🦁 The Official Daily Newsletter For Penn State Athletics

Good morning! The preseason Big Ten women’s soccer coaches poll was released yesterday, and Penn State was selected as the conference favorite for the 21st year in a row!

Seriously, that’s not a typo!

What else is steeping in today’s Brew?

🏈 Bunch of freaks
⚾️ Welcome to Happy Valley
🦁 And much, much more!

📈 STOCK UP

🔺 Bunch Of Freaks. Running a 4.47 40-yard dash and bench-pressing 400 pounds as a 250-pound defensive end was good enough to land Chop Robinson at No. 9 on The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman’s annual College Football Freaks List.

Oh, and five other Nittany Lions also made the list — Jordan van den Berg, Olumuyiwa Fashanu, Nicholas Singleton, Zane Durant and Abdul Carter are all on there.

📰 FROM THE ATHLETIC ($): College Football Freaks List 2023

🔺 Fox Is A Lion. Olivia Fox has been hired as Penn State women’s ice hockey’s director of hockey operations, Nittany Lion head coach Jeff Kampersal announced Tuesday.

Fox comes to Happy Valley by way of Boston University, where she held the same role for the 2022-23 season.

🔺 Signed, Sealed, Delivered. Ashton Calder, your newest Bridgeport Islander!

Congratulations to the Penn State men’s ice hockey alum on signing an American Hockey League contract for the 2023-24 season!

🔺 New To The Dugout. Nittany Lion baseball fans, stay locked into the Penn State baseball Twitter account all week — the team will be introducing the newcomers to the program!

First up is Wake Forest transfer and Pennsylvania native Adam Cecere.

🤔 BLUE & WHITE TRIVIA

Pro Skater. Three Penn State football players were named to the Lombardi Award watch list on Tuesday.

Do you know who the three players are?

Think you’ve got it? Scroll down to the bottom of this email for the answer!

🦁 ONE BIG THING

🔺 Luke Combs is coming to Beaver Stadium. That’s right country music fans, Luke Combs has announced he will be bringing his Growin’ Up and Gettin’ Old Tour to Beaver Stadium on Saturday, April 27, 2024!

Tickets for the Growin’ Up and Gettin’ Old Tour will be available for pre-sale starting Wednesday, August 23 at 4 p.m.

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📅 COMING SOON

Thursday, August 17

⚽ Women’s Soccer vs. North Carolina @ 8 p.m. (Home Opener)

Thursday, August 24

⚽ Men’s Soccer at Pittsburgh @ 7 p.m. (Season Opener)

Friday, August 25

🏑 Field Hockey at Virginia @ 6 p.m.

🏐 Women’s Volleyball vs. Florida @ 8 p.m.

Saturday, September 2

🏈 Football vs. West Virginia @ 7:30 p.m. on NBC | Tickets

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: Abdul Carter, Olumuyiwa Fashanu and Chop Robinson!

🦁 Have a great Wednesday, y’all!