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Kent State Golden Flashes
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University Kent State University
Conference(s) Mid-American Conference
NCAA Division I (Bowl Subdivision)
Athletics director Joel Nielsen
Location Kent, Ohio
Varsity teams 16 (7 men's, 9 women's)
Football stadium Dix Stadium
Basketball arena Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center
Baseball stadium Olga Mural Field at Schoonover Stadium
Mascot Flash the Golden Eagle
Nickname Golden Flashes
Fight song “Fight on for KSU" [1]
Colors Navy Blue and Gold

         
Homepage KentStateSports.com

Kent State University's intercollegiate athletic teams are known as the Golden Flashes or simply as the Flashes. The university fields sixteen varsity athletic teams, all of which play in the Mid-American Conference at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level with football competing in the Football Bowl Subdivision. In addition, Kent State has a men's ice hockey club team, which plays in the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) Division I as part of the Central States Collegiate Hockey League (CSCHL) and has its home games at the Kent State University Ice Arena. Joel Nielsen has served as athletic director since May 1, 2010.[2]

Several Kent State athletic teams have enjoyed success in the Mid-American Conference and at the national level over the years, in particular in the sixteen years under former athletic director Laing Kennedy from 1994–2010. Under Kennedy, Kent State won 251 individual MAC titles, 85 team titles, 17 tournament titles, and 83 All-America honors.[3] In addition, Kent State has won five Mid-American Conference men's all-sport trophies (known as the Reese Trophy), the most recent being in 2010, while the Golden Flashes women's program has finished in the top-three for 13 consecutive years in the women's all-sport trophy (known as the Jacoby trophy) winning seven overall, the most recent being in 2010. Through the 2009–10 season, both the men's and women's programs have finished in the top-three for 9 consecutive seasons.[4] In 1997 and again in 2004, Kent State received full-certification status from the NCAA.[3]

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Early history [edit]

Athletics at Kent State began shortly after the school was first organized in 1910 and the first classes held in 1912. The school's first sporting event was a men's basketball game in 1913 against Kent High School and the following spring (1914) the baseball team was organized, known as the "Normal Nine". The football team followed in 1920 and held their first game on October 30, a 6-0 loss to Ashland College.[5] Around this same time, the teams became known as the "Silver Foxes" because then-president John Edward McGilvrey raised silver foxes on his farm east of campus. After McGilvrey's controversial firing in 1926, the new administration held a contest to choose a different team name and "Golden Flashes" was chosen, though no significance was included in the name. The first use of "Golden Flashes" occurred in 1927 after it was approved by the student body and faculty athletic committee. The school colors are officially defined as "Kent State blue" and "Kent State gold", which are shades of Navy blue and gold. The original school colors, as chosen by the school's first president John Edward McGilvrey, were orange and blue, believed to have been inspired by the school colors for the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, which McGilvrey had been a professor at. Gold was also used with blue during the 1920s. A committee formally set the colors as royal blue and gold in 1925.[6] Kent State was a member of the Ohio Athletic Conference from 1932–1951 and joined the Mid-American Conference in 1951.

National placements [edit]

Although no Kent State team has won a national title in any sport, several Golden Flashes teams have placed highly in NCAA national tournaments. Notable national finishes include:

  • Men's basketball: tie-5th (2002)
  • Men's golf: 9th (2000); 6th (2008); tie-5th (2012)
  • Men's indoor track and field: 5th (1972), 2nd (1973)
  • Men's outdoor track and field: 6th (1972 and 1973)
  • Baseball: tie-5th (2012) (CWS Appearance)
  • Softball: 7th (1990)
  • Wrestling: 5th (1941 and 1942)[7]
  • Co-ed cheerleading: 8th (2008); 9th (2009)[8]

Varsity athletic teams [edit]

Baseball [edit]

Main article: Kent State Golden Flashes baseball
Kent State baseball game at Olga Mural Field at Schoonover Stadium in 2010

The baseball team is Kent State's second oldest sport, though it is the school's oldest intercollegiate team.[5] Formed in 1914, they were known originally as the "Normal Nine" as the school was originally known as Kent State Normal School. The team has enjoyed significant success both in the Mid-American Conference and on the national level and has sent several players to the major leagues over the years. The team's home field is Olga Mural Field at Schoonover Stadium, opened in 2005 on the site of the team's previous home, Gene Michael Field. The coach is Scott Stricklin, a former Kent State player who began his tenure at Kent State in 2005. In Stricklin's eight seasons, the Flashes have a record of 314–164 (.657) and won the 2006, 2008, 2011, and 2012 overall conference titles, the 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, and 2012 MAC East division titles and the 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 MAC tournaments, advancing to the NCAA tournament.[9] Overall the team has eight MAC East titles, 12 MAC overall titles, 10 MAC tournament titles, and 12 NCAA tournament appearances.[10] In 2012, the team made its first appearances in both the Super Regional round of the NCAA baseball tournament and the College World Series.[11]

