Like she has done in almost every game this season, senior outside hitter Savannah Matthews swung for the kill and made it in Friday's volleyball battle.
This hit was "surreal." Matthews had become...
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...
Setter Kiersten Kraus, defensive specialist Fabiana Mucciola and middle blocker Sadie Wright saw the most playing time of their seasons so far Friday and Saturday.
“We had situations where we started...
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...
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...
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...
Coach Haley Eckerman knew her volleyball team’s conference opener against Bowling Green was going to be tough.
The Falcons, who were picked to finish first in the Mid-American Conference East, defeated...
The Golden Flashes Club, the athletic department’s annual donors, raised its highest amount of money since 2017 in its first full year after the COVID-19 pandemic.
The group’s 2,300 donors, who...
First-year coach Haley Eckerman will lead her volleyball team into Mid-American Conference play with its best starting record since 2008.
“We’ve shown we have fight in us,” Eckerman said. “We’re...
Kent State Athletics will debut its official craft beer, Kent State Golden Lager, at the home-opening football game against Long Island Saturday.
Sibling Revelry Brewing out of Westlake, Ohio, created...
In one week, the Kent State men’s golf team improved from 14th place to second place.
“We were much more prepared going into this event, and it showed," coach Jon Mills said. "We sat down with each...
A 15-year-old male student at Theodore Roosevelt High School was detained Monday after making a “vague threat” toward the school Sunday night on social media.
When a Kent Police Department officer...
