Intercollegiate Athletics
Â鶹¶ÌÊÓƵ State Launches Search for New Director of Athletics
Â鶹¶ÌÊÓƵ today is launching a national search for the university’s next leader of the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. A 12-member search committee led by Lamar R. Hylton, Ph.D., vice president for student affairs, has been appointed to recruit and screen highly qualified candidates for the director of athletics position.
Joel Nielsen to Seek New Opportunities Following Decade of Successful Leadership at Â鶹¶ÌÊÓƵ State Athletics
After more than a decade of service, Joel Nielsen, Â鶹¶ÌÊÓƵ’s director of athletics, plans to seek new challenges when his contract with the university ends later this year.
Golden Flashes Stay Unbeaten, Keep Wagon Wheel in Win Over Akron
America was watching as Â鶹¶ÌÊÓƵ State dominated Akron 69-35 to retain the coveted Wagon Wheel in the annual clash of football rivals at Dix Stadium.
ESPN carried the Nov. 17 game to a national prime time audience, which saw the Golden Flashes win their seventh straight game going back to last year while pushing their season record to 3-0.
Golden Flashes Down Eastern Michigan in Football Opener
Â鶹¶ÌÊÓƵ State defeated Eastern Michigan 27-23 Wednesday at Dix Stadium in the season opener for both teams.
Bennett's Jersey From Historic Moment Now on Display at Basketball Hall of Fame
The jersey Â鶹¶ÌÊÓƵ State’s Kalin Bennett wore in his first game is now on display at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Â鶹¶ÌÊÓƵ State Softball Player Has Short, but Distinguished Senior Season
Not every day will be the best day and things might not always go exactly as planned, but it really is about the journey and the people standing next to you through it all, Maria Cegledy said.
Â鶹¶ÌÊÓƵ State Captures MAC FAR Award in Women’s Sports
Â鶹¶ÌÊÓƵ has won the Mid-American Conference’s Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) for women’s sports award for the first time in school history.
Â鶹¶ÌÊÓƵ State Student-Athletes Complete Record-Setting Spring Term in Classroom
Â鶹¶ÌÊÓƵ student-athletes conquered the unprecedented challenge of completing the final months of the spring term via remote classes by posting the highest term grade point average (3.563) in athletics department history. All 17 programs posted a term GPA of 3.1 or better with 14 setting a new term record.
