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Six Lions make US World Team

UNIVERSITY PARK === Six members of the Penn State Nittany Lion Olympic Regional Training Center/Nittany Lion Wrestling Club competed at 2026’s Final X at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. Five of those competitors won their best-of-three series and earned spots on the 2026 U.S. World Team. All six are already part of the 2026 U.S. National Team. Reigning NCAA Champion Levi Haines battled Chance Marsteller at 79 kg. Haines dominated the first match-up, post a 6-1 victory. Haines then dominated the second period in the next bout, using a four-point move to roll to a 6-3 win. He ...

Penn State hockey lists Big Ten Weekend foes

UNIVERSITY PARK – On Thursday afternoon the Big Ten announced its complete 2026-27 men’s hockey schedule with each team playing each other a total of four times, twice at home and twice on the road. For Big Ten Conference play each two game series could be played at any time from Thursday-Sunday on the weekend noted with exact dates becoming finalized in the coming months. Full Big Ten Hockey Weekend Schedule The 2026-27 season begins the weekend of October 2-4, however, Penn State opens with a bye week ahead of the 2026 Ice Breaker Tournament the following weekend in Connecticut. ...

Kitching named Mid-Atlantic Track Athlete of the Year

NEW ORLEANS – Senior Hayley Kitching of the Penn State Track and Field team has been named the USTFCCCA Mid-Atlantic Region Women's Track Athlete of the Year, as announced by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association on Thursday afternoon. Kitching delivered a historic outdoor track and field season. Her outdoor campaign began with a record-breaking performance in the 1500m at the Virginia Challenge, where she shattered the program record by nearly five seconds. The senior's time of 4:05.81 set a facility record and lowered her personal best by nearly 10 ...

Spikes break out the brooms versus Canada

UNIVERSITY PARK – Trent Turner hit the State College Spikes’ first home run at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park in the 20th Anniversary Season, and the Spikes came back twice to defeat the Canadian Junior National Team, 11-8, on Thursday night to clinch a three-game sweep in the International Series. Turner, a utility infielder from Western Carolina who played shortstop on Thursday night, launched a 418-foot shot off the batter’s eye in the fifth inning for a two-run blast, his first of the season, to bump the Spikes’ (8-7) lead to 7-4. The Spikes trailed 4-0 after Maxime Blain’s ...

Spikes nudges Canada Junior National Team

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Trailing 4-0 going into the bottom of the fourth inning, the State College Spikes activated the bats and used a final push in the eighth to capture a 7-5 victory over the Canadian Junior National Team on Tuesday night in the opener of the International Series at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. Dominic Pellegrin, who reached base three times to keep his on-base percentage at an MLB Draft League-leading mark of .641, drove in the go-ahead run with a bases-loaded walk in the eighth. Tyree Reed then posted the second of his two RBI’s with a sacrifice fly to center ...

USA volleyball goes 3-1 with help of Anderson

UNIVERSITY PARK – Former Penn State men’s volleyball great Matt Anderson helped Team USA go 3-1 during the opening week of play in the Volleyball Nations League (VNL). USA, which played all four matches in Ottawa, posted wins over Turkiye (3-1), Germany (3-0), and Canada (3-2) before falling in five sets to world No. 1 Italy. Anderson, a National Champion and two-time All-American for Penn State from 2006-08, played in three of the four matches. He opened the event with 13 kills, five digs, one block, and one ace in the win over Turkiye, and then added six kills, four digs, and two ...