Category Archives: High School Sports
Hall of Fame HS Softball Coach Watt loses battle with cancer
Mark Watt, who guided Lincoln Southwest to 15 state tournaments and four state championships as its softball coach, and later served as a volunteer assistant at Nebraska, died today after a lengthy ba...
Nov 07, 2024 Courtesy Nebraska Athletics
Wesleyan has new Womens Hoops Coach
Nebraska Wesleyan University named Jim Wiedie its new women's basketball coach. Wiedie has coached 33 years, including a combined 19 years as head coach at Division I Indiana State and Division II Fin...
Sep 10, 2024
NSAA Approves New Boys, Girls State Basketball Format
The one-time format for girls and boys high school state basketball was approved by the NSAA Wednesday. The 2022 edition of the event will have both boys and girls running during the same week to acco...
May 20, 2021
NSAA to run girls and boys state basketball during same week in 2022
What is typically a wild couple of weeks will be even more so over just one week next year. The Nebraska School Activities Association (NSAA) announced Tuesday that both the girls and boys state baske...
Apr 28, 2021
NSAA votes unanimously to keep state basketball in Lincoln, extends event to five days
A big change is coming to the NSAA Girls and Boys State Basketball Championships for 2021. The NSAA Board of Directors voted 8-0 Thursday morning to keep the tournaments in Lincoln. The vote also shif...
Jan 21, 2021
Increased Attendance Coming to LPS Winter Activities
More fans will soon be allowed at most winter activities at Lincoln Public Schools. LPS worked with the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department to update attendance protocols that begin Monday, Jan...
Jan 21, 2021
KLIN Announces Partnership with Pius X for Broadcasting Fall Sports
In a first-of-its-kind partnership in the City of Lincoln, KLIN and Pius X are coming together to broadcast fall sports. “We saw a need to share games with the public that won’t be able to...
Aug 21, 2020
OPS Suspends Fall Activities Through First Quarter, Lincoln Schools Looking for New Opponents
The decision that had been speculated on for over a week finally came down from Omaha Public Schools on fall athletics. “During our time in the 100% Remote Learning Instructional Model, all acti...
Aug 07, 2020
NSAA: Sports to begin on schedule, Transfer rules to stay
Nebraska high school sports won’t have any big changes. Yet. The Nebraska School Activities Association (NSAA) Board of Directors met Monday morning to discuss changes for fall sports at a speci...
Aug 03, 2020
NSAA: Fall Sports Season to Begin "As Scheduled"
The Nebraska School Activities Association(NSAA) is preparing for the 2020 fall sports season to progress “as currently scheduled.” In a Monday announcement, the NSAA says the first practi...
Jul 20, 2020