🦁 The Official Daily Newsletter For Penn State Athletics

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⚾ Coach Gambino bolsters coaching staff
🏈 Core values on display
🦁 And much, much more!

📈 STOCK UP

🔺 Three Cheers. Penn State head baseball coach Mike Gambino has officially announced three members of his coaching staff—Will Jauss, Scott Loiseau, and Nick Puccio will be helping lead the charge this year in Happy Valley with Jake Stone staying on staff as director of operations and player development.

⚾ Scott Loiseau will serve as associate head coach after serving as head coach at Southern New Hampshire University since 2016 and head coach at SNHU from 2008-2014, separated by one year as recruiting coordinator at Oklahoma in 2015. The six-time Northeast-10 Coach of the Year has a 480-209-2 career record, (including 423-136 since 2012) in 16 years as a head coach. His 480 wins are the most in program history, and his .696 winning percentage ranked eighth among active Division II coaches.

⚾ Will Jauss will be an assistant coach after spending the last two seasons as director of pitching technology at Boston College where he developed scouting reports and implemented infield and outfield shifts. Last season, his pitching staff ranked 26th in the country in strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.54) and 26th in walks allowed per nine innings (3.58). Nine Boston College pitchers made at least 16 appearances and seven pitchers had at least 34 strikeouts.

⚾ Nick Puccio will also be an assistant coach after serving as hitting coach and recruiting coordinator at Northeastern since 2019 where he helped the Huskies lead the CAA in hits (614), home runs (106), home runs per game (1.77), on-base percentage (.395), runs (459), runs per game (7.6), slugging percentage (.510), stolen bases (133), stolen bases per game (2.22), ERA (3.75), hits allowed per nine innings (8.46), shutouts (7), WHIP (.733) and fielding percentage (.977).

🔺 What Offseason? Penn State football head coach James Franklin likes to say that attitude, work ethic, competition, and sacrifice are the core values for this program. But where do they go from January-August?

Absolutely nowhere.

📹 Watch a little behind-the-scenes from Penn State football’s offseason workouts and conditioning.

🤔 BLUE & WHITE TRIVIA

Guess who. He’s coming into his fourth season with the Nittany Lions as a linebacker and had one interception last year—running it back 47 yards for a touchdown against Michigan.

Do you know who it is?

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

🦁 ONE TWO BIG THINGS

Save the date. We’ve got not one but two schedule announcements for the upcoming 2023 season. Start planning out those fall schedules, y’all.

⚽ Men’s soccer announces fall schedule

🏉 Men’s rugby releases fall schedule

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📅 COMING SOON

Thursday, August 17

⚽ Women’s Soccer vs. North Carolina @ 8:00pm ET (Home Opener)

Thursday, August 24

⚽ Men’s Soccer at Pittsburgh @ 7:00pm ET (Season Opener)

Friday, August 25

🏑 Field Hockey at Virginia @ 6:00pm ET

🏐 Women’s Volleyball vs. Florida @ 8:00pm ET

Saturday, September 2

🏈 Football vs. West Virginia @ 7:30pm ET on NBC | Tickets

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: Curtis Jacobs!

🦁 Have a great Monday, y’all.