Three of the four goalies who were selected had previously played on the national team. Leitner, who graduated in the spring, knew going in that the competition was going to be very tough.

Like Voiro and Van Roten, Barreiro said that while it’s not easy to go from Penn to the big leagues, persistence is the key to making it.

Melendez and Erosa wrapped up a stint on the Puerto Rican national softball team over the weekend at the International Softball Federation’s World Championship, which was played in Whitehorse, Yukon.

Van Roten will attend the Packers training camp, which runs from Thursday, July 26, to Tuesday, August 28, and includes preseason games against the San Diego Chargers, the Cleveland Browns, the Cincinnati Bengals and the Kansas City Chiefs.

A four-year bowl ban, a $60 million fine, a dramatic hit to football scholarships, and 14 years of vacated wins leave Penn State in ruin, but PSU’s current and prospective student athletes aren’t the only victims here.

Every few minutes, someone walking by greets Chief with a quick hello, and many come over to spend a few minutes chatting with the old man. He’s a “people person,” according to loyal customer and friend Fritz Spang, who stops by daily at the end of his routine two-and-a-half-mile walk.

Late last year, the Ivy League established the Multi-Sport Concussion Review Committee to find ways to limit concussion incidence in both men’s and women’s sports.

The 10-year veteran of NCAA lacrosse will become the top assistant on Murphy’s staff, replacing Jason Archbell, who left Penn to assume the head coaching position at Bowdoin College.

For those who have not been paying attention, Bryce Harper is a rookie with an arm like a train engine and a swing that accelerates fast enough to make the owner of a Lamborghini jealous.

The star pitcher, who went 5-3 in his senior season with a 2.45 earned run average, was drafted in the 15th round by the Oakland Athletics.

Koko Archibong, a College graduate from the Class of 2003, became the latest member of the Quakers’ family to punch his ticket to the Olympics when the Nigeria basketball team defeated the Dominican Republic to earn the final spot in the men’s tournament and its first ever appearance at the Olympics.

In her seven years on the national team, Francia and her crew have won five World Championships in the eight, and she has also excelled in national and international races in the pair. She was also part of the eight that won gold in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

On Thursday night, the NBA Draft came and went, and Zack Rosen, the Ivy League and Big Five Player of the Year, went unpicked.

Sometimes swimmers peak at just the right time. Former Penn captain and All-American Brendan McHugh did just that.

Coaching changes continue across Penn sports, with the latest announcements coming from men’s and women’s track and field.

After advancing past the first round of tryouts for the U.S. National Lacrosse team for the second-straight year, the former Penn goalkeeper will head to Baltimore for the second round at UMBC from July 27-29, in an effort to make the national team and earn a spot on the 2013 Federation of International Lacrosse World Cup roster.

The APR is a method started in 2004 to help student-athletes graduate with meaningful degrees preparing them for life. But it hasn’t done that.