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Parkway North football standout Anthony Gatti signed a letter of intent Wednesday morning to play football at the University of Missouri.

Parkway Central senior Emily Sisson started off the cross country season resting, but she finished it running away from everyone.

Parkway South led area schools with a large group of high school athletes signing their college letters of intent.

Parkway Central made the long trip to St. Joseph for the Class 4 state softball tournament. The Colts finished fourth, losing both games at the Heritage Park Softball Complex.

Kennedy reached the Class 3 state quarterfinals but dropped a 6-0 verdict to Cape Girardeau Notre Dame at the Ballwin Athletic Association.

Parkway West captured the Suburban South Tournament held recently at St. Vincent Park. The Longhorns finished first with 48 points.

Eureka captured the Suburban South Conference meet at St. Vincent Park with 30 points. Eureka has won the conference meet every year since 2003.

Eureka High School and Kirkwood High School are switching conferences for their sports teams; changes in enrollment are cited as the main reason.

The hand-off of the field hockey program from mother to daughter at Lafayette High School has been seamless.

Jason Green is the new athletic director at Eureka High School; Marty O'Hearn has retired.

Parkway South graduate Sarah Haskins, a 2008 Olympian and the 2007 U.S. Open Triathlon champion, won $20,000 recently after taking first place in the Lifetime Fitness Triathlon in Minneapolis, Minn.

DeSmet High School's Matt Stipanovich's break-out junior year broke even his imagination. Stipanovich scored an eye-popping 106 goals and 55 assists this season for the Spartans' water polo team, which finished second overall this spring.

After winning the state Class 2 singles tennis championship and polishing off the 2009 season undefeated, Christian Brothers College (CBC) junior Matthew Kuelker knows what he wants for an encore.

The Chaminade Red Devils made history when they won their first state volleyball championship.

One of the great things about the month of June in high school sports is the fact that you complete all of the state championships for the spring sports within about three weeks time.

When the DeSmet Spartans won the state championship in boys' volleyball for the first time in 1996, John Hawkey was a senior at the school.

After a sensational season, the Francis Howell Central Spartans fell one game short of taking the state championship in volleyball.

Since the Missouri State High School Activities Association sanctioned boy’s volleyball back in 1996, no public school has been able to win the Class 4 state championship.