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.
This summer, the Special Olympics Pennsylvania Summer Games celebrates its 50th anniversary of supporting and empowering athletes with intellectual disabilities, as well as the 32nd consecutive year of partnering with Penn State to host the games on the University Park campus.
All-Big Ten Conference first-team selection and the league's top returning scorer and rebounder, Nittany Lion forward Lamar Stevens announced his intent to return to the Penn State men's basketball team for his senior season in 2019-20.
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.
Thirty years after his days as a four-time letter winner for the Penn State football team, Quintus McDonald earned his bachelor's degree in telecommunications earlier this month, an accomplishment that came with "an outpouring of love and support."
The Special Olympics Pennsylvania Summer Games, to be held on Penn State’s University Park campus June 6-8, is seeking volunteers from the local community to help make the event a success.
Penn State Harrisburg senior Cameron Yon became the first student-athlete in school history to win a national championship when he secured gold in the discus throw at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships, held Thursday, May 23, at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio.
Penn State Berks students Jess Rozick and Brianna Smith received more honors for their phenomenal performances in the 2019 softball season by earning spots on the National Fastpitch Coaches Association teams. Rozick was selected to the second team and Smith was named to the third team.
The Penn State men’s lacrosse team is coming to Philadelphia to compete for a national championship, and the Penn State Alumni Association is inviting all alumni and fans to gather for a pregame mixer at Xfinity Live!
Penn State Brandywine seniors James Cellucci and Maddie Malfara received the John S. Egli Scholar Athlete awards from the Penn State University Athletic Conference as the league's top male and female student-athletes during the 2018-19 academic year on May 19.
Penn State Behrend’s track and field teams competed in the All-Atlantic Region Outdoor Track and Field Championships at SUNY Cortland. The women’s team placed 10th; the men were 11th.
Student-athletes at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus have demonstrated significant improvement in academic achievement since the establishment of the Student-Athletes Graduate and Excel (SAGE) program in 2015.
The Penn State DuBois Lions bested Bryant & Stratton (Albany) 12-6 to claim their second consecutive United States Collegiate Athletic Association Small College World Series title.
The No. 1 Penn State men's lacrosse team took down No. 8 Loyola Maryland, 21-14, in the NCAA Quarterfinal on Saturday afternoon on Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut, to advance to NCAA Championship Weekend for the first time in program history.
The North Eastern Athletic Conference has named a Penn State Abington student-athlete as its Pitcher of the Year, and several baseball players were included on all-conference teams.
