The Jayhawker

Kansas volleyball star Caroline Crawford is a generational Jayhawk and has had love in her heart for the University of Kansas for as long as she can remember. Crawford carved her path with the sport of volleyball and began getting noticed by schools for her play on the court. To her, it was always a no-brainer. Crawford was an All-Big 12 first-team selection as a freshman last season, and recently returned from Belgium and Netherlands where she competed with the Team USA Under-20 team. Now her focus returns to Kansas Volleyball, where she hopes to bring back the Jayhawks to the level of a team she idolized growing up – the 2016 squad that made the Final Four.

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Kansas forward Jalen Wilson is a veteran in the Jayhawk locker room as he enters his third season with the program. Personally, he’s also a veteran of the game of basketball. Both his father and mother played collegiately, and he’s thankful they have been able to guide him through his playing journey.

Perspective on college basketball came early for Wilson. In his first game as a Jayhawk, injury struck and wiped out his freshman season. As hard as the injury was to accept and overcome, Wilson came away from the experience with the attitude and approach of a veteran. After testing the NBA waters, Wilson is back to take care of some unfinished business in Lawrence.

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New Jayhawk women’s golf coach Lindsay Kuhle is ready to hit the ground running in Lawrence after being hired this summer to take over the Kansas program and she feels that this is the perfect place to achieve some lofty goals. Kuhle comes from a golf background in Colorado, where her father and brother taught her the game she loves, a love that has spurred her passion to coach and to lead women to success, both on and off the course. Lindsay, her husband A.J., a former Division I basketball player at Air Force, and their two children have always been a sports family. Now they are a part of the Jayhawk family.

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If you know former football player Keon Stowers, it’s hard to fathom how difficult his upbringing was in Rock Hill, South Carolina. There was not much to look forward to in his environment, and it was even harder for him to trust others who wanted to help him. Stowers escaped a challenging family situation at home through football, where he found a family who cared, mentors who challenged him, and a place where he felt like he could make a difference.

He found success on the gridiron, and after two years at Georgia Military College, he found his way to Kansas, where he played two seasons for the Jayhawks and graduated with a degree in Sociology. Stowers has now found a home in Lawrence and is the Development Director for the KU Endowment, where he shares his story with others in the community and on campus.

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Learning. Growing. Maturing. That 400 meters, that one lap around the track, caused Olympic gold medalist and world record holder Kyle Clemons to do some deep thinking about his athletic career and his life. His rise to the top of the track and field world did not come easy. However, to a young Clemons, this whole thing was supposed to be a breeze. Highly rated out of high school, he’d spend a year or two in college and then go pro, and then the medals and money would come. But his times at Kansas failed to reflect that and he struggled. Suddenly, a mental switch flipped for Clemons, and with the help of Kansas track coach Stanley Redwine, he dropped the expectations. And found beauty in the grind.

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