Penn State junior guard Mike Walker has been selected as a member of the Big Ten Basketball Foreign Tour Team that will compete August 8-18. The Tour is tentatively scheduled to include four games in Australia. Michigan head coach Tommy Amaker will lead the team comprised of 11 student-athletes from 10 different league schools.

Walker (6-foot-2, 180 pounds) is the 15th Nittany Lion selected to compete with the Big Ten Touring Team. Junior forward Brandon Hassell represented Penn State last year. Walker averaged 20.1 minutes per game playing in all 30 games last year for the Lions and was the team's leading three-point shooter with 44 treys on the year. He tied for the fifth-best scoring average on the team with 6.7 ppg and his 2.8 assists per game ranked third on the team and 14th in the Big Ten. Walker's three-point shooting and nifty passing provided sparks in several games for Penn State, but none bigger than his three, three-pointers in the final eight minutes that fueled a 66-65 upset of No. 6 Illinois in Champaign, the highest ranked opponent defeated on the road in program history.

Walker, who has 16 career starts and has played in all but one of Penn State's 60 games over the last two seasons, is one of six guards and two guard/forward combinations on the Foreign Tour roster which also includes two centers and one pure forward.

Penn State junior Robert Rohanna fired a final round 63 to post a two-round total of 14-under par 130 and win the 2006 Western Pennsylvania Public Links Championship at the par 72 Down River Golf & Country Club course.

Rohanna shot an opening round 67 to get off to a quick start hunting the title he also won in 2004. Rohanna won by seven strokes over fellow Nittany Lion junior Harvin Groft, who shot rounds of 72 and 65 to post a 7-under par 137. Penn State red-shirt freshman Tyler Tarney finished fourth with rounds of 70 and 71 for a 3-under par total of 141.