Nowhere do Americans more intimately connect to sports than in their hometowns. Penn College's Madigan Library, in cooperation with the World of Little League Museum, will celebrate that connection as it hosts “Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America” from June 30 through Sept. 8.
Penn State York Athletics has appointed two new coaches to the coaching staff. Both coaches are already recruiting and planning for their upcoming season.
Senior student-athletes Ally McHugh, the first swimmer in Penn State women's swimming and diving history to win an NCAA individual championship, and Jason Nolf, who earned a third consecutive individual NCAA wrestling championship in March, have been selected as Penn State's recipients for the prestigious Big Ten Medal of Honor for 2018-19.
Sting Soccer Club served as the title sponsor for 2019 tournament at Northampton Country Club
Penn State’s Nittany Lion was officially inducted in the Mascot Hall of Fame on June 16 in Whiting, Indiana.
Penn State Abington finance major Michael Litz was honored for excellence in and out of classroom.
In a survey of NCAA attendance figures for 17 sports during 2018-19, eight Penn State teams ranked in the top 10 in average home attendance, the most of any Division I institution nationally. Three Nittany Lion squads ranked No. 2 nationally in average home attendance.
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.
In April, Scott Sada, who graduated from Penn State Behrend with a plastics engineering technology degree, hit his 82nd double against Medaille to become the NCAA Division III all-time leader in career doubles. He would add eight more before the season ended.
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.
A total of six Penn Staters were selected in the 2019 Major League Baseball Draft this week, including three from the baseball team, two incoming signees and the first player ever drafted from Penn State Berks.
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.
Penn State Hazleton women's basketball player McKenzie Prutsman has her jersey hanging in the Ring of Honor at the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame for the next year.
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.