  • MAC East division titles: 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012[10]
  • MAC overall titles: 1964, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2012[10]
  • MAC tournament titles: 1992, 1993, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012[12][10]
  • NCAA Tournament appearances: 1964, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
  • College World Series appearances: 2012

Men's basketball [edit]

Main article: Kent State Golden Flashes men's basketball
January 23, 2008 men's basketball game at the MAC Center.

The men's basketball team, which began play in 1913 and intercollegiate competition in 1914,[5] plays in the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center and is Kent State's oldest sport and second-oldest intercollegiate team. After decades of near anonymity, since 1998 the team has been one of the most consistent in the Mid-American Conference with a league record ten straight twenty-win seasons from the 1998–99 season through the 2007–08 season (the previous record was five straight). Kent State was one of only eight NCAA Division I men's basketball programs in the United States to have ten consecutive seasons with twenty or more wins.[13] Kent State also holds the MAC record for consecutive seasons with double-digit conference wins, also for ten consecutive seasons (the previous record was eight straight),[14] and in 2002 finished 17–1 in conference play, setting a MAC record for conference wins in a season. The Flashes amassed thirty victories in the 2001–02 season which culminated in a berth in the NCAA Elite Eight. In the tournament they defeated seventh-seeded Oklahoma State, second-seeded Alabama, and third-seeded Pitt. One of the stars on this team, power forward Antonio Gates, went on to become a superstar tight end with the San Diego Chargers. Kent State has made ten MAC tournament title game appearances (second most in conference history) and has won five (second most), along with three regular-season MAC overall titles and six MAC East titles.

  • MAC East division titles: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011
  • MAC overall titles: 2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011
  • MAC Tournament titles: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2008
  • NCAA Tournament appearances: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2008
  • NIT appearances: 1985, 1989, 1990, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010

Women's Basketball [edit]

The women's basketball team, which began play during the 1975-1976 season, also plays home games at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center. Currently, they are coached by Bob Lindsay, who has been with Kent State for 21 seasons as of 2009-2010.[15] They have seven MAC East titles, six MAC overall titles, and four MAC tournament titles. In addition, they have five NCAA tournament appearances, the most recent being in 2002, and one WNIT appearance. Kent State has appeared in eleven MAC Tournament championship games (tied for most appearances with Toldeo), including seven in a row from 1996-2002. In fact, the 1996-2001 MAC title games all featured Kent State vs. Toledo. In 1998, Kent State became one of only two MAC schools (Bowling Green being the other) to complete the regular season and tournament with a perfect record, going 18-0 in the regular season and winning the conference tournament. Prior to the start of the 2009-2010 season, Kent State had an overall record of 535-387 and a MAC record of 280-179.[15]

  • MAC East division titles: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006
  • MAC overall titles: 1981, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002[16]
  • MAC Tournament titles: 1981, 1998, 2000, 2002
  • NCAA Tournament appearances: 1982, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002
  • WNIT appearances: 2004[15]

Field Hockey [edit]

Kent State's Murphy Mellis Field

The field hockey team plays its home matches at Murphy-Mellis Field, which opened in 2005 and is adjacent to Dix Stadium. The Flashes Field Hockey team has won ten MAC titles, with the most recent in 2009,[17] and has eight MAC tournament titles and NCAA appearances, the most recent being in 2008. In 2001, Kent State hosted the NCAA Division I national championship at Dix Stadium, where they played their home games from 1997-2004.

  • MAC titles: 1988, 1991, 1992, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010
  • MAC tournament titles: 1988, 1991, 1992, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2008
  • NCAA tournament appearances: 1988, 1991, 1992, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2008

Football [edit]

Main article: Kent State Golden Flashes football
September 26, 2006 football game against the Akron Zips at Dix Stadium.

The Golden Flashes football team plays in the NCAA's Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. Home games are played at Dix Stadium on the far eastern edge of the Kent State campus. Since 2010, the head coach is Darrell Hazell. Behind Dix Stadium are practice fields, as well as the Kent State Field House, which contains a full indoor football field.

