Kent State Athletics
![A symbol of the Kent-Akron rivalry: the fabled Wagon Wheel A symbol of the Kent-Akron rivalry: the fabled Wagon Wheel](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/20230303_BC_MBBvsAkron_1370.jpg?VersionId=1mHry.8PdkWsVHZLvYjV.DFn8qpERh27&itok=buH56bij)
Kent State's Golden Flashes meet the Akron Zips for the first time this season on Jan. 19.
![Local elementary school students cheer on the Golden Flashes on School Field Trip Day Local elementary school students cheer on the Golden Flashes on School Field Trip Day](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/231219-field-trip-game_RD-00256.jpg?VersionId=m5SEoqX8EWAJ5pUPHYze6WRKtQalEv15&itok=rGU8e4OX)
On a special field trip day, more than 1,500 students from local elementary schools cheered Kent State's women's basketball team to victory.
![Members of the 2023 MAC Champion Golden Flashes Women's Golf Team Members of the 2023 MAC Champion Golden Flashes Women's Golf Team](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/2023-11/Screenshot%202023-11-16%20at%202.26.07%E2%80%AFPM.png?VersionId=iww3amMHrsexI7WxsE7J28xRzSf.tOha&h=82c8b206&itok=WK0PRCTx)
Kent State's Women's Golf team has won the Mid-American Conference Championship every year since it was first sponsored in 1999.
Kent State University President Todd Diacon joined the Marching Golden Flashes and fans at Dix Stadium to cheer on our team at the annual Freeze Out Game.
![Kent State men's basketball team - 2023 Mid-American Conference Championship Kent State men's basketball team](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/KSU%20mens%20basketball.jpg?VersionId=WDRhRryNYf82QFl8KPWtXX2XNzmxxGNV&itok=cG15aQcY)
As Kent State's men's basketball team prepares to tip off its 2023-2024 season on Monday, Nov. 6, against Malone University at home in the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center, the Golden Flashes look to some family connections to help propel this year’s team.
Everyone was at Dix Stadium to cheer for our Golden Flashes at Kent State's Homecoming celebration last weekend.
![Students in 1985 creating the egg that Flash, the university's new mascot, would hatch of out at Homecoming. Students in 1985 creating the egg that Flash, the university's new mascot, would hatch of out at Homecoming.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/8b343824f55e426ed5cb275a0ec2c879.jpg?VersionId=9dCLY0R3kSqHaelZT57SqAbnwIG.sfoT&itok=ZY32fu__)
On Flash the Mascot's 38th birthday, we ask the question: Which came first, Flash or the egg?
![Flash the Mascot being served a piece of his birthday cake by a student 2023 Flash the Mascot being served a piece of his birthday cake by a student 2023](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/BOB_4226-Enhanced-NR.jpg?VersionId=ahFeBHEx6fZKzp3nhhGy4Opk.2sF93Ff&itok=gDRCsSKl)
Everybody's heard about the bird! Oct. 12 is Flash's 38th birthday!
![Football players ringing the Victory Bell on September 16, 2023. Football players ringing the Victory Bell on September 16, 2023.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/20230916_BC_Athletics_Football_V_CCCU_1168.jpg?VersionId=tZAwjVowDchMt.6L5n8fmteRHkh79AoJ&itok=3HqR-XK7)
The Golden Flashes football team celebrated a win over the Central Connecticut Blue Devils this weekend at Dix Stadium.
![Sunrise over Dix Stadium Sunrise over Dix Stadium](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/20230913_BC_Setember%20Feature_170-Enhanced-NR.jpg?VersionId=cr5TdIxvA6.wVT3FESohuJHXMxEkwli1&itok=VlCRqwVr)
Dix Stadium is ready to host the first home game of the season for Golden Flashes football.