Senior Baidy Ba finished first at the Tommy Evans Invitational Friday evening in Akron, opening the cross country program’s season. He ran a personal best time of 18:11.6 in the men’s 6k.
Last...
Junior Baidy Ba finished 162nd at the 2023 NCAA Championship on Saturday at Panorama Farms Cross Country Course.
Ba ran a time of 31:11.9 in the 10K.
After 1,000 meters, Ba found himself in 49th...
The NCAA Great Lakes Regional Championship meet on Friday was a successful meet for the Flashes.
Junior Baidy Ba earned his ticket to the NCAA Cross Country Championships by placing thirteenth place...
Junior Baidy Ba earned back-to-back All-MAC First Team honors, repeating his efforts from last year at the Mid-American Conference Cross Country Championships.
He is the first to accomplish back-to-back...
Kent State's cross country team traveled to Dexter, Michigan, to compete in the EMU Fall Classic Saturday at Hudson Mills Metropark.
Both the men's and women’s teams ran a 5K.
The first Flash...
Despite rainy conditions, Kent State junior Baidy Ba came in first place at the Pre-Nationals meet in Charlottesville, VA, on Oct. 14; he ran a time of 24:06.7.
He was not in first the entire time,...
Junior Baidy Ba finished in fourth place at the Lou Classic on Saturday morning. He finished with a time of 23:43.0 in the 8k.
This was Ba’s third top-four finish this season.
Last season,...
Kent State cross country’s training cycle is now two weeks deeper and will last until the end of the month, and many runners are experiencing fatigue and soreness.
“I think everyone’s just a...
Sophomore Baidy Ba set his second program record of the year Saturday.
In the season opener for the men's track team, Ba set a new program record in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 13:58.49. James...
At Saturday’s Title IX homecoming celebration, Kris Ewing and a group of fellow former women athletes realized something.
Everyone had a Judy Devine story.
Devine, a pioneer in women’s sports...
Even while battling illness and a rough start to the race, almost all of Kent State's cross country runners managed to outperform Saturday.
“We had a lot of people sick last week,” coach James Croft...
In the chaos of the start of the race, sophomore Baidy Ba lost his shoe. Then he went on to set a personal best.
“Baidy lost a racing spike half a mile into the race,” coach James Croft said. “To...
