Osborne to speak at Curbstone Coaches

Dwaine Osborne, Youngstown State associate head men’s basketball coach, will be the guest speaker at Monday’s luncheon meeting of The Curbstone Coaches at the Avion Banquet Center on Western Reserve Road in Beaver Township.

The event begins at noon and the public is welcome to attend.

For those arriving early, the buffet lines will open at 11:45 a.m.

YSU names tournament after late coach

Youngstown State’s bowling program will welcome 18 teams to Holiday Bowl in Struthers, Ohio, for the sixth edition of the Penguin Classic next Friday through Sunday, Oct. 17-19.

While the event — which will kick off YSU’s season for the sixth time in the last seven years — and the venue will remain the same, the tournament has a new name. Beginning in 2025, it will be known as the Chelsea Gilliam Penguin Classic in honor of the program’s first head coach, who led the Penguins from 2015-18 and passed away from breast cancer at age 35 in August.

Gilliam was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013 when she was 23 years old, and she was re-diagnosed in 2016 while serving as Youngstown State’s head coach. A strong support system, which included many in the bowling community, rallied behind her as “Team Chelsea” as she continued a long and courageous fight over the next nine years.

The Chelsea Gilliam Penguin Classic will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 17 with five Baker pinfall matches, and it will continue with five traditional matches at 9:25 a.m. on Oct. 18. The 19 teams will then be placed into a bracket based on their total pinfall from the first two days of competition for three best-of-seven Baker matches beginning at 8:25 a.m. on Oct. 19.