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Martin named to Player of the Year Watch List

UNIVERSITY PARK – Penn State’s Kennedy Martin was named to the AVCA Women’s Volleyball National Player of the Year Watch List on Wednesday. The senior was one of 30 players to make the list, including 10 from the Big Ten. Martin made an appearance on the Player of the Year Watch List for a third-consecutive season. She went on to be one of 14 semifinalists in each of the past two seasons. Martin enters her fourth collegiate season with 1,638 kills, including 634 with the Nittany Lions last year. She led the nation in points/set (6.28) as a sophomore and was second in the nation ...

Keller, Morrow invited to USA Hockey Women’s National Festival

MINNETONKA, Minn. – Rising sophomores Mikah Keller and Sophie Morrow of the Penn State women's hockey team have been invited to the 2026 USA Hockey Women's National Festival, USA Hockey announced Monday afternoon. Keller and Morrow are among 46 collegiate players selected to attend the festival, which will be held Aug. 2-9 at Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, N.Y. The camp serves as part of USA Hockey's evaluation process for selecting the roster that will compete in a three-game series against Canada in Richmond, British Columbia, Aug. 10-16. Keller and Morrow have previously been a ...

Pickens named Lions head coach for swimming and diving

UNIVERSITY PARK – Penn State swimming and diving head coach Hollie Bonewit-Cron has added Samantha Pickens to the coaching staff as Head Diving Coach. Pickens served as diving coach at Liberty the last two seasons. She was the Atlantic Sun Women’s Diving Coach of the Year in 2024-25. In 2025-26, Liberty had three divers compete at the NCAA Zone Championships. Shannon Icard broke Liberty’s 10-dive platform record and became Liberty’s first diver to compete at NCAA Championships. In her first season working with Liberty’s divers, Pickens mentored three divers who ...

Spikes best IronBirds in OT, 5-4

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Jackson Rains delivered a walk-off RBI single to bring in pinch-runner Hudson Shupe in the MLB Draft League Overtime Tiebreaker and give the State College Spikes a 5-4 victory over the Aberdeen IronBirds on Thursday night at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. Rains, the reigning MLB Draft League Player of the Week after earning the honors for July 13-19, stepped up with runners on first and third and one out in the extra frame and smashed a grounder through the left side to bring in Shupe. The Spikes (7-5 2nd Half) rebounded after the IronBirds (9-4 2nd Half), the ...

Lions make IWLCA Academic Honor Roll

UNIVERSITY PARK – On Wednesday afternoon, seven Nittany Lions were named to the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Division I Academic Honor Roll with the team being named an IWLCA Academic Honor Squad. Junior Lily Strohecker, seniors Emily Bette, Erika Ho, Lauren Tinson and Payton Wainman along with graduate students Julia Basciano and Anna Salerno were all named to the IWLCA Academic Honor Roll. To be named an IWLCA Academic Honor Squads for the 2024-25 academic year, the women’s lacrosse team must have posted a 3.2 or higher team GPA for the academic ...

Spikes knock off Cutters, 8-5

WILLIAMSPORT– Justin Journette capped a three-homer sixth inning for the State College Spikes with the longest of them all, a 467-foot, two-run shot that was the longest ever hit in MLB Draft League play, as the Spikes defeated the Williamsport Crosscutters, 8-5, on Tuesday night at Journey Bank Ballpark at Historic Bowman Field. Journette, who homered twice in Monday night’s game at the same ballpark, sent his blast almost over the 45-foot-high batter’s eye in dead center field on an 0-1 pitch from Williamsport (7-4 2nd Half) starter Kenney Fabian (0-1). The round-tripper was the ...