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Pavlik to step down from PSU men’s volleyball position after 2026

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State men’s volleyball head coach Mark Pavlik, the fourth-winningest coach in the history of collegiate men’s volleyball, has announced that the 2026 season will be the final season of his career. Pavlik, just the third head coach in the history of the Penn State men’s volleyball team, has compiled a career record of 694-241, winning over 74 percent of his matches. He leads all active National Collegiate Division (DI-II) head coaches with his win total and ranks fourth all time among all collegiate men’s volleyball coaches. He led the Nittany Lions to ...

PSU freshman Mingo too much for Fighting Camels

UNIVERSITY PARK — True freshman Kayden Mingo scored six of his 21 points inside the final two minutes to help Penn State pull away and beat Campbell 87-76 on Tuesday night. Freddie Dilione V added 17 points for Penn State, which is 8-1 for the second-straight year. Josh Reed and Ivan ...

Lady Lion recognized by AMCC for her showing

Penn State Altoona senior forward Avana Sayles was chosen as the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference’s Player of the Week in women’s basketball. In the Lions’ 69-49 victory over non-conference opponent Lycoming last week, Sayles notched her third double-double of the season, getting 16 points and 10 rebounds. Sayles also recorded three blocks, two steals, and one assist. Sayles ranks fifth in points per game with 15.5 and fifth in rebounds per game with 8.5. On defense, Sayles ranks fourth in blocks per game with 1.2 and third in defensive ratings with a rating of 6.3. ...

Five starters hit double digits for Lions basketball team

UNIVERSITY PARK — Josh Reed scored, a season-high 17 points for Penn State in a 96-87 win over Boston University on Tuesday night. Reed shot 5 of 6 from the field and was perfect on six attempts from the free-throw line and grabbed eight rebounds. All four starters for the Nittany Lions ...

PSU wrestling gets 9 champs to open up ‘25-26’ season

WEST POINT, N.Y. – The Penn State wrestling team dominated at the Black Knight Invitational on Sunday as coach Cael Sanderson’s squad notched nine individual champions and had six runners-up in the event. Penn State sent 20 wrestlers into competition and 19 placed (with the other bowing out with an injury). True freshman Nate Desmond won the title at 125. He went 3-0, plus picked up a victory over teammate No. 1 Luke Lilledahl in the finals, winning 5-3. Lilledahl went 2-0 with two tech falls. True freshman Marcus Blaze, ranked No. 14 at 133, won the title as well. Blaze went ...

Friars have big second half to beat Lions

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — It was a one-point game with under four minutes to play, but Providence pulled away in the final minutes to hand the Penn State men’s basketball team its first loss of the season, 77-65, Saturday afternoon at the Hall of Fame Showcase inside Mohegan Sun Arena. The Nittany Lions fell to 5-1 while Providence improved to 4-2. Freddie Dilione V tallied a career-high 22 points to lead Penn State. Dilione V, a native of Fayetteville, North Carolina, finished the game shooting 8-for-18 from the field and drilled four of his eight attempts from 3-point range to ...