By Allison MoodyTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

The landscape of State College has undergone a metamorphosis in recent years.

New high-rise apartment build-ings and restaurants seem to be popping up on every corner, while the lives of old-school favorites like the Spats Cafe and Ye Olde College Diner may be coming to an end.

Residents and alumni can be heard on the streets and in coffee shops, discussing how State Col-lege just isn’t the same as it used to be.

But according to Jackie Es-posito, a current special projects

librarian and former

university archivist for Penn State, State College has always been changing to meet the needs of its student population.

“State College didn’t exist when the university was first founded in 1855,” Esposito said. “The town grew up being a service town.”

Originally, State College was just a cluster of hotels, stores and boarding houses nestled in the rolling hills of central Pennsylva-nia. As the population of the uni-versity grew, so did the surround-ing town.

“In many ways it hasn’t changed at all,” Esposito said. “What has changed are the numbers.”

Businesses

and apartment buildings have been popping up for years to meet the increased need of the student and resident population. For ex-ample, Esposito said, the apart-ments in Beaver Canyon were built in the early 1970s when Penn State stopped building dorms and allowed women to move off cam-pus.

The same phenomenon is hap-pening now, Esposito said.

“What you’re going to see in a service economy is a supply for the demand,” she

said.

Students increasingly want newer apartments with less rooms and more diverse dining options, Esposito said. But, this same change isn’t just happening in State College. It’s happing in Big Ten college towns across the country.

“State College is no longer a sleepy Pennsylvania town, it’s becoming more and more ur-ban, “Esposito said. “It’s a matter of the type of economy that the uni-v e r s i t y brings

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vantages of these changes. The owner or manager of Pita Cabana, Yallah Taco and Burrito, Under-ground Burgers and Crepes and upcoming Ur Pizza, Hiyajneh has made a living providing new dining options to a growing State College community.

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Student shares the challenge of being a woman in comedy

By Tina Locurto THE DAILY COLLEGIAN

After attending a Catholic school for 12 years, Alise Deveney said she has an interesting per-spective on life — especially now as a Penn State student.

Drawing on personal experi-ences, Deveney (sophomore-film and video) is part of three comedy clubs at Penn State, allowing her upbringing to be set free through comedy rou-tines.

She recalled one particular in-stance in which two students at her school were caught having sex in the band room. Her prin-cipal — a nun who she called “Virgin Mo-bile”— was not happy, to say the least.

Using a mobility scooter to travel around, her principal “just rolled into an assembly one morning, got on the microphone and yelled at us, [saying] ‘There’s no condom that can protect your soul,’” Deveney said.

“I remember, she used to at school dances, if people weren’t leaving room for the holy spirit, she would roll over their toes with her scooter,” Deveney said with a laugh.

As a performer for Second Floor Stand-up, editor for the satire publication Phroth and a writer for Nittany Wits, Deveney keeps busy.

Inspiration for a comedic path started in high school as Deveney watched Saturday Night Live sketches. She decided it would be cool to also perform and “make people laugh.”

Deveney loves one particular skit, starring Bill Hader as an overdramatic firefighter scream-ing and causing mayhem in the firehouse.

“It was very bizarre and no one else thought it was funny,” De-veney said, “but I still will go back and watch it.”

As a film major, Deveney said she hopes to combine that with her comedy, as she’s particularly

a fan of the “mockumentary” genre.

Recently, she completed a mockumentary film in her class that involved an aspiring student “hambonist” who wants to be-come the world champion.

“[They’re the] people that slap and pat themselves,” Deveney said. “In Spongebob Squarepants, when they’re in the musical num-ber ‘Now That We’re Men,’ where

they slap and pat — that’s what a hambonist is.”

“Alise is naturally funny,” Aaron Her-schlag, a friend of Deveney’s and member of Sec-ond Floor Stand-up, said. “I first

met Alise early last year at an open

mic. At the time, I was the guy who an-

nounced the next comic and I was only 50 percent sure how to say her name correctly.”

Herschlag (senior-engineering science and film and video) said even when Alise isn’t trying to be funny, her “default reaction to things will be hilarious.”

But while comedy can and should be funny, Deveney said a “double standard” exists between male and female comedians.

“There’s a fine line,” Deveney said. “A lot of people tell you there’s certain things that you’re not supposed to make jokes about.”

Deveney said after she and her family went to see Amy Schumer perform, her brother said she was good, but “made a lot of wom-en jokes.”

“How many times do you watch any stand-up special or go to any stand-up club and see a man talk-ing about his penis? It’s definitely a double standard there,” she said.

Deveney said her favorite co-median is Tina Fey, and she’s a big fan of both 30 Rock and Fey’s book “Bossy Pants.”

When it comes to stand-up co-medians, Laurie Kilmartin is her top pick.

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Halle Smith (junior-biobehavioral health), Vice President of Wellness for Panhellenic Council, and Alec

Gutsche (sophomore-accounting), Vice President of Civic Responsibility for IFC, pose for photo in the

HUB-Robeson Center on Wednesday, Feb. 7.

Panhellenic and IFC create new positions to tackle greek life issues

By Katie JohnstonTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

As discussion on prevention of sexual assault, binge drink-ing and hazing become more persistent at Penn State, the Interfraternity and Panhellen-ic Councils are launching new initiatives.

Alec Guts-che is the first IFC vice presi-dent of civic responsibility — a position created earlier this year.

G u t s c h e (sophomore-a c c o u n t i n g ) said the posi-tion’s main fo-cus is forging relationships with different student organizations in an at-tempt to tackle hazing, mental health, sexual assault aware-ness and more.

IFC President John Lord said he believes the new posi-tion is a “step in the right di-rection” for making greek life a

safer community.”“The goal of the position is

to give each individual in our community the tools to know when something is wrong, what to do and how to act to help en-sure the safety of others,” Lord (junior-finance) said. “Alec’s role

is vital in foster-ing a culture of caring in our community.”

Since joining the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity his freshman year, Gutsche said he had always been interested in the inner workings of the IFC.

He knew he wanted to hold a leadership posi-tion — he just wasn’t exactly sure which one.

That’s when he found the civic responsibility position.

