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Lady Lions coach Coquese Washington talks at the team's media day on Monday.
Coach ready for year
By Jake Kaplan
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Coquese Washington thinks the 2010
Penn State Lady Lions have the most talent
of any team she's coached in Happy Valley.
Washin : on, who is in
her fourth year as the head
coach of the Lions, said this WOMEN'S
year's team is different BASKETBALL
than years' past. In her first
three seasons, Washington
said the Lions relied on one or two players
to carry them, whereas this season they
have more depth. With only one senior and
seven underclassmen, it is also a young
team.
Lions looking for
ways to progress
By Brendan Monahan
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRifER
The question isn't whether
Penn State took a step backward
in the Nittany Lions' loss this past
Saturday.
The correct
FOOTBALL
question: How far
ward did they take?
"That may be hard to quantify
how big a step backwards, but I
think we didn't execute," quarter
backs coach Jay Paterno said. "We
got to find out some things the
next couple weeks."
The last two losses to Illinois
and lowa in consecutive weeks
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the release. "He really had a good
See BOROVNJAK, Page 12.
"So far things are going really well,"
Washington said at Monday's media day
love the energy that the team has right now.
I love the competitiveness and the work
ethic that I'm seeing. This is a fun bunch.
They enjoy the game. They enjoy being in
the gym and working hard."
The Lady Lions are coming off their first
postseason appearance since the 2004-05
season, after qualifying for the WNIT where
they lost to Hofstra in the first round. Penn
State, which finished with a 17-14 record, 8-
10 in the Big Ten last season, returns three
starters in senior forward Julia Trogele,
sophomore point guard Alex Bentley and
sophomore center Nikki Greene.
See WASHINGTON. Page 12.
had talk shifting toward regres
sion, not progression. The Lions
find themselves trying to salvage
a season as they grasp wildly at
thin air for answers.
Six games into the season, Penn
State has found itself with a lack of
players stepping up and taking
charge. Wide receiver Justin
Brown said some weeks, he feels
the team progresses while other
weeks, the opposite effect takes
place.
After Penn State's insufficient
effort against Illinois, a significant
priority for the Lions is determin
ing which players have the ade
quate desire to play a
See FOOTBALL Page 12.
Halus earns weekly honor
Penn State field hockey goalkeeper Ayla
Halus was honored by the Big Ten on
Monday as the Big Ten Defensive Player of
the Week.
The sophomore posted nine saves while
facing 10 shots-on-goal during her team's 4-
1 victory vs. the defending league champi
ons and No. 7-ranked Michigan State
Spartans on Friday in East Lansing.
Halus is now ranked second nationally
with a .849 save percentage.
It's the third time this season that Halus
has earned the award after taking the hard
ware on Sept. 6 and Sept. 20. She is just the
third player in program history to earn the
honor three times in one season.
Sasa Borovnjak (21) goes to the basket against Purdue last season
Freshmen
expected to
make
With the guards running a transition drill at
practice Monday, Lady Lions assistant coach
Fred Chmiel said he wanted three made baskets
before the 12 seconds on the clock expired.
After the first basket was made, freshman
Maggie Lucas received a pass, confidently
stepped up and sunk her jump shot with ease.
While Lucas' shot was only part of accomplish
ing a small task at practice, she's one of three
freshmen along with Ariel Edwards and Talia
East that the Lions will look toward for pro
duction this season.
"We're going to rely on a lot of freshmen and
sophomores to play, to contribute," head coach
Coquese Washington said at Monday's media day.
"In a big way, in bigger ways than they have in the
past in terms of our younger players."
Washington said she expects the freshmen to
See FRESHMEN, Page 12.
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Freshman guard Maggie Lucas attempts a shot
during the team's media day practice on Monday.
Andrew Dunheimer/Collegian
Illinois defensive tackle Clay Nurse (97) and his teammates celebrate toward the end of Saturday's game.
Soccer players win awards
A trio of Penn State soccer players
earned all-conference weekly honors
Monday after their team's victories this
past week.
Men's soccer senior defender Andy Parr
was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the
Week after being inserted into the lineup for
a pair of home victories last week over Big
East conference leader Villanova, 1-0, on
Wednesday and No. 18-ranked Michigan
State, 2-1, on Sunday.
On the women's side, sophomore goal
keeper Krissy Trebbett was named Big Ten
Defensive Player of the Week while fresh
man forward 'rani Costa was named the
league's Freshman of the Week after the
Lions posted road victories at
Northwestern, 2-1, on Friday night and at
lowa, 3-0, on Sunday.
impact
By Ryan Loy
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Reign
could
be at
its end
By Emily Kaplan
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
The cracks of Penn State's
dynasty were starting to show
perhaps even before this season
began.
A 102-match
winning streak
and three con
secutive nation-
al champi
onships were
irrelevant for
the Nittany
Lions' women's
volleyball team
in its hope to
repeat in 2010.
This season,
Penn State fea- Olney
tures a consid-
erably different roster. New
faces, new roles, new expecta
tions and new burdens.
"We're a different team this
year," coach Russ Rose told
reporters at media day in
August. "Each year is different."
Now, it's seven weeks into the
season and the Lions (13-4, 3-3
Big Ten) have lost four matches
over the past four weeks. The
seven-time defending confer
ence champions are currently in
sixth place in the Big Ten stand
ings. And they're not ranked No.
1 in the country for the first time
since Oct. 22, 2007.
The cracks are growing deep
er; and some are beginning to
question: Is this the end of the
Penn State juggernaut and its
reign over collegiate women's
volleyball?
"I would say you could predict
the end of a dynasty, yeah," said
Buster Olney, ESPN baseball
analyst and author of The Last
Night of the Yankee Dynasty.
"When you see the players that
were so important leave, it's like
a colony of ants. They all had
their specific roles in the club
house, and when they leave, the
culture is different. And the
hardest thing to deal with is the
pressure to try to repeat."
Penn State entered the 2010
season without its core.
Alisha Glass and Megan
Hodge veteran locker room
See VOLLEYBALL. Page 12.
For more coverage on
the women's volleyball
team, check out the Can
ON THE You Dig it? blog at:
BLOG psucollegian.com
Favre again a distraction
Vikings quarterback Brett Favre gave
his teammates an apology Monday for
being a distraction following allegations
that he sent inappropriate pictures to a
sideline reporter while with the Jets in
2008. So this is what it takes for Favre to
realize he's a distraction?
Apparently the media circus show that
follows him around every offseason and
the fact that his teammates had to fly to
Mississippi during training camp didn't
make him realize his side show status.
Favre says this will be his last season in
the NFL. Those who are sick of seeing his
name in the headlines for off-field issues
can hardly wait.
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