YOUNGSTOWN — From high school through college, former Youngstown State guard Jewel Watkins’ basketball journey has been shaped by family. On Nov. 19, 2019, Watkins’ father, J.T., passed away when she was a junior at Whitehall-Yearling outside of Columbus. Watkins was only 16 years old ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State’s approach to scheduling buy games is simple. “If we’re going to play one, we gotta find the one that has the biggest payouts,” head coach Doug Phillips said. That’s why the Penguins have future games scheduled against FBS opponents like Kentucky ...
Leetonia to host Northern 8 title The Northern 8 Football Conference reached an agreement to have the 2025 state championship game played at Leetonia High School on Nov. 8. The league sent a press release on Tuesday morning. In the release, it was stated that the league hopes to “provide more exposure to the game by playing it in eastern Ohio.” Sebring and Chalker are members of the Northern 8. YSU men’s golf finishes 6th in W. Va. Huntington, W. Va. -— The Youngstown State men’s golf team opened its 2025-26 season with a sixth-place finish in the two-day Joe ...
YOUNGSTOWN — After struggling most of last season and an up-and-down performance in Week 1, Youngstown State has been waiting for what it showed on Saturday. The Penguins put together as complete of a performance on all three sides of the ball as they’ve seen in quite some time, as they ...
YOUNGSTOWN — During his tenure at Youngstown State, head coach Doug Phillips has consistently preached the importance of the stretch of time between Week 1 and Week 2. According to Phillips, that’s the period of time that teams can make the most significant improvement over the course ...
YSU’s Machin gets HL weekly honor Youngstown State junior right-side hitter Gabriela Machin has been named a Horizon League Volleyball Player of the Week, presented by Under Armour, for the opening week of the 2025 season. The conference office announced its awards on Tuesday. It is the first weekly award of Machin’s career and follows when the junior from San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, was one of the league’s best attackers the opening week of the season. Machin averaged 4.11 kills per set while hitting a team-best .443 as the Penguins went 2-1 at the YSU Invitational, presented ...
