Wildcat Athletics Articles

Wildcat Weekend welcomed hundreds to campus Sept. 18-20, providing activities for parents and families eager to visit with their students and alumni catching up with the college and one another.

Former student-athletes and Taylor (Brooks) Esposito ’19 (softball, nursing) and Brittan Kittle ’21 (baseball, plastics & polymer engineering technology) were enshrined into the Penn College Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday evening, during the college’s Wildcat Weekend festivities.

Six fall sports teams were in action for Penn College last week as men's golf opened its season at the Toftrees Invitational. Men's and women's soccer picked up victories on Tuesday, while the men's tennis team downed King's College on Friday, and women's tennis defeated Lock Haven for the first time since the 2019-20 season. Women's volleyball also competed hard at the Grove City/Westminster Coaches vs. Cancer Invitational.

Penn College's men's and women's soccer teams found midweek success with victories on Wednesday, Sept. 9, while the men's cross-country team placed second and the women fourth at the Juniata Eagle Invitational on Saturday. The women's volleyball team, men's and women's tennis and men's golf were also in action over the weekend.

Last week marked the opening week for Penn College's fall sports teams.

After another successful year of reaching new program highs, the Penn College athletic teams are ready to keep building as the calendar turns to September and the fall sports season gets underway this week.

They didn’t play in the game, but the Penn College women’s softball team made history at the 2026 MLB Little League Classic. The team formed the tarp crew for the game between the Atlanta Braves and Milwaukee Brewers. It’s believed to be one of the few times, if not the first, in Major League Baseball annals for an all-female tarp crew to work a game.

Penn College graduates Taylor (Brooks) Esposito ’19 and Brittan Kittle ’21 have been selected for induction into Penn College’s Athletics Hall of Fame on Sept. 18, in a 6 p.m. ceremony during Wildcat Weekend.

In the college’s 12th season as a member of the United East Conference, and ninth as a full-fledged member of the NCAA, program records were either set or matched by 10 Wildcat teams.

Three teams competing in national events. What could be better? The softball team earned its first NCAA tournament win at regionals, the golf team finished 39th at the NCAA Division III Men's Championship, and Penn College's archers had two in the top 10 at the USA Archery Collegiate Target Nationals.