“Overall, it’s tough because it’s a new position, so there’s not really a path set for me like the other IFC positions [have],” Gutsche said. “So, it’s tough kind of foraging that path.”

Gutsche said he is currently working on a mandatory system that works with Penn State’s “Standards of Excellence” pro-gram, which mandates that 80 percent of chapter members complete one educational pro-gramming session in four catego-ries.

He said he hopes that he can create a system where chapters engage with organizations like Men Against Violence, Greeks CARE or Stand for State.

“Right now, we’re kind of at a crossroads with all these issues that greek life’s facing like haz-ing, sexual assault, binge drink-ing,” Gutsche said.

“We have to develop a way to fix this, because if we can figure out a way to fix this and implement effective measures, then schools across the country will be imple-menting the same measures.”

If it’s not fixed, Gutsche said, he predicts greek life won’t be sus-tainable “for the next 50 years.”

Halle Smith is the third vice president of wellness on the Pan-hellenic Council — a position created in the spring of 2016.

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“We’re kind of at a

crossroads with all

these issues that

greek life’s facing

like hazing, sexual

assault, binge

drinking. We have

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By Laura ZaksTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

From the time she was a little girl, Peggy Johnson wanted to be a teacher — she wanted to make a difference in students’ lives as much as she could by providing the knowledge and wisdom that she had to them.

Years later, in April 2017, John-son found herself being named the new dean of the Shreyer Hon-ors College at Penn State Univer-sity.

Getting there was in no simple feat.

Johnson’s journey started with her receiving her B.S. in Geology from New Mexico State Univer-sity and her master’s and Ph. D in Civil Engineering from the Uni-versity of Maryland.

She was a math teacher in be-tween her undergraduate and graduate degrees, accomplishing her first dream as a child.

When working on her master’s and Ph. D, Johnson’s research consisted of working on erosion caused by rivers and floods at bridges — studying what has made them unstable.

“For more than 25 years now, I’ve been working on this re-search, including stream restora-tion design,” she said.

Johnson’s sister, Jill Leasure, revealed the secret though, that their family never had any engi-neering or technical background, “let alone even completed a col-lege degree of any kind,” she said.

“Interestingly enough, three out of four siblings, including Peggy, graduated with engineer-ing degrees, although she is the only one with a doctorate,” Lea-sure said. “Once Peggy began to learn about civil engineering in school, she was hooked.”

Johnson’s resumé continued to unfold in the following years, starting with her landing a posi-tion as a civil engineering profes-sor at Penn State.

For 28 years, Johnson inspired her students, sharing her wisdom and passion for teaching with all who crossed her path.

In 2006, she climbed the pro-fessional ladder even higher and became the head of the Civil and Environmental Engineering de-partment.

“I learned a lot about leader-ship during that time. I got to wit-ness how departments at Penn State operate as well as all the different resources available to us here,” Johnson said.

Johnson also learned that she was the first female to have achieved such status and she cannot help the bittersweet taste that begs the question, why.

“On the one hand, I felt proud, but on the other, why has this taken so long?” Johnson asked. “Why don’t we have more women in these roles?”

Empowering women and stu-dents, though, has become John-son’s goal as an educator, leader and mentor.

Johnson fully believes she is where she is today because of the mentors in her life; “there are too many to list,” she said.

What she truly wants women and other students to know is that to achieve aspirations, they must find mentors to look up to and then try to be those kind of role models themselves.

“Never forget to network — to pay it forward — mentor others as you have been mentored,” Johnson said. “One of the things I like to remind students and facul-ty is don’t think you need just one mentor. Focus on many — nobody

can be a mentor for all the things you need and they can be anyone that inspires you, not just some-one from your field of study.”

Leasure admires Johnson’s drive and dedication as well as her motivation for others to be their best selves.

“She is kind and sincere with strong people skills — [she has] a desire to always do everything to the best of her ability,” Lea-sure said. “Peggy is a perfect role model, in this way, because of her integrity and strong moral princi-ples as well as her dedication and interest in students. She cares deeply about each and wants to help them succeed in their dreams, careers, and futures.”

Even the faculty Johnson worked with felt she was one-of-a-kind.

Associate Dean of Engineer-ing Anthony Atchley worked with Johnson for more than a decade in the Civil Engineering depart-ment.

“Peggy is a highly accom-plished person,” Atchley said. “However, she takes as much pleasure and satisfaction from seeing the people she has men-tored and advised achieve some-thing great as she takes in her own achievements.”

But her own achievements were off the charts.

During her years as head of the department, Johnson also was president of the American Society of Civil Engineers Environmental and Water Resources Institute.

Two prominent leadership po-sitions at the same time might sound stressing, but Johnson could not thank the experience enough.

“It was busy, of course, but it was also so valuable,” she said. “The Institute had 25,000 mem-

bers from all walks of life, from differ-ent careers — some worked in government, others in private indus-try; overall, it was such an i n t e r e s t i n g chapter of my life.”

Such a leg-acy, however, was still not enough.

B e c a u s e of Johnson’s work with s e d i m e n t transport and stream res-toration, she was the first female to win the Hans Al-bert Einstein Award.

Because of

Johnson’s mentorship and giving back to the profession that gave to her, Johnson was awarded the Penn State Howard B. Palmer Faculty Mentoring Award in 2014. That nomination, Johnson explained, was done by her own faculty, meaning her very own colleagues saw a light in her they knew deserved recognition.

“I was so honored,” Johnson said. “So very much honored.”

Leasure also revealed that another award, the National Sci-ence Foundation Faculty Fellow award, won John-son an invitation to have dinner at the White House.

“Peggy is the only person I know that has had dinner at the White House,” Leasure said. “While we always knew she was excelling in her field, that dinner invitation really made the whole family sit up and take notice of just how far she had come and how hard she had worked.”

“A whole host of terms come to mind when trying to describe Peggy and her work ethic: intelli-gent, accomplished, compassion-ate, honest, genuine, fair, enthu-siastic, dependable, tenacious, leader, friend,” Atchley said. “She sets high standards, but pursues these standards through leading by example. She does not expect anything from anyone that she, herself, is not willing to do.”

Vikash Gayah, an assistant pro-fessor of civil engineering, worked with Johnson for six years.