Kent State has three post-season bowl appearances: a 1954 trip to the now-defunct Refrigerator Bowl in Evansville, Indiana, where they lost to the Delaware Blue Hens 19-7, a 1972 bid to the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, Florida, where they lost to Tampa 21-18,[18] and the 2013 GoDaddy.com Bowl.

Although the team has not enjoyed many winning seasons, Kent State has sent a fair amount of players to the ranks of the National Football League as well as in other areas of college football. Don James coached the team from 1971-1974 during the era which also saw future NFL great Jack Lambert and current Alabama head coach Nick Saban playing for the Golden Flashes and Kent State's only Mid-American Conference championship in 1972 and their most recent bowl appearance. NFL players as of 2011 who played football at Kent State include Joshua Cribbs of the Cleveland Browns, Julian Edelman of the New England Patriots, and James Harrison of the Pittsburgh Steelers. In addition, Antonio Gates, who played for the men's basketball team, plays for the NFL's San Diego Chargers. Other notable football alumni and former coaches include current ESPN analyst and former Notre Dame and South Carolina head coach Lou Holtz, former Houston Texans head coach and current Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Dom Capers (graduate assistant at Kent State), former Toronto Argonauts standout Jim Corrigall (who also served as head coach at KSU) and Gary Pinkel, head coach of the Missouri Tigers.

  • MAC overall titles: 1972
  • MAC East Division titles: 2012
  • Bowl appearances: 1954, 1972, 2012

Men's Golf [edit]

The men's golf team has had success both in the Mid-American Conference and at the national level, winning 19 MAC Titles[19] and making 23 trips to the NCAA level competition, including 14 trips to the championship round and three regional championships.[20] They practice at Windmill Lakes Golf Club in nearby Ravenna, where they occasionally host matches, and the Kent State Golf Course, located just east of campus in Franklin Township. The program has produced several pro-golfers and in 2003, former Golden Flashes standout Ben Curtis won the British Open in what ABC commentator Mike Tirico called "one of the most amazing stories in the history of the Open Championship" and the "all-time Cinderella story."[21] The team is coached by Herb Page, a Kent State alum who has been head coach since 1978. He has led the Flashes to 15 of their 18 MAC titles,[19] their three regional titles, and 21 of their 23 trips to NCAA competition. In 2008 he coached Kent State to its highest finish ever at the national level, finishing 6th in the country at the NCAA championship[22] as well as a ninth-place NCAA finish in 2000. Page has been named MAC Coach of the Year fifteen times and NCAA district IV Coach of the Year eight times.[23]
In the summer of 2007, Kent State opened the Ferrara and Page Golf Training and Learning Center located at the southern edge of the Kent State Golf Course. The facility includes a 350-yard outdoor practice range, outdoor practice tees, and outdoor short-game practice areas as well as an indoor putting and chipping area, a video analysis room, and a Science and Motion Putt lab. In addition, the rear of the facitily features heated stalls which allow team members to access the driving range even during the winter months to provide year-round training for both the men's and women's teams.[24]

  • Ohio Athletic Conference titles: 1934, 1949, 1950
  • MAC titles: 1954, 1968, 1977, 1984, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011
  • NCAA appearances: 1954*, 1977*, 1984*, 1987, 1989, 1990*, 1991, 1992*, 1993*, 1994*, 1995*, 1996, 1998*, 1999, 2000*, 2001*, 2003, 2004*, 2005, 2006, 2008*,[25] 2009, 2010*,[19] 2011
  • NCAA regional titles: 1993, 2001, 2010[26]
*= advanced to championship round

Women's Golf [edit]

The women's golf team, founded in the fall of 1998, has enjoyed success from its beginning. Every year of the program's existence it has won the Mid-American Conference title and is so far the only school to win the MAC's women's golf championship, which began in the spring of 1999. They have advanced to NCAA play in the last eight seasons, reaching the championship round in four of them.[27] 2001 saw the Flashes finish fifteenth in the country, their highest finish to date,[28] while 2008 saw the Flashes win two regular-season tournaments, gain a national ranking of thirteenth, and win their tenth consecutive MAC title by 51 strokes.[29] Like the men's team, they practice at Windmill Lakes Golf Course, Kent State Golf Course and the Ferrara and Page Golf Training and Learning Center. The team is coached by Mike Morrow, who has been with the team since its inception. In addition to the 12 MAC titles and 10 NCAA appearances, Morrow has also coached the team to 27 titles at various regular-season tournaments.[30][31]

  • MAC titles: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010[32]
  • NCAA appearances: 2001*, 2002, 2003*, 2004, 2005, 2006*, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010*
*= advanced to championship round

Women's Gymnastics [edit]

KSU hosted the 2008 MAC Championships, their fifth time hosting and tenth championship meet victory.

