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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 ...

Lady Lion soccer schedule revealed

UNIVERSITY PARK – The Penn State women’s soccer program and 20th-year head coach Erica Dambach announced the program’s 2026 schedule on Monday afternoon, highlighted by 17 regular-season matches, nine fixtures on Jeffrey Field and a challenging 12-match Big Ten Conference slate. “Every year, our program sets out to challenge the very best in our sport, and our 2026 schedule is a reflection of our commitment to face some of the nation’s top programs head-on,” Dambach said. “We have an amazing opportunity ahead of us this season, and our group is excited to attack the ...

Crosscutters nudge Spikes, 13-7

WILLIAMSPORT – Camden Ross smashed the 21st grand slam in State College Spikes history and Justin Journette became the second Spike with two homers in the same game to help trim a 9-0 deficit to 9-7, but the Williamsport Crosscutters held on to take a 13-7 slugfest on Monday night at Journey Bank Ballpark at Historic Bowman Field. After Josh Willits (1-0) shut out the Spikes (5-5 2nd Half) through the first six innings, Journette walloped his third home run of the season, a 362-foot, two-run shot to left field, to put State College on the board. The Spikes put more of a hurt on a ...