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season)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Assistant Coach</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="agent">Casey Cunningham<br />Cody Sanderson<br />Jimmy Kennedy</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Conference</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Big_Ten_Conference" title="Big Ten Conference">Big Ten Conference</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/University_Park,_PA" class="mw-redirect" title="University Park, PA">University Park</a>, <span class="region"><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">PA</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Arena</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rec_Hall" title="Rec Hall">Rec Hall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bryce_Jordan_Center" title="Bryce Jordan Center">Bryce Jordan Center</a><br />(Capacity: 7,000)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nickname</th><td class="infobox-data nickname"><a href="/wiki/Nittany_Lions" class="mw-redirect" title="Nittany Lions">Nittany Lions</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Colors</th><td class="infobox-data">Blue and white<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><span class="legend-color" style="background-color:#001E44"> </span> <span class="legend-color" style="background-color:#FFFFFF"> </span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fight song</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/Fight_On,_State" title="Fight On, State">Fight On, State</a></i></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#001E44;color:#FFFFFF;">Team national championships</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>13</b></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#001E44;color:#FFFFFF;">National championship years</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>1921, 1953, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024</b></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#001E44;color:#FFFFFF;">NCAA individual champions</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>59</b></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#001E44;color:#FFFFFF;">All-Americans</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>249</b></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#001E44;color:#FFFFFF;">Conference championships</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>10</b></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#001E44;color:#FFFFFF;">Conference Tournament championships</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Intercollegiate_Wrestling_Association" title="Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association">Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association</a><br />1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1924, 1925, 1936, 1937, 1942, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1960, 1971, 1973<br /><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Wrestling_League" title="Eastern Wrestling League">Eastern Wrestling League</a><br />1976, 1977, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992<br /><a href="/wiki/Big_Ten_Conference" title="Big Ten Conference">Big Ten Conference</a><br />2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2023, 2024</b></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Penn State Nittany Lions wrestling</b> program is an intercollegiate <a href="/wiki/Varsity_team" title="Varsity team">varsity sport</a> at <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_State_University" title="Pennsylvania State University">Pennsylvania State University</a>. The <a href="/wiki/College_wrestling" class="mw-redirect" title="College wrestling">wrestling</a> team is a competing member of the <a href="/wiki/Big_Ten_Conference" title="Big Ten Conference">Big Ten Conference</a> and the <a href="/wiki/National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association" title="National Collegiate Athletic Association">National Collegiate Athletic Association</a>. The Nittany Lions compete at <a href="/wiki/Rec_Hall" title="Rec Hall">Rec Hall</a> in <a href="/wiki/State_College,_Pennsylvania" title="State College, Pennsylvania">State College, Pennsylvania</a>, on the campus of Pennsylvania State University. The Nittany Lions have claimed 13 team National Championship titles and 55 individual NCAA National Championship titles. </p><p>Former wrestlers include <a href="/wiki/Dan_Hodge_Trophy" title="Dan Hodge Trophy">Dan Hodge Trophy</a> Winners <a href="/wiki/Kerry_McCoy_(wrestler)" title="Kerry McCoy (wrestler)">Kerry McCoy</a> (1997), <a href="/wiki/Zain_Retherford" title="Zain Retherford">Zain Retherford</a> (2017, 2018), <a href="/wiki/Bo_Nickal" title="Bo Nickal">Bo Nickal</a> (2019), <a href="/wiki/Aaron_Brooks_(wrestler)" title="Aaron Brooks (wrestler)">Aaron Brooks</a> (2024), and <a href="/wiki/Olympic_Games" title="Olympic Games">Olympic Champion</a> <a href="/wiki/David_Taylor_(American_wrestler)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Taylor (American wrestler)">David Taylor</a> (2012, 2014). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_wrestling&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Founding">Founding</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_wrestling&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Founding"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1911_Penn_State_Wrestling_Team.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/1911_Penn_State_Wrestling_Team.jpg/220px-1911_Penn_State_Wrestling_Team.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="311" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/1911_Penn_State_Wrestling_Team.jpg/330px-1911_Penn_State_Wrestling_Team.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/1911_Penn_State_Wrestling_Team.jpg/440px-1911_Penn_State_Wrestling_Team.jpg 2x" data-file-width="690" data-file-height="975" /></a><figcaption>The 1911 Penn State wrestling team</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/College_wrestling" class="mw-redirect" title="College wrestling">College wrestling</a> at Penn State began in 1902, and was initially limited to intra-class dual matches.<sup id="cite_ref-century_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-century-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Two years later, following the formation of the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Intercollegiate_Wrestling_Association" title="Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association">Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association</a> in 1904, a wrestling club was founded at Penn State in 1908, which aimed to represent the college in formal competition.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Penn State Wrestling Club arranged two intercollegiate dual meets in the Fall of 1908 with <a href="/wiki/Lehigh_Mountain_Hawks" title="Lehigh Mountain Hawks">Lehigh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cornell_Big_Red_wrestling" title="Cornell Big Red wrestling">Cornell</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The club had to do so independently of the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_College_Athletic_Conference" title="Eastern College Athletic Conference">College Athletic Association</a> as wrestling was not yet a recognized sport in the organization.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first dual was cancelled, but the second held on March 27, 1909, at Cornell went forward seeing Penn State fall 6–1 in their first ever, with each team receiving one point for each bout winner.<sup id="cite_ref-century_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-century-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The program grew and thrived over the next few decades, producing numerous talented wrestlers and successful teams. </p><p>One of the program's early stars was William Neidig, who wrestled on Penn State's first undefeated team in 1911 when the team went 4–0 against Lehigh, <a href="/wiki/Yale_Bulldogs" title="Yale Bulldogs">Yale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Lions#Wrestling" title="Columbia Lions">Columbia</a> and Cornell.<sup id="cite_ref-yearbyyear_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yearbyyear-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Levi Lamb, another notable Penn State wrestler of this era, was a three-sport athlete at Penn State who excelled in wrestling, <a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_football" title="Penn State Nittany Lions football">football</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_track_and_field" class="mw-redirect" title="Penn State Nittany Lions track and field">track</a>, Lamb only lost two bouts in his four-year Penn State career with 70% of his victories coming from pins. Lamb went on to coach wrestling at <a href="/wiki/John_D._O%27Bryant_School_of_Mathematics_%26_Science" title="John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics & Science">Boston Tech</a> before enlisting in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">U.S. Army</a> to serve in <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Eastern_Intercollegiate_Wrestling_Association">Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_wrestling&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Intercollegiate_Wrestling_Association" title="Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association">Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1921_National_Wrestling_Champions_-_Penn_State.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/1921_National_Wrestling_Champions_-_Penn_State.jpg/220px-1921_National_Wrestling_Champions_-_Penn_State.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/1921_National_Wrestling_Champions_-_Penn_State.jpg/330px-1921_National_Wrestling_Champions_-_Penn_State.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/1921_National_Wrestling_Champions_-_Penn_State.jpg/440px-1921_National_Wrestling_Champions_-_Penn_State.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1312" data-file-height="992" /></a><figcaption>Penn State's 1921 national intercollegiate wrestling championship team</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:United_States_Naval_Academy_Varsity_Wrestling-3386.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/United_States_Naval_Academy_Varsity_Wrestling-3386.jpg/220px-United_States_Naval_Academy_Varsity_Wrestling-3386.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/United_States_Naval_Academy_Varsity_Wrestling-3386.jpg/330px-United_States_Naval_Academy_Varsity_Wrestling-3386.