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As a Nittany Lion, Jamie Donaldson’s races were measured in minutes. These days, her races often start one day and finish the next.

STATE COLLEGE — Bridget Franek captured the individual title to lead the Penn State women's cross country team its first-ever conference title at the Big Ten Cross Country Championships on Sunday at the Penn State Golf Courses.

UNIVERSITY PARK — It took until her last home game of her last season in a Penn State uniform, but Tara Davies finally scored her first collegiate goal.

UNIVERSITY PARK — The Penn State men’s soccer team moved into first place in the Big Ten and closed out its regular season home schedule undefeated after a 2-1 victory over Wisconsin on Saturday.

EVANSTON, Ill. — There is a cool patience about this Penn State team, the kind of patience that allowed the Nittany Lions to shuffle and stumble through the first half of Saturday’s so-called “trap” game at Northwestern without any more than a couple of shoulder shrugs.

EAST LANSING, Mich. — The Penn State men's tennis team turned in a superb effort on the first day of the Big Ten Indoors Tournament on Friday, capturing titles in both doubles draws.

UNIVERSITY PARK — When your team is now getting compared to the UCLA men's basketball squads of the early 1970s, you must be pretty good.

Nico Megaludis became Franklin Regional's first PIAA wrestling champion by capturing the Class AAA 112-pound title last March.

INDIANAPOLIS — Penn State University and the Bryce Jordan Center will serve as a host to the opening two rounds of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament in 2011, the NCAA announced Thursday.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State's men's basketball team will be without Bill Edwards for four to six weeks after the freshman forward suffered a partial tear to the medial collateral ligament in his right knee during a Wednesday morning practice, according to a team release.

Penn State freshman forward Bill Edwards is expected to miss four-to-six weeks with a partial MCL tear in his right knee.

Penn State junior guard Talor Battle was named to the preseason All-Big Ten team for the second straight season.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Led by a trio with double digits in kills, the Penn State women's volleyball team swept rival Ohio State 25-21, 25-11, 25-20 Wednesday night at Rec Hall.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State plans to showcase some of its heralded wrestling freshmen during next week's intrasquad match.

UNIVERSITY PARK — It has taken a little while, but the Penn State women's volleyball team is finally finding another offensive threat on the court.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Goals used to come with great frequency for Katie Schoepfer, like leaves falling from a forest of trees.

UNIVERSITY PARK — The Penn State women’s volleyball team hit the mid-point of the Big Ten season and is still perfect on the year, sweeping Purdue 25-13, 25-15, 25-12 Saturday night at Rec Hall.

Authors Bob Boyles and Paul Guido have confirmed the opinion many Penn State fans have held for years — the Nittany Lions should have more national championships.

After Michigan had jumped out to an early lead and even after Penn State had come back to take an even bigger lead last year, Nittany Lions quarterback Daryll Clark heard the presnap smack talk coming across the line of scrimmage from Brandon Graham.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Behind a 16-kill night for Megan Hodge,the Penn State women’s volleyball team stayed perfect on the season as it dropped Indiana 25-19, 25-13, 25-17 Friday night at Rec Hall.