- The 2010 YSU Football season closes out this Saturday with a home game against Indiana State. The game will honor seniors who played football, marched in the band, or cheered this season.
- South Dakota has accepted an invitation to join the Missouri Valley Football Conference beginning with the 2012-13 academic year. USD received a formal invitation from Conference Commissioner Patty Viverito last Wednesday and accepted on Thursday.
- Youngstown State junior Kelsey Kempton was named First-Team ESPN the Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District IV, announced by the Academic All-America® Committee. Kempton, who carries a 4.0 grade-point average with a major in exercise science, is the first Youngstown State women’s ssoccer player to be named to the first-team and just the second player in history to earn academic all-district honors.
- Youngstown State freshman Allison Ludwig was named to the Horizon League Women’s Soccer All-Newcomer Team. Ludwig, who missed five league games due to a broken hand, tied a YSU freshman record and ranked fourth in the Horizon League with eight goals in 2010.