18 Mar
Posted by: Alana Gormanston in: Education Advices
By T.J. McAloon
Star correspondent
Only seven schools can claim to have made three straight Indiana high school state boys basketball finals. Park Tudor’s thrilling 62-49 semistate victory over Providence allows the Panthers to add their names to those historic teams.
Park Tudor will play Gary Bowman Saturday for Class 2A state championship.
“We’ve been talking about leaving a legacy all year,” Park Tudor coach Ed Schilling said of joining Franklin (1920-22), Martinsville (1926-28), Attucks (1954-56), Marion (1985-87), Lafayette Central Catholic (1998-2000), Pike (2001-03) and Lawrence North (2003-06). “Obviously leaving a legacy in terms of our wins and going to championships, but also the legacy of the quality of the team and the quality of the young men that we have, and that’s the biggest legacy.”
Park Tudor started off slow only scoring 11 points in the first quarter. Their shooting struggles continued into the second quarter and the Panthers trailed 24-21 at the half. Park Tudor sh
24 Aug
Posted by: Archie Speight in: Education Sport Notes
Yesterday, Ferris State became the third team to accept the WCHA’s invitation to join their conference. That puts the WCHA at 9 teams, likely for the very short term. Now, the WCHA is just waiting to hear back from Western Michigan and Bowling Green as to what their intentions are.
Western Michigan was waiting to see what Notre Dame decided to do before making any decisions, at least through the first seven times Notre Dame decided to delay making that announcement. The Broncos have waited long enough though, and are now saying they will make their own decision independent of what Notre Dame decides to do. Reading between the lines, Western said they won’t travel to Hockey East, and they’re unlikely to get a Secondary Six bid on their own, leaving the WCHA as their only real option. Western athletic director Kathy Beauregard said there hasn’t been any discussion of exit fees if they join the WCHA, but then are asked to join the Secondary Six at a later date.
Last Tuesday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett presented his proposed 2011-12 state budget, which seeks a 52.4 percent reduction in Penn States state appropriation. As the state legislature begins to review the governors proposal and as the university begins to consider the ramifications of this spending plan or whatever resolution is reached by the legislature, it is important that you be informed by facts, not rumors or conjecture.
I would encourage you to follow closely updates posted by Penn State, which can be found at live.psu.edu. The universitys Board of Trustees meets this week, and you can expect a number of stories related to this development to come out of that meeting. Again, those stories will be released at live.psu.edu.
You can also view President Spaniers press conference, which was held Wednesday, March 9, during which time he shares the universitys initial response to the Governor’s proposal at:Â
At this time, no decisions have been made in terms of what actions the university may be forced to pursue should this reduction be approved. As you may know, the governor’s proposal is just the first step in the state budget process. Be assured that there has been much contact with legislators as we work to impress upon them the many impacts of the governor’s proposal. President Spanier will par
Last Tuesday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett presented his proposed 2011-12 state budget, which seeks a 52.4 percent reduction in Penn State’s state appropriation. As the state legislature begins to review the governor’s proposal and as the university begins to consider the ramifications of this spending plan or whatever resolution is reached by the legislature, it is important that you be informed by facts, not rumors or conjecture.
I would encourage you to follow closely updates posted by Penn State, which can be found at live.psu.edu. The university’s Board of Trustees meets this week, and you can expect a number of stories related to this development to come out of that meeting. Again, those stories will be released at live.psu.edu.
You can also view President Spanier’s press conference, which was held Wednesday, March 9, during which time he shares the university’s initial response to the Governor’s proposal at: http://www.youtube.com/user/wpsu#p/a/u/0/P3zf2b8tTXE
At this time, no decisions have been made in terms of what actions the university may be forced to pursue should this reduction be approved. As you may know, the governor’s proposal is just the first step in the state budget process. Be assured that there has been much contact with legislators as we work to impress upon them the many impacts of the governor’s proposal. President Spanier wil
Inside College Hockey was the first to report yesterday that Penn State will formally announce their intention to start a hockey program, possibly as early as this Friday.
I already covered this issue over the summer, so it’s probably not worth rehashing until we get some new information of what the future holds.
Other people are writing about it though. USCHO columnist Dave Starman thinks Penn State would be good, if they wanted to join the CCHA, but bad if it meant the creation of a Big Ten conference. Also, his proposed WCHA-CCHA alliance seems pretty wacky. The solution to whatever financial troubles those smaller schools will face won’t be solved by increasing travel expenses exponentially. College Hockey News thinks a Big Ten Conference is inevitable, though not necessarily a disaster.
The reaction from the Penn State side of things has been general excitement, and why wouldn’t it be? Before even being announced, their hockey program has already succeeded where their treasured football program has failed in defeating a school from Alabama.
In the wake of the news that Penn State was considering a move to Division I hockey, a few bits of information have come out in response to it.
The first is a quote from CCHA commish Tom Anastos saying the CCHA is interested:
“They are a very attractive choice — very attractive,” CCHA commissioner Tom Anastos told The Detroit News on Tuesday. “They’re in a different market than we’re in, more and more U.S. players are on college rosters, and there’s tremendous growth of the sport in Pennsylvania.”
Again, Huntsville meets all those criteria as well. Pretty much all of the growth of the sport in Pennsylvania is centered in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, both about a solid 3-hour trek to the wilderness of State College, PA. That same radius put around Huntsville gets you the growing hockey markets of Nashville and Atlanta. Of course there are other huge advantages Penn State has, likely biggest among them is a huge alumni network of potential fans. You could probably draw more interest for PSU hockey in Atlanta than you could for UAH hockey.