Kansas City Current to honor NIT Champion Kansas Jayhawks at Sunday's Match

The 2023 WNIT Champion Kansas Jayhawks have been invited to be guests of the Kansas City Current on Sunday, April 23, at Children’s Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas. The Current will host the Orlando Pride at 4 p.m. CT with the Jayhawks honored in a halftime celebration on the pitch. Jayhawk fans can get tickets to cheer on the WNIT Champions and the Current at this link.

“We are so excited to celebrate another successful women’s sports team in Kansas City,” said Current VP of Communications Dani Welniak. “This is another opportunity to empower women in sports and lift up champions. We congratulate the Jayhawks on an outstanding season and postseason run to an NIT Championship.”

Kansas won the 2023 WNIT Championship with a 66-59 victory over Columbia on April 1 at Allen Fieldhouse. The Jayhawks also defeated Western Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Arkansas and Washington on its path to the tournament crown, and KU finished 25-11 on the year for its most wins in a season since 1996-97. Kansas also set a new single-season school record with 19 victories at Allen Fieldhouse during the 2022-23 season, including the WNIT Championship game, which was played in front of a crowd of 11,701 fans.

The KC Current are in the club’s third year after being founded in 2020. The Current have two former Kansas Soccer players on the 2023 roster in Rylan Childers and Addisyn Merrick. Childers, who played at KU from 2020-22, was the No. 42 overall pick in the 2023 NWSL Draft, while Merrick (2016-19) was the No. 28 pick by the North Carolina Courage in 2020, and acquired by Kansas City in a trade midway through the 2022 season.