Editor’s note: This the second installment of a three part series that publishes on Saturday in the print edition of The Olathe News. Sports editor Tod Palmer will look at the changing landscape of high school sports. From conditioning to year-around play on specialized teams and recruiting, a lot has changed for the prep athlete in the last 30 years.

BMX bike racing is about as individual as sports get. Yet a group of young local BMX competitors are never alone when they ride.

Carl Garrett’s tenure as head baseball coach at Olathe South has ended after two seasons.

Like standing at sporting events? The Kansas City Chiefs would appreciate it if you didn’t when you show up at Arrowhead Stadium.

Editor’s note: This story is the second in sportswriter Andy Marso’s series highlighting the three high school sports in which Olathe is most dominant: football, softball and soccer. He examines Olathe’s rise to prominence in each sport, the youth programs that feed the city’s success and the possible future standouts who may take the field for the high school teams in the coming years.

Four Olathe golfers will vie for the 98th Kansas Amateur Match Play Championship when the Kansas Golf Association’s signature event is played July 14 to 20 at Wichita Country Club.

Imagine having the Super Bowl a half-dozen times a year. Six sporting events that the entire country gets together and watches and then dissects around the water cooler the next day.

Bree Beattie’s second trip to the NCAA Div. II national championship softball game with Emporia State University was considerably easier than her first.