174 student-athletes among spring/at-large honorees UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – One hundred seventy-four Penn State student-athletes earned Spring/At-Large Academic All-Big Ten honors to boost the Nittany Lions yearly total to 350 for 2019-20. The 174 spring/at-large selections rank second in program history. The 2019-20 total follows a school-record mark of 368 during the 2018-19 academic year. The latest 174 honorees bring Penn State’s total...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa – Penn State senior student-athletes Jade Rowland (women’s fencing) and Mason Nadeau (baseball) have been awarded 2020 Big Ten Postgraduate Scholarships. Rowland and Nadeau were each awarded a $7,500 postgraduate scholarship by the Big Ten Conference. Nadeau, an outfielder from Lansdale, Pennsylvania, appeared in 108 games for the Nittany Lions, starting 77. In those contests, he batted .251, slugged five home runs,...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa – Penn State student-athletes continue to excel in the classroom and surpass Division I national averages, according to Academic Progress Rate (APR) data released today by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The NCAA reported that a school-record 20 Penn State teams earned perfect APR scores of 1,000 during the 2018-19 academic year, an increase of seven from the previous year. Penn State’s all-sport...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Eighty-two Penn State student-athletes from the Nittany Lions’ winter programs have earned Academic All-Big Ten recognition. The 82 Academic All-Big Ten honors follow a school record of 91 honorees in 2019. The women’s swimming and diving team led the Nittany Lions for the second consecutive year with 18 Academic All-Big Ten honorees. The men’s swimming and diving team totaled 12 recipients to give the...

Women’s Soccer earns highest team GPA   UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Student-Athlete Advisory Board (SAAB) hosted the annual “The Nittanys” for the 33rd consecutive year on a virtual platform due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Nittanys recognizes teams and individual for their academic, athletic and community achievements. “The Nittanys” were presented over one week virtually on GoPSUsports.com and on the GoPSUsports...

Ament and Riehl garner McCoy Award; Gillikin earns Oswald Award UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Senior student-athletes Grant Ament (men’s lacrosse) and Kaleigh Riehl (women’s soccer) have been named the recipients of Penn State’s Ernest B. McCoy Memorial Award for 2019-20 and senior Blake Gillikin (football) was awarded the 2020 John W. Oswald Award. The McCoy Award has been presented annually since 1971 to one senior female and...