2007-2008 Penn State Harrisburg News
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Lady Lion Grabs First-Ever NEAC Student-Athlete of the Week Honors
May 29, 2013Sammi Hall (Lancaster, PA) was selected as the Co-NEAC (North Eastern Athletic Conference) Women’s Tennis Student Athlete of the Week, with Megan McGowan (Batavia, NY) of Keuka College, for her performances this week. Hall, a freshman, led the Penn State Harrisburg Nittany Lions, winning her flight #4 singles and flight #2 doubles matches this week in conference play. In singles, she finished with scores of 6-3, 6-0 and 6-2, 7-5 while in doubles she finished with scores of 9-8 and 8-5 against Philadelphia Biblical and Keuka, respectively. -
Three Nittany Lions Tennis Players Earn Academic Honors
May 29, 2013Middletown, PA - Penn State Harrisburg is proud to announce that three of their tennis players were named Intercollegiate Tennis Association scholar athletes for their work in the classroom during the 2007-08 school year. Karim Bataineh (Ibn Khuldoon National/Manama, Bahrain), Keith Lynn (Bloomsburg/Bloomsburg, PA), and Jessica Karl (Central Dauphin East/Harrisburg, PA) each received this honor, all for the first time.
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Lady Lion wins first-ever NEAC championship
May 29, 2013Ashleigh Roach (Longwood High School/Coram, NY) is the first Penn State Harrisburg student-athlete to win a North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) championship. Roach, a freshman Education major, entered the third flight singles tournament as the number three seed and went on to defeat the two top rated players to capture the conference title. In her first match, she defeated second seeded Holly Woodcock from Penn State Berks, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5. Then in her championship matchup with Wells College's number one seeded Ali Nolan, Ashleigh came out strong with a 6-2 first set win. Nolan evened the match with a 7-5 victory in the second with Ashleigh rallying to win a nail-biter in the third - a 7-6 (8) tiebreaker. The championship match was a marathon, lasting three hours and 15 minutes with several points lasting twenty to thirty hits.
