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The 2022 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football team represented Eastern Kentucky University as a member of the ASUN Conference during the 2022 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by Walt Wells in his third season, and played their home games at Roy Kidd Stadium. On August 28, Wells had a cardiac episode. [1]
Eastern Kentucky's football team was able to secure 31 consecutive winning seasons before finally posting a losing season record in 2009. In September 2013, the Lexington Herald-Leader , the daily newspaper of nearby Lexington , reported that EKU was considering moving its program to the top-level Football Bowl Subdivision .
The 1994 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football team represented Eastern Kentucky University as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) during the 1994 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Led by 31st-year head coach Roy Kidd , the Colonels compiled an overall record of 10–3, with a mark of 8–0 in conference play, and finished as OVC champion.
The 2024–25 Eastern Kentucky Colonels men's basketball team represents Eastern Kentucky University during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.The Colonels are led by seventh-year head coach A. W. Hamilton as members of the Atlantic Sun Conference.
Maroon has been the official color of Eastern athletics since the school was begun as the Eastern Kentucky State Normal School in 1906, and the school's official team nickname was the "Maroons" from the start of intercollegiate competition in 1909–10 until 1963, when then-president Robert Martin changed the nickname to the "Colonels". [10]
The Eastern Kentucky Colonels football team drew an average home attendance of 11,655 in 2023. After the 2022 season, the ASUN and the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), which had been partners in a football-only alliance in the 2021 and 2022 seasons, jointly announced that they would merge their football leagues.
The 2024 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football team represented Eastern Kentucky University as a member of the United Athletic Conference (UAC) during the 2024 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Colonels were be coached by fifth-year head coach Walt Wells and played at Roy Kidd Stadium in Richmond, Kentucky .
The 2020 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football team represented Eastern Kentucky University during the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by Walt Wells in his first season as the program's 15th head coach. [1] The Colonels played their home games at Roy Kidd Stadium and competed as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference.