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Tweet It’s looking all but certain that Prairie Village won’t have a Water Show this July for the first time in more than 50 years. Prairie Village Assistant Danielle Dulin, who oversees the city’s pool operations, announced this week that the city had failed to find a coach for the synchronized swimming team this year [...]
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 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 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 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 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 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 unseasonably chilly weather discouraged some of the hearty (this fella included…) from taking to the starting line Saturday for Corinth’s tenth annual Dragon Dash, but it didn’t deter two young runners from putting in winning efforts. Fifteen year old Leawood resident Jack Trouve, who attends Rockhurst High School, had the overall best time [...]
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 Mother nature may not be providing the perfect backdrop, but the 10th Annual Dragon Dash is slated to go off tomorrow rain or shine. The race, which raises funds for the Corinth Education Foundation, starts at 7:45 a.m. Organizers say that only lightning would cause them to cancel the race — so find that dragon [...]
Tweet A rematch of last year’s lacrosse championship title game didn’t play out in the Lancers favor. Pembroke Hill leveraged its home field advantage to knock off the Lancers 8-4. The Lancers will be looking to shake off the loss and have a strong showing this weekend as they take a road trip to Indiana, [...]
Tweet The program’s next game may still be months away, but SM East’s women’s basketball program is already enjoying some fresh energy as preparations for the 2013-2014 season begin. The school announced earlier this month that Emporia State University women’s basketball assistant Austin Klumpe will be its next head coach. Klumpe replaces Scott Stein, who [...]
Tweet A Prairie Village resident whose soccer skills propelled SM East to two Kansas 6A title games — and herself to a soccer scholarship at Indiana University — has turned her passion for the world’s most popular sport into a unique girl-focused training academy. Carrie Fry Robinson founded Finesse Soccer Academy in 2010 along with Blue Valley [...]
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 Monday isn’t just Tax Day this year. It is also the last day to register a team in the 12th annual Lancer Classic Basketball Tournament. The tournament is the largest fundraiser for the SME boys’ basketball program. Proceeds from the tournament help pay expenses that are not covered by school funding, such as summer [...]
Tweet SM East’s champion lacrosse team is picking up the 2013 right where it left off in 2012: winning. The Lancers are 5-1 after a nine day season-opening stretch that took them on a two-game road trip to St. Louis. On the trip the Lancers beat St. Louis-area Chaminade Prep, but fell to St. Louis [...]
Tweet SM East’s Lancer Dancers put on display for a hometown crowd on Tuesday the remarkable talent that earned them first place at the National Dance Alliance championships in Orlando, Fla., last month. The dance team put on a wide ranging performance during their annual Spring Show, showing off their versatility as a team and [...]
Tweet They say there’s nothing harder than herding cats. Tell that to the people charged with herding a bunch of mini-moose. Prairie Village’s Blue Moose Soccer Club kicked off its annual “Mini-Moose” spring sessions Sunday, with dozens of 3 to 6 year olds getting their first taste of the world’s most popular sport. After being [...]
