Seiji Wood Sports Editor ISU’s volleyball team will open conference play this Thursday against Northern Arizona (NAU). The Bengals are headed to Flagstaff with a 6-7 record in the 2018 season. ISU has tough task with NAU. NAU is currently 8-5 and has already found great success this season. During […]
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All about sports at Idaho State University. We include stories about our traditional university sponsored sports like Football, Basketball, Soccer, Baseball and Volleyball as well as the independent club sports like Rugby, Archery and Judo.
Seiji Wood Sports Editor Senior Tristen Spooner has logged over 3,700 minutes for ISU’s soccer team during her four years. Spooner started her freshman year and has played in every game except for three, putting her on track to make history by cracking the Bengals top 10 in logged minutes. […]
Seiji Wood Sports Editor On Jan. 25, North Dakota (UND), ISU’s football opponent this Saturday, announced they would leave the Big Sky Conference and join the Summit League and Missouri Valley starting in the 2018-2019 season. The Summit League doesn’t sponsor football, so school officials at UND then stated the […]
Seiji Wood Sports Editor ISU will start conference play against North Dakota this Saturday. The Bengals are currently 1-1 and up to this point, I’m left with one question: who are we? ISU opened the season with a 45-10 win against Western State of Colorado, a Division II school and […]
Lucas Gebhart Editor-in-Chief About 13 months ago, a group of football boosters known as the Football Alumni Team (F.A.T) submitted an op-ed to the Idaho State Journal calling for the removal of former president Author Vailas and former athletic director Jeff Tingey. The group said they were going to withhold […]
Photo Credit: Idaho State Athletics Sasha Ambrose Sports Reporter This season, the team is looking to build on what second-year head coach Dallen Atkin’s has built and is in the early stages of preparing for better results at the Big Sky Conference Championship this spring. Spirits were high as the […]
Photo Courtesy of Mark Liptak Seiji Wood Sports Editor The ISU women’s basketball team is gearing up to host its biggest alumni game in program history at the end of the month. Around 41 former players and five coaches are planning to return for this event held on Sept. 28. […]
Sasha Ambrose Sports Reporter This Saturday, the Bengals will kickoff their second game of the season against the Cal Bears, a game in which ISU will get $625,000 for playing. After taking care of Division II Western State of Colorado, a game ISU won 45-10, the Bengals will now look […]
Dylon Harrison Staff Writer For the first time since it opened in 1970, ISU’s Holt Arena may be getting an entire set of brand new seats. Currently, Holt Arena can seat 12,000 people for football games and 8,000 for basketball games. This number is not expected to change drastically if […]
Sasha Ambrose Sports Reporter This year’s ISU cross country team is hoping for a stronger season by working together. Both the men’s and women’s teams have a large crop of returning runners and two enthusiastic captains, Jesse Allen, senior, and Rachel McGovern, junior, set the pace into the team’s new […]
Photo-Credit: Idaho State Journal Logan Ramsey Associate Editor After a whirlwind of news surrounding the athletic program, ISU has officially announced that former athletic director Jeff Tingey will not be returning to the university after his paid leave ends. Tingey will remain on paid administrative leave until June 2019 when […]
Photo-Credit: Idaho State Journal Seiji Wood Sports Editor President Kevin Satterlee has named Pauline Thiros ISU’s interim athletic director. Prior to naming Thiros, the university said that the interim athletic director would not be considered an applicant for the permanent position, which was left vacant by former athletic director Jeff Tingey […]
Seiji Wood/ Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor/ Editor-in-Chief There are four goals painted on the windows of the football offices in Holt Arena. Those four goals are to have a winning record, beat Weber State, make the playoffs and to win the conference. Last season, ISU wouldn’t have accomplished any of […]
Seiji Wood Sports Editor With most of its core coming back, the ISU volleyball team is set to build off last season into the 2018 campaign. In 2017, the team went 11-19 and 8-8 in conference play, but have high hopes of being more competitive this year. The team took […]
Seiji Wood Sports Editor Women’s basketball head coach, Seton Sobolewski, has agreed to a five-year contract extension. The extension was announced by ISU athletic director, Jeff Tingey and will keep Coach Sobolewski at ISU through May 23, 2023. Sobolewski, who is the program’s winningest coach, holds an overall record of […]