent battling a deadly disease. Melissa Anthony, one of the club’s 2012 swim chairs, was [...]
Tweet For the second time in as many years, Indian Hills County Club has taken home bragging rights at the Country Club Swim Association of Kansas City’s annual Bud Merritt championships. Building on last year’s upset victory in its home pool, Indian Hills outswam the field, besting second-place finisher and this year’s host Kansas City [...]
Tweet Fifty two aspiring tennis stars will take to the courts at Homestead Country Club in Prairie Village Thursday hoping to earn a berth in the U.S. Open Qualifying Tournament. The USTA’s Missouri Valley Sectional Tournament kicks off at 11:30 a.m. with first round matches in the women’s singles bracket. The men start first round [...]
Tweet Eight-year-old Charlotte Hawes hit the pool at Homestead Country Club Wednesday and came away with a trip to the London Olympics. Hawes is one of ten finalists from across the country selected in McDonald’s Happy Meal Chefs contest. With the help of mother Tess, she submitted an application with a video explaining how the [...]
Tweet Boulevard Brewery founder John McDonald can tell you a thing or two about beer. Like how 7,000 years ago the serendipitous mixture of seeds a hunter-gather had stored in a stone or wooden vessel, some rain water and some wild yeast yielded a beverage that gave drinkers something of a “religious experience.” Or like [...]
Tweet Prairie Village police on Thursday released surveillance video showing the vehicle that delivered the two men who tried to rob a DJ as he was leaving Indian Hill Country Club on Saturday. The video shows the vehicle, which appears to be a silver Honda CRV, entering the frame at 27 seconds. It quickly disappears, [...]
Tweet Homestead Country Club’s high-performing platform tennis duo has notched another major tournament win — this time taking their show on the road. Homestead pro Kevin Kowalik and member Andy Metzler went 15-0 at the St. Louis Platform Tennis Invitational the weekend of Feb. 10, ultimately taking home the title. The duo won the Kansas City [...]
Tweet A Prairie Village duo with a passion for paddles has taken home top honors in this year’s Kansas City Men’s Open platform tennis tournament — and they have their sights set even higher. Andy Metzler and Kevin Kowalik of Homestead Country Club won the tournament, now in its 12th year, and will be competing [...]
Tweet Homestead Country Club has opened up two new courts that might strike people used to traditional tennis as a bit odd. The platform tennis courts are about a quarter the size of traditional courts, surrounded by a 12-foot high fence, and raised off the ground. The sport of platform tennis was created to give [...]
Tweet It can’t but help to have home pool advantage. Indian Hills pulled an upset victory at the Country Club Swim Association of Kansas City’s championships yesterday, nudging off perennial favorite Leawood South 1308.5 to 1305.5. Kansas City Country Club came in third at 1010. Indian Hills’ Cailey Grunhard helped the team’s effort and secured [...]
Tweet It happens each year. And each year the wounds grow more visible still. A cohort of aquatically gifted adolescent assassins have descended upon our quiet suburban summer nights. They are stealthy. And they are ruthlessly efficient. Their tool is not gun, nor knife, nor ninja throwing star. It is toilet paper. And with it [...]
Tweet More than 1,600 swimmers from area country clubs will gather at Indian Hills Country Club in Mission Hills over next three days for the 54th Annual County Club Swim Association of Kansas City Swim Championships. The event marks the end of the clubs’ six-week summer swim season, and will feature competitors aged 6 through [...]
Tweet Meadowbrook Country Club’s annual fireworks display will be back in some form this year, but don’t count on being able to take much of it in unless you’re a member. The club skipped its traditional semi-public display last year as it faced seemingly insurmountable financial issues. But after cutting a deal with real estate [...]
Tweet Fore! I mean, Ford! A car chase that began in Independence after police observed a car hit another vehicle and then keep driving ended in a chilly water hazard at Meadowbrook Country Club yesterday. After a high speed chase that led through Independence, Kansas City, and eventually Prairie Village, the subject of the pursuit [...]
Tweet The Mission Hills city council agreed on Monday to revisit its fireworks ordinance in light of the high volume of complaints it received following a display at Kansas City Country Club two weeks ago. The 10-minute display, which was part of a wedding reception, prompted 70 calls to the Prairie Village and Mission Hills [...]
Tweet If you, like we, were perplexed by what sounded like an encroaching mortar attack near the Village Shops on Saturday night, we’ve got good news and bad news for you. The good news is, it was just a fireworks display at Kansas City Country Club, and not an act of war. The bad new is, the display was [...]
Tweet The Kansas City Star reported yesterday that the sale of Meadowbrook Country Club to Caymus Real Estate, a development company that plans to start building residential facilities on the property, was finalized last week. The sales price is not known, but Meadowbrook rejected an offer of $14.4 million from another company last year. Club [...]
Tweet Meadowbrook Country Club, which has faced mounting financial troubles that many felt made its closure all but certain, has signed a deal with a real estate company that should allow the club to continue operating, according to the Johnson County Sun. The deal with Caymus Real Estate will include the development of additional revenue-generating [...]
Tweet Eldar Djangirov was just 10 years old when he moved from his native Kyrgyzstan to the Kansas City area, his family drawn here by the city’s rich jazz history, seeing it as a fertile ground for the piano prodigy’s maturation. At 12, he became the youngest person featured on the NPR show Piano Jazz. [...]
Tweet The Kansas City Star ran a feature story this morning on young Robert Green, who notched a hole-in-one at Kansas City Country Club earlier this month. Read the full story here.
Tweet The opening ceremonies this morning for the Country Club Swim Association of Kansas City’s championship finals at Mission Hills were chalked full of team spirit — so much so that a number of brave swimmers donned heavy, fury mascot costumes in the 85 degree heat. The competition ends this afternoon with the team relays. [...]
Tweet The pool at Mission Hills Country Club is churning and the air is thick with cheers as the second day of the Country Club Swim Association of Kansas City’s 2010 championships are underway. Check the CCSAKC’s Web site for results. Lots more pics after the jump.
