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Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Main Campus Athletics
The Penn State Nittany Lions have almost a cult following, due in large part to football coach Joe Paterno’s influence. Tailgate parties-both pregame and postgame-prevail on game day. Some of the University’s biggest rivals include Michigan and Ohio, and tickets for those games are highly coveted. Recent renovations to the University stadium have made it much friendlier and more comfortable.
Penn State offers twenty-nine varsity teams. National titles have been captured in field hockey, fencing, and volleyball.
Penn State University is an NCAA Division I school, with baseball, basketball, cross-country, diving, fencing, football, golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, tennis, track & field, volleyball, and wrestling for men and basketball, cross-country, diving, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track & field, and volleyball for women. The team nickname is the Nittany Lions. Penn State plays in the Big 10 Conference.
Sports facilities include Beaver Stadium, which has capacity of 107,282 seats, a multipurpose building, golf courses, baseball and softball fields, a tennis center, and a center for basketball. (The Jordan Center also hosts entertainment and other activities.) The University has a sports museum with 10,000 square feet.
There is an all women’s and a co-ed cheerleading team. There is also a mascot, the Nittany Lion.
Penn State has won 35 national team championships in men’s sports, most recently gymnastics in 2004. There been 14 women’s championships, most recently volleyball in 1999. There also have been nine individual fencing championships since 1990.
