Pennsylvania College of Technology men’s and women’s basketball teams are coming off a weekend of special achievements as Ben Sosa joined the ranks of the elite in program history to reach the 1,000-point career scoring mark and the women’s team earned its first North Eastern Athletic Conference victory in nearly two years.
The college’s wrestling team, meanwhile, went 2-2.
For the third consecutive year – and the fourth time overall – Student Affairs at Pennsylvania College of Technology has been honored as one of “The Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs” by the publication Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.
Penn College is one of 27 colleges or universities to receive the 2020 Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs honor, with the honorees to be published in the March 5 edition of the magazine.
Representatives of the schools will be recognized during the American College Personnel Association’s annual meeting, to be held March 2-5 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Midway through the academic year and at the on-ramp to a metamorphic new decade, transformation – the college’s internal modifications to enhance students’ life-altering opportunities – was very much on the mind of President Davie Jane Gilmour during Friday’s Spring 2020 kickoff. “Like any other organization or institution, we need to assess, adjust, change and adapt. This assessment is an ongoing process and will continue as we move through this spring semester,” she told faculty and staff assembled in the Klump Academic Center Auditorium. “I believe in our future, in the power of a Penn College education and in our ability to change lives.”
After a 25-day layoff, the Pennsylvania College of Technology men’s basketball team is scheduled to return to action at 7 p.m. Thursday in a nonconference game at King’s College.
Wrapping up the 2019 portion of their schedule on the road, Pennsylvania College of Technology wrestlers split in a tri-meet Thursday and won two of three matches Saturday.
For the first time since 2014, the Pennsylvania College of Technology women’s basketball team will go into the holiday break with at least two victories.
Samantha J. Morningstar, of Lewistown, trims a study model, which is an exact replica of the athlete’s mouth. The study model is then used as a form to make the custom mouthguard.A newly vacuum-formed thermoplastic mouthguard is ready for trimming.Lacrosse team members show off their custom mouthguards.
Second-year dental hygiene students and faculty developed a program to provide professional-grade athletic mouthguards for members of the Penn College lacrosse team as part of the students’ Dental Materials and Specialties course. The multiweek project began with taking impressions of the athletes’ teeth to create exact replicas of their mouths. This model was then used, along with specialized equipment, to fabricate the mouthguards. The students were directed by faculty members Barbara K. Emert-Strouse and Marie Y. Stewart, both assistant professors of dental hygiene. The athletic mouthguards play a critical role in contact sports in the prevention of concussions and injuries to teeth.
Pennsylvania College of Technology basketball squads split in their only games Thanksgiving week while the college’s wrestlers were idle. For the basketball teams, North Eastern Athletic Conference play begins Saturday at SUNY Cobleskill.
Competing Sunday in the consolation game of the Susquehanna Trailways Tip-Off Tournament at Susquehanna University, the Pennsylvania College of Technology women’s basketball team snapped a two-season, 19-game losing streak with a 66-63 win over York (N.Y.) College.
The blur of a crisp night game depicts the busy back-and-forth action.
Penn College had barely arrived for Monday night’s extramural flag football game against Lycoming College when the host opened the scoring: a fourth-down touchdown on its very first possession and the point after for a hasty 7-0 lead. Penn College responded with a long TD pass of its own, connecting on the extra point to tie the game. Lycoming quickly struck again, scoring on a single play to take a 13-7 lead after a failed PAT attempt. Not to be outdone, Penn College put together an impressive scoring drive (extra point included) for a 14-13 lead. Again, however, it only took one pass for Lycoming to answer, converting on the two-point conversion to end the half with a 21-14 edge.
Cross-country seasons have wrapped up and basketball is underway as the sports scene changes from outdoors to indoors for Pennsylvania College of Technology athletics.
Pennsylvania College of Technology men’s and women’s basketball teams open their seasons this week and its cross-country teams will compete in NCAA Division III regional action. In action Saturday, the season ended for the college’s women’s soccer team and its wrestlers fared well in an invitational.
In a busy weekend for Pennsylvania College of Technology athletics, the women’s soccer team secured the No. 4 seed and will host fifth-seeded SUNY Poly in a North Eastern Athletic Conference playoff match at 6 p.m. Tuesday at UPMC Field while the men’s cross-country team placed fifth at the NEAC Championships, the wrestling team saw its season begin, and seasons ended for the men’s soccer and women’s volleyball squads.
As Pennsylvania College of Technology cross-country teams prep for Saturday’s North Eastern Athletic Conference Championships, Wildcat wrestlers are gearing up for their season opener Sunday at the Lycoming College Invitational.
