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Penn State Harrisburg baseball team has historic season

6/12/19

For just the second time in program history, the Penn State Harrisburg baseball team competed in the NCAA Division III Baseball Championship Tournament, earning the No. 2 seed in the four-team regional and recording its first NCAA tournament win. During the season, the team won five games over nationally ranked teams.

Men's Lacrosse Big Ten Tournament 2019

Penn State No. 6 in Learfield IMG College Directors' Cup standings

6/11/19

With the 2018-19 intercollegiate athletics calendar winding down, Penn State remains among the nation’s top 10 in the Learfield Directors’ Cup standings. In the latest spring standings, the Nittany Lions are ranked No. 6. Penn State received Directors’ Cup points from NCAA championship participation by the men’s lacrosse and men’s tennis teams in the latest compilation.

Toby Welk

Welk drafted by Baltimore Orioles

6/6/19

Toby Welk was selected by the Baltimore Orioles in the 21st round of the 2019 MLB First-Year Player Draft. Welk was the second Division III player to be taken in the 2019 draft.

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Special Olympics Pennsylvania to celebrate 50 years of Summer Games on June 6-8

6/3/19

Special Olympics Pennsylvania will return to Penn State’s University Park campus on June 6-8 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the annual Summer Games. Over 2,000 athletes from across the state will come together to compete across eight sports in a celebration of half a century of empowering athletes with intellectual disabilities. Penn State has hosted the event on campus for 32 consecutive years.

Kelsey Crow (women's hockey) graduated with a 3.94 grade-point average and was the recipient of Penn State's Eric A. Walker Award.

Record 368 Penn State student-athletes earn Academic All-Big Ten honors

5/29/19

A school-record 183 Nittany Lion students from the spring/at-large sports lifted Penn State Athletics to a record 368 Academic All-Big Ten selections in 2018-19. The previous high among the spring/at-large sports was 166 and the previous yearly mark was 360, both of which were set in 2017-18.

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