Any female students interested in trying out or obtaining more information about the women's basketball program at Penn State Altoona should attend an organizational meeting on Wednesday, August 27, from 7:00 to 8:00 PM.  Head coach Donna Kling will hold the meeting in room 102D of the Smith Building.  Questions and other inquiries should be directed to coach Kling at dtk3@psu.edu.

ROARING SPRING, Pa: The third annual Penn State Altoona Intercollegiate Sports Invitational Golf Tournament was held on Friday, August 1, at Iron Masters Country Club in Roaring Spring.  The outing, which benefits the Lion men's and women's basketball and men's and women's golf teams, featured more than 60 golfers representing over 30 different businesses.  The winning team, Dudurich Investment Associates, fired a four-man scramble score of 20-under (52).  Penn State Altoona athletics would like to thank the following people and groups for making the Intercollegiate Sports Invitational a success:

Seretti Contracting
Comet Marine Supply Company
Joyce Seretti
Neen Barnes
Tapwatr
ProActive
Dudurich Investment Associates
Budget Beverage
INCA
Altoona First Savings Bank
C & G Bank
Andrews & Beard
Rea, Rea, and Lashinsky
Martin Oil
Empower Business Solutions
Empire Communications
Systems, Inc.
Richard Johnston
J. Kirk Kling, Attorney at Law
Reilly, Creppage & Co. Inc.
Hotel Belmar
MacAbee's
Gulish Garden Center
Central Hydraulics
Rodney Berkheimer
Best Way Pizza 6th Avenue
Professional Recyclers of Pennsylvania
Durbin Companies
Building II
Mama Randazzo's
Texas Hot Dogs
Reliance Bank
Little Caesar's Pizza
DelGrosso's Amusement Park

Additional Thanks to:

Allegro Restaurant
McAleer Plumbing
Lakemont Park
Mike's Court
Jack DeFillip
Jason Kent
Dick's Sporting Goods
Denny's Restaurant
TGI Friday's
Krispy Kreme
Hooters
Ponderosa
Al's Tavern
Tijuana Flats
Pleasant Valley Lanes
Iron Masters Country Club
Penn State Altoona Book Store
Altoona Curve
State College Spikes

Penn State Altoona men's basketball coach Alan Seretti, women's basketball coach Donna Kling, and golf coach Tom Koehle will host the third annual Penn State Altoona Sports Invitational Golf Tournament on Friday, August 1, at Iron Masters Country Club in Roaring Spring. The tournament, which featured more than 60 golfers last year, benefits the men's and women's basketball and men's and women's golf programs at Penn State Altoona. The 12:45 PM Shotgun Start is $80 for an individual round of golf and dinner or $350 for a corporate foursome, dinner, and tee sign sponsorship. An individual tee sign sponsor is $100. To get more information or to register for the 2008 Penn State Altoona Intercollegiate Athletics Golf Tournament, CLICK HERE.

Two Penn State Altoona athletic surfaces, the Adler Gymnasium floor and the Stewart Athletic Field, underwent some major renovations over the last month.  The gym floor was sanded down and repainted because, beginning in 2008-2009, the NCAA men's and women's basketball 3-point lines are no longer the same distance.  The women's line will remain at 19 feet, 9 inches, but the men's line was moved back a full foot to 20 feet, 9 inches.  Every college basketball court in the country must be repainted to reflect the change, and the two lines must be different colors.  Outside at the newly named Stewart Athletic Field, landscapers were busy stripping and resodding the baseball infield to correct a "bowl effect" that prevented the field from draining water.  Both projects have been completed and pictures of the new gym floor as well as the baseball infield can be viewed by CLICKING HERE.

Led by the 2007 Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Championship men's golf team, Penn State Altoona finished second in the final AMCC Presidents Cup Standings with 75 points, the school's best ranking and highest point output since joining the league in 1998.  The Cup is awarded annually to the AMCC member institution with the most successful overall athletic program in conference play.  Penn State Behrend, which boasted five regular season league championship teams, captured its seventh Presidents Cup in eight years by totaling 99.5 points.  Frostburg State checked in at third with 73 points while Lake Erie (68) and Medaille (65) rounded out the top five.  The men's golf team earned the Altoona Lions 10 Presidents Cup points based on its first place finish at the 10-team conference championships.  The women's cross country team, which finished runner-up at the AMCC championships, recorded nine Cup points while men's and women's soccer and women's volleyball tallied eight points apiece for their respective third place regular season finishes.  To view the final 2008 AMCC Presidents Cup Standings and point breakdowns, CLICK HERE.