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Three Kent State athletes take MAC track and field titles

Ignatius Ogbu Sports Reporter March 1, 2021

Kent State track and field athletes won three championships at this week’s Mid-American Conference indoor meet.The men’s team finished third out of four teams while the women’s team finished sixth...

Track and field ready to compete for MAC Indoor Championship

Ignatius Ogbu Sports Reporter February 26, 2021

The Kent State track team will compete this weekend at the Mid-American Conference Track and Field Indoor Championships at Central Michigan University. It is the Flashes’ first overnight trip of the...

Kent State wins eight events at Doug Raymond Qualifier

Ignatius Ogbu Sports Reporter February 17, 2021

Freshman Gavin Schoeman cleared 6’ 11” in the high jump for Kent State on Saturday to reach the eighth-best height in Kent State track and field history.Schoeman’s jump was 3 inches higher than he...

‘A force to reckon with’: Grace Tennant leading track and field in its young season

Ignatius Ogbu Sports Reporter February 11, 2021

Anytime Grace Tennant steps into the shot put ring, assistant track coach Laron Brown says,  “She is a force to reckon with.” Tennant won her third consecutive shot-put meet with a throw of 53' 2...

Jake Wickey competes in the weight throw in a tri-meet against Akron and Buffalo at the Stille Fieldhouse in Akron. Jan. 22, 2021.

How KSU’s Jake Wickey become one of the nation’s best throwers

Ignatius Ogbu Sports Reporter February 5, 2021

A year ago, Jake Wickey had never thrown the weight more than 22.24 meters. This year he hasn’t thrown it any less than 21 meters.Wickey’s longest weight throw of 22.24 meter is the sixth best in...

Flashes win multiple events against Akron, Buffalo

Owen MacMillan Sports Editor January 26, 2021

Last Friday, Jan. 22 Kent State track and field traveled to the Stile Field House in Akron for the second time this season to face the University of Akron and the University at Buffalo in a tri-meet.The...

The two largest planets in our solar system are coming closer together than they have been since the Middle Ages, and it's happening just in time for Christmas -- hence the nickname of the "Christmas Star."

Watch for the ‘Christmas Star’ as Jupiter and Saturn come closer than they have in centuries

Ashley Strickland, CNN December 21, 2020

(CNN) -- The two largest planets in our solar system are coming closer together than they have been since the Middle Ages, and it's happening just in time for Christmas -- hence the nickname of the "Christmas...

The Olympic flag arrives in the host city of Tokyo, Japan in early 2020. 

Tokyo Olympic organizers plan to host 18 test events

Stephen Wade AP Sports Writer November 27, 2020

TOKYO (AP) — The postponed Tokyo Olympics are getting a kickstart.Local organizers on Friday announced a series of 18 test events set to begin in March and run into May.The Tokyo Olympics are set to...

Isaac Halaszi, sophomore double major in peace and conflict studies and Spanish. Courtesy of Isaac Halaszi.

The isolation experience: Kent State students reflect on quarantine

Morgan McGrath Feature writer October 26, 2020

“I forgot people existed.”Isaac Halaszi, a sophomore at Kent State, spent two weeks indoors with no face-to-face contact with others (besides random hallway happenings) and no physical connection with...

Kent State begins fall semester amid pandemic, works to avoid outbreaks

Paige Bennett News Lab September 2, 2020

Kent State University announced Monday that all university-sponsored meetings and gatherings of more than 10 people must be held online. The announcement came days after the university started in-person...

Leah Pasqualetti and her coach Mike Auble after she broke the pole vault record of the Stars and Stripes Big Red Barn Meet in Menifee, California. June, 2020.

Record breaking pole vaulter Leah Pasqualetti to attend Kent State

Jessica Urig Reporter July 8, 2020

Joining the Kent State Track and Field team this year is Leah Pasqualetti, the No. 1 pole vault recruit in the class of 2020.“I get to continue doing what I love for at least four more years, It still...

COVID 19 illustration

Voices from the virus: How the university community endured during the pandemic

KentWired Staff May 20, 2020

“I am so sorry. It makes me so sad about our seniors and the people who have worked so hard for this degree,” Jamie McCartney, an assistant professor and program coordinator for the ASL/English Interpreting...