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By RICK PETERSON

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Sixteen city soccer players earned All-United Kansas Conference recognition, including nine first-team picks.

Seaman is represented on the first team by junior forward Ryin Miller, senior midfielder Anna Becker, senior goalkeeper Maegan Mills, junior forward Ava Golightley, and junior defender Addyson Shipp while Shawnee Heights put senior defender Bayli Benson, senior forward Izzy Van Fleet, senior midfielder Lailah Benz and sophomore midfielder Nina O'Neill-Bolanos on the first team.

Ryin Miller, Seaman 

Anna Becker, Seaman

Izzy Van Fleet, Shawnee Heights

Bayli Benson, Shawnee Heights

Miller and Becker are first-team All-UKC repeat picks for Seaman while Benson and Van Fleet are first-team repeaters for Shawnee Heights.

Seaman, a Class 5A quarterfinalist, put senior defender Kinley Wilhelm, junior forward Savannah Nelson and junior midfielder Maya Martin on the second team while four city players earned honorable mention. 

ALL-UNITED KANSAS CONFERENCE SOCCER

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Conference champion Shawnee Heights swept the 2025 All-United Kansas Conference individual baseball honors, led by senior Deacon Pomeroy , who was named the UKC player of the year by conference coaches for the second straight season.

Shawnee Heights' Deacon Pomeroy was named the UKC player of the year for the second straight season. [Photo by Selena Favela/Special to TSN]

Shawnee Heights junior Cambren Floberg has been named the UKC pitcher of the year by conference coaches. [File photo/TSN]

T-Bird junior Cambren Floberg was named the conference pitcher of the year while first-year Heights coach Jason Brown was tapped as the coach of the year after leading the T-Birds to a Class 5A state tournament berth.

 

Pomeroy, a standout pitcher and catcher, was named to the All-UKC team as a utility player, and is joined on the first team by junior pitcher Brody Cooper and junior outfielder Makade Orton.

Seaman is represented on the first team by sophomore Axton Brewer, who was named to the UKC team at pitcher and designated hitter.

Shawnee Heights and Seaman combined to put six players on the All-UKC second team, with the T-Birds represented by Floberg and senior infielders Braeden Johnston and Carson Garner while the Vikings put senior catcher David Dobbs, junior infielder Cooper Hayes and senior infielder Max Huston on the second team.

Five city players earned All-UKC honorable mention.

ALL-UNITED KANSAS CONFERENCE BASEBALL

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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.

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