“Peggy is an amazing col-league and department head. She created a very collaborative and cohesive environment for young faculty members,” Gayah said. “She was very supportive with regards to creating or sending us to workshops to make us all the more successful faculty mem-bers.”

Even with such adulation from her colleagues, after nine years of leading the department, Johnson decided it was time to step down.

She was looking for what she could do next and the position of dean revealed itself to her.

“The position was available at the time I was looking for a change; I really wanted to work with undergraduates at this point in my career and this posi-tion focuses on undergraduate education,” Johnson said. “I was thrilled to be offered the job.”

Now that 2018 is well upon Hap-py Valley, Johnson has had a full semester of new responsibilities and students that she was thrilled to be involved with from the start.

“It feels so exciting to be

able to focus on a set of under-graduate students from all aca-demic colleges,” she said. “We have almost 2,000 students and all have such different majors and a wide range of interests; I have been nothing but thrilled to work with them all.”

She said there were quite a few challenges with her job.

“Everything is new. You have to learn all these new processes and learn about all the people that work in the col-lege,” she said. “I learned how our college connects to all the other academic colleg-es — both what issues there are and what already is working well.”

The transi-tion, however, is rewarding for Johnson, as she loves the people

she works with as well as the stu-dents she gets to meet through her role as dean.

“My role as dean is to set a vision and make sure the col-lege is working towards that vi-sion; my staff and I help to lead a strategic plan and to carry out that plan,” she said. “We have an admissions group, a development group, academics and programs group. We have a wonderful staff here and my job is to make sure they have what they need to move forward.”

Johnson is hard at work, cur-rently focusing on how to improve the experience for the Honors students and their connection to their own personal academic col-leges.

“We are working on being more collaborative with the other 12 colleges; we’re trying very hard to all be involved,” she said. “Our students are their students.”

Johnson upholds the mission and vision for the Honors College, of which there are three parts.

“We want our students to achieve academic excellence, build a global perspective and create opportunities for civic en-gagement,” Johnson said. “We don’t want just a high GPA — we want them to be engaged with the world around them.”

In this way, Johnson accom-plished the dream she had set for herself when she was a little girl, but five times over.

The new dean is loving every moment of her position and abil-ity to work closely with a college that encompasses five percent of Penn State’s undergraduate population.

“I really feel like I’m living the dream,” Johnson said.

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Follow her on Twitter at @laurazaks.

Schreyer dean reflects on past career, future

Penn State is officially a member of an exclusive club, one that nearly every college

football national champion comes from, the blue chip club.

The only way to be accepted as a member into the club is to have signed more 4- and 5-star recruits,

blue chip players, than 2- or 3-star players in the four previ-ous recruiting cycles. With the 2018 class complete, the Nitta-ny Lions have signed 49 such players in the last four recruit-ing classes, compared to the 41 players with a 3-star rating or less.

Penn State’s 2018 class is the best for the program since internet recruiting rankings were invented. This is the first Big Ten class, other than a number from Ohio State, to be in the top-5 since ESPN start-ed doing its annual top-300.

If you do the math, 54 per-cent of the players that the Nittany Lions have signed since 2015 were 4- or 5-star players coming out of high school. That’s a lot of high end talent to have in a program, a luxury that just 13 other schools around the country will have next fall, according to SB Nation.

There aren’t any surprises in the group, filled with blue blood schools all across the country. Alabama, Ohio State, Florida State, LSU, Georgia, USC, Michigan, Auburn, Clem-son, Notre Dame, Texas,

Oklahoma, Penn State and Miami make up the projected group. The best teams on the outside of it will likely be Washington and Michigan State.

While the Huskies and Spartans wouldn’t sur-prise many by making a run in 2018, the nation-al title favorites are all going to come from the group of 14.

James Franklin and his staff have developed their players to exceed expectations since win-ning the Big Ten Championship in 2016. Back-to-back top-10 fin-ishes came from a result of three-star players having better collegiate careers than many expected. They became house-hold names because of it.

Franklin will have a top-5 class sitting in front of him with some guys who’ll make an impact immediately in 2018, and others who’ll need some time before seeing the field.

Either way, the average start-ing point in the room has been raised. This means not only are the starters likely to perform at a higher level, but the backups and reserves, too, are creating better depth behind them.

Freshmen who haven’t broken into the rotation yet, or upper-classmen who were beat out for a job are going to be more pol-ished football players who could move into a bigger role if

needed. That’s why Alabama survived a brutal injury crisis on defense and win the national championship. The Tide simply had so many guys that could go in the game and play at a high level.

Penn State is only one or two top-10 classes away from having the depth to match that level.

Although the Nittany Lions are losing a lot from last season, and it wouldn’t be a surprise to see them take a step back in 2018, this is the type of class that can be the foundation of Playoff team.

If Franklin and his assistants keep developing players the way they have in recent years, there isn’t any reason this group won’t contend for a national title before its players graduate.

Andrew Rubin is a junior majoring in a security and risk analysis and is a football reporter for The Daily Collegian. Email him at abr5312@psu.edu and follow him on Twitter at @andrewrubin24.

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Dean of Schreyer Honors College Peggy Johnson poses in her office in Atherton Hall on

Friday, Jan. 19.

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“I only open restaurants be-cause I like to eat,” Hiyajneh said. “I know what makes good quality food.”

Yallah Taco opened less than a year ago, but its following, specifi-cally within the student popula-tion, has taken off at the brightly colored shack on McAllister Alley, Hiyajneh said.

“The dynamic is different and it’s totally changing,” Hiyajneh said. “[Students] are willing to try it — they’re willing to give you a chance.”

Hiyajneh likes to focus on the location and vibe of the restau-rant and the quality of the food, but he said that competitive pric-ing will keep cus-tomers coming back.

The Corner Room, on the other hand, has 91 more years of ex-perience.

General Man-ager John Briggs said the establish-ment is packed with students on weeknights — and alumni and townies on the weekends.

Open since 1926, the Corner Room has been through several different owners, but the tradi-tional feeling of the restaurant has stayed the same.

“The new ownership has done

a good job of keeping the tra-ditions. We haven’t changed,” Briggs said. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

So if restaurants both new and old are thriving, why are other State College staples closing?

