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The recreation center also holds a 1,500-seat arena [1] It is the home of the UMKC men's and women's basketball teams, as well as the volleyball team known since the 2019–20 season as the Kansas City Roos. Under the school's previous athletic identity as the UMKC Kangaroos, the men's basketball team played there from 1969 to 1986, and again ...
Kansas City has had teams in all five of the major professional sports leagues; three major league teams remain today. The Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball became the first American League expansion team to reach the playoffs (), to reach the World Series (), and to win the World Series (1985; against the state-rival St. Louis Cardinals in the "Show-Me Series").
The first school in Lincoln College Prep's lineage was founded in Kansas City, Missouri in 1865. Students were educated at a church. In 1890, under the leadership of Principal Gabriel N. Grisham, Lincoln became and moved into a high school. Beginning in 1908, the high school was located at 19th and Tracy Avenue, now 1300 East 19th street.
Nicky Taghert, a student athlete from Clayton High School, became the first Missouri transgender high school athlete to apply for eligibility through MSHSAA in November of 2017. [14] To receive eligibility, Taghert had to sit out one year while she received hormone therapy treatment toward transition.
Here are the nominees for the Iowa City Press-Citizen’s high school Athletes of the Week for Sept. 9-15. Press-Citizen.com readers vote to decide this week’s winners. Voting closes at 8 p.m ...
The 2024–25 Kansas City Roos men's basketball team represents the University of Missouri–Kansas City in the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.The Roos, led by third-year head coach Marvin Menzies, play home games at the Swinney Recreation Center in Kansas City, Missouri, as members of the Summit League.
The football team has won two of the last three games in large part because of this running back’s performances. They are looking to end the season with a victory before the district playoffs begin.
For the 2023–24 season, it had 241 member institutions, [3] of which two are in British Columbia, one in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the rest in the continental United States, with over 83,000 student-athletes participating. [4] The NAIA, whose headquarters is in Kansas City, Missouri, [5] sponsors 28 national championships.