Lee Arena re-opens after 7 month-long, $8 million renovation project.

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Hailey Schmidtlein, Hayden sophomore, earned Centennial League Player of the Year.

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Ken Darting, Shawnee Heights boys basketball coach, begins the final season of his illustrious career.

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Highland Park senior, Tremaine Savage, is 1 of 3 players named as Meadownlark Conf. Tri-Defensive Players of the Year.

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Washburn senior, Austin Broadie, named MIAA Player of the Year.

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Jermaine Monroe, Highland Park football coach, name Meadowlark Conference Coach of the Year.

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Sarah Johnson, Silver Lake girls coach, named 3A Coach of the Year.

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Washburn Rural's girls have returned to the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association Class 6A state rankings after a pair of victories over ranked teams last week.

BrooklynDeleyeBBSenior Brooklyn DeLeye (middle) and the Washburn Rural girls have returned to the KBCA Class 6A state rankings at No. 7 after a pair of wins over state-ranked teams last week. [File photo/TSN]

Rural is No. 7 in this week's rankings, released Tuesday, one spot behind Topeka High, which moved up to No. 6 from No. 10 in 6A.

Seaman's girls (5A), Silver Lake's girls (3A) and Highland Park's boys (5A) all remained No. 2 in the KBCA rankings while Hayden's boys remained No. 3 in 4A, Topeka West's boys moved up to No. 7 in 5A and Rossville's girls climbed a spot to No. 9 in 3A.

KANSAS BASKETBALL COACHES ASSOCIATION STATE RANKINGS

GIRLS

Class 6A

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

Class 5A

1. St. Thomas Aquinas; 2. Seaman; 3. Emporia; 4. Bishop Carroll; 5. Hutchinson; 6. St. James Academy; 7. Andover; 8. Hays; 9. De Soto; 10. Eisenhower.

Class 4A

1. Bishop Miege; 2. Wameo; 3. Wellington; 4. McPherson; 5. Rock Creek; 6. Louisburg; 7. Anddale; 8. Fort Scott; 9. Independence; 10. Hugoton.

Class 3A

1. Goodland; 2. Silver Lake; 3. Phillipsburg; 4. Nemaha Central; 5. Southeast-Saline; 6. Cheney; 7 Eureka; 8. Haven; 9. Rossville; 10. Cimarron.

Class 2A

1. Berean Academy; 2. Jackson Heights; 3. St. Mary's Colgan; 4. Smith Center; 5. Hillsboro; 6. Garden Plain; 7. Remington; 8. Hoxie; 9. Independent; 10. Riverside

Class 1A-Division I

1. Little River; 2. Osborne; 3. Pretty Prairie; 4. Clifton-Clyde; 5. Madison-Hamilton; 6. Centralia; 7. Burlingame; 8. Frankfort; 9. Hodgeman County; 10. Central Plains.

Class 1A-Division II

1. Hanover; 2. Lebo; 3. Central Christian; 4. Ashland; 5. Attica; 6. Golden Plains; 7. Thunder Ridge; 8. Bucklin; 9. Wilson; 10. Linn.

BOYS

Class 6A

1. Olathe West; 2. Blue Valley North; 3. Wichita Heights; 4. Lawrence; 5. Blue Valley Northwest; 6. Derby; 7. Olathe North; 8. Free State; 9. Garden City; 10. Shawnee Mission East.

Class 5A

1. Maize South; 2. Highland Park; 3. Kapaun Mt. Carmel; 4. Hutchinson; 5. St. James Academy; 6. De Soto; 7. Topeka West; 8. Andover Central; 9. Andover; 10. Bonner Springs.

Class 4A

1. McPherson; 2. Bishop Miege; 3. Hayden; 4. Circle; 5. Atchison; 6. Eudora; 7. Wamego; 8. Wellington; 9. Baldwin; 10. Chanute.

Class 3A

1. Sabetha; 2. Southeast-Saline; 3. Hesston; 4. Osage City; 5. Haven; 6. Wichita Collegiate; 7. Cheney; 8. Galena; 9. Humboldt; 10. Marysville.

Class 2A

1. Wichita Independent; 2. TMP-Marian; 3. Inman; 4. Ellinwood; 5. Lyndon; 6. Moundridge; 7. Sterling; 8. Chase County; 9. Bennington; 10. Wichita County.

Class 1A-Division I

1. Olpe; 2. Centralia; 3. Burlingame; 4. Macksville; 5. Clifton-Clyde; 6. Madison-Hamilton; 7. Wichita Classical; 8. Norwich; 9. Elyria Christian; 10. Randolph-Blue Valley.

Class 1A-Division II

1. Greeley County; 2. Pawnee Heights; 3. Northern Valley; 4. Hanover; 5. Cunningham; 6. South Central; 7. Axtell; 8. Lebo; 9. Bucklin; 10. South Central.

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