Athletics Articles

For the fourth straight season, Pennsylvania College of Technology's women's volleyball team is playoff-bound and has a legitimate shot at winning a conference championship. The Lady Wildcats, under eighth-year coach Bambi Hawkins, completed their regular season with a 16-6 overall record and were 14- 2 in Penn State University Athletic Conference matches.

Senior players from the men's soccer team were spotlighted right before the 3 p.m. start of Saturday's game against Penn State Hazleton. From left in photo are John Vitovsky, Travis Russ, Wesley Miller, coach Enrique Castillo, Abdullah Al-Bahrani, assistant coach Mark Anderson, Joshua Liples and Shane Fuller.

The Campus View/Village team held on to win Sunday's Powder Puff Football game, according to this recap from Jeremy Bottorf, intramural/Fitness Center assistant: Abby Gliem set the tone as she intercepted College West/Rose Street's first pass. The team couldn't cash in on the turnover, though, and the score was 0-0 after the first quarter.

Cross-country runners Greg Kammerle of Willow Grove , a graduate of Upper Moreland High School , and Tamara Pavlov of Lewisburg, a graduate of Lewisburg Area High School , have been named Pennsylvania College of Technology "Co-Student-Athletes of the Week" for Oct. 15-21.

Greg Kammerle became the first Pennsylvania College of Technology men's cross-country runner ever to win back-to-back individual conference championships and Lady Wildcat Tamara Pavlov won her first on Saturday.

Two Pennsylvania College of Technology tennis players won Penn State University Athletic Conference championships over the weekend at University Park and the Wildcats finished third in team competition. Robert Kemrer, a freshman from Milton, took the No. 4 men's singles title, winning in a tie-breaker, and then teamed with Alex Henry, a freshman from Rutherford, N.J., for the No.

Penn State University Athletic Conference championship weekend is on tap for two Pennsylvania College of Technology athletic teams. The men's and women's cross-country teams travel to Penn State Wilkes-Barre on Saturday and the co-ed tennis team is at University Park on Saturday and Sunday. Cross-Country Penn College runners have dominated conference meets during the regular season.

In an effort to showcase Penn College student-athletes, the Athletics Department has instituted Senior Day for all 15 varsity sports. Seniors on the women's soccer team were honored Saturday, Oct. 13, at halftime of their game, and women's volleyball seniors were honored Monday, Oct. 15, before the start of their match.

At Homecoming festivities recently, Pennsylvania College of Technology presented, for the first time, Outstanding Varsity Athletic Alumni Awards. The 2007 recipients are Wayne M. Parfitt, of Newport News, Va., and Sara J. Smith, of Troy.

Pennsylvania College of Technology's baseball team split at Penn State Beaver on Saturday and closed out its fall season with a 16-7 record, 7-3 in the Penn State University Athletic Conference. The two teams finished tied for first.