The Penn State Altoona women’s golf team’s Alexis Peacock, a Hollidaysburg Area High School graduate, was named to the inaugural Colonial Women’s Golf Conference all-conference team on Friday, when the freshman was announced as an honorable mention selection on the postseason awards list.
Peacock completed 14 rounds of golf across the fall and spring semesters in her freshman season with Penn State Altoona.
She averaged 98.71 per round overall and shot her best score of the season on Sept. 22, when she carded an 86 during day two of Allegheny College’s Guy and Jeanne Kuhn Memorial Invitational. Peacock’s 86 represented the lowest score in a round this season by any Lions women’s golfer.
Penn State Altoona women’s golf competed in 10 events and a total of 17 rounds during the 2025-26 season, the Lions’ second since being added back into the fold as an NCAA Division III team sport at Ivyside. It also marked the first season for the CWGC as a whole, of which Penn State Altoona was a founding member.
Harker repeats
NEW ORLEANS, La. — Waynesburg University junior track and field standout Jacob Harker, a Bishop Carroll Catholic High School graduate, repeated as a United States Track & Field and Cross Country Association all-region honoree in the shot put.
Harker earned the honor after finishing seventh in the Mid-Atlantic Region.
Harker set the seventh-place mark of 15.34 meters at the Westminster Invitational on April 10. That heave, which also broke the program record, was just .04 meter behind the No. 6 distance and 0.1 meter behind the No. 5 distance.
Harker won multiple individual titles, including his second-straight Presidents’ Athletic Conference crown. He was also lauded as the PAC Men’s Field Athlete of the Week on April 21.
Pitt in tourney
FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Fort Myers Tip-Off basketball tournament will once again be prominently featured on this year’s Thanksgiving Week menu as Purdue, Oklahoma, DePaul and Pitt participate in the Beach Division of the ninth-annual event taking place Nov. 24 and 26 at Florida SouthWestern State College.
Final game times and television designations will be announced in the coming weeks.
The Beach Division schedule gets underway on Nov. 24 when Purdue faces DePaul and Pitt takes on Oklahoma.
Lions honored
LATROBE — Each of Penn State Altoona’s four spring sports was represented on the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference’s Donna Ledwin Spring All-Sportsmanship Team, which was announced on Thursday afternoon.
All teams that compete for an AMCC championship select one member from each of their rosters who displays good sportsmanship throughout the season to be included on the All-Sportsmanship team. These individuals are selected by a vote of their teammates.
The four Penn State Altoona spring sport student-athletes voted to the AMCC All-Sportsmanship team by their teammates are: Men’s volleyball sophomore Shawn Thomas; men’s tennis freshman Stephen Sanders; softball: sophomore Lauren Davidson; and baseball sophomore Kyle Latham.