Kent State University's intercollegiate athletic teams are known as the Golden Flashes or simply as the Flashes. The university fields sixteen varsity athletic teams, all of which play in the Mid-American Conference at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I level with football competing in the Football Bowl Subdivision. In addition, Kent State has a men's ice hockey club team, which plays in the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division I as part of the Central States Collegiate Hockey League and has its home games at the Kent State University Ice Arena. Joel Nielsen has served as athletic director since May 1, 2010. read more