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YSU’s Shrum discusses his team’s momentum at Curbstone Coaches

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 ...

Borum leaves her mark on Penguins’ program

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 ...

YSU women’s basketball coach Barnes taking leave of absence

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 ...

YSU falls short in shootout with Northern Iowa, 44-41

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, ...

Youngstown State enters MVFC play against stingy Northern Iowa

YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State’s off week served as a transitional bridge from nonconference play to the start of the Missouri Valley Football Conference slate, and now the Penguins kick off seven straight games in the toughest conference in the FCS. It all starts Saturday at 2 p.m. ...

Curbstone: YSU, Phillips look to earn team’s first playoff bid since 2016

BEAVER TOWNSHIP — Fresh off its 48-28 victory over Robert Morris this past weekend, head coach Doug Phillips’ Youngstown State team will take a 2-1 mark into Missouri Valley Football Conference play, which begins this week when the Penguins travel to Northern Iowa to take on the Panthers. The next eight weeks will determine if the Penguins are worthy of a playoff bid, a void on the program’s resume since the 2016 campaign. “We cannot allow ourselves to have other people control our outcomes. Each and every day we have control of how hard we play, the attitude in which we play ...