All City 2025 Girls Swimming Team.

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Rick Strecker, Hayden Hall of Framer, passed away after cancer battle.

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All City 2025 Boys Golf Team.

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2025 All City Boys Tennis Team.

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Topekan "Big Dawg" Deedrick honored by KSHSAA for 60 yrs. as an official in baseball, basketball, football and volleyball.

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Ryin Miller, Seaman, named Gatorade KS 2025 Track & Field Athlete of the Year.

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Nate Wallace (right) is the new coach of the Highland Park boys basketball team.

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Phil Frost captured his 1st TGA City Match Play Championship.

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By RICK PETERSON
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Five Shawnee County basketball teams remain state-ranked in the latest rankings released Tuesday by the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association.

Highland Park remained No. 2 in the Class 5A boys rankings while Topeka West moved up to No. 4 after handing the Scots their first loss of the season last Friday.

Highland Park is 8-1 on the season and Topeka West 7-1, with both teams competing in this week's Topeka Invitational Tournament at Highland Park.

MikeWilliamsMike Williams' Highland Park boys basketball team is No. 2-ranked in Class 5A by the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]

RickBloomquistnewRick Bloomquist's Topeka West boys are ranked No. 4 in Class 5A by the KBCA. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]

Topeka High's girls are ranked No. 4 in 6A while Washburn Rural holds down the No. 7 spot in 6A.

Topeka High took a 7-0 record into Tuesday's Centennial League game against Manhattan while Rural took a 6-1 record into Tuesday's league game with Topeka West. 

Silver Lake, 7-0 on the season, is ranked third in the 3A girls state rankings.

KANSAS BASKETBALL COACHES ASSOCIATION STATE RANKINGS

GIRLS

Class 6A

1. Shawnee Mission West; 2. Olathe North; 3. Derby; 4. Topeka High; 5. Blue Valley; 6. Shawnee Mission Northwest; 7. Washburn Rural; 8. Liberal.9. Dodge City; 10. Wichita Heights.

Class 5A 

1. St. Thomas Aquinas; 2. Salina Central; 3. Andover Central; 4. Lansing; 5. Bishop Carroll; 6. Emporia; 7. Goddard; 8. Spring Hill; 9. Basehor-Linwood; 10. Maize.

Class 4A

1. Wamego; 2. Wellington; 3. Bishop Miege; 4. Eudora; 5. Andale; 6. Labette County; 7. Rock Creek; 8. Clearwater; 9. Pratt; 10. McPherson.

Class 3A

1. Hugoton; 2. Nickerson; 3. Silver Lake; 4. Goodland; 5. Eureka; 6. Cheney; 7. Phillipsburg; 8. Hiawatha; 9. Santa Fe Trail; 10. Southeast-Saline. 

Class 2A

1. Sterling; 2. Valley Heights; 3. Berean Academy; 4. St. Mary's Colgan; 5. Jackson Heights; 6, Smith Center; 7. Elkhart; 8. Ell-Saline; 9. Remington; 10. Garden Plain.

Class 1A-Division I

1. Burlingame; 2. Hodgeman County; 3. Centralia; 4. St. Paul; 5. Little River; 6. Norwich; 7. Pretty Prairie; 8. Osborne; 9. Doniphan West; 10. South Central. 

Class 1A-Division II

1. Central Plains; 2. Lebo; 3. Hanover; 4. Golden Plains; 5. Central Christian; 6. St. John's; 7. Attica; 8. Ashland; 9. Wheatland-Grinnell; 10. South Haven.

BOYS

Class 6A

1. Free State; 2. Blue Valley Northwest; 3. Dodge City; 4. Wichita Heights; 5. Blue Valley West; 6. Olathe South; 7. Shawnee Mission South; 8. Wichita Northwest; 9. Junction City; 10. Shawnee Mission Northwest. 

Class 5A

1. Andover Central; 2. Highland Park; 3. Kapaun Mt. Carmel; 4. Topeka West; 5. Maize; 6. Hays; 7. St. James Academy; 8. Andover; 9. Valley Center; 10. Pittsburg.

Class 4A

1. Eudora; 2. Buhler; 3. Bishop Miege; 4. Abilene; 5. Paola; 6. McPherson; 7. Andale; 8. Tonganoxie; 9. Wamego; 10. Pratt.

Class 3A

1. Hesston; 2. Royal Valley; 3. Cheney; 4. Wichita Collegiate; 5. Frontenac; 6. Nemaha Central; 7. Galena; 8. Osage City; 9. Holcomb; 10. Southeast-Saline.

Class 2A

1.. Hillsboro; 2. St. Marys; 3. Valley Falls; 4. Ellinwood; 5. Wabaunsee; 6. Lyndon; 7. Erie; 8. Trego Community; 9. Jefferson County North; 10. Dexter/Cedar Vale.

Class 1A-Division I

1. South Gray; 2. Olpe; 3. Osborne; 4. Norwich; 5.Clifton-Clyde; 6. Macksville; 7. Hodgeman County; 8. Wichita Classical; 9. Burlingame; 10. Troy. 

Class 1A-Division II

1. Hanover; 2. Northern Valley; 3. Greeley County; 4. Elyria Chriistian; 5. Wheatland-Grinnell; 6. Bucklin; 7. Dighton; 8. Axtell; 9. Lebo; 10. Waverly.

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