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No. 8 Lions blank Maryland, 4-0

UNIVERSITY PARK – Eighth-ranked Penn State women’s soccer opened its 32nd season of Big Ten Conference competition with a bang on Thursday night, turning in an impressive 4-0 win over the Maryland Terrapins from Jeffrey Field highlighted by a five-point performance from sophomore forward Aubrey Kulpa. The Nittany Lions improved to 5-2-1 overall through their eighth match of the campaign, rising to 1-0-0 in Big Ten Conference competition following the inaugural opportunity on the conference calendar. PSU improved to 24-5-3 overall in Big Ten regular season openers while rising to ...

Nittany Lions meet Villanova in Keystone State battle

UNIVERSITY PARK – No. 2/2 Penn State football hosts Villanova in West Shore Home Field at Beaver Stadium on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. The contest will air on FS1 with Connor Onion and Mark Helfrich on the call. Saturday’s game is presented by Highmark. Fans are encouraged to visit Game Day Central for all information as it relates to Penn State Football game day traffic, parking and information on the match up. Real time traffic, parking and gate information will be shared on the Beaver Stadium X (formerly Twitter) account (@beaver_stadium). Fans are also encouraged to sign up for ...

Janecke named captain for second-straight season

UNIVERSITY PARK – Head coach Jeff Kampersal and the Penn State women's ice hockey team named its captains for the 2025-26 season earlier Monday afternoon. Senior forward Tessa Janecke will remain the team captain after becoming the 12th woman to don the ‘C’ in program history last season. Entering her final season at Penn State, Janecke has been one of the most productive forwards in the team's history sitting atop the record books with 153 points. The Orangeville, Ill. native has led the Nittany Lions to three straight NCAA tournament appearances and three straight College Hockey ...

Sisson joins PSU swimming and diving

UNIVERSITY PARK – Penn State head swimming and diving coach Hollie Bonewit-Cron has added Trevor Sisson to her coaching staff as the assistant diving coach. Sisson joins the Penn State staff after coaching the 2024-25 season as the diving coach at Toledo. Prior to Toledo, he coached two years as diving coach at Georgia Southern (2022-24). He also served as diving coach at Bryant (2021-22), Davenport (2020-21) and Wisconsin-Whitewater (2014-17, 18-19). At Georgia Southern, Sisson mentored Karlee Wells to four Sun Belt Conference finals, two appearances at the NCAA Zone B Diving ...

No. 12 Lions lasso Bison in straight sets

UNIVERSITY PARK — No. 12 Penn State swept Bucknell (25-19, 25-10, 25-20) in non-conference women’s volleyball action Tuesday at Rec Hall. The Nittany Lions moved their record to 4-3 overall with their second-straight sweep. The Bison fell to 1-5. Penn State had three players with at least seven kills. Emmi Sellman led the way with 10 kills to go along with her five digs and one ace. Maggie Mendelson and Alexis Ewing were right behind her with nine and eight kills, respectively. Caroline Jurevicius also had eight, marking her sixth match this season with at least seven kills. ...

PSU field hockey squares off with Bucknell

UNIVERSITY PARK -- The Penn State Nittany Lion field hockey team (2-1, 0-0 B1G) continues a string of four straight home games this coming weekend in Happy Valley. The Nittany Lions host Bucknell (2-2) on Friday, Sept. 12, at 6 p.m. and then welcome Kent State (1-2) on Sunday, Sept. 14, at 12 p.m.. Penn State is coming off a thrilling home weekend that saw the team win two overtime games. The Nittany Lions got two goals from Joji Purdy and the game winner from Ella Jennes to down Delaware 3-2 in double overtime on Friday. Two days later, Olivia Marthins tipped in a goal in extra time ...