UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State women’s basketball coach Carolyn Kieger announced the addition of George Washington transfer Ali Brigham for the 2021-22 season on Friday. The 6-foot-4 center and Atlantic 10 All-Rookie team member led the Colonials in scoring as a freshman. She led George ...
From Mirror, wire reports GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Penn State’s leading scorer is heading to Florida and could be a huge help right away. Guard Myreon Jones announced his commitment to the Gators on Wednesday, joining fellow transfers Brandon McKissic from Kansas City and CJ Felder from ...
After being named the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference’s Player of the Week on Monday, Penn State Altoona baseball’s senior first baseman Catcher Cumming, an Altoona Area High School graduate, received another recognition for his performance with the bat last week. Cumming was ...
Penn State Altoona sophomore pitcher Casey Reese took Pitcher of the Week honors, while junior catcher Kristen Hewitt received Player of the Week recognition in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference. Reese is a Penn Cambria graduate while Hewitt is a Glendale graduate. Reese and ...
FORT WORTH, Texas — Four resident athletes with the Nittany Lion Wrestling Club qualified for the Tokyo Olympics later this summer, and former all-time great David Taylor became the newest member of Penn State wrestling’s Olympian club. The NLWC had five wrestlers competing for titles in ...
PSU football adds games UNIVERSITY PARK – Penn State announced three non-conference additions to its football schedule for the 2024 and 2026 seasons on Thursday. The Nittany Lions will host Kent State on Sept. 21, 2024, Marshall on Sept. 5, 2026 and San Jose State on Sept. 19, 2026. With ...
From Mirror reports UNIVERSITY PARK — Though new Penn State basketball coach Micah Shrewsberry served as offensive coordinator at Purdue, he pledged a defensive focus with the Nittany Lions. “We have to be a great defensive team,” Shrewsberry said during his introductory press ...
Early returns on the arrival of new Penn State offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich are quite positive. “I love the energy he brings, and I can’t wait to go through a whole season with him,” standout receiver Jahan Dotson told the media via Zoom on Monday. “He’s a ...
From Mirror, wire reports Former Penn State and Altoona Area High School football standout Kevin Givens is facing second-degree assault charges for allegedly attacking a man in Baltimore, according to an article published on ESPN.com. Givens just finished up his second season with the San ...
Micah Shrewsberry has landed his first recruit. Izaiah Brockington, who had been in the transfer portal, announced Friday on Twitter that he’s returning to the Nittany Lions. Brockington, who averaged 12 points per game, said he met with Shrewsberry this week. “At my core, I feel ...
Alli Campbell, Blair County’s all-time leading scorer in both high school boys and girls basketball, is transferring to Penn State to join Carolyn Kieger’s Lady Lion program. “I chose Penn State for so many reasons,” Campbell said. “After speaking with the coaching staff, they blew ...
UNIVERSITY PARK – New Penn State men’s basketball coach Micah Shrewsberry announced the hiring of Adam Fisher as the Nittany Lions’ associate head coach on Monday. Fisher, a 2006 Penn State alumnus, returns to Happy Valley after six seasons as an assistant coach at the University of ...
ST. LOUIS – Penn State’s Nick Lee and Rutgers’ Sebastian Rivera tangled in one of the more entertaining bouts in the Big Ten Championships a couple weeks ago at the Bryce Jordan Center. Lee won that semifinal bout, 3-1, in overtime. Friday night, they hooked up in another entertaining ...
From Mirror reports ST. LOUIS – It was a good first day for Penn State at the NCAA Wrestling Championships at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis. The Nittany Lions advanced seven of their nine wrestlers into the quarterfinals. Penn State’s Roman Bravo-Young (133), Nick Lee (141), Brady ...
The Associated Press It has been more than a decade since Iowa, the program that Dan Gable turned into the gold standard in college wrestling, showed the kind of dominance at the NCAA championships that it takes to win a team title. The drought probably would have ended last season had the ...
From Mirror reports On Monday, Penn State hired Micah Shrewsberry as its new men’s basketball coach. As of right now, he might want to start refilling his roster. According to several published reports from media outlets, including The Athletic, PennLive.com and SportsIllustrated.com, six ...
Penn State finished second behind Iowa and qualified nine wrestlers to the NCAA Championships, but more is expected of the Nittany Lions within and outside of the program because of the dynasty coach Cael Sanderson has built. “I definitely think we came out of the Big Ten disappointed, ...
From Mirror reports UNIVERSITY PARK — Micah Shrewsberry was hired on Monday as the new Penn State men’s basketball coach, replacing interim head coach Jim Ferry who had taken over the program when Patrick Chambers resigned early last fall. Shrewsberry, an assistant on Purdue’s staff ...
Though Penn State returns a two-year starting quarterback in Sean Clifford, the Nittany Lions opened spring drills Monday with the position as the team’s top priority. James Franklin said he hopes to emerge from the spring “with a good idea” of the starter and backup and whether more ...
The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Aleem Ford scored 17 points and No. 6 seed Wisconsin made a stop on the last play to escape with a 75-74 win over No. 11 seed Penn State in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament on Thursday night. The Badgers (17-11) led by 18 in the final eight ...