One possible explanation is an increase in building rent that comes when new housing op-tions and commercial areas are built.

“Anytime you kind of see de-velopment in that area, the area becomes more attractive, and that increases stuff like rent for people that are living in the area and also businesses housed in there,” Douglas Shontz, the bor-ough communications special-ist, said.

Shontz said that a new zoning rewrite will play a large part in what State Col-lege looks like in the future.

Zoning rules dictate what kinds of build-ings can be built in certain areas of downtown. For example,

one area may only allow for commercial development, while another may only allow for resi-dential development.

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Meaghan Nelson, another friend of Deveney’s, said Alise sets a higher standard of “what comedy really is” by showing her passion for articulate writing to create the perfect jokes.

“This is actually important to her, so she takes it seriously,” said Nelson (sophomore-architectur al engineering), the treasurer for Phroth. “And it inspires others

to take their comedic ideas and treat them more seriously, too.”

Deveney said her biggest dream after graduation is to be able to write, star in or control the entire production of a show like 30 Rock or Parks and Rec-reation.

“That’s what a lot of people strive to do,” Deveney said, “but that’s a long way away and it’s a lot of work.”

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“The new owner-

ship has done a

good job of keeping

the traditions. We

haven’t changed.”

John Briggs

Corner Room General Manager

“We have almost

2,000 students and

all have such dif-

ferent majors and a

wide range of

interests; I have

been nothing but

thrilled to work with

them all.”

Peggy Johnson

Dean of Schreyer Honors College

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Nothing beats the Super Bowl in personIf there is one thing Penn

State students should know more than anyone else, it’s how

football can unite and uplift a com-munity.

Last weekend, I had the oppor-tunity to attend the Super Bowl, and no other atmosphere can compare to a stadium during a

post-Super Bowl win for me, an Eagles fan.

As someone who is a Penn State football fan, present for the rushing of the field following the Ohio State win in 2016, that moment — as incredible and un-believable as it was — was just not the same as seeing my team win the Super Bowl in person.

The two wins are different. Different contexts, different audiences, different leagues, different consequences.

Penn State’s win vs. Ohio State showed a message of resil-ience from our community to the college football world, and it ul-timately marked a comeback for the program. Oct. 22, 2016 will be a day I will never forget and keep close to my heart forever.

However, last weekend will most likely be the most incred-ible sports moment — perhaps moment period — I’ll ever have the chance to experience.

Despite the bitter Minneapolis winter weather, football fans visited from across the coun-try to see the Big Game. And wherever there was a group of Eagles fans, there was the fight song and, of course, the

“E-A-G-L-E-S, EAGLES” chant. This is part of what made the

weekend so special. Wherever in Minneapolis you were — the Mall of America, the NFL Expe-rience, the pregame party, the line for security into the stadium — anyone could tell how badly Eagles fans wanted a win.

I’m sure the Patriots did as well, but it doesn’t mean the same thing to their fans any-more. To them, it’s more about bragging rights, and as their flag stated, not being done yet.

It didn’t sink in that I was ac-tually there until I sat in my seat in the lower bowl of U.S. Bank Stadium waiting for the teams to emerge from their locker rooms.

In the stadium, morale was high on all fronts — even the Vikings fans who were still understandably salty about their loss two weeks prior.

There were animal masks as far as the eye could see through-out the crowd — dogs, eagles and even goats as a nod to Tom Brady for being the “greatest of all time.”

A big take-away from the game: People really do not like Tom Brady. He was called several unpleasant things over the course of the four quarters: Jerk-off and pretty boy are probably the only insults we can print here.

Seeing the actual game from behind the scenes was surreal. I’ve watched almost every Super Bowl in my lifetime on TV and always wondered how it all came together.

Leslie Odom Jr. and P!nk performed “America the Beauti-ful” and the National Anthem.

The transitions of the stages changing shape, moving around and being taken off of the field moved like clockwork. I do have to say though, while they were both incredible to hear live, the performances and the stages seem much grander on televi-sion. All part of the magic of camera work, I suppose.

Another point of magic — the stadium gave every seat Bud Light cups that lit up blue when the Patriots scored and green when the Eagles did. Also, the entire lower bowl was given wrist bracelets that changed colors in sync — LOL puns — for Justin Timberlake’s halftime show. I don’t know what kind of sorcery was used to achieve the coordination of the changing colors in the cups and the brace-lets, but I learned at the Super Bowl to just go with it.

I also learned how a normal bottle of water can cost $6 and a gyro can cost $19 if you’re at the biggest sporting event of the year, but that’s beside the point.

During the opening kickoff, I was honestly terrified. I was terrified the entire game. There was no point of relaxing, and there was no such thing as a comfortable lead.

However nervous I was, though, the game was so much fun, especially when quarter-back Nick Foles caught a touch-down pass.

Since it was played on neutral turf, the sound mixers incorpo-rated both of the teams’ classic music and effects. When the Eagles were dominating, the “Rocky” theme played and the bells rang out on Patriots’ third

downs. Of course, the game went

down to the wire. My section, mostly comprised of Eagles fans, went wild when Brandon Graham strip-sacked Tom Brady in the final quarter.

Everyone was screaming and jumping up and down — some were even crying.

My sister’s Apple Watch was even worried. It notified her that her heart rate was incredibly high and she should consider taking a rest. Obvi-ously, we didn’t listen.

It was all worth it for those final moments. When Brady’s final Hail Mary pass fell to the turf, the Eagles won their first Super Bowl.

As confetti cannons began to go off, sprinkling small cutouts of Lombardi Trophies across the stadium, all Eagles fans were high-fiving, scream-ing, hugging and facetiming their loved ones. It was a moment long overdue and the entire country was watching.

The celebrations continued into the night with a multitude of renditions of the fight song and everyone from the players to the fans couldn’t wipe the smiles off of their faces.

The game was a moment of sports history and I was lucky enough to have been a small part of it.

Kara Fesolovich is a junior majoring in History, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and Political Science and is a columnist for The Daily Collegian. Email her at klf5448@psu.edu and follow her on Twitter at @karafesolovich.

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I’ve been going to the same Super Bowl party since before I knew the difference between a run and a pass play.

