Jenna Crowe Staff Writer Melissa Coburn and Megan Poe are both freshmen from Texas and knew each other before they enrolled at Idaho State. Both finished their high school tennis careers ranked in the top 50 in the state of Texas and the pair attended the same high school, giving […]
Sports
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.
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor I grew up in Fort Collins, Colorado, a town of about 150,000, located 50 miles north of Denver. There is a lot to do in Fort Collins, and in Colorado in general, especially when it comes to sports. Nobody expect for parents, students and maybe some […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor There are currently 13 football teams in the Big Sky Conference, and with the addition of the University of Idaho’s coming in 2018 the conference will be pushed to 14. The next closest conference in the FCS to the Big Sky in terms of numbers of […]
Tanner Sucher Staff Writer When Idaho State won its lone National Championship in 1981, two current NFL coaches, Marvin Lewis and Dirk Koetter, were on the staff and team. ISU is one of three institutions in the entire country that has two NFL coaches as alums, the other two are […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Jenica Dodge was not expecting to be an All-Conference runner during her first season at Idaho State. The junior took advantage of hilly, wet and muddy course, placing 7th in the Big Sky Conference Championship race in Moscow, Idaho, running a 5K time of 17:56.1. She […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor The Idaho State University men’s basketball team opened its 2016 season with an 89-55 victory over Southern Virginia University Wednesday night at Reed Gym. Three Bengals logged double-figure points as Ethan Telfair and Geno Luzcando lead the way with 20 points apiece and Hayes Garrity chipped […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Whatever the excuse may be, the Idaho State University football team is destined for another 2-9 season. Last year, the defense lost two of its best players in Mario Jenkins and Taison Manu prior to the season. This season, a banged up offensive line has led […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor At the beginning of last season, a winning record seemed to be an unrealistic expectation for the 2015 Idaho State men’s basketball team. With a team that has lost over 20 games in recent history, nobody was surprised to see the Bengals at the bottom of […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Idaho State trailed 17-13 at halftime but was outscored 31-7 in the second half as the Southern Utah Thunderbirds throttled the Bengals in-route to a 52-27 victory Saturday afternoon at Holt Arena, handing ISU its fourth consecutive loss. The Bengals have been outscored 177-75 the […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor With a 26-23 halftime lead in the Big Sky Conference Championship game, the Idaho State women’s basketball team was 30 minutes away from punching its ticket to the NCAA tournament. A strong second-half performance from Jon Newlee’s Idaho Vandals was too much for the Bengals and […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Four years ago, Jakori Ford sat in a hospital room while doctors tapped the bottom of his foot, asking him if he could feel anything. He was 19-years old and a father to be. Ford knew why the doctors were tapping on this foot and knew […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor In a game with two completely different offensive styles, a run-heavy North Dakota team (6-2) took down an air-it-out Idaho State squad (2-5), 28-21 Saturday afternoon in Holt Arena. ISU now has dropped its third consecutive conference game and falls to 1-3 in conference play while […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Coming off a one-win season, Idaho State women’s head soccer coach Allison Gibson found out that Maria Sanchez, a member of Mexico’s U-20 national team and the Big Sky’s leading goal scorer from the previous season, would not be returning to the team, despite remaining eligibility. […]
Tanner Sucher Staff Writer The Manu family is the definition of a football family and senior Taison Manu is just one of many branches of the Manu football tree. His father, Tony Manu, and uncle, Ron, played football at ISU while his uncle, James Manu, played football at Air Force […]
Tanner Sucher Staff Writer Hunting is deeply imbedded in Idaho’s culture that it’s almost a symbol of Idaho itself. As deer season approaches, some students will be taking the week off to take part in this culture. In order to participate, students will need a hunting license and tags for […]