WU senior Andrew Orr & teammates celebrate their NCAA D-II Central Region championship.

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Seaman coach Matt Tinsley name UKC girls' basketball Coach of the Year.

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Washburn Rural senior Amare Jones named Centennial League Boys' Player of the Year.

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Rossville junior Rylee Dick named to All-Big East First Team.

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WU Coach Brett Ballard’s jubilation as the Ichabod’s won the NCAA D-II Central Regional championship.

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Junior Kailyn Hanni, Silver Lake, named to All-Big East First Team.

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Mid-East League volleyball powers Rossville and Silver Lake combined to earn four of six spots on the all-league first team.

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Rossville, which won the 2022 league title, is represented on the first team by senior Brinley Dyche and junior Kinsey Perine while Mid-East runner-up Silver Lake put senior Lexis Berndt and senior Taylor Ross on the first team.

Berndt, Dyche, Perine and Ross were all unanimous first-team selections by the league coaches.

Rock Creek's Ayla Klingenberg was also a unanimous first-team pick while St. Marys' Brenna Smith rounded out the first team.

Silver Lake senior Leah Cook and Rossville junior Kinley Porter were named to the second team while Silver Lake junior Sarah Wehrli received honorable mention.  

ALL-MID-EAST LEAGUE VOLLEYBALL

First team

Lexis Berndt – Silver Lake*

Brinley Dyche – Rossville*

Ayla Klingenberg – Rock Creek*

Kinsey Perine – Rossville*

Taylor Ross – Silver Lake*

Brenna Smith – St. Marys

Second team

Leah Cook – Silver Lake*

Hope Garland – St. Marys

Sam Killingsworth – Rock Creek*

Sarah Lett – St. Marys

Kinley Porter – Rossville*

CJ Rignell – Riley County*

Honorable mention

Hayden Heim – St. Marys

Ashlyn Holmes – Rock Creek

Kaci Meseke – Wabaunsee

Sarah Wehrli – Silver Lake

Annie Wright – Wabaunsee

*denotes unanimous

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