Over the years, watching the game while overeating and occasionally winning small amounts of money in the party’s block pool has become one of my favorite traditions.

But most years, the party lacks one main component: Our Philadelphia Eagles aren’t playing in it.

While the Super Bowl itself rarely disappoints, the thought of an Eagles championship pervades my thoughts every year. The more I long for one, it seems, the less likely the Birds are to win one.

All I’ve ever wanted to do was cap off our festivities celebrating players clad in Midnight Green hoisting the

Lombardi Trophy.On Sunday, that finally hap-

pened. The only problem? I was 3,500

miles east of Philadelphia when my dream came true.

When I made the decision in April 2017 to study abroad for the Spring 2018 semester, an Eagles Super Bowl couldn’t have been further from my mind. They were coming off of a 7-9 season, and although the pieces were there, the team still needed a lot of growth to compete in a crowded NFC East.

Then, seemingly out of no-where, the Birds became one of the league’s most well-rounded teams and bulldozed their way to a first-round bye.

I left for London just two days after Philadelphia beat the Atlanta Falcons in the

Divisional Round, believing there was no way my Eagles would overcome the formidable Minnesota Vikings defense.

Then I spent the early morn-ing hours of Monday, Jan. 22 at a strange nightclub-turned-sports bar in the Southwark borough of London watching Eagles quarterback Nick Foles torch the Vikings and realizing, for the first time since I was six years old, the Eagles would be playing in the Super Bowl.

I scanned the internet for plane tickets, but quickly con-cluded that wasn’t realistic.

Instead, I was going to have to watch the most important football game of my fandom in a foreign country, one that isn’t exactly known for its love of football —not the American kind, anyway.

During the NFC Champion-ship, my friends and I got the contact information of an Eagles fan we watched the game with who has been in London for more than a decade after grow-ing up in Cape May, New Jersey.

During the weeks leading up to the game, he informed us the Eagles UK & Irish Fan Group Facebook page had organized a Super Bowl watch party at a bar in Bloomsbury. Ironically, the bar was a Viking-themed pub called Nordic Bar.

With kick-off set for 11:30 p.m. in London, we arrived at the pub three hours early unsure of what to expect.

As the game grew closer, fans in green and white poured through the door of Nordic Bar. There were plenty of misplaced Philadelphia-area natives, but Brits who adopted the Eagles as their NFL team were just as common. Their reasons for their Birds fandom differed, but it made no difference to us.

Martin Reddie, for instance, is a die-hard fan of Crystal Palace Football Club, also known as the London Eagles. On a trip to Vancouver, Canada in the 1980s, he found a Philadelphia Eagles shirt and bought it simply because there was an eagle on the front. Once Martin found out it represented Philadelphia’s football organization, he began following the team and has been a fan ever since.

Ashley Morris, on the other hand, joined the ranks because Eagles fans remind him of English soccer hooligans and is planning a trip to see the Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field next year.

Others had simply spent time in Philadelphia and were swept up in the excitement of Ameri-

can football. One became such an intense fan that he flew into London from his native Ireland on Super Bowl Sunday simply to watch the game with other Eagles fans.

Before long, I realized that al-though I wasn’t at my own Super Bowl party, I was still surround-ed by people who shared my love for the Philadelphia Eagles, and that made a world of difference.

I wasn’t in Philadelphia, or even America, for that matter, but there were still the same cheers after positive plays and groans after negative ones, and after touchdowns, “Fly Eagles Fly” rang through the Nordic.

Watching the game on the oth-er side of the Atlantic Ocean was certainly a strange experience — the biggest difference being that British television doesn’t have rights to show American com-mercials, so during TV timeouts we saw a motley crew of analysts — but being among Eagles fans made me feel at home.

If I’m being honest, of course, I would’ve rather watched the game in Philadelphia than the Nordic Bar. I would’ve rather embraced my dad after the Patriots’ failed Hail Mary as time expired instead of a group of Brits I had only just met. I cer-tainly would’ve rather paraded Broad Street instead of the quiet streets of London.

But an Eagles Super Bowl is an Eagles Super Bowl, and the coalition of Philadelphia faithful across the pond gave me a night I will never forget.

Matt Lingerman is a sophomore majoring in journalism and is an abroad columnist for The Daily Collegian. Email him at mcl5734@psu.edu and follow him on Twitter at @linger_man.

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The blade of a speed skate measures just over a millimeter thick.

Traveling at speeds of over 30 mph, the heavy pull of centrifu-gal force is doing everything in its power to knock the Olympic skater off-balance.

Falls are inevitable. It’s what ensues in a skater’s psyche the moment after their face smacks the ice that begins to separate the greatest from the pack.

Allison Baver, Penn State Class of ’03, was well on her way to qual-ifying for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. The Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania native had already competed in short track speedskating at the 2002 Win-ter Games in Salt Lake, the 2006 Winter Games in Turin, was the 2007 U.S. National Champion and had peaked as high as third in the overall speedskating World Rank-ings in 2006.

All that eluded the Olympian was a medal around her neck

Just a year and four days be-fore the Opening Ceremonies in Vancouver, Baver’s medal dream seemed to literally come crashing down.

“My leg looked like a twig,” Baver said. “I could feel the bones moving.”

While attempting a pass in the 1,500 meter final of the World Cup in Bulgaria, Baver’s skates came out from under her, send-ing the athlete crashing into the boards, breaking her tibia in four places.

Reduced to a wheelchair, Baver was unable to walk for two months following the accident. She looked like anything but someone who would be standing on a platform

draped in a flag, bronze medal dangling in front of her chest in just a year.

But sure enough, that was just the case. Baver had surgery, re-habbed and just a year later, she and three of her American team-mates placed third in the 3,000 meter relay.

“It’s like everything flashes be-fore you,” Baver said of standing on the podium. “Your whole ca-reer flashes before you. You take yourself back to all of these little moments like when you were little at the roller rink in Pennsyl-vania and my parents are driving me to a competition at 4 o’clock in the morning. You just remember all of the people that influenced your ability to stand there and represent your country on that platform. It’s an amazing sense of accomplishment.”

For the only Penn State alum to compete in a Winter Games since 1956, her entire life has been about trailblazing and finding the balance that is requisite of suc-cess on the ice.

