YOUNGSTOWN — Coming off a narrow defeat in a shootout against Northern Iowa last week, Southern Illinois presents a different test this weekend for Youngstown State. The Penguins, trying to avoid starting 0-2 in Missouri Valley Football Conference play for the fifth straight season, return ...
YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown State women’s basketball team is ‘moving forward’ and operating business as usual in the wake of head coach John Barnes’ decision to take a leave of absence. Barnes is attending to a “personal family matter,” and while he’s away from the team, ...
BEAVER TOWNSHIP — Momentum can be a contagious thing, just ask YSU head women’s soccer coach Brian Shrum. As his Penguins prepare for the stretch run of their season, Shrum can easily trace this year’s fast start to last season’s hot finish when they went 9-8-3 overall, going 7-2 in their final nine games after struggling to a 2-6-3 start. Now in his sixth season with the Penguins, the program’s development might have taken longer than expected, but the hard work is finally paying off. “I just think it has been the overall culture of the team and how we’ve developed ...
Having a trio of statistics hit the four-digit mark in volleyball is more reflective of the jack-of-all-trades character of a six-rotation player more than anything. Youngstown State’s Josi Borum recently became the only active Division I player in the country to record at least 1,000 ...
YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown State women’s basketball program will be without head coach John Barnes for the foreseeable future. Barnes is taking a leave of absence to focus on “personal family matters,” per a release from YSU. Associate head coach John Nicolais will serve as acting ...
Youngstown State’s demons at the UNI-Dome will continue to haunt it for yet another season. Despite a second-half rally to retake the lead after trailing at halftime, the Penguins couldn’t contain Northern Iowa’s passing attack. Coming off a career-best performance two weeks ago, ...
