Nittany Lions break semester GPA marks, tally 5,000 community service hours and earn third consecutive Top 10 finish in Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup Video: 2014-15 Season Highlights | VIDEO: Season Review with Sandy Barbour 2014-15 Accomplishments  July 14, 2015 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State coaches and student-athletes in 2014-15 produced another outstanding year, featuring school-record accomplishments in the classroom and...

Nittany Lion Student-Athletes Produce Two Highest 3.0 and Dean’s List Semester Totals All-time in 2014-15; Combined 3.11 Team GPA, 62 Percent Earn 3.0 GPA July 9, 2015 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State student-athletes again eclipsed records during the 2015 spring semester, with 474 earning a grade-point average of 3.0 or higher to punctuate an outstanding and record-breaking 2014-15 academic year. Among the 474 Nittany Lion...

Penn State’s 277 Academic All-Big Ten Honorees Third-Highest Yearly Total; Cross 5,000 Honorees All-time July 1, 2015 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. –   A total of 135 Penn State student-athletes earned Academic All-Big Ten laurels for the spring/at-large sports to close out the 2014-15 academic year and push its all-time total past 5,000 honorees. The total is just one shy of the school record of 136 in the spring/at-large period, set in...

Field Hockey and Men’s Golf Teams Earn Team GPA Awards April 14, 2015 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – A total of 370 awards were presented to Penn State student-athletes Monday night at the 28th Annual SAAB Academic Achievement Awards Banquet, the second-highest total all-time. Sponsored by the Milton and Lois Morgan Academic Support Center for Student-Athletes and the Student-Athlete Advisory Board (SAAB), awards were presented to 292...

Nittany Lions with 142 Academic All-Conference Honorees So Far in 2014-15 April 8, 2015 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – A school record 70 Penn State student-athletes from eight winter teams have earned Academic All-Big Ten honors. The previous mark for the winter sports season was 65 honorees, set last year. The 70 winter honorees brings Penn State’s 2014-15 total to 142 academic all-conference honorees (from 15 sports) and comes on the...