Wichita State has won the Missouri Valley Conference tournament one time in St. Louis since 1991, falling short as a top-seed four times in the semi-finals.
The Shockers will have a chance to break...
The clang of a metal bat. The “pop” of a fastball hitting a catcher’s glove. The peanuts and Cracker Jacks.
Shocker baseball season has arrived, and head coach Todd Butler is excited about what...
Shocker softball made history in 2016, winning the first NCAA Tournament game in program history coming off a Missouri Valley Conference regular-season and tournament title.
The Shockers are looking...
Redshirting his first year on the Shocker baseball team in 2015, sophomore Josh DeBacker said he did not participate in any competitive baseball until he joined a summer baseball league after his freshman...
Eight years ago, senior Jenni Brooks felt an unusual pain in her right shoulder. After three shoulder surgeries, Brooks’ doctor figured out the problem with the Shockers’ pitching ace.
Brooks had...
Codey McElroy, a former professional baseball player, joins the Shockers’ coaching staff this season as a volunteer.
McElroy began playing baseball for Eastern Oklahoma State transferred to the University...
Junior Paige Luellen has had everyone in the Missouri Valley Conference doubt her.
Luellen was two years removed from a season-ending ACL injury when she led the MVC in runs and was second in runs-batted-in...
The baseball program decided to support the community in a new way this season.
Approximately 200 seats at Eck Stadium were dedicated to League 42 — a local not-for-profit — on Monday. The seats...
The sun is rising on a new Shocker baseball season and for the first time in 39 years, Brent Kemnitz will not be on the field coaching.
The highly decorated pitching coach, who helped mold a premier...
When the softball team arrives at the field for practice, all of the equipment is laid out for the players, which creates a worry-free atmosphere throughout the season.
It is the managers’ duty to...
The first time Nicole Entz took the field for Team USA in the General Tire World Cup of Softball VII, she and her teammates gave high-fives to a crowd of little girls leaning over a fence.
“That was...
One of new pitching coach Mike Steele’s first orders of baseball business was keeping players off their cell phones during practices or games.
Steele refashioned a holster for holding calculators....
