Both Penn State men's and women's lacrosse are set to join a newly formed Big Ten conference beginning in spring 2015. Perennial powerhouse Johns Hopkins joining the conference on the men's side should make for exciting times in Happy Valley.
Penn State set a school record during the 2012-2013 athletic year with 296 Academic All-Big Ten recipients, shattering the previous record of 261 during the 2007-2008 campaign.
Today it was announced that Penn State will play a pre-tournament game against Longwood University on a date that is to be announced in Happy Valley. The game will take place prior to Penn State traveling to Brooklyn for their first game of the tournament against St. John's on November 29.
Despite being a full-time, D-1 student-athlete, vying for a Crime, Law, and Justice degree while playing for the back-to-back B1G Champion Lady Lions basketball team, Gizelle Studevent was putting her thoughts down on paper in a book recently published, "Bridges."
Coquese Washington, head coach of the Penn State Lady Lions, was voted in as the president-elect of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association on Thursday. Washington will be the WBCA's vice president for the two coming academic years under Florida State's Seu Semrau before succeeding her for the two years after that, beginning with 2015-16.
It took almost an entire century but the wait is finally over as the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) named Penn State junior goalie Austin Kaut to its All-America First Team on Thursday. The announcement gives the Penn State program its first, First Team All-American honor in 73 years.