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/United_States_Naval_Academy_Varsity_Wrestling-3386.jpg/440px-United_States_Naval_Academy_Varsity_Wrestling-3386.jpg 2x" data-file-width="560" data-file-height="400" /></a><figcaption>Penn State's Bill Santel wrestles <a href="/wiki/Navy_Midshipmen" title="Navy Midshipmen">Navy</a>'s Bart Downes in February 1949 in <a href="/wiki/Annapolis,_Maryland" title="Annapolis, Maryland">Annapolis, Maryland</a></figcaption></figure> <p>After eight years of applying for membership, Penn State was granted entrance into the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Intercollegiate_Wrestling_Association" title="Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association">Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association</a> (EIWA) in 1918. This made the team eligible to compete for intercollegiate championships.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Penn State claimed its first EIWA title that same year, beginning a streak of six title wins in eight seasons.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1921, Penn State embarked on a difficult eight-event schedule that included dual meets with four EIWA programs and trips to face two top teams in the Midwest in <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Hoosiers_wrestling" class="mw-redirect" title="Indiana Hoosiers wrestling">Indiana</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iowa_State_Cyclones_wrestling" title="Iowa State Cyclones wrestling">Iowa State</a>. The Nittany Lions claimed their fourth straight EIWA title at the league tournament hosted at Princeton.<sup id="cite_ref-century_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-century-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That win, coupled with the later inter-conference dual wins against Indiana and Iowa, resulted in Penn State's first <a href="/wiki/Mythical_national_championship" title="Mythical national championship">national championship title</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Penn State wrestling broke onto the world stage in 1924 when <a href="/wiki/Katsutoshi_Naito" title="Katsutoshi Naito">Katsutoshi Naito</a> competed in the <a href="/wiki/1924_Summer_Olympics" title="1924 Summer Olympics">1924 Summer Olympics</a>. Naito, a Japanese born immigrant, was team captain his senior season and claimed an EIWA championship at 135 pounds. While Naito was one of the best wrestlers in his weight class and expressed his interest in representing the United States in the competition due to the passage of the <a href="/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924" title="Immigration Act of 1924">Immigration Act of 1924</a> he was banned from representing the country in international competitions This lead the <a href="/wiki/Japanese_Olympic_Committee" title="Japanese Olympic Committee">Japanese Olympic Committee</a> to extend an invitation to Naito to compete in <a href="/wiki/Freestyle_wrestling" title="Freestyle wrestling">Freestyle</a> wrestling in the featherweight class.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Naito won his first match against <a href="/wiki/Belgian_Olympic_and_Interfederal_Committee" title="Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee">Belgium's</a> Albert Foubert before facing and losing by decision to eventual gold medalist Robin Reed of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Olympic_%26_Paralympic_Committee" title="United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee">United States</a>. Naito recovered and went on to win the bronze medal by defeating <a href="/wiki/Sweden_at_the_Olympics" title="Sweden at the Olympics">Sweden's</a> Hans Hansson. Naito's win marked Japan's first ever Olympic medal in wrestling and 3rd overall.<sup id="cite_ref-century_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-century-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After undergoing five coaching changes, the Nittany Lions found their long-term coach in Charlie "Doc" Speidel. The <a href="/wiki/Montclair_State_University" title="Montclair State University">Panzer College</a> graduate and skilled boxer in the <a href="/wiki/Golden_Gloves" title="Golden Gloves">Golden Gloves</a>, was hired by the Nittany Lions in 1927 as the university's boxing and wrestling coach.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although he never engaged in competitive wrestling himself, he took on the role with enthusiasm and dedication.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under Speidel's leadership, the team quickly gained recognition, with Howard Johnston earning Penn State's first All-American title in 1935 at 165 pounds. Speidel also played a key role in establishing the National Wrestling Coaches Association in 1930 and organizing the first <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Interscholastic_Athletic_Association" title="Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association">PIAA</a> State Championships in 1938.<sup id="cite_ref-1953NationalChamps_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1953NationalChamps-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Penn State's history with the NCAA Wrestling Championships began when Ted Wilson was crowned EIWA champion at 125 pounds in <a href="/wiki/1929_NCAA_Wrestling_Championships" title="1929 NCAA Wrestling Championships">1929</a> making him the first Nittany Lion to be invited to the post season tournament.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wilson would fall in the first round to Iowa State's Richard Cole.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following year, Penn State was selected to host the <a href="/wiki/1930_NCAA_Wrestling_Championships" title="1930 NCAA Wrestling Championships">1930 NCAA Wrestling Championships</a> which took place at <a href="/wiki/Rec_Hall" title="Rec Hall">Rec Hall</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Four Nittany Lion wrestlers were entered to the tournament in Roy Maize at 115 pounds, Grant Stein at 135 pounds, Karl Kaiser at 145 pounds and Paul Long at 175 pounds.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The inclusion of Chuck Hall on the Nittany Lion's 1940s wrestling teams broke barriers across college athletics. Hall was the first blind Division 1 collegiate wrestler to record a fall when he took down his opponent in a bout against <a href="/wiki/Temple_Owls" title="Temple Owls">Temple</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hall wrestled in high school and was the team captain at Philadelphia's <a href="/wiki/Overbrook_School_for_the_Blind" title="Overbrook School for the Blind">Overbrook School for the Blind</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Teammate and fraternity brother Charlie Ridenour was instrumental in developing Hall's wrestling ability while at Penn State.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hall's father was a member of the 1909 wrestling club team that debuted the sport at the university.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_National_Championship_and_Eastern_Wrestling_League">First National Championship and Eastern Wrestling League</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_wrestling&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: First National Championship and Eastern Wrestling League"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Penn_State_Wrestling_National_Champions_1953.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Penn_State_Wrestling_National_Champions_1953.jpg/220px-Penn_State_Wrestling_National_Champions_1953.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Penn_State_Wrestling_National_Champions_1953.jpg/330px-Penn_State_Wrestling_National_Champions_1953.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Penn_State_Wrestling_National_Champions_1953.jpg/440px-Penn_State_Wrestling_National_Champions_1953.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1436" data-file-height="1028" /></a><figcaption>The Penn State wrestling team poses with the 1953 NCAA National Championship trophy</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1953, Penn State's wrestling team enjoyed one of its most successful seasons to date, winning matches against <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Cavaliers" title="Virginia Cavaliers">Virginia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lehigh_Mountain_Hawks" title="Lehigh Mountain Hawks">Lehigh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Navy_Midshipmen_wrestling" class="mw-redirect" title="Navy Midshipmen wrestling">Navy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Penn_Quakers" title="Penn Quakers">Penn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Syracuse_Orange" title="Syracuse Orange">Syracuse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cornell_Big_Red_wrestling" title="Cornell Big Red wrestling">Cornell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maryland_Terrapins_wrestling" class="mw-redirect" title="Maryland Terrapins wrestling">Maryland</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Panthers_wrestling" title="Pittsburgh Panthers wrestling">Pitt</a>, with the latter breaking Pitt's 16-match win streak.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The team went on to win the EIWA Tournament before clinching their first <a href="/wiki/1953_NCAA_Wrestling_Championships" class="mw-redirect" title="1953 NCAA Wrestling Championships">NCAA wrestling championship</a> becoming the first team from the Eastern United States to do so.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The team boasted nine wrestlers, five of whom became All-Americans, with Hud Samson achieving an individual national championship. This win was particularly significant as it ended the 19-year dominance of <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_Sooners_wrestling" class="mw-redirect" title="Oklahoma Sooners wrestling">Oklahoma</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_State_Cowboys_wrestling" title="Oklahoma State Cowboys wrestling">Oklahoma A&M</a> in the sport.<sup id="cite_ref-century_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-century-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1953NationalChamps_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1953NationalChamps-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Penn State wrestling underwent a significant transition with the retirement of longtime coach Charlie Speidel in 1964. Under Speidel's 34 year leadership Penn State recorded a record of 191–56–13, winning the university's first team national championship in 1953, achieving eight EIWA team titles, producing six individual NCAA champs, 15 national finalists, and 41 All-Americans. Speidel was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Bill_Koll" title="Bill Koll">Bill Koll</a> who was one of the country's most successful collegiate wrestlers and a notable coach.