Varsity Kansas - The Blog

by joanna

I’m on vacation. I am. Really. Yet I’m here to keep this blog viable. And you guys are doing your part. Love the conversation.

First of all, check online for all the all-league teams. As soon as I saw a post that they weren’t online, I contacted the perfect person to rectify that issue. So look there.

On to All-Metro. It is tough to compare different athletes with different schools and different classes, but I am a firm believer that the top athletes are not only in the top classes. I wrote about this before, during one of my hundreds of state tourney blogs. Several of the greats are females — Kendra Wecker, 4A; Nicole Ohlde, 4A; Laurie Koehn, 2A and then there’s Miklannet Tennal, who played in 1A, won a juco national title and then went on to Texas Tech. And she was about 5-foot-1. But what a player.

Comparing 3A Cole Graddy with 6A players is fine. This kid is one of the best shooters that I’ve ever seen, he’d be fine in any class. Luke Meisch is 4A, but my goodness, people, he led his team to a 23-0 start. It’s pretty tough to ignore that.

There were some points that South doesn’t get love because Christine Elliott was All-Metro, not All-State, and that Lance Russell wasn’t All-Metro. Man, if we had places for more than five people, surely that would be rectified.

Finally, there’s the Adonis Gantt issue. Obviously an outstanding guard. Without a doubt. Could he have been All-Metro? Sure. So could Kelton Marshall from Heights, Lance Russell and a few other players. But I am sure he feels the love. What a following this guy has — probably even more than Sam Edwards of East had last year.

Hope this helps! Hey, gotta topic for the blog? Let me know. We need to keep this alive — even if I’m writing while my kids are running around the house screaming!

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