The wrestling season, with six grapplers headed to the National Collegiate Wrestling Association championships, is coming to a close this week while the baseball and softball seasons are set to get under way for the Pennsylvania College of Technology.
The Penn College Student Athlete Advisory Committee participated in Reading with the Wildcats at Sheridan Elementary School on Thursday. Nine student-athletes and three Athletics Department representatives traveled to the school, part of the Williamsport Area School District, for the annual Read Across America observance. The student-athletes performed "Horton Hatches the Egg" by Dr.
Members of the Martial Arts Club survived a grueling (but successful) collegiate camp over the weekend. Mathew D. Johnson, Cory L. Buckles and Madelyn M. Lanoue made the trip to the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., for a two-day training session followed by a tournament.
One individual champion. Four national qualifiers. A fourth-place team finish. It was a good day for Pennsylvania College of Technology wrestlers on Saturday at the National Collegiate Wrestling Association Mid-East Region championships.
The Pennsylvania College of Technology Department of Athletics has named Chris Lemasters the new head coach of the men's basketball program. Lemasters served as the interim head coach for the second half of the 2011-12 season and becomes only the second men's basketball coach in Penn College history.
Pennsylvania College of Technology men's and women's basketball teams wrapped up their seasons over the past week and the college's wrestlers tuned up for more postseason action. Flashback Wrestling Competing in preliminary bouts at Lock Haven University on Friday, sophomore Tyler Myers, of Centre Hall, scored a pin in his 157-pound bout.
Freshmen Derek Leiby (Troy) and Scott Fenton (Dickson City) each earned Penn State University Athletic Conference honors for the week ending Feb. 12. Leiby was named Wrestler of the Week, while Fenton was the Men's Basketball Player of the Week. Leiby competed at the PSUAC/United States Collegiate Athletic Association Invitational in State College, winning the 149 class and defeating the No.
Penn College hosted a very successful East Coast Collegiate Karate Union Tournament in the Field House on Saturday. Martial Arts Club members Mathew D. Johnson, Cory L. Buckles, Madelyn M. Lanoue, Kyle M. Zechman and Simranjit S. Mavi competed in kata (forms) and kumite (sparring) against college students from across Pennsylvania, New York and Rhode Island.
Competing Sunday in the Penn State University Athletic Conference/United States Collegiate Athletic Association wrestling championships, Pennsylvania College of Technology placed third as a team and crowned two individual champions.
At least 10 Pennsylvania College of Technology wrestlers will be among those competing Sunday for individual honors when the Penn State University Athletic Conference/United States Collegiate Athletic Association championships are held in Rec Hall on The Pennsylvania State University's main campus. According to the PSUAC website, competition begins at 11 a.m.
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