<sup id="cite_ref-century_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-century-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After competing in the EIWA for 58 years, Penn State left the conference in 1975 and competed independently for one season. During that year, the team earned a spot in the NCAAs through the Eastern Regional Independent tournament. In 1976, the team became a charter member of the newly formed Eastern Wrestling League (EWL), which was the brainchild of several individuals, including Ed Czekai, Penn State's Athletic Director, Frank Lignelli, Clarion's Athletic Director, and Walt Cummins, Pitt's Athletic Director. The EWL had six original members: Penn State, <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Panthers_wrestling" title="Pittsburgh Panthers wrestling">Pitt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clarion_Golden_Eagles_wrestling" title="Clarion Golden Eagles wrestling">Clarion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lock_Haven_Bald_Eagles" title="Lock Haven Bald Eagles">Lock Haven</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bloomsburg_Huskies" title="Bloomsburg Huskies">Bloomsburg</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Bulls_wrestling" title="Buffalo Bulls wrestling">Buffalo</a>. Additional members, <a href="/wiki/West_Virginia_Mountaineers" title="West Virginia Mountaineers">West Virginia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_State_Vikings" title="Cleveland State Vikings">Cleveland State</a>, <a href="/wiki/Millersville_University_of_Pennsylvania" title="Millersville University of Pennsylvania">Millersville</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Edinboro_Fighting_Scots" title="Edinboro Fighting Scots">Edinboro</a>, were added later.<sup id="cite_ref-century_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-century-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Penn State wrestling had its worst performance in program history during the 1978–1979 season. Despite having achieved an average of ten wins per year and three top-10 finishes in the NCAA tournament over the preceding five years, the team experienced a rapid decline in performance due to academic ineligibility and injuries. Despite first-year coach Rich Lorenzo's optimism, the team failed to reverse their fate, ultimately suffering 11 consecutive losses and finishing the season with a 2–11 record. Despite the disastrous start, Lorenzo's leadership and personality proved to be essential to Penn State's eventual resurgence during the 1980–81 season, leading them to a sixth-place finish in the NCAA tournament.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Considered one of Penn State wrestling's most notable seasons during its first century, the 1986-87 campaign was highlighted by several key achievements. The team secured the program's first victory over Iowa with a 27–15 final score, and also recorded a convincing regular season triumph over Oklahoma by 30–8. The Nittany Lions ended the season with a dual record of 18–1–1, clinching the EWL title and finishing in third place at the NCAA championships. Despite falling short of individual NCAA titles, the team earned a notable eight All-American honors, the most in its history up to that point. Additionally, the squad broke Penn State's record for most dual victories in a season, and shared the National Duals championship with Oklahoma State.<sup id="cite_ref-century_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-century-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the 1988 season Penn State would defeat the Iowa Hawkeyes 19–18 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on December 6. This would be the first and only time Iowa would lose a home dual under legendary coach Dan Gable. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_Big_Ten_Era">Early Big Ten Era</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_wrestling&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Early Big Ten Era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Penn_State_Wrestling,_Nick_Lee_vs._Ohio_State.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Penn_State_Wrestling%2C_Nick_Lee_vs._Ohio_State.jpg/220px-Penn_State_Wrestling%2C_Nick_Lee_vs._Ohio_State.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Penn_State_Wrestling%2C_Nick_Lee_vs._Ohio_State.jpg/330px-Penn_State_Wrestling%2C_Nick_Lee_vs._Ohio_State.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Penn_State_Wrestling%2C_Nick_Lee_vs._Ohio_State.jpg/440px-Penn_State_Wrestling%2C_Nick_Lee_vs._Ohio_State.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3727" data-file-height="2589" /></a><figcaption>Penn State's Nick Lee wrestling <a href="/wiki/Ohio_State_Buckeyes_wrestling" title="Ohio State Buckeyes wrestling">Ohio State</a> in February 2020</figcaption></figure> <p>The 1990s marked a period of change and close calls for Penn State wrestling. Over the course of the decade, the team achieved a record of 149 wins, 56 losses, and 4 ties. The Lions performed well in the <a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_Wrestling_Championships" title="NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships">NCAA Division I</a> tournament, finishing in the top five a total of eight times, including one 2nd-place finish and three 3rd places. In addition, the team boasted five national champions, who won a total of seven titles, as well as 13 individual EWL championships and 14 individual Big 10 championships. Despite consistently being a top contender, the team fell just short of winning the national or <a href="/wiki/Big_Ten_Conference" title="Big Ten Conference">Big Ten Conference</a> championship.<sup id="cite_ref-century_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-century-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The wrestling program saw several changes during the 1990s. Penn State joined the Big Ten Conference on June 4, 1990, becoming the conference's 11th member. Long term head coach Rich Lorenzo retired in 1992 compiling a 188-64-9 record and coached 53 All-Americans.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lorenzo was succeeded by John Fritz, who was later replaced by former wrestler Troy Sunderland. The team also had several standout wrestlers, including <a href="/wiki/Kerry_McCoy_(wrestler)" title="Kerry McCoy (wrestler)">Kerry McCoy</a>, Cary Kolat, and Troy Sunderland.<sup id="cite_ref-century_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-century-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Penn State hit a slump under head coach Troy Sunderland, through the 2000s the team had only achieved two top-five finish in his 11-year tenure, and had even placed as low as 35th. After recording a lackluster record of 8-12-2 in the dual season and placed 17th at the 2009 NCAA Championships the university decided to part ways with Sunderland.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cael_Sanderson_Era">Cael Sanderson Era</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_wrestling&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Cael Sanderson Era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In April 2009, <a href="/wiki/Cael_Sanderson" title="Cael Sanderson">Cael Sanderson</a>, one of the most distinguished American wrestlers, accepted the head coaching position with Penn State wrestling. As a college wrestler, Sanderson had a perfect 159–0 record and won four NCAA titles. He then won an Olympic gold medal in Athens in 2004, before becoming a coach at his alma mater Iowa State. Sanderson's Iowa State team finished second, fifth, and third at NCAAs during his time as head coach, qualifying a wrestler in every weight class for the championships during each of his three years — 30 in total.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Sanderson era got off to a slow start in 2009–2010 with a 9th place NCAA finish, but the team made a splash in 2010–2011 with its second NCAA title, its first under Sanderson. The Nittany Lions were led by a combination of veterans brought in by Sunderland and young talent brought in by Sanderson. Five Nittany Lions finished first in their weight class at the Big Ten Tournament, including two redshirt freshmen: former number one pound-for-pound recruit <a href="/wiki/David_Taylor_(wrestler,_born_1990)" title="David Taylor (wrestler, born 1990)">David Taylor</a>, who had followed Sanderson from Iowa State to Penn State, and <a href="/wiki/Ed_Ruth" title="Ed Ruth">Ed Ruth</a>, who had committed to the previous regime but remained committed when Sanderson was hired.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Redshirt sophomore Quentin Wright would go on to win his first NCAA title at 184 pounds, the first individual NCAA title under Sanderson at Penn State.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>2011-2012 saw similar success on the mat, with the Nittany Lions winning their third team title behind the individual success of Taylor, Ruth, and <a href="/wiki/Frank_Molinaro" title="Frank Molinaro">Frank Molinaro</a>. Molinaro, a redshirt senior, won his first NCAA title in his fifth and final year of eligibility with the program. Taylor and Ruth each won their first NCAA titles, with Taylor being awarded the <a href="/wiki/Dan_Hodge_Trophy" title="Dan Hodge Trophy">Hodge Trophy</a> following the season as the nation's most outstanding wrestler. </p><p>Penn State returned to win a third straight NCAA title in 2012–2013, with Ruth winning his second individual title and Wright bouncing back from a finals loss in 2012 to win a second title in his final year of eligibility. Taylor finished as a runner up to future four-time NCAA champion <a href="/wiki/Kyle_Dake" title="Kyle Dake">Kyle Dake</a>. The Nittany Lions would go on to win their fourth straight title in 2013–2014. Now fifth-year seniors, Taylor and Ruth won their final NCAA titles, with Taylor picking up his second Hodge Trophy.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Nittany Lions took a step back in 2014-2015 following the graduation of Taylor and Ruth, posting a sixth place NCAA finish with only one individual national champion: fifth-year senior Matt Brown. The team's February 22 win over Rider marked the start of a historic 60-match dual meet win streak, which would last through 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 2015–2016 season saw a return to the program's winning ways, with the team's young talent shining on the way to another team title. Redshirt sophomore <a href="/wiki/Zain_Retherford" title="Zain Retherford">Zain Retherford</a> won his first NCAA title, and redshirt freshmen <a href="/wiki/Jason_Nolf" title="Jason Nolf">Jason Nolf</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bo_Nickal" title="Bo Nickal">Bo Nickal</a> each finished as runner up at their weight classes. Fifth-year senior Nico Megaludis also won his first NCAA title, making him Penn State's only 125 pound NCAA champion under Sanderson. </p><p>Penn State's young talent led to a historic 2016–2017 season. The team won its seventh NCAA title, while also tying the record for most individual titles with five.