Originally a successful inline speedskater, Baver did not know how to ice skate until her junior year of high school.

Her inline coach, Jeff Foster, a former roller skating national champion, recalls the initial switch from the floor to the ice as far from a smooth transition.

“She took a really hard fall at her first competition in Washing-ton and cut her head open,” Fos-ter said. “Blood was everywhere. She said, ‘I’m done. I’m not going to do it. I’m not doing it anymore.’ She took some time off, and then she came back.”

And from there, the rest is, as you say, history.

“She went inline to ice skating,” Foster said. “Now everybody does it, but at the time, she was a pioneer. She was one of the first ones.”

Baver swapped the wheels for a blade and began training on the ice with Foster’s national team relay partner, Shawn Walb. Walb took Baver under his wing, teach-ing and driving her to various competitions around the country.

Named Sports Illustrated’s “Most Studious” Athlete of the 2006 Winter Games, Baver has strived for perfection away from the ice just as much as she has on it.

“Roots of short-track skating began when I was four years old on Fisher Price roller skates at-tached to my sneakers,” Baver said. “I would have to do this perfect cartwheel on my skates where I would draw a line on a sidewalk, and I would prac-tice doing a cartwheel where your hands and your feet land on a line until I could get it just right.

While competing to qualify for her first Olympics in 2002, Baver was first and foremost a student at Penn State trying to complete

her degree in marketing. Baver’s father had instilled the impor-tance of a college degree in her mind, yet she knew she had an incredible talent that could not be wasted.

So just before the start of her fall semester in 2000, Baver made the move to Marquette, Michigan to begin realizing her Olympic dream at the U.S. Olympic Edu-cation enter.

“It was a big decision for me because I had goals of graduating from college, but I also had this talent that I was extremely gifted in,” Baver said. “I had this amaz-ing opportunity and Penn State was actually very supportive of my Olympic career.”

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By Paddy CotterTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

Ryan Keenan was in disbelief when he saw his teammate in a casket.

“Seeing Con-nor was one of the most emo-tional experi-ences of my life,”

Keenan said. “It was shocking.”Connor Darcey had died in a

car crash in Massachusetts a few weeks after the 2015 Penn State lacrosse season concluded. Years later, they are continuing to keep his memory alive. Now, Keenan wears Darcey’s jersey number and is intent on honor-ing his former goalie.

Penn State wasn’t all that suc-cessful in Keenan’s freshman year, but Darcey was the team’s best player. He was the quarter-back of the defense — a neces-sary quality for a goalie — but was also an influential leader on the team. He reveled in the heat of competition, but equally enjoyed the camaraderie of his teammates.

“He loved chirping everyone,” Keenan said. “If you did some-thing, he would let you know about it.”

Darcey was a trendsetter. The most notable trend he set was making Chuck Taylors — the

throwback converse shoes — cool again.

“He wore those Chuck Tay-lors, and everyone followed suit,” Keenan said. “Every Penn State lacrosse player has a pair of Chuck Taylors and that’s be-cause of Connor.”

Even though the Nittany Li-ons went 5-9 in the 2015 sea-son, the team was a close knit group under the leadership of Darcey.

The day after Penn State lost to Towson in the opening round of the 2017 NCAA tournament, the team gathered in the film room. The players were emo-tionally drained after the his-toric season — which had seen the Nittany Lions reach the No. 1 ranking — ended so abruptly. But the meeting wasn’t called so the team could sulk. Matt Sexton, Darcey’s former roommate and the second player to be given the honor of wearing No. 16, stood in front of the team to name the next to sport his jersey number. Keenan was shocked when he heard his name.

“It hit me hard,” Keenan said. “It was honoring, but it was like, I got to find a way to honor his spirit more every day wearing this jersey.’” Each year since Darcey’s passing, a senior with the former goalie’s number has passed it down to the rising

senior that embodies Darcey’s competitiveness and character.

“We wanted to create a meaningful remembrance for long after he passed away,” coach Jeff Tambroni said, “but also long after we’re here as well.”

Keenan’s teammates weren’t surprised that the midfielder got the honor. The senior, who was named one of the four cap-tains, is defined by his competi-tiveness.

“On the field, he lets his play speak for itself,” Nick Spillane said, “which is why he was elected a captain and why he wears 16, ultimately.”

“I don’t go out and try to play and score goals and get assists for Connor,” Keenan said prior to the season-opener against Villanova. “I just try to honor his spirit.”

Keenan isn’t known for his offensive productivity. Last season, he scored 10 goals and had 13 assists. But that statline was irrelevant in his first game of 2018. Against the Wildcats in the season opener, the senior scored five goals. His high-energy approach opened lanes for the Nittany Lions offense, which was missing their best attackman in Grant Ament.

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By Dylan JacobsTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

Whenever Penn State needs a big goal, a big hit or a strong pos-session, there are two guys that

almost always deliver — Chase Berger and An-drew Sturtz.

When the duo first got to State College in 2015, it was immediately apparent they would be offensive leaders of the team, and basically from the start, they were tasked with doing that on the same line.

“We’ve done a lot together over these three years,” forward Andrew Sturtz said. “Playing together freshman year, living together sophomore year. We played … everything together at all times the past two years.”

Both Sturtz and Berger had phenomenal freshmen cam-paigns, with Sturtz leading the team in goals with 18 and Berg-er finishing fourth on the team in points with 23. Coach Guy Gadowksy knew how talented both players were, but didn’t ex-pect the pair to succeed on the same line like it has.

“Sometimes you can’t ex-plain synergy,” Gadowsky said. “Sometimes as a coaching staff we have guesses about which guys will do well together, and sometimes it just sort of hap-pens and they end up really

having a lot of synergy, and that’s sort of the case with Chase and Andrew. We really didn’t guess it.”

One reason for the unpredicted success of those two together was their contrasting styles. Sturtz is never afraid to lay a big hit or use his speed to get in on the fore-check. Berger is more calm and composed, working hard to get to the front of the net. From the start, those two styles meshed well and has worked wonderfully.

“Sturtz is more flashy, and I would say Chase is a lot more cal-culated, but they both yield great results,” Gadowsky said. “I don’t know why it works between them, but it always has … It is certain-ly evident that for some reason those two styles fit really well.”

