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.
Sting Soccer Club served as the title sponsor for 2019 tournament at Northampton Country Club
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Penn State Harrisburg’s men’s and women’s indoor and outdoor track and field programs will compete as an affiliate member of the New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) beginning in 2019-20, as announced by the conference in April.
Spring classes may be over at University Park but Campus Recreation is still in full swing. One fact that people may not know about Campus Recreation is that the Tennis Center has some of the few collegiate clay tennis courts in the nation.
Penn State student-athletes continue to excel in the classroom and surpass Division I national averages, according to Academic Progress Rate data released today (May 8) by the NCAA.
Kent Whiting, a 2007 Penn State Harrisburg graduate, has committed a gift of $150,000 to support new track and field facilities at the college. The Whiting Family Throwing Complex will help Penn State Harrisburg take its track and field program to a new level of excellence by providing for a facility on campus. The track and field teams currently train at off-campus locations.
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.
