• Flashes look to push and share the ball in 2024-2025

    Flashes look to push and share the ball in 2024-2025

    Kent State opens the season this Monday at Louisiana as part of the MAC/Sun Belt Challenge.  Offensively, the Flashes will look to get back to their identity, to use their defense to create offense and to push in transition for easy baskets.  They will look to share the ball, make simple plays and pound the…

  • Batsch looks to take another jump for Flashes in 2024-2025

    Batsch looks to take another jump for Flashes in 2024-2025

    Kent State senior guard Jenna Batsch was arguably the most improved player in the Mid-American Conference last season.  The 6-2, Loveland, Ohio native averaged 13.3 points per game, which ranked 9th in the league, she started all 32 games and earned All-MAC Third Team honors.   Batsch, an exercise science major, was a double figure scorer…

  • Flashes to take I-95 this year

    Flashes to take I-95 this year

    The date was November 12. 2021. The Kent State men’s basketball team was opening their season at the Cintas Center, taking on the tradition rich Xavier Musketeers. Kent State senior forward, and sophomore at the time, Von Cameron Davis played one minute and twenty five seconds in the game. He played eight seconds in the…

  • Toledo-BG a glimpse of what a fan can dream of

    Toledo-BG a glimpse of what a fan can dream of

    This Saturday Toledo will host Bowling Green in a rivalry, MAC football game. Both teams are 2-1 in the league, and both have legitimate title hopes. A sold-out crowd at the Glass Bowl awaits, with a great day of weather in the works. The tailgate lots will be full, and the action in the stadium…

  • KSU Women in Pursuit in 2024-2025

    KSU Women in Pursuit in 2024-2025

    The Kent State women’s basketball team had a magical season in 2023-2024, breaking through for their first trip to the NCAA tournament since 2002.  Under the direction of Head Coach Todd Starkey, the Golden Flashes played their best basketball under the bright lights in downtown Cleveland to win three games in four days to reach…

  • Golden Flashes will need to return to defensive mindset in 24-25

    Golden Flashes will need to return to defensive mindset in 24-25

    Kent State was picked to finish third in the Mid-American Conference on Tuesday as the MAC preseason poll was released.   Most publications have the Golden Flashes finishing in the top four in the league, like they have been so often under Head Coach Rob Senderoff. Last season, Kent State limped to an eighth place finish…

  • KSU Men picked 3rd; Davis on 1st Team

    KSU Men picked 3rd; Davis on 1st Team

    The Kent State men’s basketball team was picked to finish third in the Mid-American Conference Tuesday, as the conference released their preseason poll. Additionally, senior forward VonCameron Davis was picked to be on the first team, while Jalen Sullinger was picked to be on the second team. Head Coach Rob Senderoff said that the plan…

  • Golden Flash passing game flying high

    Golden Flash passing game flying high

    The Kent State football team has been able to unlock their vertical passing game through the first two weeks of league play under the direction of quarterback Tommy Ulatowski. Ulatowski has set career highs in passing yards in back-to-back games in MAC play, going for 345 against Eastern Michigan and 394 against Ball State. Receiver…

  • Class of 2026 KSU recruit Stewart shines for Shoremen

    Class of 2026 KSU recruit Stewart shines for Shoremen

    Avon Lake High School wide receiver/defensive back Aidan Stewart picked up an offer from Kent State on October 4, as Kent State coaches Kenni Burns and Mark Carney were in and around Lorain County for week seven of the Ohio High School football season, as it corresponded with Kent State’s bye week. They were checking…

  • Kent State women’s basketball cultivate special fanbase

    Kent State women’s basketball cultivate special fanbase

    The Kent State women’s basketball program was able to break through last season and earn their first trip to the NCAA tournament in 22 years.  And they earned it, playing their best basketball on the big stage of the conference tournament in downtown Cleveland.  They did it with continuity in their coaching staff and roster,…

  • GFR Reflection: McCray and Floriea shine as Flashes lose…again

    GFR Reflection: McCray and Floriea shine as Flashes lose…again

    Kent State and Ball State engaged in the type of game most people were expecting Saturday. High scoring, back and forth, a one possession game with a lot of twists and turns. And again, the Flashes lose. In a game Ball State tried to give away, they escape with their first MAC win, after losing…

  • Mental Health Awareness Day set for Dix Stadium Saturday

    Mental Health Awareness Day set for Dix Stadium Saturday

    When Kent State hosts Ball State Saturday at noon at Dix Stadium, it won’t just be a MAC football game between two hungry football teams. It will also be Mental Health Awareness Day. The game will be used to spread awareness about mental health, provide resources and further break down the stigma regarding it. In…

  • Flashes and Ball State both hungry for win Saturday

    Flashes and Ball State both hungry for win Saturday

    Both Kent State and Ball State will be two hungry, motivated football teams to get a victory when they meet Saturday at Dix Stadium. For Kent State, simply put they need a win, period. They are 0-5 this season and 1-16 in the last two years, without a win over a FBS team. It’s hard…

  • GFR Friday FLASHback Volume 5: Flashes beat Cards on Cortez walk off

    GFR Friday FLASHback Volume 5: Flashes beat Cards on Cortez walk off

    Today on our GFR FLASHback Friday we take it back to late September of 2012. Early in the “One Team One Destiny” dream season of 2012, Kent State had a big home game in front of a great crowd on a beautiful day. Kent State was 2-1 and 1-0 in the young season. Down 43-42,…

  • Blue & Gold Collective to help KSU retain and attract talent

    Blue & Gold Collective to help KSU retain and attract talent

    As fans know, the landscape of collegiate athletics has changed. Through NIL (name, image, likeness) and the transfer portal, mid-major programs such as Kent State are now faced with unique challenges, but also opportunities. The challenge to retain and recruit players to a program has never been more of a challenge than it is now.…