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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Seaman's girls basketball team made a big move in the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association's Class 5A state rankings after the Vikings' 30-point season-opening win over then-No. 3 Lansing.

AnnaBeckerLansing2Anna Becker and the Seaman girls jumped to the No. 3 spot in the KWCA's first Class 5A regular-season state rankings. [File photo/TSN]

Seaman, which jumped from No. 9 to No. 3, was one of five Shawnee County teams to receive mention in the KBCA's first regular-season rankings, released Tuesday.

Silver Lake held on to the No. 2 spot in the 3A girls rankings.

BoAldridgeSenior Bo Aldridge (1) returns for Highland Park, which begins the 2022-2023 season third-ranked in Class. [File photo/TSN]

On the boys side, Highland Park is ranked No. 3 in 5A and Hayden No. 3 in 4A while Topeka West is ranked seventh in 5A.

KANSAS BASKETBALL COACHES ASSOCIATION STATE RANKINGS

GIRLS

Class 6A

1. Blue Valley North; 2. Shawnee Mission West; 3. Blue Valley; 4. Olathe North; 5. Olathe West; 6. Shawnee Mission Northwest; 7. Shawnee Mission South; 8. Wichita Heights; 9. Liberal;  10. Blue Valley Northwest.

Class 5A

1. St. Thomas Aquinas; 2. Andover; 3. Seaman; 4. St. James Academy; 5. Emporia; 6. Salina Central; 7. Bishop Carroll; 8. Maize South; 9. Hays; 10. Goddard Eisenhower.

Class 4A

1. Bishop Miege; 2. Wameo; 3. McPherson; 4. Hugoton; 5. Andale; 6. Wellingon; 7. Eudora; 8. Rock Creek; 9. Baldwin; 10. Holton.

Class 3A

1. Goodland; 2. Silver Lake; 3. Phillipsburg; 4. Sabetha; 5. Nemaha Central; 6. Cheney; 7. Colby; 8. Halstead; 9. Southeast-Saline; 10. Eureka.

Class 2A

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

Class 1A-Division I

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

Class 1A-Division II

1. Hanover; 2. Lebo; 3. Attica; 4. Central Christian; 5. Golden Plains; 6. St. Paul; 7. Coldwater-South Central; 8. Ingalls; 9. Ashland; 10. Wheatlan-Grinnell.

BOYS

Class 6A

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

Class 5A

1. Andover; 3. Maize South; 3. Highland Park; 4. Kapaun Mt. Carmel; 5. St. James Academy; 6. De Soto; 7. Topeka West; 8. St. Thomas Aquinas; 9. Basehor-Linwood; 10. Andover Central.

Class 4A

1. Eudora; 2. Bishop Miege; 3. Hayden; 4. Abilene; 5. McPherson; 6. Buhler; 7. Wamego; 8. Rock Creek; 9. Circle; 10 Andale.

Class 3A

1. Southeast-Salina; 2. Cheney; 3. Sabetha; 4. Hesston; 5. Osage City; 6. Galena; 7. Wichita Collegiate; 8. Wellsville; 9. Haven; 10. Nemah Central.

Class 2A

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

Class 1A-Division I

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

Class 1A-Division II

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

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