Penn State Abington student athletes keep racking up honors as a men’s and a women’s soccer player were honored for their prowess on and off the field.
College students in particular are frantic by December with projects, presentations, and exams. But when snow piles up and school is closed, a day of movies and snowball fights isn’t necessarily an option. Penn State Abington junior Stacy Wanerman, president of the Student Government Association, reflected on the bittersweet nature of college snow days on the Lions Tales blog.
The statistician for Penn State Abington athletics should keep the records spreadsheet open and ready to update. Why? Because basketball player Mike Marvin just scored his 1,000th point - and he is only the sixth game into his third season.
The determination and energy of two groups of Penn State Abington students resulted in the donation of 6,675 pounds of food to a Philadelphia area hunger relief organization.
Netherlands native Emine Demirgil posted a Thanksgiving-inspired reflection last week expressing gratitude for Abington’s diverse community and the experiences it has offered her and other international students. The third-year business major’s post, titled "We Are The World," is on the Abington Lion Tales student blog
The Blue Crew is the brainchild of four Penn State Abington student athletes who want to fill the stands and the fields with passionate fans. According to Assistant Athletic Director Noelle Powell, Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) officers Brian Camp, Jess Schmidt and Kate Haas as well as Avery Barnes, a junior men’s basketball player, have been instrumental in launching the effort.
Final plans to renovate the Woodland Building on the Penn State Abington campus were approved by the Board of Trustees Committee on Finance, Business and Capital Planning today (Nov. 21).
For retired Army Lt. Col. Mack Brooks, giving the keynote at the Penn State Abington fall commencement next month is another part of his life’s adventure that began at the campus in 1965. “Abington provided my nucleus, my foundation,” Lt. Col. Brooks told a dozen Abington seniors at the traditional lunch with the commencement speaker recently.
