Don't worry, just as Walmart and Target solicit their Christmas selection the day after Halloween, early excitement has come for Penn State's most official holiday. No, not you Statetoberfest, but State Patty's Day.
Senior libero Alyssa D'Errico has had an extremely successful four years as a member of the Penn State women's volleyball team. She played in every match during her freshman year and has been part of four Big Ten titles and three straight NCAA Tournament championship victories. Along the way, the Nittany Lions had a record 109-match winning streak, partly due to D'Errico's strong defense and serving. Onward State got a chance to talk to D'Errico before the post-season begins on Friday against Niagara.
Last night, the University Park Undergraduate Association voted 36-0-1 on a resolution presenting the results of an audit of the UPUA's Department of Legal Affairs. It had previously surfaced that Legal Affairs had not been appropriately reporting its expenditures and was perhaps doing some inappropriate spending.
Going into halftime of Wednesday night's game with Maryland, Coach Ed DeChellis said he wasn't panicking about being down after twenty minutes. After all, with two starters out of the game and a 22.5 percent shooting performance in the first half, being down by only six points was a welcome sight to DeChellis. Unfortunately for him and the rest of the Nittany Lions, that was their best half of play.