There have been a lot of changes at The Olathe News in the last year.

Olathe East’s boys soccer team has dominated the Sunflower League this decade.

The MidAmerica Nazarene University Pioneers kicked-off their 2008 season on Monday with their first practice. They open their season against Lindenwood University at home Sept. 6 at 1 p.m.

The votes are in and the surprises few.

It seems that whenever the Heart of America Athletic Association football coaches get together, talk inevitably turns to the league’s parity and how all of the 11 teams are contenders.

When Dale Reed started the Olathe Bullets youth baseball club in 1996, he looked for an opportunity to coach his son, Rowdy, who was 7 at the time.

Olathe’s high school baseball rivalries may have more teeth next spring.

Community service has been central to Bonnie Swade’s life for decades.

Less than three months after receiving her high school diploma, Ally Majercik became a college dropout last week – kind of.

For a landlocked city in a fairly dry part of the United States, Olathe has more than its share of top notch high school swimmers and divers.

Playing the fourth hole — his third — Wednesday at the annual Olathe South Football Booster Club golf benefit at Prairie Highlands Golf Course, Jeff Gourley waggled his 5-iron over his ball in the fairway.

After researching the issue of athletic transfers in Olathe for nearly a month, it’s still hard to know what to make of it.

Editor’s note: This is the final article in a three-part series of stories by sportswriter Andy Marso about transfers and their effect on the local high school sports scene. He has explained why Olathe’s district alignment complicates the transfer issue, how private schools prevent athletes from “school shopping” without having any geographical boundaries and now explores some specific transfers of high-profile Olathe athletes in the past few years.

Olathe South announced Thursday that Josh Perkins would be taking over the head baseball coaching job on an interim basis. Perkins, an assistant coach at South, will follow Carl Garrett, who resigned in July to take a position as assistant principal at Prairie Trail Junior High. Perkins' father, Don, coached the Falcons for 25 years and won two state titles. Updated: Aug. 7, 2008 5:20 PM |Full Story

Prairie Trail Junior High student Alex Souvannakhot took fifth place in the standing long jump at the Hershey’s Track and Field Games last Saturday in Hershey, Penn. But that wasn’t even the highlight of his trip.