By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
Silver Lake's Dayne Johnson and Kailyn Hanni, Rossville's Jack Donovan and Seaman's Ryin Miller, who recently completed their junior years of high school, were honored Tuesday night at The Foundry as the Dan Key Farmers Insurance Agency 2025 Rising Stars of the year.
Silver Lake's Dayne Johnson and Rossville's Jack Donovan were named the Dan Key Farmers Agency 2025 co-male Rising Stars of the Year Tuesday night while Silver Lake's Kailyn Hanni and Seaman's Ryin Miller were named the co-female winners. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Donovan and Johnson were named the co-boys winners while Hanni and Miller shared the girls honor.
The four overall winners were picked from five girls and boys finalists chosen from weekly Rising Stars who were selected through the 2024-2025 school year.
Johnson was a football, basketball and baseball standout for the Eagles while Donovan was a football and basketball standout and a state golf medalist for the Bulldawgs.
Hanni helped lead Silver Lake to runnerup Class 3A state finishes in basketball and softball this past season and has been a state champion in basketball and golf while Miller won three individual 5A state track championships last weekend in Wichita, was the state runnerup in cross country and basketball and was a 5A state basketball champion as a sophomore.
Both Hanni and Miller are four-sport athletes.
Other girls finalists included Washburn Rural basketball standout Maddie Vickery, Highland Park basketball standout Pearmella Carter and Hayden golf and tennis standout Izzy Glotzbach.
Vickery and Carter recently completed their sophomore seasons while Glotzbach completed her junior year.
Other boys finalists included Washburn Rural two-time state wrestling champion Landen Kocher-Munoz, Hayden football and wrestling star Jude Krentz and Seaman cross country and track standout Brody Anderson.
All three athletes recently completed their junior years of high school.
