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• First athletics played in 1914: baseball
• Dix Stadium opened in 1969 and seats 25,319
• Â鶹¾«Ñ¡â€™s school colors are blue and gold
• The mission of Kent State Athletics is to graduate student-athletes, boldly prepared for life after sport and win championships
• You can show your Â鶹¾«Ñ¡spirit year-round or seasonally, whether you live near or far  with:
  • Â鶹¾«Ñ¡license plates
  • Screen savers

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Â鶹¾«Ñ¡takes great pride in its Golden Flashes, who go on to successful careers in wide-ranging fields from business to healthcare to professional and collegiate athletics. Some of the KSU Athletics alumni who have excelled at the next levels of their sport: Thurman Munson (baseball); Antonio Gates (basketball); Nick Saban, Lou Holtz, Jack Lambert, James Harrison, Josh Cribbs, and Julian Edelman (football); Ben Curtis, Mackenzie Hughes and Corey Conners (golf); Jenna Hellstrom (soccer); Madison Thompson (field hockey); Jennifer Ha and Karoline Stormo (golf); Hall of Fame coaches such as Judy Devine (field hockey) and Herb Page (golf); and many Olympians such as Danniel Thomas-Dodd (shot put), Kim Kreiner (javelin), Betty-Jean Maycock (gymnastics), Gerald Tinker (Gold medalist, track), and Holly Speers (softball).