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 […]
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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.
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 […]
Lucas Gebhart Editor-in-Chief There is not one member on this year’s ISU soccer team who has endured a winning season while at ISU. The team has won a combined 10 games over the last three seasons, which matches its win total from 2014, the last time the Bengal soccer team […]
Seiji wood Sports Editor The Outdoor Adventure Center (OAC) is a great way for all current and incoming students at ISU to get involved with outdoor recreation and have fun while doing it. The OAC, located in the bottom floor of the Pond Student Union Building (PSUB), allows students to […]
Jerry Miller Advisor to the Bengal Idaho State’s football Bengals were once known as “The Throwin’ Idahoans” in deference to an always nationally-ranked passing offense. Although the Bengals still love to throw, they’re now a “run first” team, and last season was a good example why. The Bengals opened the […]
Seiji Wood Sports Editor With the upcoming season right around the corner, the ISU football team has a positive mindset and foresees a season unlike what we’ve seen in the past. It went 2-9 in 2016 and 2015, but went 4-7 in 2017, under first-year head coach Rob Phenicie, the […]
Jerry Miller Advisor to the Bengal One of the most prominent forms of entertainment on the Pocatello campus is athletic events. During the fall, four ISU athletic teams compete against other competition throughout the country and the Big Sky Conference. Admission to these events is free for all ISU students. […]