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Retherford repeated as an NCAA champion and won the Hodge Trophy as the nation's top wrestler, and Nickal and Nolf each won their first NCAA titles. Redshirt freshman Vincenzo Joseph and true freshman Mark Hall won NCAA titles as well, making them the first freshman national champions at Penn State under Cael Sanderson. </p><p>With all five national champions returning in 2017–2018, it was more of the same for the Nittany Lions, and they captured their eighth national title. In his final season, Retherford became the first Penn State wrestler to win three NCAA titles and was awarded another Hodge Trophy, and Nickal, Nolf, and Joseph would each repeat their titles as well. Penn State won their ninth NCAA title in 2018–2019 behind the third and final titles from Nickal and Nolf, who found themselves in a contested race for the Hodge Trophy. Nickal would win with 37 first place votes to Nolf's 10 first place votes.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Heavyweight <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Cassar" title="Anthony Cassar">Anthony Cassar</a> defeated <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Golden_Gophers_wrestling" title="Minnesota Golden Gophers wrestling">Minnesota's</a> <a href="/wiki/Gable_Steveson" title="Gable Steveson">Gable Steveson</a> to win his first and only national title. </p><p>The 2019-2020 NCAA Tournament was cancelled due to the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, with seniors Joseph and Hall unable to compete for a final title. However, the season was a down year for the Nittany Lions: Penn State's fourth-place finish in the Big Ten Tournament was its lowest since 2015, and their 60-match dual meet win streak ended with a loss to Arizona State.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Nittany Lions lost their first title since 2015 in the COVID-shortened 2020–2021 season, but demonstrated strong individual success with four first-time title winners: senior <a href="/wiki/Nick_Lee_(wrestler)" title="Nick Lee (wrestler)">Nick Lee</a>, junior <a href="/wiki/Roman_Bravo-Young" title="Roman Bravo-Young">Roman Bravo-Young</a>, sophomore <a href="/wiki/Aaron_Brooks_(wrestler)" title="Aaron Brooks (wrestler)">Aaron Brooks</a>, and redshirt freshman <a href="/wiki/Carter_Starocci" title="Carter Starocci">Carter Starocci</a>. Each wrestler on the roster in 2020-2021 was granted an extra year of eligibility due to the shortened season.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Penn State returned to the top of the podium in 2021–2022, winning their tenth NCAA title and once again tying the record for individual national titles with five. Each of the four 2021 winners repeated as champions, and <a href="/wiki/Cornell_Big_Red_wrestling" title="Cornell Big Red wrestling">Cornell</a> transfer Max Dean won his first and only NCAA title at 197 pounds. 2022-23 saw an eleventh national title, with Brooks and Starocci winning their third individual NCAA titles. </p><p>Penn State put together a historic performance in the 2023–2024 season, putting up an NCAA Tournament record 172.5 points and defeating the second place team, Cornell, by 100 points en route to a twelfth NCAA team title.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Starocci and Brooks became the sixth and seventh wrestlers in NCAA history, and the first Penn State wrestlers, to win four individual NCAA titles, Brooks was awarded the Hodge trophy for his undefeated season. Sophomore Levi Haines and redshirt senior Greg Kerkvliet also won their first individual titles. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Facilities">Facilities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_wrestling&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Facilities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Bryce_Jordan_Center" title="Bryce Jordan Center">Bryce Jordan Center</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rec_Hall" title="Rec Hall">Rec Hall</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rec_Hall_Wrestling.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Rec_Hall_Wrestling.jpg/220px-Rec_Hall_Wrestling.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Rec_Hall_Wrestling.jpg/330px-Rec_Hall_Wrestling.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Rec_Hall_Wrestling.jpg/440px-Rec_Hall_Wrestling.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3954" data-file-height="2966" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Rec_Hall" title="Rec Hall">Rec Hall</a> during an <a href="/wiki/National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association" title="National Collegiate Athletic Association">NCAA</a> <a href="/wiki/College_wrestling" class="mw-redirect" title="College wrestling">college wrestling</a> dual between first-ranked Penn State and eighth-ranked <a href="/wiki/Nebraska_Cornhuskers_wrestling" title="Nebraska Cornhuskers wrestling">Nebraska</a> in <a href="/wiki/University_Park,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="University Park, Pennsylvania">University Park</a> in February 2022</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bryce_Jordan_Center_Wrestling.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Bryce_Jordan_Center_Wrestling.jpg/220px-Bryce_Jordan_Center_Wrestling.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Bryce_Jordan_Center_Wrestling.jpg/330px-Bryce_Jordan_Center_Wrestling.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Bryce_Jordan_Center_Wrestling.jpg/440px-Bryce_Jordan_Center_Wrestling.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5568" data-file-height="3712" /></a><figcaption>Penn State Wrestling's match against <a href="/wiki/Ohio_State_Buckeyes_wrestling" title="Ohio State Buckeyes wrestling">Ohio State</a> at <a href="/wiki/Bryce_Jordan_Center" title="Bryce Jordan Center">Bryce Jordan Center</a> in <a href="/wiki/State_College,_Pennsylvania" title="State College, Pennsylvania">State College</a> on February 15, 2020</figcaption></figure> <p>Penn State University has two main wrestling venues: <a href="/wiki/Rec_Hall" title="Rec Hall">Rec Hall</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bryce_Jordan_Center" title="Bryce Jordan Center">Bryce Jordan Center</a>. </p><p>Rec Hall is the home of Penn State wrestling. Built in 1929, Rec Hall has been the home of Penn State wrestling since the team's inception. The facility has a seating capacity of around 6,500 spectators. </p><p>In recent years, Penn State has also started hosting some wrestling events at the Bryce Jordan Center, which is a larger and more modern arena that opened in 1996. The facility has a seating capacity of over 15,000 spectators. </p><p>The training facility for the team is the Lorenzo Wrestling Complex, located at Penn State, provides training amenities spanning over 24,000 square feet, including a practice room, weight room, locker room, and academic support area for Penn State wrestlers. Additionally, the complex is also utilized as the training hub for the Nittany Lion Wrestling Club, which is a designated U.S. Olympic Regional Training Center.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Current_lineup">Current lineup</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_wrestling&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Current lineup"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th style="background-color:#001E44;color:white;">Weight (Pounds) </th> <th style="background-color:#001E44;color:white;">Name </th> <th style="background-color:#001E44;color:white;">Year </th></tr> <tr> <td>125 lbs.</td> <td>Braeden Davis</td> <td>Fr. </td></tr> <tr> <td>133 lbs.</td> <td>Aaron Nagao</td> <td>R-So. </td></tr> <tr> <td>141 lbs.</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Beau_Bartlett" title="Beau Bartlett">Beau Bartlett</a></td> <td>Sr. </td></tr> <tr> <td>149 lbs.</td> <td>Tyler Kasak</td> <td>Fr. </td></tr> <tr> <td>157 lbs.</td> <td>Levi Haines</td> <td>So. </td></tr> <tr> <td>165 lbs.</td> <td>Mitchell Mesenbrink</td> <td>R-Fr. </td></tr> <tr> <td>174 lbs.</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Carter_Starocci" title="Carter Starocci">Carter Starocci</a></td> <td>R-Sr. </td></tr> <tr> <td>184 lbs.</td> <td>Bernie Truax</td> <td>Gr. </td></tr> <tr> <td>197 lbs.</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Aaron_Brooks_(wrestler)" title="Aaron Brooks (wrestler)">Aaron Brooks</a> </td> <td>Sr.+ </td></tr> <tr> <td>285 lbs.</td> <td>Greg Kerkvliet</td> <td>R-Sr. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Coaching">Coaching</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_wrestling&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Coaching"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Penn_State_Wrestling_Coaches.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Penn_State_Wrestling_Coaches.jpg/220px-Penn_State_Wrestling_Coaches.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Penn_State_Wrestling_Coaches.jpg/330px-Penn_State_Wrestling_Coaches.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Penn_State_Wrestling_Coaches.jpg/440px-Penn_State_Wrestling_Coaches.