EUGENE, Ore. — Penn State’s Bridget Franek qualified for the World Track and Field Championships after a third-place finish at the U.S. championships Sunday.

HERSHEY — Rob Stupar hadn't been on a football field in a game situation since late November. But during Saturday's Big 33 Football Classic, the recently graduated State College standout rarely came off the field.

Just looking at that Penn State schedule, you have to shake your head and wonder.

One of the few criticisms of Penn State’s Class of 2009 was that of the 27 players the Nittany Lions added this winter, only one — early enrollee Kevin Newsome — was a quarterback. Pat Devlin’s December transfer left Newsome as the lone scholarship backup heading into starter Daryll Clark’s final season. Or did it?

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Penn State’s Talor Battle has been named to the 12-member U.S. team for the World University Games.

There is a photo in the Arcidiacono family album of Mark, 10 years old, on Christmas morning. He is wearing a LaVar Arrington Penn State jersey while opening up a box that contains another Penn State shirt.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Senior women's volleyball player Nicole Fawcett and senior men's gymnast Casey Sandy were named Penn State's Athletes of the Year on Wednesday.

NEW YORK — Former Penn State All-American Nicole Fawcett is one of five finalists for the Honda-Broderick Cup, given annually to the nation's collegiate women's athlete of the year.