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Stan Park, Kansas City, Kansas, has been named to the fall dean’s list at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Students on the dean’s list have a grade point average of at least 3.5 for the semester and have completed at least nine semester hours of academic credit with no incomplete grades.
Nearly 52,000 students attend the urban public research university.
Sporting Kansas City has signed free agent defender – midfielder and two-time MLS Cup champion Brad Evans, the club announced earlier this week.
Evans has been added to the Sporting KC roster, signing a one-year contract with an option for 2019.
Evans has amassed 28 goals and 31 assists in 255 MLS appearances (including playoffs) since beginning his professional career in 2007. He was with Columbus Crew SC in 2008 for his first MLS Cup.
He arrives in Kansas City after spending each of the last nine seasons with Seattle Sounders FC, where he won four Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup championships and the 2016 MLS Cup.
“We are very fortunate to welcome Brad to our club,” Sporting KC manager Peter Vermes said. “With his mentality and work ethic, we know what he can bring to Sporting KC, and for us to add a player with such high character and experience is an incredible opportunity. We are excited for him to be a part of our locker room.”
“I am thrilled for the opportunity to join Sporting Kansas City and help the club pursue championships,” Evans said. “This is an exciting new chapter in my career and I can’t wait to play in front of an amazing fan base at Children’s Mercy Park. I would also like to thank the entire Seattle Sounders organization and their fans for all of their support over the last nine years.”
Born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, Evans has earned 27 appearances for the U.S. Men’s National Team. He competed at the 2009 and 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cups and started five matches during the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying cycle, helping the United States advance to the flagship tournament in Brazil.
Evans joined Columbus Crew SC as the No. 15 overall pick in the 2007 MLS SuperDraft out of UC Irvine. In a breakout sophomore season, he scored six goals across 31 league appearances – including starts in all four playoff matches – and helped Columbus win the Supporters’ Shield and MLS Cup double in the club’s most successful season to date.
Seattle selected Evans in the 2009 MLS Expansion Draft ahead of their inaugural season, marking the start of his trophy-laden stint with Sounders FC. Serving primarily as a midfielder during the first half of his tenure in the Pacific Northwest, Evans won three consecutive U.S. Open Cups from 2009 to 2011 for a Sounders side that became a perennial MLS Cup contender in the Western Conference.
Evans tallied at least four goals and four assists each season from 2011 to 2013. He remained a pivotal contributor during a fruitful 2014 campaign as club captain, with Seattle capturing another U.S. Open Cup and winning its first Supporters’ Shield behind 20 regular-season victories.
Operating as a full-time defender from 2015 onward, Evans again reached the MLS pinnacle in 2016. He made 28 league appearances, including five in the postseason, as the Sounders hoisted the 2016 MLS Cup with a penalty shootout triumph over Toronto FC. Evans buried his penalty in the shootout to claim his eighth major trophy since beginning his professional career almost a decade earlier.
Evans ended his stay in Seattle with 221 MLS games played – including 16 in the playoffs – while helping the club advance to the postseason every year from 2009-2017. In addition to winning four Open Cup titles with the Sounders, he featured in three separate editions of the CONCACAF Champions League, the premier international club tournament in North America.
On the international stage, Evans first represented the United States U-20s at the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship under head coach Sigi Schmid. He made his senior debut in the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup and competed in nine friendlies over the next four years. During the 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifying campaign, Evans started five matches – all victories – and scored his lone U.S. goal in second-half stoppage time of a dramatic 2-1 qualifying win against Jamaica in June 2013. He featured at his second Gold Cup in 2015 and last appeared for the U.S. MNT in February 2017.
Evans played four years of college soccer at UC Irvine from 2003-2006, scoring a school-record 31 goals in 75 games. He was named the Big West Conference Offensive Player of the Year in 2005 and 2006, landing All-American honors as a senior.
– Information from Sporting KC
by Brian Grimmett, Kansas News Service
The Trump administration remains unlikely to back off its plans to ease Obama-era restrictions that make it harder for utility companies to burn coal.
Likewise, the federal courts may eventually decide what pollution rules the Environmental Protection Agency can enforce on energy production.
Yet, still, scores of people testified Wednesday in Kansas City, Missouri, about efforts to repeal the controversial Clean Power Plan. The current administration wants to dump it. The previous administration believed it was needed to protect the environment from air pollution and global carbon emissions that contribute to climate change.
EPA officials listened to people from around the region during sessions set up for various factions to vent on a hot-button issue.
Cheryl Marcum drove more than two and a half hours on icy roads from Stockton, Mo., where her home relies on solar power. She wants the Obama rules to stick.
“They can do what’s right or we will just stay on their cases until we protect our planet,” she said.
The Obama-era plan puts tougher regulations on coal-fired power plants in an effort to force states towards cleaner sources of energy. More than two dozen states challenged the plan in federal court. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately issued a stay, preventing the agency from enforcing it.
The Trump White House contends that administrative rules created under the Clean Power Plan go beyond what law allows the EPA to impose.
“We are looking for alternatives, and we’re looking for constructive criticisms and also constructive suggestions,” said regional EPA administrator Jim Gulliford.
The agency’s listening tour also includes stops in the coal country of Wyoming and West Virginia. It will stop in San Francisco next week.
“So there’s an opportunity, hopefully, to hear a very broad spectrum of interests,” Gulliford said.
The effort to repeal the Clean Power Plan is part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to revitalize the American coal industry.
More than 180 witnesses had signed up to testify on Wednesday at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Beacon Complex in Kansas City, Missouri. Among them was Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley’s office. Missouri is on record siding with the Trump administration and against the Clean Power Plan.
Brian Grimmett, based at KMUW in Wichita, is a reporter focusing on the environment and energy for the Kansas News Service, a collaboration of KMUW, Kansas Public Radio, KCUR and High Plains Public Radio covering health, education and politics. Follow him on Twitter @briangrimmett. Kansas News Service stories and photos may be republished at no cost with proper attribution and a link back to the original post.
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