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The Kent State volleyball team celebrates after winning a rally.

Losing streak reaches four games as volleyball opens conference schedule

Ethan Madden, Reporter September 28, 2023

Kent State’s volleyball team went 0-3 this past week to open up Mid-American Conference (MAC) play, making their overall record 4-10 on the season.  KSU opened their weekend Friday with a matchup...

Kent State football team celebrates another first down against Central Connecticut during its home opener Sept. 16, 2023.

Football can’t stop Bulldog attack in Fresno

John Hilber, Reporter September 24, 2023

Kent State football closed out non-conference play by taking its game into Sunday morning, when the Flashes lost to Fresno State 53-10. This is the second time in four games Kent State has given up...

Junior Madison Leety battles Michigan's freshman Abby Burnett for the ball on Sept 17, 2023.

Field hockey battles over weekend games ‘setting the tone’ for conference play

Kyle Kuchta, Reporter September 20, 2023

Kent State field hockey split their games over the weekend, taking the win over Central Michigan on Friday and losing to Michigan on Sunday afternoon.  The Flashes improved to 2-6 overall with a 1-2...

Kent State's 1975 field hockey team poses with Coach Judy Devine, center back, in front of a homemade goal cage. Each athlete is wearing her own practice gear and holding hockey sticks that were borrowed from the physical education inventory.

A ‘low-key’ revolution: 50 years of Title IX at Kent State

Isabella Schreck, Sports Editor September 26, 2022

When Judy Devine came to Kent State in 1969, women’s athletics barely existed. There were no scholarships or varsity letters for women athletes. There were no paid coaching positions. There was no...

Judy Devine reflects on her first year as women's athletic director in an article from the June 3, 1976 Kent Stater.

A ‘low-key’ revolution: 50 years of Title IX at Kent State

Isabella Schreck, Sports Editor September 26, 2022

To read part one, click here. Title IX passed on June 23, 1972, but it did not bring immediate change.   Judy Devine, who had earned her masters in health and physical education, was the university’s...

Joel Nielsen, who served as the Kent State athletic director from 2010 to 2021, watches the Kent State women's basketball team play Purdue Fort Wayne on Nov. 16, 2019.

A ‘low-key’ revolution: 50 years of Title IX at Kent State

Isabella Schreck, Sports Editor September 26, 2022

To read day two, click here. Despite its successes on the field and in the arena for women’s athletics, Kent State’s road to equality has not always been smooth. During Joel Nielsen’s tenure as...

Spring sports roundup & fall sports preview

Isabella Schreck, Sports Editor September 1, 2022

Students left campus for a summer of sun and fun, but Kent State sports teams did not take a break. Track and field make it to NCAAs For the fourth time in her collegiate career, senior...

Kent State sophomore Kyle Jackson slides to third base.

Baseball loses third straight game in non-conference game against Ohio State

Jacob Hansen, Reporter May 6, 2022

Kent State’s baseball team fell in a close game to a struggling Ohio State in a midweek showdown. KSU falls to 17-23 on the year and are 12-14 in the Mid-American Conference. Kent State is currently...

Kent State graduate student Madyson Cole breaks for home base.

Brownfield’s grand slam gives softball its fourth MAC series win this season

Isabella Schreck, Reporter April 29, 2022

The score was 1-1 with bases loaded for the Kent State softball team in the top of the sixth inning against Akron. Then fifth-year utility player Brenna Brownfield hit her first grand slam of her college...

Junior attacker Morgan Kubicki makes a move against YSU.

Turnovers prove costly as lacrosse team drops third game in a row in loss to YSU

Jacob Shondel, Reporter April 24, 2022

Kent State women’s lacrosse team has averaged 19 turnovers in games they have lost. On Saturday, KSU fell to third-place Youngstown State 18-11 and gave the ball away 23 times. It was the third-most...

Fifth-year golfer Chloe Salort putts during a Kent State women's golf match.

Flashes look to win their 23rd consecutive MAC Women’s golf championship

Noah Keeney, Reporter April 21, 2022

The Kent State Women’s golf team has won 22 consecutive Mid-American championships and has no intention of that streak ending this weekend. Led by fifth-year Chloe Salort and senior Emily Price, the...

Sophomore midfielder Abby Jones [27] cradles the ball during the women’s lacrosse game on Mar. 8, 2020. Kent State University women’s lacrosse team lost to University of Cincinnati 25-8. 

First ever class of lacrosse freshmen at Kent prepare for their Senior Day

Jacob Shondel, Reporter April 15, 2022

When seniors Megan Kozar, Abby Jones and Madison Rapier came to KSU in 2019, they had no upperclassmen to show them what Division I lacrosse was all about. The first season of varsity lacrosse for them...

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