YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State is in the midst of one of its most successful stretches in program history. The Penguins are coming off back-to-back 20-win seasons during which they won their first regular season conference championship in program history. Now, as the Penguins are set to ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Melissa Jackson has five core values for building a program — family, passion, toughness, commitment and gratitude. Since arriving at Youngstown State in March, the first-year head coach has spent the offseason instilling those values in the players — both new and ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State has learned how to finish. Through eight weeks, the Penguins had played in four one-score games this season, coming out on the winning side in just one of them. On Saturday, YSU played its fifth close game, but this time the Penguins finished things out in a ...
YOUNGSTOWN — The first 20 minutes against South Dakota last week was a small sample size of how Youngstown State wants to play on a consistent basis. The Penguins opened the game with a pair of long touchdown drives sandwiched around a defensive stand. However, while the defense got some ...
BEAVER TOWNSHIP – It has been 221 days since Melissa Jackson was hired as the ninth head coach in YSU women’s basketball history. There hasn’t been a moment wasted by her and her staff in the days leading up to their season opener against North Dakota on November 4 at Beeghly Center. With 10 newcomers and just 43 starts among the six returnees from last year’s squad, she cautions that while the players are ready for the season to begin, it will be a work in progress during her first season at the helm. “I don’t know if you are ever really ready,” Jackson told the ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State may have started it, but South Dakota finished it. Despite the Penguins jumping out to an early lead with a pair of touchdowns, the Coyotes scored 27 of the game’s next 30 points to hand YSU a 27-17 defeat on Saturday night at Stambaugh Stadium. “We ...
