The Penn State Lionettes dance team won its first ever NDA Collegiate Dance Championship on Friday (April 13) in Daytona Beach, Fla. Fourteen Division I-A teams made up the championship field. Penn State was strong throughout the competition, holding first place following the opening day after it recorded a first-round score of 9.765. Penn State's score of 9.777 on day two edged out the eight teams remaining to secure the victory. Brigham Young finished in second place with a 9.763 and the third-place Louisville Ladybirds posted a 9.681. (more)
The Penn State Nittany Lion wrestling team added three new individual champions to its ledgers to complete a stellar run to the 2012 NCAA National Championship. Senior Frank Molinaro (Barnegat, N.J.), sophomore David Taylor (St. Paris, Ohio) and sophomore Ed Ruth (Harrisburg, Pa.) all claimed crowns as Penn State won its second straight NCAA team title. The Nittany Lions outdistanced second place Minnesota by a whopping 25.5 points. The Nittany Lions checked in with 143.0 points while the Gophers were second with 117.5. (more)
The Penn State Nittany Lions have won the 2011 NCAA Wrestling national championship in Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center. It is the school's first title since 1953 and the first east coast school to win the crown since that year. Sophomore Quentin Wright (Wingate, Pa.) claimed the individual national crown at 184 as Penn State outdistanced Cornell and Iowa for the championship. Penn State head coach Cael Sanderson, the 2011 Big Ten Coach of the Year, earned his first collegiate national team title as a coach or wrestler as the Nittany Lions won the team race with 107.5 points. Cornell took second place with 93.5 and Iowa was third with 86.5. (more)
Barring the loss of any team points in tonight's national finals, the Penn State Nittany Lion wrestlers have clinched the 2011 NCAA Wrestling National Championship here in the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pa. All-Americans Andrew Long (Creston, Iowa) and Ed Ruth (Harrisburg, Pa.) were a perfect 4-0 and stormed their way to third place finishes to push Penn State towards the crown. (more)
Director of Track and Field and Head Coach Beth Alford-Sullivan and the Nittany Lion track and field teams will be honoring program history on Saturday (Jan. 8), recognizing members of the 1942, 1947, and 1950 NCAA Champion Cross Country squads, in conjunction with the teams' first indoor competition, the Penn State Relays. The "Banner Drop" ceremony is slated for approximately 12:30 p.m., on Saturday afternoon. (more)
The fourth-seeded Penn State women's volleyball team made history one more time winning the 2010 NCAA National Title with a 3-0 (25-20, 27-25, 25-20) sweep of California. The Nittany Lions became the first team in Division I women's volleyball to win four consecutive national championships. This is the fifth NCAA championship of Coach Russ Rose's career, the most national championships ever for a Division I volleyball head coach. He joins Doug Dannevik of Division III UC San Diego and Teri Clemens of Division III Washington-St. Louis as the only collegiate volleyball coaches to have ever won at least five national championships. (more)
Penn State wrestler Quentin Wright (Wingate, Pa.) claimed the 84 kg/185 lbs. national title at the 2010 University World Team Trials this past weekend in Colorado Springs, Colo. Wright, wrestling for the Nittany Lion Wrestling Club and a red-shirt sophomore this coming year, downed Cornell's Mack Lewnes in the finals. Wright lost the first match to Lewnes, the 2010 NCAA Runner-Up at 174, before posting a fall at the 1:11 mark in the second match to keep his title hopes alive. Wright then won the third match 2-5, 4-1, 5-3 to win the crown. (more)
The Penn State fencers are national champions once again, despite starting the final day of competition Sunday (March 28) at the 2010 NCAA Championships in third place and only winning one individual title. This is the team's fifth national title win in the past decade. Coach Emmanuil Kaidanov now has led the team to 12 National Championships and 27 individual titles. (more)
On Feb. 22, U.S. Congressman Glenn Thompson presented Penn State Women's Volleyball Coach Russ Rose with a signed copy of the resolution passed by the U.S. House of Representatives congratulating the team on its third straight national championship. The resolution "congratulates the Penn State women's volleyball team and the University's athletes, coaches, faculty, students and alumni on the winning of the 2009 NCAA Division I women's volleyball championship" and recognizes Penn State for its "excellence as an institution of higher education." (more)
The top-ranked Penn State women's volleyball team made history Saturday night, becoming the first team to win three consecutive national titles with a 3-2 come-from-behind victory against No. 2 Texas. Head coach Russ Rose has now won 1,001 career matches and Penn State's winning streak extended to 102 straight matches. Senior Megan Hodge (Durham, N.C.) led the Nittany Lions with 21 kills, while both junior Blair Brown (Purcellville, Va.) and freshman Darcy Dorton (Muncie, Ind.) contributed 13 kills each. (more)