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4951" data-file-height="3334" /></a><figcaption>Head coach <a href="/wiki/Cael_Sanderson" title="Cael Sanderson">Cael Sanderson</a> and assistant coaches look on during the wrestling match against <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Bulls_wrestling" title="Buffalo Bulls wrestling">Buffalo</a> at <a href="/wiki/Rec_Hall" title="Rec Hall">Rec Hall</a> in February 2019</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th style="background-color:#001E44;color:white;">Position<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th style="background-color:#001E44;color:white;">Name </th></tr> <tr> <td>Head coach</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cael_Sanderson" title="Cael Sanderson">Cael Sanderson</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Associate Head Coach</td> <td>Cody Sanderson </td></tr> <tr> <td>Head Assistant Coach</td> <td>Casey Cunningham </td></tr> <tr> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Director of Operations</td> <td>Adam Lynch </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honors">Honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_wrestling&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_wrestling_records_and_statistics" title="List of Penn State Nittany Lions wrestling records and statistics">List of Penn State Nittany Lions wrestling records and statistics</a></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th style="background:#001E44; color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="3">Team Awards </th></tr> <tr> <th style="width:260px">Competitions </th> <th style="width:80px">Titles </th> <th style="width:300px">Seasons </th></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center; width:300px">Pre-NCAA National Championships </th> <th>1 </th> <td style="text-align:center; width:300px">1921 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center; width:300px"><a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_Wrestling_Championships" title="NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships">NCAA National Championships</a> </th> <th>12 </th> <td style="text-align:center; width:300px">1953, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center; width:300px"><a href="/wiki/Big_Ten_Conference" title="Big Ten Conference">Big Ten Tournament</a> </th> <th>8 </th> <td style="text-align:center; width:300px">2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2023, 2024 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center; width:300px"><a href="/wiki/Big_Ten_Conference" title="Big Ten Conference">Big Ten Regular Season</a> </th> <th>10 </th> <td style="text-align:center; width:300px">2011–12, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#001E44; color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="3">Individual Awards </th></tr> <tr> <th style="width:260px">Honor </th> <th style="width:80px">Wins </th> <th style="width:300px">Recipient & Season </th></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center; width:300px"><a href="/wiki/Dan_Hodge_Trophy" title="Dan Hodge Trophy">Dan Hodge Trophy</a> </th> <th>6 </th> <td style="text-align:center; width:300px"><a href="/wiki/Kerry_McCoy_(wrestler)" title="Kerry McCoy (wrestler)">Kerry McCoy</a> (1997), <a href="/wiki/David_Taylor_(wrestler,_born_1990)" title="David Taylor (wrestler, born 1990)">David Taylor</a> (2012, 2014) <a href="/wiki/Zain_Retherford" title="Zain Retherford">Zain Retherford</a> (2017, 2018), <a href="/wiki/Bo_Nickal" title="Bo Nickal">Bo Nickal</a> (2019), <a href="/wiki/Aaron_Brooks_(wrestler)" title="Aaron Brooks (wrestler)">Aaron Brooks</a> (2024) </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:center; width:300px"><a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_Wrestling_Championships" title="NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships">NCAA National Champions</a> </th> <th>59 </th> <td style="text-align:center; width:300px">Howard Johnston (1935), Joe Lemyre (1952), Hud Samson (1953), Larry Fornicola (1955), Bill Oberly (1955), Jon Johnston (1957), Andy Matter (1971, 1972), John Fritz (1975), Carl Destefanis (1984), Scott Lynch (1984), Jim Martin (1988), <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Prescott" title="Jeff Prescott">Jeff Prescott</a> (1991, 1992), <a href="/wiki/Kerry_McCoy_(wrestler)" title="Kerry McCoy (wrestler)">Kerry McCoy</a> (1994, 1997), John Hughes (1995), <a href="/wiki/Sanshiro_Abe" title="Sanshiro Abe">Sanshiro Abe</a> (1996), Glen Pritzlaff (1999), Jeremy Hunter (2000), Phil Davis (2008), Frank Molinaro (2012), <a href="/wiki/David_Taylor_(wrestler,_born_1990)" title="David Taylor (wrestler, born 1990)">David Taylor</a> (2012, 2014), Ed Ruth (2012, 2013, 2014), Quentin Wright (2011, 2013), Matt Brown (2015), Nico Megaludis (2016), <a href="/wiki/Zain_Retherford" title="Zain Retherford">Zain Retherford</a> (2016, 2017, 2018), <a href="/wiki/Jason_Nolf" title="Jason Nolf">Jason Nolf</a> (2017, 2018, 2019), Vincenzo Joseph (2017, 2018), <a href="/wiki/Mark_Hall_(wrestler)" title="Mark Hall (wrestler)">Mark Hall</a> (2017), <a href="/wiki/Bo_Nickal" title="Bo Nickal">Bo Nickal</a> (2017, 2018, 2019), <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Cassar" title="Anthony Cassar">Anthony Cassar</a> (2019), <a href="/wiki/Roman_Bravo-Young" title="Roman Bravo-Young">Roman Bravo-Young</a> (2021, 2022), Max Dean (2022), Nick Lee (2021, 2022), Carter Starocci (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024), <a href="/wiki/Aaron_Brooks_(wrestler)" title="Aaron Brooks (wrestler)">Aaron Brooks</a> (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024), Greg Kerkvliet (2024), Levi Haines (2024) </td></tr> </tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <p>Last updated: March 31, 2023<br />Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://issuu.com/gopsusports/docs/wrmg22-23web10-26">Penn State Athletics</a> </p> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Olympians">Olympians</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_wrestling&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Olympians"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="6" style="background-color:#001E44;color:white;">Penn State wrestlers in the Olympics </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="col" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#001E44;">Year </th> <th scope="col" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#001E44;">Name </th> <th scope="col" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#001E44;">Country </th> <th scope="col" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#001E44;">Style </th> <th scope="col" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#001E44;">Weight Class </th> <th scope="col" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#001E44;">Place </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1908_Summer_Olympics" title="1908 Summer Olympics">1908 London</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Lee_Talbott" title="Lee Talbott">Lee Talbott</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/33px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/44px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/United_States_at_the_Olympics" title="United States at the Olympics">United States</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">Freestyle </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_1908_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_freestyle_heavyweight" title="Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle heavyweight">+73 kg</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">9th </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1924_Summer_Olympics" title="1924 Summer Olympics">1924 Paris</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Katsutoshi_Naito" title="Katsutoshi Naito">Katsutoshi Naito</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/22px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/33px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/44px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Japan_at_the_Olympics" title="Japan at the Olympics">Japan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">Freestyle </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_1924_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_freestyle_featherweight" title="Wrestling at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle featherweight">61 kg</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#c96;"><b>Bronze</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1924_Summer_Olympics" title="1924 Summer Olympics">1924 Paris</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Katsutoshi_Naito" title="Katsutoshi Naito">Katsutoshi Naito</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/22px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/33px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/44px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Japan_at_the_Olympics" title="Japan at the Olympics">Japan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">Greco-Roman </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_1924_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_Greco-Roman_featherweight" title="Wrestling at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman featherweight">62 kg</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">8th </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1988_Summer_Olympics" title="1988 Summer Olympics">1988 Seoul</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Ken_Chertow" title="Ken Chertow">Ken Chertow</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/33px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/44px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/United_States_at_the_Olympics" title="United States at the Olympics">United States</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">Freestyle </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_1988_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_freestyle_52_kg" title="Wrestling at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 52 kg">52 kg</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">DNP </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics" title="1996 Summer Olympics">1996 Atlanta</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Sanshiro_Abe" title="Sanshiro Abe">Sanshiro Abe</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/22px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/33px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/44px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Japan_at_the_Olympics" title="Japan at the Olympics">Japan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">Freestyle </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_1996_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_freestyle_57_kg" title="Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 57 kg">57 kg</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">9th </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2000_Summer_Olympics" title="2000 Summer Olympics">2000 Sydney</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Cary_Kolat" title="Cary Kolat">Cary Kolat</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/33px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/44px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/United_States_at_the_Olympics" title="United States at the Olympics">United States</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">Freestyle </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_2000_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_freestyle_63_kg" title="Wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 63 kg">63 kg</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">9th </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2000_Summer_Olympics" title="2000 Summer Olympics">2000 Sydney</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Kerry_McCoy_(wrestler)" title="Kerry McCoy (wrestler)">Kerry