YOUNGSTOWN — It’s a brisk late October night in 2011 on Dave Pavlansky Field at Poland. Led by then-head coach Mark Brungard, the Bulldogs had just beaten archrival Canfield in convincing fashion 21-7. On the field after the game, a group of young kids are playing football under the ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Success has been a double-edged sword for the Youngstown State men’s basketball team in recent years. The Penguins are a program on the rise, having won at least 20 games in each of the last three seasons. But like for most mid-major teams, that sustained success has ...
Fielding wins HL Athlete of Year The postseason honors continue to pour in for junior McKinley Fielding, as she can now add Horizon League Women’s Cross Country Athlete of the Year to her résumé, the league announced Thursday. Fielding becomes just the second Penguin female to win the prestigious award, and the first since Morgan Cole in 2022. This marks the third-straight year that a Penguin has received a #HLXC Athlete of the Year honor, though, as YSU great Hunter Christopher won the Men’s Athlete of the Year award in 2023 and 2024. At the Horizon League Championships on ...
Youngstown State released a list Wednesday of the 19 Class of 2026 football players who signed with the program. Of the 19, 11 are defensive players, while there are seven offensive players and one long snapper. The players who have signed are as follows: Bray Adams, DB, St. Edward; Caleb Anthony, WR, Africentric; Tyris Davis, DB, Youngstown East; Cason Diiulio, QB, Lutheran East; Sirr Gibson, WR, Cleveland Heights; Marcus Hendeerson II, DL, Akron East; Bryant Holland-Snowden, DB, Roseville (Mi.); Will Ki Gorman, DE, Imani Christian (Pa.), Cameron Mallory, DE, Shady Side (Pa.), Michael ...
YOUNGSTOWN — There’s an extra layer that comes once Horizon League play begins. The games have more significance for postseason hopes come March, plus there’s an added physicality and grittiness required against teams that have plenty of familiarity with one another. Youngstown State ...
Youngstown State junior quarterback Beau Brungard is one of three standout FCS quarterbacks to be invited to the Walter Payton Award ceremony on January 3 in Nashville, Tenn., as part of the Stats Perform FCS National Awards Show at the Woolworth Theatre. Joining Brungard in Nashville for the event will be North Dakota State senior quarterback Cole Payton and Western Carolina redshirt sophomore quarterback Taron Dickens. The trio have emerged from 30 finalists across 13 FCS conferences for the 39th annual Walter Payton Award, which is affectionately known as the Heisman of the FCS. ...
