A third Penn State men’s hockey player has been named to the U.S. Collegiate Select Team.

On Thursday, sophomore forward Charlie Cerrato was one of five new players revealed who will compete in the Spengler Cup in late December, joining his teammates, defenseman Mac Gadowsky and forward Aiden Fink, on the roster.

Cerrato, drafted in the second round by the Carolina Hurricanes in the 2025 NHL Draft, is off to a magnificent start to his 2025-26 season, leading the NCAA with 11 total points through his first four games, tallying three goals and eight assists. He was named the Big Ten’s First Star of the Week for his six-point series against Arizona State on October 3-4. Fink and Gadowsky were named to the roster in early October.

The U.S. Collegiate Select team will be comprised of some of the best American college hockey players and will compete, for the very first time, in the Spengler Cup.

The Spengler Cup, held annually in Switzerland during December, has been an annual event since 1923 and is the world’s oldest invitational hockey tournament. Canadian and European teams usually populate it, but a team of Americans will compete for the first time since a U.S. Selects team won the 1988 edition. This year’s edition will include teams from Czechia, Finland, Canada, and two from Switzerland, including the reigning champions HC Fribourg-Gottéron.

Penn State men’s hockey head coach Guy Gadowsky was already named as the team’s head coach back in August. Along with the three Nittany Lions already named to the roster, seven other players have been revealed, including three others in the Big Ten: Michigan’s TJ Hughes, as well as Notre Dame’s Danny Nelson and Cole Knuble.

The tournament is scheduled to begin on Friday, December 26, with the U.S. Collegiate Selects team facing off against Team Canada to begin group play, and will end by New Year’s Eve. It will not threaten availability for the Penn State men’s hockey season, which will be in winter break from Thanksgiving until Friday, January 3, against RIT.