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Kieger makes additions from Marquette staff

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State women’s basketball head coach Carolyn Kieger announced three additions to her staff for the 2019-20 season on Tuesday.

Assistant coach Ginny Boggess, Director of Operations Pam Brown and Director of Program Development MaryLynne Schaefer will all come to Penn State after previously serving on Kieger’s staff at Marquette.

EIVA honors PSU quartet

UNIVERSITY PARK — Four Penn State men’s volleyball student-athletes were recognized for their academic achievement by being named to the 2019 EIVA All-Academic Team, as announced by the conference office Tuesday.

Will Bantle, Frank Melvin, Calvin Mende and Nathan Smith all qualified for the honor by earning a cumulative grade-point average over 3.30. Mende has been recognized as an All-Academic honoree for the third-consecutive year. It is the first All-Academic award for Bantle, Melvin and Smith.

Cumming gets award

Penn State Altoona junior first baseman Catcher Cumming was honored by D3baseball.com this week when the website named him to its Team of the Week as one of the top performers over the previous week in Division III.

Cumming, an Altoona graduate, had three multi-hit performances in five games between April 8 and April 14, going hitting .692 (9-for-13) with nine RBI, five scored runs, three walks, two home runs, one double and one stolen base. He had a .706 on-base percentage. He is currently tied for first in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference in RBI (32), fifth in home runs (five) and slugging percentage (.622).

Karlheim sets record

JOHNSTOWN — Pitt-Johnstown senior Matt Karlheim set a new school record this past weekend in the 400-meter dash.

The Bishop Carroll graduate’s time of 48.95 at the Bucknell Outdoor Classic was good for fifth place overall and set a new Pitt-Johnstown record.

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