Legendary Penn State gymnastics coach Gene Wettstone has passed away at 100. When he came to Penn State in 1939, meets resembled a student circus, including high wire acts, juggling, unicycles and trapeze performances. Wettstone made it his goal to get the university involved in the real sport of gymnastics. He led Penn State until 1976, earning more than 200 victories and twelve undefeated seasons. Of Penn State gymnastics' record 12 national championship, Wettstone coached nine of them.
Three women on the defending Big Ten Champions and defending National Runners-Up women's soccer team have been named to TopDrawerSoccer.com's Best XI teams: First Team (senior forward Maya Hayes), Second Team (junior defender Whitney Church) and Freshman Team (defender Brittany Basinger).
Penn State basketball announced that coach Pat Chambers and athletic director David Joyner will hold a press conference on Wednesday to reveal a "special announcement."
Penn State baseball may not have a coach, but they do have the tenth best stadium in all of college baseball, according to College Baseball Daily.
With college baseball in the middle of its offseason, the site is ranking its ten best stadiums in America. Despite not being "thought of as a baseball school," (their words, not mine) Penn State does boast one of the premier ballparks in the country.
Penn State softball has finally found its new head coach in University of Texas San Antonio coach Amanda Lehotak.
Talor Battle, in his third season playing professional basketball overseas, is headed to Belgium after reaching an agreement with Belfius Mons-Hainaut, the defending runners-up of the Belgian Ethias League.