McCoy</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/33px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/44px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/United_States_at_the_Olympics" title="United States at the Olympics">United States</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">Freestyle </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_2000_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_freestyle_130_kg" title="Wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 130 kg">130 kg</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">5th </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics" title="2004 Summer Olympics">2004 Athens</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Kerry_McCoy_(wrestler)" title="Kerry McCoy (wrestler)">Kerry McCoy</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/33px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/44px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/United_States_at_the_Olympics" title="United States at the Olympics">United States</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">Freestyle </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_freestyle_120_kg" title="Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 120 kg">120 kg</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">7th </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2016_Summer_Olympics" title="2016 Summer Olympics">2016 Rio de Janeiro</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Frank_Molinaro" title="Frank Molinaro">Frank Molinaro</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/33px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/44px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/United_States_at_the_Olympics" title="United States at the Olympics">United States</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">Freestyle </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_2016_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_freestyle_65_kg" title="Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 65 kg">65 kg</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">5th </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2020_Summer_Olympics" title="2020 Summer Olympics">2020 Tokyo</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/David_Taylor_(wrestler,_born_1990)" title="David Taylor (wrestler, born 1990)">David Taylor</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/33px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/44px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/United_States_at_the_Olympics" title="United States at the Olympics">United States</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">Freestyle </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_2020_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_freestyle_86_kg" title="Wrestling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 86 kg">86 kg</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center; background: gold;"><b>Gold</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics" title="2024 Summer Olympics">2024 Paris</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Roman_Bravo-Young" title="Roman Bravo-Young">Roman Bravo-Young</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/22px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/33px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/44px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="980" data-file-height="560" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Mexico_at_the_Olympics" title="Mexico at the Olympics">Mexico</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">Freestyle </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_freestyle_57_kg" title="Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 57 kg">57 kg</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">12th </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics" title="2024 Summer Olympics">2024 Paris</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Aaron_Brooks_(wrestler)" title="Aaron Brooks (wrestler)">Aaron Brooks</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/33px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/44px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/United_States_at_the_Olympics" title="United States at the Olympics">United States</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">Freestyle </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_freestyle_86_kg" title="Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 86 kg">86 kg</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#c96;"><b>Bronze</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics" title="2024 Summer Olympics">2024 Paris</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Zain_Retherford" title="Zain Retherford">Zain Retherford</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/33px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/44px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/United_States_at_the_Olympics" title="United States at the Olympics">United States</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">Freestyle </td> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_freestyle_65_kg" title="Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 65 kg">65 kg</a> </td> <td style="text-align: center;">8th </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_Penn_State_wrestlers">Notable Penn State wrestlers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_wrestling&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Notable Penn State wrestlers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Penn_State_Wrestling_Alumni.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Penn_State_Wrestling_Alumni.jpg/220px-Penn_State_Wrestling_Alumni.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Penn_State_Wrestling_Alumni.jpg/330px-Penn_State_Wrestling_Alumni.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Penn_State_Wrestling_Alumni.jpg/440px-Penn_State_Wrestling_Alumni.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4627" data-file-height="3080" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Dan_Hodge_Trophy" title="Dan Hodge Trophy">Dan Hodge Trophy</a> recipients (from left) <a href="/wiki/Bo_Nickal" title="Bo Nickal">Bo Nickal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zain_Retherford" title="Zain Retherford">Zain Retherford</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Taylor_(wrestler,_born_1990)" title="David Taylor (wrestler, born 1990)">David Taylor</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kerry_McCoy_(wrestler)" title="Kerry McCoy (wrestler)">Kerry McCoy</a> are honored during Penn State's wrestling match against <a href="/wiki/Ohio_State_Buckeyes_wrestling" title="Ohio State Buckeyes wrestling">Ohio State</a> in February 2020 at the <a href="/wiki/Bryce_Jordan_Center" title="Bryce Jordan Center">Bryce Jordan Center</a> in <a href="/wiki/State_College,_Pennsylvania" title="State College, Pennsylvania">State College</a>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sanshiro_Abe" title="Sanshiro Abe">Sanshiro Abe</a> – four-time <a href="/wiki/All-America#Wrestling" title="All-America">All-American</a>, NCAA National Champion, and represented <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_1996_Summer_Olympics" title="Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics">1996 Summer Olympics</a> in <a href="/wiki/Freestyle_wrestling" title="Freestyle wrestling">freestyle wrestling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beau_Bartlett" title="Beau Bartlett">Beau Bartlett</a> – NCAA All-American and Junior World medalist in freestyle wrestling</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Bravo-Young" title="Roman Bravo-Young">Roman Bravo-Young</a> – two-time NCAA National Champion</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aaron_Brooks_(wrestler)" title="Aaron Brooks (wrestler)">Aaron Brooks</a> – Olympic bronze medalist at the <a href="/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics" title="Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics">2024 Summer Olympics</a> in freestyle wrestling, four-time NCAA National Champion, Cadet World Champion and Junior World silver medalist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Cassar" title="Anthony Cassar">Anthony Cassar</a> – NCAA National Champion</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Chertow" title="Ken Chertow">Ken Chertow</a> – three-time NCAA All-American and Olympian in freestyle wrestling at the <a href="/wiki/1988_Summer_Olympics" title="1988 Summer Olympics">1988 Summer Olympics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Cummins_(fighter)" title="Patrick Cummins (fighter)">Patrick Cummins</a> – former <a href="/wiki/Ultimate_Fighting_Championship" title="Ultimate Fighting Championship">UFC</a> fighter, NCAA runner-up and two-time All-American</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phil_Davis_(fighter)" title="Phil Davis (fighter)">Phil Davis</a> – former UFC fighter and <a href="/wiki/List_of_Bellator_champions#Light_Heavyweight_World_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Bellator champions">Bellator Light Heavyweight World Champion</a>, NCAA National Champion and four-time All-American</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Hall_(wrestler)" title="Mark Hall (wrestler)">Mark Hall</a> – 2021 US Open National Champion, one-time Cadet and two-time <a href="/wiki/World_Junior_Wrestling_Championships" title="World Junior Wrestling Championships">Junior World Champion</a> in freestyle wrestling, NCAA National Champion and three-time finalist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bubba_Jenkins" title="Bubba Jenkins">Bubba Jenkins</a> – NCAA All-American and finalist at Penn State, Junior World Champion in freestyle wrestling</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cary_Kolat" title="Cary Kolat">Cary Kolat</a> – Olympian and two-time World medalist in freestyle wrestling, two-time NCAA All-American at Penn State</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katsutoshi_Naito" title="Katsutoshi Naito">Katsutoshi Naito</a> – Olympic bronze medalist at the <a href="/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_1924_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_freestyle_featherweight" title="Wrestling at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle featherweight">1924 Summer Olympics</a> for Japan in freestyle wrestling</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kerry_McCoy_(wrestler)" title="Kerry McCoy (wrestler)">Kerry McCoy</a> – two-time NCAA National Champion, three-time All-American, and two-time Olympian in freestyle wrestling at the <a href="/wiki/2000_Summer_Olympics" title="2000 Summer Olympics">2000</a> and <a href="/wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics" title="2004 