Tickets for the 2006 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament games that will be held at the Bryce Jordan Center in March went on sale earlier this week.
The first- and second-round subregional games will take place on Sunday, March 19, and Tuesday, March 21. All-session tickets went on sale Monday.
Single-session tickets will go on sale after the NCAA sets brackets next March.
Adult tickets for the six-game, two-day event are $42. Penn State students, youth under 18 and senior citizens (60 or above) can purchase tickets for $18.
The games will be held in three sessions. There will be two sessions, featuring two games each, on March 19. Another two-game session will be featured on Mach 21, the day of second-round play. Start times will be announced after the NCAA releases the tourney brackets.
Tickets can be purchased by calling the Penn State ticket office at 865-5555 or 1-800-863-3336. Applications can also be found online at www.gopsusports.com. Click on the link for the 2006 NCAA tournament.
Four Penn State men's gymnasts earned Academic Scholar All-America honors from the College Gymnastics Association after earning a 3.5 or higher grade point average (GPA) in 2004-05, the school announced yesterday.
Just-graduated seniors Jerker Taudien (Eskilstuna, Sweden) and Casey McIntyre (Perrysburg, Ohio) both posted 3.92 GPAs for the academic term, while rising junior Chad Buczek (Bridgewater, Mass.) earned a 3.75 GPA and rising junior Matt Cohen earned a 3.57.
For Taudien the honor was his fourth straight. He joined Minnesota's Guillermo Alvarez, Illinois' Ben Newman and Springfield's Robert Sander as the only gymnasts on this year's list to earn four straight academic All-America honors.
An engineering major who graduated in May, Taudien was a member of Penn State's 2004 national championship squad and 2003 Big Ten title team. Earlier this year, he received Penn State's Ernest B. McCoy Award, which is presented annually to student-athletes who have combined successful athletic participation with academic excellence, as well as the Big Ten Medal of Honor. He also competed at the world championships for Sweden.
McIntyre, who graduated in May with a degree in finance, finished his competitive career after a major injury to his ankle relegated him to mostly the rings in the past two seasons. McIntyre was also a part of the Lions' 2004 NCAA championship and 2003 Big Ten championship squads.
Buczek was injured in 2005 after he exploded onto the scene as a freshman and earned All-Big Ten honors. He posted three scores of 9.3 of higher to help the Lions to the 2004 NCAA team championship.
Cohen was one of the Lions' regular competitors this season. Appearing most commonly on the rings, he also competed in the all-around twice. He also competed for the Lions on rings during the team's 2004 NCAA title run.
