Wildcat Athletics Articles

Throughout his first nine years as cross-country coach at Pennsylvania College of Technology, Mike Paulhamus has made some bold predictions on how his teams would fare and they delivered every time. The Wildcat men have won seven conference championships including their last six in a row and finished second once under Paulhamus.

During her first season as coach of the Pennsylvania College of Technology coed tennis team, Aimee Plastow guided the squad to a conference championship. What will she do for an encore? "We really have a solid lineup. I see no reason why we can't be one of the top, if not the top team in the conference," Plastow said.

Vol. 8, No. 3 (Through Sunday, Aug. 30) 'Cat Tales Women's VolleyballThe women's volleyball team became the first fall sports team to open its season, but found the going tough in the Penn State Beaver Classic as it lost all three matches.

Over the past decade, Pennsylvania College of Technology's golf team has established itself as one of the best in the country among non-NCAA colleges. Six consecutive conference championships, a 166-1-1 record in its last 168 matches and a national championship back that up.

Last season, the Pennsylvania College of Technology men's soccer team went unbeaten during the regular season and captured its fifth straight conference championship. But it was brought back down to earth when it entered the United States Collegiate Athletic Association playoffs.

Although Pennsylvania College of Technology women's volleyball coach Bambi Hawkins views her team as "young" in terms of collegiate experience, she hopes to field one of her stronger teams in recent years. The Wildcats are scheduled to begin their season Friday night in a tournament at Penn State Beaver. Tournament play concludes Saturday.

Vol. 8, No. 2 WithPennsylvania College of Technologyback in session, athletes in six sports cross-country, golf, team tennis, men's and women's soccer, and women's volleyball have begun practicing for their fall seasons. The women's volleyball team, under coach Bambi Hawkins in her 10th season, will be the first to get under way on Friday, Aug. 28, in a tournament at Penn State Beaver.

The success of archer Zachary Plannick, a rising Penn College junior who was a member of America's gold medal-winning men's compound team in the recent World University Games in Serbia, is noted on the U.S. Collegiate Archery Web site. Plannick, of Coraopolis, and college teammate Glen Thomas, of Mercer, competed last month in the international event.

Vol. 8, No. 1 'Cat Tales While Pennsylvania College of Technology athletes in six fall sports cross-country, golf, team tennis, men's and women's soccer, and women's volleyball begin preparing for their seasons when the newsemester begins Aug. 17, baseball players will not be among them for the first time since the early 1990s.

In a word, Pennsylvania College of Technology archers Zachary Plannick, of Coraopolis, and Glen Thomas, of Mercer, both described their recent World University Games experience as "amazing." Plannick especially had good reason to do so. The 20-year-old, who will be a junior in the fall at Penn College, came home with a gold medal as a member of the championship U.S. men's compound team.