First developed in 1959, the Kent State women's gymnastics team was the first women's gymnastics team at the collegiate level.[33] They began intercollegiate competition in 1964[34] and Mid-American Conference competition in 1981 and have enjoyed consistent success throughout their existence, which includes 11 Mid-American Conference meet championships[35] and 13 regular-season titles. Since 2005, the team has its home meets in the MAC Center main gym. Prior to 2005, home meets were held in the MAC Gymnastics center, an annex on the north side of the building which opened in 1979 and still serves as the main practice site for the team.[36] The current coach is Brice Biggins, a Kent State alum of the men's gymnastics team who has been coach since 1992. Through the 2008 regular season, he has a record of 130-80 in dual meets at Kent State.[37]

  • Ohio state championships*: 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978
  • MAC regular-season titles: 1981, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008,[16] 2009, 2010[38]
  • MAC championships: 1981, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2008, 2009[39]

* the Ohio state championship was held prior to the Mid-American Conference adding gymnastics as a sport. Occasionally the three remaining Division I teams in Ohio will hold the "All-Ohio Meet".[40]

Softball [edit]

The softball team plays its home games at the Diamond at Dix, adjacent to Dix Stadium. The team has enjoyed success recently, winning regular season MAC titles in 1990, 2007, 2008,[41] and 2010;[42] MAC East division titles in 1999, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009[43] and 2010 as well as the conference tournament in 2006 and 2008. In 1990, the team went 43-9 en route to their first MAC title, an NCAA regional championship, and a berth in the College World Series.[44] Currently, the softball team is coached by Karen Linder, who has been with the team since the 1997 season. The team was established in 1976[44] and began regular-season play in the Mid-American Conference in 1983 when the MAC added softball as a conference sport.[45]

  • MAC East division titles: 1999, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
  • MAC regular-season titles: 1990, 2007, 2008, 2010
  • MAC tournament titles: 2006, 2008
  • NCAA tournament appearances: 1990, 2006, 2008
  • NCAA regional titles: 1990

Wrestling [edit]

Kent State home wrestling meet on 24 January 2009 versus the Northern Illinois Huskies at the MAC Center.

The wrestling team is one of Kent State's oldest sports, going back to its establishment in 1927.[46] It has historically been one of the school's most successful teams, winning multiple conference titles and making a series of appearances in the NCAA tournament, finishing as high as 5th nationally in both 1941 and 1942.[7] For 42 seasons, the team was led by legendary coach Joseph Begala, who compiled a career record of 307-69-5 and the national reputation as the "winningest wrestling coach" coaching Kent State from 1929–1942 and again from 1945 until his retirement in 1971.[47] More recently, the Flashes have again received national attention appearing in the national top-25 rankings in each of the past three seasons[48] and began the 2008-2009 season ranked 23rd.[49] The wrestling team is currently led by head coach and Kent State alum Jim Andrassy, who has been with the team as a wrestler, graduate assistant, and assistant coach since 1990 and as head coach since 2003.[46] In 2011, Kent State had its first national champion with Dustin Kilgore at the 197-pound class.

  • MAC regular-season titles: 1958, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1988, 1989, 1990, 2003, 2009[50]
  • MAC tournament titles: 1958, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1988, 1989, 1990[51]
  • NCAA tournament appearances: 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1954, 1959, 1960, 1971, 1978, 1981, 1985[16]

Other Varsity Sports [edit]

Additionally, Kent State used to sponsor the following sports, which were eliminated due to either budget constraints and/or Title IX compliance:

Facilities [edit]

Kent State Field House

Rivalries [edit]

See also: Wagon Wheel (trophy) and Battle for the Anniversary Award

Kent State's most prominent rivalry is with the nearby University of Akron Zips, also a member of the Mid-American Conference, located just 14 miles (23 km) southwest of Kent. The rivalry is the most competitive in football and men's basketball, though it is played out in other sports as well. The two schools' football teams have played for the Wagon Wheel trophy since 1946 and each year since 1972. The rivalry, however, has only been a conference game since 1992 when Akron joined the Mid-American Conference as well as from 1932–1936 and 1944-1951 when both schools were members of the Ohio Athletic Conference.

Kent State also has rivalries with fellow MAC-member and sister school Bowling Green State University as well as non-league schools Youngstown State University and Cleveland State University, both of which are located in close proximity to Kent.

See also [edit]

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