14 I FRIDAY, SEPT. 10, 2010 Lions set to begin season this weekend By Matt Clancy COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER The Penn State men's golf team made a somewhat surprising run to the NCAA finals in the spring season and it is making no secret about the fact MEN'S GOLF ey expect to be right back there this year. "I think all of us agree that [our goal] is the NCAA finals," senior Tommy McDonagh said. - We have a lot of talent." However, senior T.J. Howe cau tioned that the road back to the Seravalli recovering from offseason surgery forward, which gave him an injury felt the other groin tear. he'd have to deal with all season After the injury, Seravalli saw a long. specialist over winter break and Nick Seravalli remembers the "I just felt something wasn't was told he had two choices hit. right," Seravalli said. "Next thing I have surgery at that point and Skating up the boards in prac- know I'm talking to [coach Scott hang it up for the season, or try tice a week before Thanksgiving ICERS groin anymore and I think I defi- gery in the offseason. break last year, nitely did something to it." He chose the latter. teammate Marek Polidor checked the Icers junior and eventually he said he of guys wouldn't play with," By Anthony Barton COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER 410 VSIVA L **""4: Nick Seravalli (left) scores a goal in a game last season. Seravalli had surgery during the offseason The Vice President for Student Affairs is seeking students interested in serving on a Student Alcohol Advisory Committee. Committee members will work directly with the Vice President for Student Affairs to provide student insight on topics related to dangerous drinking at Penn State. Applications are available by contacting Emil L. Cunningham at emil@psu.edu. The deadline to apply is Friday September 24. 2010 finals is one tournament at time and begins this weekend with the Wolf Run Intercollegiate Tournament in Zionsville, Ind. Howe has played in this tournament twice before and is familiar with the course. Last year, Howe 6. ..ft finished as the Nye best Nittany Lion in Zionsville with a plus-5, good for 15th place for a Penn State squad that finished eighth out of 17 SPORTS teams in the tournament "It's a tough course but it rewards good play," Howe said. "If you're hitting it well you can score." Howe said the key to the course is positioning off the tee and set ting yourself up for good angles for putts. Joining Howe in Zionsville this year will be McDonagh, senior Jason Cohan, junior John Burke, and freshman Michael Miller. "It's a fairly young club from an experience standpoint," coach Greg Nye said. Nye added the tough course, Collegian File Photo combined with a strong field would make it hard to accurately measure the potential of this year's squad. McDonagh said that he has set a personal goal of being an All- American this season. To achieve that and help his team reach its goal of the NCAA finals, he has to play well in every tournament. "I just want to go out and hit fairways and greens," McDonagh said. "I ironed out the kinks with my driver. I've been hitting a lot better and "Basically, my ab ripped off the top of my pelvis." Seravalli said. "It was extremely painful to walk, but at that point in the season our team was dropping like flies." After a season that saw him put up 36 points, Seravalli was set for surgery An MRI revealed something was wrong, but Dr. William Meyers told Seravalli he wasn't sure exactly what he would have to do until he performed the sur gery.He elected to have it done May 12, but not before getting a lit tle advice from a NHL star. He had a chance to talk to Philadelphia Flyer Danny Briere, who had just gone through the same procedure by the same doc tor six weeks before. After attend ing a Flyers playoff game in May, he had a chance to go in the locker room after the game and talk to the former All-Star forward. "He told me the first day it's not going to be bad, second day it's going to get a little worse, and the third day, he said, good luck get ting out of bed," Seravalli said. "He was right on the money too, I don't think I got out of bed once that day." During the surgery, Dr. Meyers fixed five groin tears, a hernia and VIRGIN. FOR HELP CALL 888-743-4335 THEVIRGINITYHILCOM COLOMBIA RIMIER MOTS A GARY tiIiICIIEIPRONICTION "li[!ifiGiNifi l BENNER LACK PEARLMAN pRooIERAMI HOBBY PR "Vllll 01E1 ADAM McRIII VENCHI PER PRINCIPAIO PADS 11111 NB O, . 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The rehab has been arduous "Mter surgery I basically had to learn how to walk again," Seravalli said. "Not so much taking steps, but I had to learn how to use my core all over again." As it stands, he is currently going through the process of repairing all the scar tissue in his groin and abductors, and is set for a late-October return. That said, Balboni said he wouldn't rush Seravalli back unless he's 100 percent. "Nick is a tremendously hard working kid and he has so much desire to be on the ice right now, it's just killing him inside," Balboni said. "It's very hard right now to keep him off the ice to heal this type of injury, but we aren't going to bring him back if he's at 80 per cent." Once he does get back, Seravalli said he won't be tentative on the ice. "I don't really care about hurt ing myself again," Seravalli said. "I don't think I'm going to be hesi tant at all, because if you think about getting injured, you'll just set yourself up to actually get hurt." 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