A free public screening of the sports documentary “Running Home,” which tells the story of humanitarian, accomplished middle-distance runner and coach Tony Ruiz, will be conducted at 4:30 p.m. Aug. 30 in Carnegie Cinema.
Alumni and other fans can cheer on Penn State football at this season’s Penn State Tailgates, the premier pregame event for away games, hosted by the Penn State Alumni Association.
Penn State Shenango recently hired Rakiesha Morrison, a former Farrell High School cheerleader and Gannon University competitive cheerleader and dancer, as its new head cheerleading coach. She currently coaches competitive cheer for Fire and Ice Hermitage and is employed at the Mercer County Courthouse in Mercer, Pennsylvania.
As Penn State’s Renaissance Fund celebrates its 42nd year of honoring outstanding community members and helping students in need, the fund’s board of directors has selected James Franklin, head coach of the Penn State football program, as the 2019 honoree. A dinner in Franklin’s honor will be held on Oct. 30
Former Penn State men’s volleyball student-athletes Matt Anderson, Max Holt, and Aaron Russell and the U.S. men’s national team qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games after winning three-straight matches in the FIVB qualification tournament.
Nineteen Nittany Lion student-athletes were approved to participate in summer 2019 commencement ceremonies on the University Park campus. Penn State Athletics saw a record number of graduates, 188, for the 2018-19 academic year.
Former Nittany Lion student-athlete Chima Okoli has been named Penn State's new representative on the Big Ten Advisory Commission. A 2011 graduate, Okoli is the associate director of admissions for Penn State Law.
The head coach of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s nascent esports team will have a voice in shaping policy for the national association that champions varsity-level competition.
Penn State student-athletes continue to raise the bar in their academic excellence and achievements, shattering two overall and two semester school records during the 2019 spring semester. Among the marks broken was a 3.17 grade-point average and 58 Nittany Lions earning a perfect 4.0 GPA during the spring semester.
Led by 15 students who earned a perfect 4.0 grade-point average, a school-record 117 Penn State student-athletes have garnered Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Awards for the 2018-19 academic year.
A uniquely collaborative learning experience at Pennsylvania College of Technology, dubbed the “Soccer Ball Experiment,” helped civil engineering technology and surveying technology students and members of the Wildcat women’s soccer team acquire useful professional tools during the spring semester.
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.
