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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.
Local News for Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Flaky votes undermine early footbal polls September 30th
Both the Harris Interactive Poll and the USA Today Coaches' Poll were released Sunday, and, clearly, a significant amount of voters in the two polls failed to comprehend what happened Saturday night when Iowa took down Penn State, 21-10.Harris voters placed Penn State 12th, Iowa 14th. In the coaches' poll, the Nittany Lions check in at No. 13, while the Hawkeyes are No. 17.
Freshman brings flash to Penn State men's soccer September 30th
It's hard to tell what Corey Hertzog will do next.If Hertzog finds himself in a game situation, even he doesn't know what ankle-turning move he'll discharge on his opponent. His unpredictability is apparent everywhere -- both on and off the field."He always does the unexpected -- stuff you wouldn't think he'd do," forward Treavor Gelsinger said. "Sometimes it's just so unexpected you don't even know what to think."
Penn State men's soccer upsets nationally ranked Michigan September 29th
With a full month of action gone by, the Penn State men's soccer team proved that it hadn't nailed down the everyday focus needed to put together a championship campaign.Some days, the offense couldn't find the back of the net. Other days, the defense allowed fluke goals to unheralded opponents. It added up to a middling 4-3-1 record that didn't necessarily forecast future success during the tough Big Ten soccer slate.So when nationally-ranked Michigan came to town riding the momentum of nonconference wins the Nittany Lions couldn't match, a dominant Penn State victory was anything but likely.Except that's what coach Barry Gorman's Lions accomplished Sunday at soggy Jeffrey Field, as they dictated the flow of the game and outclassed the Wolverines from endline to endline.
