Wildcat Athletics Articles

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.

Saturday was a day of perfection for Pennsylvania College of Technology archer Zachary Plannick, of Coraopolis. The 20-year-old, who will be a junior at the college in the fall, scored with all 24 of his arrows and helped the United States men's compound team to a gold medal at the 25th World University Games in Belgrade, Serbia.

A typical summer Saturday afternoon might find Zachary Plannick hanging out with friends at his family's swimming pool in Coraopolis. Not this Saturday. Plannick, who will be a junior at Pennsylvania College of Technology in the fall, and U.S.

Two one-point losses eliminated Pennsylvania College of Technology archers Zachary Plannick, of Coraopolis, and Glen Thomas, of Mercer, during their first matches in individual competition Thursday at the 25th World University Games in Belgrade, Serbia. Plannick, a junior who qualified 19th in a field of 44 in the men's compound event, drew a bye in the round of 32 and then fell to No.