Whenever they are not on the ice together, it is apparent that things are just not the same. This past January, in a game against Ohio State, Sturtz was ejected after a boarding penalty. For the rest of the game, the team looked flat, especially on Berger’s line.

“[James Robinson and I] didn’t want to look panicked and send a message to the rest of the team that we were in trouble,” Berger said following the 5-1 loss to the Buckeyes on Jan. 13. “But we definitely missed him out there.”

While Berger and Sturtz have been a constant together, their winger has changed many times over the season.

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Coming into this season, De’Janae Boykin had not played competitive basketball in nearly three years.

You wouldn’t have guessed that from her relentless and physical playing style.

“I think that I’ve brought a lot of toughness and versatility to the team this season,” Boykin said. “I love to fight down low for re-bounds and I embrace doing the dirty work needed in order to get the win.”

Boykin’s game is predicated on fortitude, durability and grit. However, nagging injuries have kept her off the court for the bet-ter part of the last three seasons.

In fact, the junior forward hadn’t played a full season of bas-ketball since her junior year at Charles H. Flowers High School, where she averaged 21 points and 16 rebounds per game and was selected as the player of the year in the state of Maryland.

After being listed as one of the premier high school players in the nation by every major recruit-ing service and winning a gold medal at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in China, Boykin origi-nally signed with the University

of Connecticut in 2015. The five-star recruit was

sidelined with a long-term Achil-les injury sustained during her senior year of high school, and only spent one semester at UCo-nn before transferring to Penn State prior to the start of the 2016 spring semester.

Boykin said her decision to transfer was primarily based on wanting to play closer to her

home and family in Springdale, Maryland.

“At the end of the day, it was just a comfort level decision,” she said. “It took some time, but I think I’ve fit in well with the team and I know that my teammates have my back and look to me as someone who they expect good things from.”

Penn State coach Coquese Washington believes that Boykin’s

short stint of experiencing high-level basketball at UConn is something that’s carried over into her time in Happy Valley.

“De’Janae is an interesting case for us because she came from such a premier program,” Washington said. “She naturally brings a level of experience and a unique perspective that’s benefi-cial for both the players and the coaches to hear.”

Boykin made her first career appearance as a member of the Lady Lions in December of 2016 against American. She would only go on to play six games last sea-son due to a foot injury, but her impact on both sides of the ball was immediately felt.

In her abbreviated redshirt-sophomore season, she scored in double figures three times and had a double-double against Iona.

Despite missing the rest of the year, her potential was clearly evident.

“Even though she didn’t play much last season, you could defi-nitely see her game was there,” Washington said. “It was very un-fortunate to see her bothered by another foot injury.”

This season has been a wel-come change from the last couple of years for Boykin.

She’s fully healthy and back

to playing basketball at a high level, averaging over seven points and nine rebounds per game.

Her best performance came against Drexel, when she tallied 14 points and dominated the glass by grabbing 19 rebounds, good for 11th all-time in Lady Lions single-game history.

“She has a really high bas-ketball IQ and brings a level of competitiveness that our team needs,” junior guard Teniya Page said. “Her importance to this team is not something that will always show up on the stat sheet, but her intangibles have helped the team in a lot of ways.”

Never one to back down from a challenge, on or off the basket-ball court, Boykin has always em-braced the tenacious and relent-less nature of her game.

The junior comes from a mili-tary family, so she knows a thing or two about toughness and resil-ience.

Her father, Jeff served as a U.S. Marine for years and her sister, Janiesha is currently serving as a member of the Navy.

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Lions back in Bryce Jordan Center By Jake Aferiat THE DAILY COLLEGIAN

Roughly 7,000 people packed in to watch the No. 1 Nittany Lions take on the No. 2 ranked Buck-

eyes last week at Rec Hall, where Penn State pulled off the come from

behind, 19-18 victory.The atmosphere was electric

and raucous, and the Nittany Lions will be looking to recre-ate that same atmosphere this week against Iowa at the roughly 16,000-seat Bryce Jordan Center.

“Wrestling at the Bryce Jordan Center is different than Rec Hall where people are right on top of you,” coach Cael Sanderson said. “So it’s important that we give our fans something to cheer about.”

While Penn State likely won’t have an issue giving fans some-thing to cheer about, the Hawk-eyes are one of only two Big Ten teams to have a winning record against Penn State.

Iowa leads the all-time series 26-10-2 and beat the Nittany Li-ons on Feb. 8, 2015 at the BJC, which is the last time Penn State hosted the Hawkeyes. That dual

drew 15,967 fans, good for the third most attended indoor dual meet in NCAA history.

Sanderson is cognizant of Io-wa’s success against his squad and said Penn State will have to be at its best.

“They’re a very good team, so we’ve got to wrestle well,”

he said. “We need our best ef-fort because they’ll certainly be bringing theirs.”

Iowa brings six ranked wres-tlers to the dual, including No. 2 ranked Brandon Sorensen at 149 and No. 2 ranked Michael Keme-rer at 157.

Sorensen is going up against

Zain Retherford, who has had the Hawkeye’s number his entire career. Retherford beat Sorensen for a pair of titles in 2016 — 4-0 for the Big Ten title and he reg-istered a 10-1 major decision over Sorensen for the national title at 149.

Kemerer is catching a break by

not having to face Jason Nolf at 157, as Nolf beat Kemerer for the Big Ten title at 157 last season.

Instead, Kemerer will likely take on Bo Pipher, and with Nolf not wrestling, there remains a possibility that Kemerer leaves State College as the nation’s top wrestler at 157 pounds.

All eyes will likely be on No. 9 Anthony Cassar at 197 as the Penn State sophomore knocked off the nation’s top ranked wres-tler at 197, Kollin Moore, in a 6-3 upset last week against Ohio State.

Cassar will be going against No. 8 ranked Cash Wilcke in a bout where Cassar will be looking to prove that last week’s result wasn’t a fluke.

Regardless of who is garner-ing the attention for Penn State, or whether there is any outside noise in the first place, Sander-son said he and his team have be-come adept at tuning it out.

“It’s business as usual this week,” he said. “We’re getting used to the noise and just looking forward to a fun match.”

