2012-13 High School Basketball Preview

Longtime teammates stick together: Tripp, Lichtenauer bound for Missouri Western
May 13, 2013
“We’ve always been on the same team,” Lichtenauer said after she and Tripp signed on Friday to play at Missouri Western. “We always talked about how cool it would be (to play together in college) but we never expected it would happen. And now that it happened, we’re already talking about what we want for our dorm.”
SM Northwest celebrates 14 student-athletes in signing ceremony
April 23, 2013
Fourteen Shawnee Mission Northwest student-athletes signed letters of intent on April 17 to play college sports during a signing ceremony in the school’s cafeteria.
Eight Mill Valley seniors sign letters of intent
04:21 p.m., April 17, 2013 Updated 11:30 a.m.
Eight Mill Valley senior student-athletes signed letters of intent on Wednesday to play college sports upon graduation.
Briefly: Mill Valley hosts tennis quad, SMNW girls soccer loses first, Lichtenauer an all-star
April 12, 2013
Despite frigid temperatures, the Mill Valley boys tennis team was able to avoid a consecutive postponement on Thursday when it hosted St. James Academy, Blue Valley Southwest and Shawnee Mission South in a quadrangular meet.
Shawnee athletes, coaches recognized on Journal-World all-area winter sports teams
April 4, 2013
he Lawrence Journal-World — a sister newspaper of The Dispatch — annually releases All-Area teams after each high school sports season. What follows is the Journal-World’s All-Area girls basketball and wrestling teams. More teams will be released in the coming days. Mill Valley is the only Shawnee school included in The Journal-World’s coverage area.
Briefly: SMNW, SMN baseball teams open seasons; schools seeking volleyball, boys basketball coaches
April 2, 2013
Both Shawnee Mission North and Shawnee Mission Northwest are in the market for new coaches.
March 29 all-star game to pit KVL seniors against KCAL
March 13, 2013
Several area boys and girls high school basketball players were selected to represent the Kaw Valley League in a pair of KVL vs. KCAL all-star games later this month.
Area girls represented on All-KVL team
March 13, 2013
The Kaw Valley League was well-represented on both the boys and girls side at the state tournament level. Mill Valley’s second-place finish was the highest among all league girls teams and Tonganoxie was surprise entrant to the Class 4A field after upsetting Bonner Springs in the sub-state semifinals.
All-KVL boys team stocked with area talent
March 13, 2013
It didn’t take long for the All-Kaw Valley League teams to be announced after the conclusion of high school basketball season. Mill Valley, Lansing and Piper are well-represented after state tournament runs, but Basehor-Linwood and Bonner Spring also landed multiple players on the year-end list.
Five Cougars recognized on All-Sunflower League girls basketball team
March 13, 2013
Shawnee Mission Northwest senior Anna King and junior McKayla Ross earned first-team All-Sunflower League selections for the 2012-13 season.
SMNW’s Rose named Sunflower League coach of the year
March 13, 2013
Shawnee Mission Northwest boys basketball coach Mike Rose was named Sunflower League coach of the year after leading the Cougars to a 12-8 finish despite being pegged for as low as 11th in the league by some in the preseason.
Area state basketball roundups: KVL well-represented
March 13, 2013
The Kaw Valley League team sent multiple boys and girls teams to state tournaments over the weekend, with several teams finishing as high as second in their respective classes.
Family ties overlap at state for Mill Valley coaches
03:42 p.m., March 11, 2013 Updated 04:56 p.m.
The Class 5A state basketball tournament also served as a family reunion of sorts as family ties intersected between the Mill Valley and Shawnee Mission South basketball programs.
Mill Valley boys etch legacies with third-place win at state
08:06 p.m., March 9, 2013 Updated 03:37 p.m.
Mill Valley senior Nathan Stacy ended his career with a 24-point, 14-rebound performance to lead the No. 4 Jaguars (20-4) to a 75-70 victory against No. 6 Kapaun Mt. Carmel (17-7) Saturday in Topeka.
Late rally falls short in final seconds, Mill Valley girls fall to Aquinas in title game
07:52 p.m., March 9, 2013 Updated 03:38 p.m.
As soon as a the ball glanced off the rim and a buzzer made final the Jaguars’ 23-22 defeat to St. Thomas Aquinas in Saturday’s girls Class 5A state championship game, emotion poured as if a switch were hit.

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