Penn State baseball currently plays their home games at 5,570-seat Medlar Field and have been coached by Mike Gambino since the 2024 season.

Throughout its history, Penn State has played in 17 NCAA baseball tournaments, advancing to the College World Series five times (1952, 1957 1959, 1963, 1973) and finishing as runners-up to California in 1957.

Penn State's men's basketball program reached the Final Four once in 1954, though the best postseason finish in recent years occurred in 2001 with a trip to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA tournament after a win over UNC in the round of 32.

Notable alumni include: Frank Brickowski, John Amaechi, Calvin Booth, Mike Costello, Stanley Pringle, Geary Claxton, Jamelle Cornley, Lamar Stevens.

Andrew Mackiewicz won the NCAA Men’s Sabre Championship in both his freshman and sophomore years, in 2015 and 2016, and went on to compete for the United States in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

[11][12] A Penn State investigation into the matter confirmed Oldham's assault and harassment claims against Abashidze, but maintained that the assistant coach had not violated any university policies.

[11] After an investigation by SafeSport into the same matter, finding Abashidze responsible, he was ultimately required to serve a six-month term of probation for such failure.

[20][15] In an August 2023 ruling that allowed Moss’ lawsuit to proceed, U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Brann wrote that Glon’s alleged conduct "crossed the line between aggressive coaching and sexual harassment, and was "certainly unbecoming of a collegiate athletic professional.

Penn State has a large football following and attracts tens of thousands of visitors to its campus; the surrounding area is known as "Happy Valley" for tailgating and games on autumn Saturdays in Beaver Stadium.

The largest crowd ever at Beaver Stadium was on October 21, 2017, as 110,823 people watched the Nittany Lions defeat the University of Michigan by a score of 42–13.

[23] Joe Paterno was the head coach for the Nittany Lion football team from 1966 until he was fired on November 9, 2011, in the aftermath of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal.

They played a number of schools regularly, including Pitt, Syracuse, West Virginia, Notre Dame, Maryland, and Alabama.

The 1986 team won by defeating the University of Miami in the 1987 Fiesta Bowl, which remains one of the most watched college football games in history.

After details of the case emerged, the NCAA restored all vacated wins and rescinded both the remaining ban on post-season play and scholarship reduction.

In 2007, the men's gymnastics team won their NCAA record 14th national championship, by defeating powerhouse Oklahoma at Rec Hall, with the score of 221.000–220.200, denying them a three-peat.

[32] The women's program moved to NCAA Division I level beginning in the 2012–13 season[33] and joined College Hockey America (CHA), becoming the fifth member of the conference.

Penn State has had seven alumni and coaches[36] inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, including Mary McCarthy Stefano, Gillian D. Rattray, Barb Jordan, Betsy Williams Dougherty, Candace "Candy" Finn Rocha, Joanne Connelly and Thomas R. Hayes.

Before the NCAA began its tournament in 1959, the annual national champion was declared by the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association from 1926 to 1958, the result of polls and the subjective opinion of the ISFA administrators.

The streak surpassed the 12 by Michigan swimming & diving of the 1990s and led the then-ongoing run by Northwestern's women's tennis squad, which had won 14 straight titles through 2011.

With the win, Penn State men and women's programs swept the volleyball championships in the same academic year, joining Stanford from 1996–97 to be the only schools to accomplish the rare feat.

In April 2005, Penn State broke ground on a construction project designed to expand and modernize Rec Hall for the students, faculty, and staff who use the facility.

As part of this renovation, Intercollegiate Athletics created the Lorenzo Wrestling Complex that ranks among the nation's finest facilities in the sport.

[42] Under head coach Cael Sanderson, Penn State entered the final session of the 2019 NCAA Championships having already clinched their eighth team title in nine years.

[43] Penn State had five NCAA finalists for the fourth straight year and won three titles, beginning at 285 with senior Anthony Cassar of Rocky Hill, New Jersey winning his first.

Penn State appeared in the first eleven editions (2010–22) of the Collegiate Rugby Championship (CRC), advancing to the quarterfinals seven times.

The CRC was conducted annually from 2011–2019 at PPL Park in suburban Philadelphia and was the highest profile college rugby sevens tournament in the U.S.

[50] Penn State finished second at the 2012 Big Ten 7s, losing to Wisconsin in the final and missing out on qualification for the 2012 USA Rugby Sevens Collegiate National Championships.

Women's volleyball stars Megan Hodge and Christa Harmotto earned silver medals after falling to Brazil in the gold-medal match.

Finally, Natalie Dell earned Penn State's first rowing medal with her bronze-medal performance in the women's quadruple sculls.

The Intercollegiate Athletics Department operates the Stone Valley Recreation Area, approximately twenty miles southeast of State College.