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Penn State’s Bo Nickal defeats Ohio State’s Myles Martin during the Men’s Wrestling match at Rec Hall on

Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018. The No. 1 Nittany Lions defeated the no. 2 Buckeyes 19-18.

Penn State’s best BJC moments By: Ben JenkinsTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

Saturday night, top-ranked Penn State will head across cam-pus and invade the Bryce Jordan

Center when they host the No. 7 Iowa Hawkeyes.

The dual meet will mark the fifth season in a row in which the Nittany Lions have taken their talents outside of Rec Hall and wrestled in front of near-ly 16,000 fans.

In honor of Saturday’s match, we decided to look back on some of the most interesting moments from Penn State wrestling at the Bryce Jordan Center.

Best Team WinDuring the 2015-16 season, the

Nittany Lions wrestled twice at the Bryce Jordan Center. The first matchup came against the Wisconsin Badgers, but the sec-ond was a matchup between the top-ranked Nittany Lions and No. 3 Ohio State.

The dual, which took place in front of 15,983 fans, is still the sec-ond largest crowd in Penn State history.

The Nittany Lions started the afternoon with a loss, as Nathan Tomasello defeated Penn State’s Nico Megaludis 3-1.

Penn State tied the team score at three after a win at 133 pounds, then Ohio State took back the lead, going up 6-3 headed into the 149-pound bout.

That’s where the Nittany Lions began to take control.

At 149 pounds, Zain Retherford pinned Sal Marandino in the first period, putting Penn State up 9-6. Then, Jason Nolf earned a major decision victory over Ohio State’s Jake Ryan, growing the Nittany Lions’ lead to 13-6.

The Buckeyes regained three points at 165 pounds, but then Penn State victories at 174, 184 and a tech fall victory at 197 gave Penn State a 24-9 advantage.

Ohio State’s Kyle Snyder earned a tech fall victory in the af-ternoon’s final bout, but it wasn’t nearly enough, as Penn State won 24-14 and improved to 13-0 on the season.

Most Dominant Team

PerformanceThe previously-mentioned dual

against the Wisconsin Badgers in the Bryce Jordan Center, which opened the 2015-16 Big Ten dual season, was the most dominant performance for the Nittany Li-ons at the BJC.

Winning eight of 10 bouts, the Nittany Lions only gave up team points at 165 and 285 pounds. Penn State was victorious by for-feit at 133 pounds and received bonus points in five other weight classes.

The dual was highlighted by

back-to-back pins from Rether-ford at 149 pounds, and Jason Nolf immediately following at 157 pounds.

Megaludis, Bo Nickal and Matt McCutcheon each won by major decision and in the end the Nit-tany Lions defeated the Badgers 36-7.

Quickest PinThe quickest pin since Penn

State returned to the BJC in 2013 comes from the 2016 dual be-tween No. 1 Penn State and No. 3 Ohio State.

At 149 pounds, No. 1 Retherford pinned Ohio State’s Sal Maran-dino at the 2:31 mark in the first period. After going up 4-2 early, Retherford used a single leg take-down to get Marandino on the mat, then turned him to his back.

Retherford first got a four count, then finally pinned Maran-dino before the end of the first period.

Biggest UpsetThe biggest upset at the BJC

came the last time the Nittany Lions and Iowa Hawkeyes met on the east side of campus in 2015.

In a dual that Penn State even-tually lost, it got a big perfor-mance from then-No. 7 Jimmy Gulibon at 133 pounds.

Gulibon was faced with a tough task, wrestling then-No. 3 Cory Clark. A 3-3 match headed into the third period, Gulibon used an escape to tie the match at four each late in the third period.

To read full story, visit collegian.psu.edu.

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Zain Retherford wrestles with Sal Marandino during the match at Bryce

Jordan Center on Friday, Feb. 5, 2016.

Lions begin EIVA playBy: Mike Fortugno

THE DAILY COLLEGIAN

Coming off of a dominant weekend sweep, Penn State will head to Loretto, Pennsylvania to take on Saint Francis in what will be the Nittany Lion’s first EIVA conference matchup on the season.

“I think anytime you go over the moun-tain to Loretto you’re going to face a team that’s really trying to protect its home court,” coach Mark Pavlik said. “I think we’re going to have our hands full.”

The Red Flash will be coming into this match riding a two game losing streak that puts them at 5-7 on the year.

This two-game losing skid includes the two teams Penn State defeated last week-end in Fort Wayne and Ball State.

Despite losing to both the Mastodons and Cardinals in four sets, Saint Francis played both teams right to the end, refus-ing to lose a single set on the weekend by more than six points.

The Nittany Lions played well against both those squads, hitting above .300 in both matches with .348 hitting percentage for the weekend.

Penn State will be looking to win their first away match of the year on Saturday, having just one win away from Happy Val-ley against No. 14 USC in the neutral Pac-12-Big Ten challenge in Los Angeles.

Penn State will likely continue the trend of looking to set up senior middle Jalen Penrose for kills, as his play last week earned him EIVA Offensive Player of the Week.

Penrose finished with 31 kills last week-end, leading the Nittany Lions offensively.

Penn State lost to the Red Flash last year in a three-set sweep before defeating them later in the season at home.

“There’s no doubt in my mind come Saturday when the whistle blows, the Red Flash are going to be ready to go,” Pavlik said. To read full story, visit collegian.psu.edu.

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Luke Braswell (4) celebrates with his team during a match against Fort Wayne on Feb. 3,

2018. Penn State won the match 3 sets to 1.

Men’s Lax vs. HobartWhen: Saturday, Jan. 10 at 1 p.m.

Where: Holuba Hall

Details: The Nittany Lions took a disappointing loss to Villa-nova in their opener. They’ll look to bounce back on Saturday against the Herons.

Women’s Tennis vs. MarshallWhen: Sunday, Jan. 11 at 11 a.m.

Where: Sarni Tennis Center

Details: Losers of two straight, the Nittany Lions host the Thun-dering Herd hoping to get going.

Wrestling vs. Iowa When: Saturday, Jan. 10 at 8 p.m.

Where: Bryce Jordan Center

Details: Fresh of their incredible win over Ohio State in a packed Rec Hall, the Nittany Lions should be in for another electric environment.

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