Four Penn State teams have earned an NCAA Public Recognition Award for posting elite scores in this year's Academic Progress Rate compilation, including the Nittany Lions' most recent NCAA championship squad.
For the 14th consecutive year, Penn State Athletics has placed in the top five in the Learfield IMG College Directors’ Cup final winter standings. Powered by the wrestling team’s eighth NCAA championship in the past nine years, the Nittany Lions are No. 3 in the final winter standings, maintaining their No. 3 ranking after the fall sports season.
Penn State Behrend’s softball team clinched the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference regular-season championship with a two-game sweep of Franciscan. The team will host the AMCC championship tournament, which begins May 3.
The Penn State DuBois softball team won its first ever PSUAC playoff game this weekend at Heindl Field.
Penn State men's basketball forward Mike Watkins will return to play for the Nittany Lions for the 2019-2020 season. In 2018-19, Watkins became only the 13th Nittany Lion with 700 career rebounds, with 725 for 10th all-time, and has a 9.9 points per game career scoring average as he approaches 1,000 career points with 879.
With Saturday's victory over Rutgers, the men's lacrosse team clinched its first Big Ten title, and will be the No. 1 seed heading into the conference tournament on May 2.
The North Eastern Athletic Conference selected Penn State Abington's Ryan McCarty as its baseball Pitcher of the Week. In addition to baseball, Abington's women's lacrosse, softball, and men's and women's tennis teams have been in action. Here are the highlights.
The Penn State Wilkes-Barre baseball team won its first regular season championship of any kind since 2000 by finishing 12-3 in the PSUAC East Division and earning the No. 1 seed in the PSUAC conference playoffs.
The 11th annual clay shoot to benefit Penn State York Athletics is set for Wednesday, May 1, at Central Penn Sporting Clays in Wellsville, Pennsylvania. Brandon Short, Penn State Board of Trustees member and former Penn State Nittany Lion and NFL linebacker, is the celebrity guest.
Building on an ongoing partnership with the NFL Environmental Program, Penn State will send more than 30 students, staff and faculty to the NFL Draft on April 25-27 in Nashville, Tennessee. Participants will be sustainability ambassadors for the event, learning how to minimize the event’s overall environmental impact and how those lessons could be applied at Penn State events.
Student-athletes were honored during Penn State York's Sports Awards Banquet on April 18. Awards were presented following a 6 p.m. dinner on the stage of the Pullo Family Performing Arts Center (The Pullo Center) on campus.
The golf program at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus has signed Josh Sterbutzel, a senior at Albert Gallatin High School, for the 2019-20 season.
The volleyball and track and field programs at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus have signed Angel Buwawa, a senior at Laurel Highlands High School, for the 2019-20 season.
The 2019 Penn State student football season ticket sale will begin on Monday, June 17 and run through Friday, June 21. Graduate students open the annual sale on June 17 with the sale continuing through the freshmen ticket sale on June 21.
Penn State Behrend’s track and field teams dominated the Behrend Invitational on April 20, winning 13 events in both the men’s and women’s divisions. Both teams will compete in the Colonial States Athletic Conference championships on May 4.
