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Tweet The best high school golfers in Kansas — including SM East’s Sunflower League-winning team — are in Prairie Village today with a shot at the state title on the line. SM East has home-course advantage as host of this year’s KSHSAA 6A golf tournament, which tees off at 8:30 a.m. at Meadowbrook Country Club The Lancers have [...]
Tweet SM East has its first second (whoops…sorry, boys tennis team. Temporarily forgot your excellent work!) state sports title of the spring — and it’s a familiar one. The women’s swim and dive team on Saturday wrapped up its fourth consecutive Kansas 6A team championship during competition in Topeka. It marks the 14th women’s swim [...]
Tweet By Chris Heady SM East football fans, meet Dustin Delaney, your new football coach. “It was a unanimous decision but it took a little bit (to finally decide). I think I made the right choice,” said incoming principal John McKinney. “He’s a snag,” he added. Coming off three years at Emporia High School that [...]
Tweet A 2007 SM East graduate is among this year’s recipients of the prestigious Fulbright awards. Emily Hipps, who attended Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after high school, will be teaching and conducting research in Turkey with funding from the award. At Coe, Hipps triple majored in English, sociology and creative writing. She now [...]
Tweet Two first half goals by senior Addison Steiner led SM East’s women’s soccer team past SM North 4-0 in the First Round of Regionals Wednesday night. Steiner’s two goals gave her 23 on the season, breaking the school record previously held by Tyler Rathbun this past season. “I’m excited for her, and I think [...]
Tweet For more than 20 years, SM East teacher World Geography teacher John Nickels has collected a bundle of letters from his freshman students each May. And each May he drops a separate bundle of letters in the mailbox. They’re letters his students have written to themselves — penned as freshman with the intent of having [...]
Tweet The wait is almost over, football fans. Incoming SM East principal John McKinney said Tuesday he and a committee will most likely be ready to decide on a replacement for departing football coach Chip Sherman by Tuesday evening. According to McKinney, he and the committee have narrowed down a list of 12 applicants down [...]
Tweet Whoever’s in charge of the weather dialed up a gem of a night for SM East’s seniors, their families and friends Tuesday as the graduates made their way across the stage to receive their diplomas – and a handshake from Dr. Karl Krawitz, who’s retirement as principal of SM East is just weeks away.
Tweet And the SM East lacrosse team wasn’t the only one to repeat as champions this weekend. The boys tennis team edged rival Blue Valley North in state 6A play in Wichita Saturday to rescuer the state title, which the Lancers won back in 2012 after a three-year string of titles by Blue Valley North. [...]
Tweet SM East headed into this year’s Lacrosse Association of Kansas City tournament as the four seed, behind the favored one and two seeds Rockhurst and Pembroke Hill. But a well-timed string of outstanding performances propelled the Lancers past those higher-seeded foes, and to two their second LAKC title. Since the LAKC was just founded [...]
Tweet For the third straight year the SM East’s lacrosse team can call themselves champions. With a 10-6 win over Pembroke Friday night, the Lancers finished their season on a six-game win streak and remain the only team to ever hoist the LAKC Trophy. Thanks to five goals by sophomore Nick Bailey and an inspired [...]
Tweet The weather postponed the event last week, but SM East cheerleaders on Saturday will hold their annual car wash. The event will run 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in the front driveway of the school. Stop by and get that car gussied up for a good cause.
Tweet And the SM East parade of champions continues… So to recap: We already have women’s swimming league champs, women’s soccer league champs, men’s golf league champs, and a lacrosse team in the title game. Phew! But there’s more! SM East’s speech and drama team took home the top honor in the state at last [...]
Tweet SM East’s boys lax team is headed back to the Lacrosse Association of Kansas City’s championship game. And they’ll have a familiar date. With a 7-5 victory over top-ranked Rockhurst High School Wednesday, the Lancers earned the right to face Pembroke Hill in the title game Friday – a rematch of the 2012 title game, [...]
Tweet ‘Tis the season for sports titles, and SM East is off to a strong start. The girls’ soccer team earned a Sunflower League title Tuesday. And SM East’s boys golf team on Wednesday wrapped up its sixth straight Sunflower League title with a strong showing at the Lawrence Invitational tourney, hosted at Alvamar. The [...]
Tweet It took a little help from their SM South rivals, but the SM East girls soccer team on Tuesday clinched the Sunflower League regular season title with a 4-4 tie against Olathe South. The draw was enough for the Lancers to ensure that powerhouse Olathe East — which lost to SM South 2-1 Tuesday — wouldn’t [...]
Tweet It was a day for firsts and lasts Tuesday for the SM East PTA. At the last meeting of the year, the group installed what is believed to be its first male president (technically co-president) in Randy Davis and said goodbye to departing SM East principal Karl Krawitz. Davis will serve as co-president next [...]
Tweet After a wild week of weather that caused the cancellation its two final regular season games, the Lancers lacrosse team finally took to the field again Monday — and in very successful fashion. SM East, sitting in third place in the Lacrosse Association of Kansas City rankings, opened the first round of the playoffs [...]
Tweet The spring academic accolades season is in full swing, and SM East is again receiving high marks. SM East again made Newsweek’s annual list of “America’s Best High Schools“. This year’s list put SM East at 650 in the nation. Last year, the list had the school ranked at 540th. Last week, the Washington [...]
Tweet SM East’s Women’s Swimming and Diving Team on Saturday captured its ninth Sunflower League title — and set a new school record in the process. Led by strong performances that included wins by two freshman, SM East bested second place Free State by 52 team points. Freshman Mary Booton and Bonnie Longan both took [...]
Tweet Miami County District Attorney Elizabeth Sweeney-Reeder on Friday filed charges against two SM East students in the November ATV accident on a rural Miami County farm that killed SM East senior and soccer star Tyler Rathbun. The district attorney’s office’s press release is copied below: On today’s date, May 3, 2013, charges were filed [...]
Tweet The nominations are out. And the cast and crew of SM East’s The Drowsy Chaperone couldn’t be much happier. Starlight Theatre on Thursday officially released the nominees for this year’s Blue Star Awards, honoring the best of Kansas City-area high school musical theatre. SM East learned last week that it had 10 nominees among [...]
Tweet The SM East PTA final meeting of the year next Tuesday apparently will serve as the last chance for parents to say goodbye to retiring principal Karl Krawitz. The last meeting always includes the installation of the new executive board, which will take place as well. PTA leadership said Krawitz requested no going away [...]
Tweet Looks like it could be a big year for SM East’s theater department… Director Brian Cappello has received word from Starlight Theatre’s Blue Star Awards that SM East’s production of the Drowsy Chaperone has received 10 nominations. (The Blue Star Awards — basically the Tony Awards of Kansas City high school musicals — give awards [...]
Tweet Last month band students and parents turned out in big numbers to protest cuts to the band program at SM East. The school now says that all of the band-related courses at SM East will be taught again next year. But the news may not be enough to alleviate the concerns of band supporters. [...]
