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The independent news website of The Kent Stater & KSTV

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Kent State's Women's Center is at 1200 E. Main St. on campus

‘New year, new us’: Women’s Center continues mission with many plans

Isabella Schreck, Editor-in-Chief January 26, 2023

With over 20 events scheduled this semester, the Women’s Center will continue to promote its goal of gender-equity awareness with a “new energy.” “I think a lot of times people look around campus...

Rachel DeCavitch gracefully ascends the balance beam to start off her routine during the gymnastics meet against Rutgers and Cornell University on Jan. 28, 2022.

Going for no. 13: Gymnastics sets bar high to start season

Isabella Schreck, Editor-in-Chief January 12, 2023

In 1981, the first Mid-American Conference gymnastics championship began in Kent State’s M.A.C. Center. Since then, the Flashes have hosted the conference finals in four more seasons – and they...

Douglas Delahanty, vice president for research and sponsored programs.

Delahanty named new VP for research and sponsored programs at Kent State

Isabella Schreck, Sports Editor December 12, 2022

Douglas Delahanty, who held an interim senior leadership role when Kent State earned a Carnegie Classification rating of R1 for the first time in university history, will serve as the new vice president...

Kent State coach Sean Lewis looks toward the scoreboard during Kent State's game against Illinois at Memorial Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018.

Kent State football coach Sean Lewis reportedly headed to Colorado

Jacob Hansen and Isabella Schreck, Reporter, Sports Editor December 5, 2022

Kent State football coach Sean Lewis will reportedly be leaving for the University of Colorado, as reported by Pete Thamel, a college football senior writer from ESPN. Lewis, who renewed his contract...

With one second left, women’s basketball takes down Power 5 Oklahoma State

Isabella Schreck, Sports Editor November 20, 2022

A shot in the paint from senior guard Katie Shumate brought Kent State within one point with 27 seconds left against the Big 12’s Oklahoma State. Freshman guard Corynne Hauser followed up with a layup....

Kent State running back Gavin Garcia, who is now a sophomore on the team, breaks a tackle during his run downfield Sept. 17, 2022 against Long Island. Kent State won the match 63-10.

Athletic department, football program earn big bucks from tough non-conference matchups

Isabella Schreck, Sports Editor November 18, 2022

Kent State will be paid $5.2 million by January 2023 for playing – and losing to – three football teams from the Power 5 conferences: No. 1-ranked Georgia, then-No. 7 Oklahoma and the Pac-12’s Washington. That...

Taller Arkansas ‘too much’ for women’s basketball at start string of away game

Isabella Schreck, Sports Editor November 18, 2022

The Southeastern Conference's Arkansas has six players 6-foot-1 or taller on its squad -- and three started against Kent State Thursday. With only one of his starters over six feet tall, coach Todd...

Haley Eckerman’s first year shows volleyball’s ‘potential’ for next season

Isabella Schreck, Sports Editor November 17, 2022

It has been a year of “figuring things out” for Kent State volleyball coach Haley Eckerman. In her first season as a Division I head coach, Eckerman led her team to its best starting record since...

Bench brings big boost in women’s basketball 20+ point victory

Isabella Schreck, Sports Editor November 14, 2022

In its second game of the season, the women’s basketball’s bench scored 34 of its team’s 77 points total Sunday. And ten of the program’s 14 players scored at least two points. “We have...

The volleyball team gathers for a photo alongside Alex Haffner, Lana Strejcek, Erin Gardner and Danie Tyson, the four seniors graduating this year, following the game on Nov. 12, 2022.

‘Lucky’ Lana Strejcek and other 4+ year players celebrate second-to-last volleyball match

Isabella Schreck, Sports Editor November 13, 2022

Lana Strejcek had tears in her eyes after Kent State’s volleyball game against Toledo – but she was not sad over her team’s loss. Saturday night was the program’s super senior celebration, and...

Eleven-point lead to nine-point loss: Women’s basketball falls late Florida State

Isabella Schreck, Sports Editor November 11, 2022

At the end of the first period against Florida State -- a team that has five players taller than 6-foot-1 and had scored 113 points in its season opener -- Kent State had a one-point lead. By the half,...

The Kent State women's basketball team celebrates its win over Youngstown State University in the first round of the WNIT in Youngstown, Ohio March 16.

Women’s basketball season preview: consistency, new leaders and Florida State

Isabella Schreck, Sports Editor November 10, 2022

After a last-season finish that “still stings,” the Kent State women’s basketball team comes into this season more ready than ever. “Our team is super hungry going into this year, and everybody's...