February Student Spotlight
Created in 2017, the Student Spotlight award is presented to a group of students that are excelling both in the classroom and on the field of play. The Morgan Academic Center would like to congratulate these students each month on their hard work, dedication, and success and thank them for their continued efforts throughout their journey as a Penn State student-athlete. In February 2018, 4 students on the Men’s Swimming, Women’s Swimming, Men’s Volleyball, and Wrestling teams were recognized. Nick Nevills Wresting Nick Nevills...
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Created in 2017, the Student Spotlight award is presented to a group of students that are excelling both in the classroom and on the field of play. The Morgan Academic Center would like to congratulate these students each month on their hard work, dedication, and success and thank them for their continued efforts throughout their journey as a Penn State student-athlete. In January 2018, 2 students from the Men’s Gymnastics and Women’s Gymnastics teams were recognized. Ben Cooperman Men’s Gymnastics Management Major (Senior)...
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Created in 2017, the Student Spotlight award is presented to a group of students that are excelling both in the classroom and on the field of play. The Morgan Academic Center would like to congratulate these students each month on their hard work, dedication, and success and thank them for their continued efforts throughout their journey as a Penn State student-athlete. In November 2017, 4 students on the Men’s Ice Hockey, Women’s Ice Hockey, Men’s Fencing, and Women’s Fencing teams were recognized Anastasia Kalonji...
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September 2017 Student Spotlights Created in 2017, the Student Spotlight award is presented to a group of students that are excelling both in the classroom and on the field of play. The Morgan Academic Center would like to congratulate these students each month on their hard work, dedication, and success and thank them for their continued efforts throughout their journey as a Penn State student-athlete. In September 2017, 4 students on the Men’s Soccer, Women’s Soccer, Field Hockey, and Football teams were recognized Sam...
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October 2017 Student Spotlights In the month of October , we will be recognizing 4 students on the Men’s Golf, Women’s Golf, Women’s Tennis and Women’s Volleyball teams. Maddy Herr Women’s Golf Maddy has competed in every event since her arrival at Penn State. Has finished in the top 15 in every event this year. She is a sophomore, dean’s list student enrolled in the College of Communications. Taylor Shukow Women’s Tennis Taylor is a 6 time Dean’s List student who graduated...
read moreChampionships and Academic Records Boost Nittany Lions to Superlative 2016-17
Nittany Lions win NCAA Wrestling Championship and seven Big Ten titles, break numerous academic records to highlight another outstanding year July 19, 2017 2016-17 ICA Accomplishments UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; July 19, 2017 — Penn State student-athletes produced another superlative year in 2016-17, highlighted by several school-record achievements in the classroom and adding to the Nittany Lions’ impressive list of national and conference championships. The Nittany Lions earned the NCAA Championship in wrestling, the program’s...
read moreRecord-tying 299 Student-Athletes Earn Academic All-Big Ten Honors in 2016-17
School Record 145 Academic All-Big Ten Honorees among Spring/At-Large Sports June 22, 2017 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.- Penn State student-athletes have broken one school Academic All-Big Ten record in 2016-17 and tied the overall record high, set last year. A school record 145 Nittany Lion students from the spring/at-large sports boosted Penn State to 299 Academic All-Big Ten honorees in 2016-17, tying the mark set last year. The previous high among the spring/at-large sports was 140, also set in 2015-16. Penn State is second among all Big Ten...
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The NCAA reported that 18 Penn State teams earned perfect APR scores of 1,000 in 2015-16, up from 13 in last year’s report and 10 squads in 2013-14, representing a 44 percent improvement over the past two years. A total of 22 squads (out of 29) equaled or surpassed their yearly APR score from 2014-15 and 18 teams equaled or surpassed their multi-year (four-year) APR score from the 2016 report. The Penn State women’s tennis and women’s volleyball squads earned perfect multi-year (2012-13 through 2015-16) APR scores of 1,000....
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