K-Nation (08/09/26) — Colleen Corbin, Fall camp, Big 12 soccer, and more

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NORTHEAST KANSAS (KSNT) — This week’s episode of K-Nation focuses on Kansas’ fall football camp, Big 12 soccer preseason rankings and more. Plus, an exclusive one-on-one interview with K-State soccer head coach Colleen Corbin.

• Kansas football head coach Lance Leipold was happy with the early showing of his team so far in fall camp
• Associate head coach Andy Kotelnicki emphasized the importance of having a 50/50 pass and run game to help an inexperienced quarterback
• Jim Zebrowski, Kansas’ passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach, says that frontrunners Cole Ballard and Isaiah Marshall have healthy competition between them for the QB1 spot
• Ballard and Marshall both emphasized that they are both driven by helping the team perform at the best of its ability
• Defensive coordinator D.K. McDonald says that the incoming transfers have added some great competition to a defense that is already bringing back key returners
• K-State football’s Avery Johnson and Joe Jackson were both named to the Maxwell Award Preseason Watchlist
• K-State soccer was picked to finish No. 14 in the conference in the Big 12 Preseason poll
• The Wildcats are looking to build off a record-breaking season in 2025, when they set 49 new program records
• Kansas soccer was tabbed No. 3 in the Big 12 Preseason poll
• Kansas volleyball released its slate of televised games, including two matchups in Allen Fieldhouse
• Former Bat’Cat Kaelen Culpepper homered in his second-ever major league at bat after being called up by the Minnesota Twins
• K-State baseball landed class of 2028 shortstop Asher Newton, a Manhattan native
• Kansas women’s hoops alum Lilly Meister inked a deal with BC Marburg in Germany
• K-State women’s basketball added a much-needed center in Greek center Tzoana Tampakou
• Former Wildcat assistant golf coach Rinko Mitsunaga has been promoted to associate head coach
• Washburn University President JuliAnn Mazachek provided an update on behalf of the Ballard family, after former KU basketball player Brett Ballard was seriously injured in a car accident Tuesday night
• K-Nation’s Sydney Clark caught up with K-State women’s soccer head coach Colleen Corbin in an exclusive one-on-one interview

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