Summer Olympics">2004 Summer Olympics</a>; World silver medalist in 2003</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Molinaro" title="Frank Molinaro">Frank Molinaro</a> – Olympian at the <a href="/wiki/2016_Summer_Olympics" title="2016 Summer Olympics">2016 Summer Olympics</a> in freestyle wrestling, NCAA National Champion, two-time finalist, and four-time All-American</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rohan_Murphy" title="Rohan Murphy">Rohan Murphy</a> – Paralympian weightlifter and motivational speaker</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bo_Nickal" title="Bo Nickal">Bo Nickal</a> – UFC fighter, gold medalist at the <a href="/wiki/U23_World_Wrestling_Championships" title="U23 World Wrestling Championships">U23 World Wrestling Championships</a> in freestyle wrestling, three-time NCAA National Champion, and four-time finalist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jason_Nolf" title="Jason Nolf">Jason Nolf</a> – three-time NCAA National Champion, four-time finalist, and gold medalist at the <a href="/wiki/2020_Pan_American_Wrestling_Championships" title="2020 Pan American Wrestling Championships">2020 Pan American Wrestling Championships</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Prescott" title="Jeff Prescott">Jeff Prescott</a> – two-time NCAA Champion and three-time All-American</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zain_Retherford" title="Zain Retherford">Zain Retherford</a> – Olympian at the 2024 Summer Olympics in freestyle wrestling, World Champion in 2023 and World silver medalist in 2022, Cadet World Champion, three-time NCAA National Champion, and four-time All-American</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ed_Ruth" title="Ed Ruth">Ed Ruth</a> – MMA fighter, three-time NCAA National Champion and four-time All-American</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carter_Starocci" title="Carter Starocci">Carter Starocci</a> – four-time NCAA National Champion</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Taylor_(wrestler,_born_1990)" title="David Taylor (wrestler, born 1990)">David Taylor</a> – Olympic gold medalist at the <a href="/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_2020_Summer_Olympics" title="Wrestling at the 2020 Summer Olympics">2020 Summer Olympics</a> in freestyle wrestling, three-time World Champion, two-time NCAA National Champion and four-time finalist</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_wrestling&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Iowa-Penn_State_rivalry" class="mw-redirect" title="Iowa-Penn State rivalry">Iowa-Penn State rivalry</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_wrestling&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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Bellisario College of Communications">Communications</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Dickinson_Law" title="Penn State Dickinson Law">Dickinson Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_College_of_Earth_and_Mineral_Sciences" title="Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences">Earth and Mineral Sciences</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_College_of_Education" title="Penn State College of Education">Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_College_of_Engineering" title="Penn State College of Engineering">Engineering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eberly_College_of_Science" title="Eberly College of Science">Science</a></li> <li>Health and Human Development</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_School_of_Hospitality_Management" title="Penn State School of Hospitality Management">Hospitality Management</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schreyer_Honors_College" title="Schreyer Honors College">Honors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_College_of_Information_Sciences_and_Technology" class="mw-redirect" title="Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology">Information Sciences and Technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_School_of_International_Affairs" title="Penn State School of International Affairs">International Affairs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Law" title="Penn State Law">Law</a></li> <li>Liberal Arts</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_University_College_of_Medicine" title="Penn State University College of Medicine">Medicine</a></li> <li>Nursing</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_College_of_Technology" title="Pennsylvania College of Technology">Technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Graduate_School" title="Penn State Graduate School">Graduate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Great_Valley_School_of_Graduate_Professional_Studies" title="Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies">Graduate Professional Studies</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#1E407C; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #009CDE, inset -2px -2px 0 #009CDE;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Nittany_Lions" title="Penn State Nittany Lions"><span class="tmpl-colored-link" style="color: white; text-decoration: inherit;">Athletics</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#1E407C; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #009CDE, inset -2px -2px 0 #009CDE;">Sports</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Nittany_Lions" title="Penn State Nittany Lions">Penn State Nittany Lions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_baseball" title="Penn State Nittany Lions baseball">Baseball</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_basketball" title="Penn State Nittany Lions basketball">Men's basketball</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Lady_Lions_basketball" title="Penn State Lady Lions basketball">Women's basketball</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_field_hockey" title="Penn State Nittany Lions field hockey">Field hockey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_football" title="Penn State Nittany Lions football">Football</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_men%27s_ice_hockey" title="Penn State Nittany Lions men's ice hockey">Men's ice hockey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_women%27s_ice_hockey" title="Penn State Nittany Lions women's ice hockey">Women's ice hockey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_men%27s_lacrosse" title="Penn State Nittany Lions men's lacrosse">Men's lacrosse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_women%27s_lacrosse" title="Penn State Nittany Lions women's lacrosse">Women's lacrosse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_men%27s_soccer" title="Penn State Nittany Lions men's soccer">Men's soccer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_women%27s_soccer" title="Penn State Nittany Lions women's soccer">Women's soccer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_softball" title="Penn State Nittany Lions softball">Softball</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_men%27s_volleyball" title="Penn State Nittany Lions men's volleyball">Men's volleyball</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_women%27s_volleyball" title="Penn State Nittany Lions women's volleyball">Women's volleyball</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wrestling</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#1E407C; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #009CDE, inset -2px -2px 0 #009CDE;">Facilities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beaver_Stadium" title="Beaver Stadium">Beaver Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bryce_Jordan_Center" title="Bryce Jordan Center">Bryce Jordan Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Golf_Courses" title="Penn State Golf Courses">Golf Courses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pegula_Ice_Arena" title="Pegula Ice Arena">Pegula Ice Arena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Ice_Pavilion" title="Penn State Ice Pavilion">Penn State Ice Pavilion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medlar_Field" title="Medlar Field">Medlar Field at Lubrano Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rec_Hall" title="Rec Hall">Rec Hall</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#1E407C; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #009CDE, inset -2px -2px 0 #009CDE;">Rivalries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alabama%E2%80%93Penn_State_football_rivalry" title="Alabama–Penn State football rivalry">Alabama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maryland%E2%80%93Penn_State_football_rivalry" title="Maryland–Penn State football rivalry">Maryland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michigan_State%E2%80%93Penn_State_football_rivalry" title="Michigan State–Penn State football rivalry">Michigan State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ohio_State%E2%80%93Penn_State_football_rivalry" title="Ohio State–Penn State football rivalry">Ohio State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State%E2%80%93Pittsburgh_football_rivalry" title="Penn State–Pittsburgh football rivalry">Pittsburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State%E2%80%93Syracuse_football_rivalry" title="Penn State–Syracuse football rivalry">Syracuse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State%E2%80%93West_Virginia_football_rivalry" title="Penn State–West Virginia football rivalry">West Virginia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#1E407C; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #009CDE, inset -2px -2px 0 #009CDE;">Spirit</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Legion_of_Blue" title="Legion of Blue">Legion of Blue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Park_Avenue_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Park Avenue Army">Park Avenue Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Alma_Mater" title="Penn State Alma Mater">Alma Mater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Blue_Band" title="Penn State Blue Band">Penn State Blue Band</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Fight_On,_State" title="Fight On, State">Fight On, State</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nittany_Lion" title="Nittany Lion">Nittany Lion</a> (mascot)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Nittany_Lion" title="The Nittany Lion">The Nittany Lion</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#1E407C; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #009CDE, inset -2px -2px 0 #009CDE;;width:1%">Buildings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Penn_State_academic_buildings" title="List of Penn State