The Jayhawker

How does a player convey swag? Is it hitting a fadeaway jumper over a defender? A running back bowling over a defensive back for a score? Maybe launching a 400 foot bomb over the fence. Sometimes, it just comes down to the jersey on your back. Before that jersey made it to the court or field, it was meticulously planned, from the first stitch to the final fold before being put into game action.

This is a special How It Works edition of the Jayhawker Podcast featuring the gear of KU.

Getting to Lawrence just felt right for Rylee Anderson. And things seem to feel right often for the back-to-back defending Big 12 Indoor champion at the high jump. Anderson continues to add to long list of winners that come from the Jayhawks.

This is the Jayhawker Podcast with Kansas high jumper, Rylee Anderson.

To say Caleb Sampson's college journey has been a full of adversity would be an understatement. Originally signed and playing for Missouri coming out of high school, Sampson would eventually land at a junior college in Mississippi, a challenge that would leave him in tears

That path has led him to Lawrence as a valuable member of the Jayhawks football team. And not just for his play, but the leadership he brings as well

This is the Jayhawker Podcast with KU football defensive tackle and captain, Caleb Sampson

The Crimson and Blue run deep in Daniel Hegarty's family. Jayhawks are littered through his family tree. It helped make choosing a college easy for the man they call Mr. Jayhawk and helped him develop into the team leader he is today for the Kansas baseball team.

Now a starter and flourishing, Hegarty is enjoying his final trip around the bases for the Jayhawks as he prepares to earn his Masters degree.

This is the Jayhawker Podcast with KU baseball pitcher, Daniel Hegarty.

Rowing probably isn't the first sport you think of when you thin KU athletics. And Lawrence probably isn't the place you'd think of as the ideal spot to coach a water based sport. But none of that has stopped Carrie Cook-Callen and her drive to make the women's rowing team the best that it can be. Wearing the red and blue is a dream come true.

This is the Jayhawker Podcast with women's rowing head coach, Carrie Cook-Callen.