Jan. 25, 1991: Andrew Evans, University of Kentucky discus thrower and Olympic athlete is born. Evans was born in Portage, Michigan, and competed in track and field as a discus thrower in high ...

From the moment Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone made the 2016 U.S. Olympic ... Herald-Leader Kentucky Sports Figure of the Year Award, former Kentucky Wildcats track and field star Sydney McLaughlin ...

A former Wildcat turned Olympic gold medalist is taking her celebrity status to NBA All-Star Weekend. The NBA announced Tuesday that track star Masai Russell has been named to the 2025 NBA All-Star ...

Mabel Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers to become the only woman to compete for ...

Four former athletes from Louisville, including two from St. Xavier High School, are among the 12-person 2025 KHSAA Hall of ...

Coburn is a three-time track Olympian and NCAA national champion. Coburn attended CU Boulder and graduated with a marketing degree in 2013. She competed in her first Olympics in 2012 while still a ...

Thomas Mercer reached rare air last June when — in the summer before his senior year of high school — he qualified for two races at the U.S. Olympic ... 24 at the University of Kentucky ...

A Olympic gold medalist ... Maybe it was always in the plans for Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, the track star at the University of Kentucky from North Charleston. She won her first NCAA 100-meter ...

With a wet Olympic stadium track – and a few drops still falling ... Nkoana was already a first-year student at North-West University in Potchefstroom, but Walaza was in Grade 12 at Curro ...

The retired football star ... AAU Junior Olympics at 12, winning the girls' 800-meter run. She ran for St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Florida, before joining the University of Kentucky ...

“Gabby Thomas doesn't sound like she's the brightest out there,” an X user wrote about the track star ... health from the University of Texas at Austin. Thomas’ Olympic dreams were realized ...