academic buildings">Academic buildings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_University_Creamery" title="Penn State University Creamery">Berkey Creamery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nittany_Lion_Inn" title="Nittany Lion Inn">Nittany Lion Inn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Main_(Pennsylvania_State_University)" title="Old Main (Pennsylvania State University)">Old Main</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palmer_Museum_of_Art" title="Palmer Museum of Art">Palmer Museum of Art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Information_Sciences_and_Technology_Building" title="Information Sciences and Technology Building">IST Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mehalso_Observatory" title="Mehalso Observatory">Mehalso Observatory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_State_University_Radiation_Science_%26_Engineering_Center" title="Pennsylvania State University Radiation Science & Engineering Center">Radiation Science & Engineering Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Pennsylvania_State_University_residence_halls" title="List of Pennsylvania State University residence halls">Residence halls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_State_University_Libraries" title="Pennsylvania State University Libraries">University libraries</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#1E407C; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #009CDE, inset -2px -2px 0 #009CDE;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_State_University_Commonwealth_campuses" title="Pennsylvania State University Commonwealth campuses"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:white">Campuses: <br />Commonwealth</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Abington" title="Penn State Abington">Abington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Altoona" title="Penn State Altoona">Altoona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Berks" title="Penn State Berks">Berks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Beaver" title="Penn State Beaver">Beaver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Brandywine" title="Penn State Brandywine">Brandywine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_DuBois" title="Penn State DuBois">DuBois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Erie,_The_Behrend_College" title="Penn State Erie, The Behrend College">Erie (Behrend College)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Fayette" title="Penn State Fayette">Fayette (Eberly Campus)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Greater_Allegheny" title="Penn State Greater Allegheny">Greater Allegheny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Harrisburg" title="Penn State Harrisburg">Harrisburg (Capital College)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Hazleton" title="Penn State Hazleton">Hazleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Lehigh_Valley" title="Penn State Lehigh Valley">Lehigh Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Mont_Alto" title="Penn State Mont Alto">Mont Alto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_New_Kensington" title="Penn State New Kensington">New Kensington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Schuylkill" title="Penn State Schuylkill">Schuylkill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Shenango" title="Penn State Shenango">Shenango</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_Park,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="University Park, Pennsylvania">University Park (Main campus)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Wilkes-Barre" title="Penn State Wilkes-Barre">Wilkes-Barre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Scranton" title="Penn State Scranton">Scranton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_York" title="Penn State York">York</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#1E407C; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #009CDE, inset -2px -2px 0 #009CDE;;width:1%">Campuses:<br />Special Mission</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Dickinson_Law" title="Penn State Dickinson Law">Dickinson Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Great_Valley_School_of_Graduate_Professional_Studies" title="Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies">Graduate Professional Studies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Milton_S._Hershey_Medical_Center" title="Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center">Medical Center</a> (<a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Children%27s_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="Penn State Children's Hospital">Children's Hospital</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Law" title="Penn State Law">Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_World_Campus" title="Penn State World Campus">World Campus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_College_of_Technology" title="Pennsylvania College of Technology">Technology</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#1E407C; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #009CDE, inset -2px -2px 0 #009CDE;;width:1%">Departments</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Cancer_Institute" title="Penn State Cancer Institute">Cancer Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_College_of_Engineering#Harold_and_Inge_Marcus_Department_of_Industrial_and_Manufacturing_Engineering" title="Penn State College of Engineering">Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#1E407C; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #009CDE, inset -2px -2px 0 #009CDE;;width:1%">Research</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_State_University_Applied_Research_Laboratory" title="Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory">Applied Research Laboratory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garfield_Thomas_Water_Tunnel" title="Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel">Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Lunar_Lion_Team" title="Penn State Lunar Lion Team">Penn State Lunar Lion Team</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Correlates_of_War" title="Correlates of War">Correlates of War</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#1E407C; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #009CDE, inset -2px -2px 0 #009CDE;;width:1%">Media</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Collegian" title="Daily Collegian">Daily Collegian</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Law_Review" title="Penn State Law Review">Penn State Law Review</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dickinson_Law_Review" title="Dickinson Law Review">Dickinson Law Review</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_University_Press" title="Penn State University Press">Penn State University Press</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WKPS" title="WKPS">WKPS</a> (90.7 FM)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WPSU_(FM)" title="WPSU (FM)">WPSU</a> (91.5 FM)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WPSU-TV" title="WPSU-TV">WPSU-TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Onward_State" title="Onward State">Onward State</a></li> <li><i>La Vie</i></li> <li><i>Phroth</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#1E407C; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #009CDE, inset -2px -2px 0 #009CDE;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Pennsylvania_State_University_people" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Pennsylvania State University people"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:white">People</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Pennsylvania_State_University_alumni" title="Category:Pennsylvania State University alumni">Alumni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_athletic_directors" title="Category:Penn State Nittany Lions athletic directors">Athletic directors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_coaches" title="Category:Penn State Nittany Lions coaches">Coaches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Pennsylvania_State_University_faculty" title="Category:Pennsylvania State University faculty">Faculty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Pennsylvania_State_University_Olympians" title="List of Pennsylvania State University Olympians">Olympians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_Pennsylvania_State_University" title="List of presidents of Pennsylvania State University">Presidents</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_W._Atherton" title="George W. Atherton">George W. Atherton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neeli_Bendapudi" title="Neeli Bendapudi">Neeli Bendapudi</a> <small>(current president)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Paterno" title="Joe Paterno">Joe Paterno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Lewis_Pattee" title="Fred Lewis Pattee">Fred Lewis Pattee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Sandusky" title="Jerry Sandusky">Jerry Sandusky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graham_Spanier" title="Graham Spanier">Graham Spanier</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#1E407C; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #009CDE, inset -2px -2px 0 #009CDE;;width:1%">Student life</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Army_ROTC" title="Penn State Army ROTC">Army ROTC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Air_Force_ROTC" title="Penn State Air Force ROTC">Air Force ROTC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Dance_Marathon" class="mw-redirect" title="Penn State Dance Marathon">Penn State Dance Marathon</a> (THON)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Thespians" title="Penn State Thespians">Penn State Thespians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_State_women%27s_ice_hockey_club" title="Penn State women's ice hockey club">Penn State women's ice hockey club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_State_University_Glee_Club" title="Pennsylvania State University Glee Club"> Penn State Glee Club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Nittany" title="Mount Nittany">Mount Nittany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nittany_Lion_Shrine" title="Nittany Lion Shrine">Nittany Lion Shrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Coaly" title="Old Coaly">Old Coaly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_College,_Pennsylvania" title="State College, Pennsylvania">State College</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#1E407C; 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