Athletics Articles

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s association with the Little League Challenger Division dates back to the early 2000s, when a faculty member – with two kids playing in the first two exhibition games – turned parenthood and passion into a volunteer gig. Decades later, Steven J. Moff, professor of business administration/management and marketing, is still on board.

After taking over the Pennsylvania College of Technology women’s volleyball program that had only two wins in its previous two full campaigns and was coming out of the COVID-canceled 2020 season, coach Carolyn McKeon had her hands full. The Wildcats’ 2021 season again produced one win and last year’s squad doubled that number but began to show signs of growth in player bonding and on-court success against some of the United East Conference’s top teams.

After a season during which first-year coach Ian Scheller’s Pennsylvania College of Technology women’s soccer team reached the United East Conference semifinals, Scheller has one expectation for this year’s players: Do your job.

Added experience and depth, new attackers, better team bonding and extra motivation to win. Those are the things that coach Tyler Mensch is counting on to get his Pennsylvania College of Technology men’s soccer team to the next level this season. The Wildcats open at 7 p.m. Friday at Keystone College in the first of five nonconference road matches over nine days.

Twenty-nine former soccer players, encompassing a range of classes from 1999 to 2023, returned to campus Saturday afternoon for Penn College's inaugural soccer alumni match at UPMC Field. "It was an amazing turnout for our first-ever alumni match and it was great to connect with different generations of players," said Tyler S. Mensch, who coaches the men's team. "You could not have asked for better weather and the match was fun-filled all around, with a lot of laughs and some quality soccer."

Helping others to feel comfortable talking about mental health is vitally important to new Pennsylvania College of Technology graduate Tori Siler: because 800,000 people worldwide die by suicide every year (an average of one person every 40 seconds), because most individuals see a medical professional within a month of taking their life, and on the most personal level, because her father took his life in 2015, when Siler was 14 years old.

An expanded, 17-team United East Conference. A new Hall of Fame class. Individual and program postseason achievements. Team and individual academic honors. A new staff hire. It was an active summer for Pennsylvania College of Technology athletics – and further proves there is no offseason as a new academic year begins.

Threatening skies delivered on their radar-green promise of a soggy Monday, but it wasn't enough to scuttle Penn College's proud prelude to the Little League Baseball World Series.

The Pennsylvania College of Technology men’s soccer team enjoyed an international trip to England and Scotland from July 28-Aug. 6, competing in three matches and touring historical sites in both countries.

Pennsylvania College of Technology teams had multiple highlights during their ninth season as a member of the United East Conference and sixth season as a full-fledged member of the NCAA.