Dorial Broadwater (5) is shooting better than 80 percent from the foul line. He leads Penn State New Kensington in scoring with 17.6 points per game.
Alle-Kiski Society invites local Penn Staters to
campus basketball game
3 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 16, Athletics Center
UPPER BURRELL, Pa. -- The Alle-Kiski Society of the Penn State Alumni Association, in conjunction with a Penn State New Kensington men's basketball home game, is sponsoring a Pizza Social on Saturday, Jan. 16, following the 3 p.m. conference contest in the campus' Athletics Center.
Penn State alumni and friends are invited to join fellow Penn Staters to cheer on the New Kensington Lions and enjoy free pizza during post-game festivities in the lobby of the center. Third-year coach Art McCray’s team takes on Penn State Hazleton in a Penn State University Athletic Conference match. The team, 0-5 in PSUAC and 3-9 overall, is looking for its first conference victory of the season.
McCray’s Lions are led in scoring by sophomore guard Dorian Broadwater (Steel Valley High School) with 17.9 points per game, 8th in the conference. Broadwater also tops the team in rebounding with 7 per game, 14th in PSUAC. He is second on the team and eighth in the conference in free-throw shooting percentage at .801.
Junior guard Jordan Williams (East Allegheny) is scoring at a 14.1 points per game clip, second on the team. His team-leading .823 free-throw percentage is fourth in the PSUAC.
Lou Payne (Huntingtown High, Md.), a 5-foot-7 guard, is hitting 3-pointers at a 40 percent clip, good for eighth in the conference. The versatile Payne averages nearly 9 points, 5 rebounds and 2 steals, while dishing out over 3 assists per game.
The team’s lone senior, Payne will graduate in May with a bachelor’s degree in information sciences and technology. He carries a 3.35 grade-point average and is a member of the Academic All Conference team.
McCray, a former student-athlete at the campus, is looking to return New Kensington to the playoffs for the first time since 2008. Eight years ago, coach Ryan Shank’s team, 22-6 and ranked sixth nationally in the U.S. Collegiate Athletic Association, suffered its only conference loss of the season in the championship game, falling to Penn State Abington.
Winning conference championships was a tradition at Penn State New Kensington. As a player at the campus, the 6-foot-6 McCray helped the New Kensington Lions to two conference championships in 1996 and 1997. Men’s basketball has won 14 titles, the most of any PSUAC teams. The last conference championship was in 2001, under coach Joe Molito.
Lou Payne (4) is about to execute a cross over dribble Alle-Kiski Society members and alumni cheer on the basketball team
against Penn State York. at last year's Pizza Social.
Alle-Kiski Society
Based at the campus, the Alle-Kiski Society of the Penn State Alumni Association engages in various campus projects throughout the year, interacting with alumni and current students through social and fundraising events and other networking activities. In the past four years, the society has increased its scholarship endowment from $51,000 to $109,000. In addition to its scholarship largesse, the alumni organization, which comprises Penn State graduates from the New Kensington and University Park campuses, made a $10,000 gift to campus athletics for equipment for the cardiovascular fitness room. At its November meeting, the society donated $750 to the campus THON committee.
The spring fundraiser is the annual Bowlathon, and it is scheduled from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, March 13, at Wildlife Lanes in Lower Burrell. This is a family fun event for students, parents, alumni, faculty, staff and friends of Penn State. The entry fee is $20 and includes three games and shoe rental. Four- or five-person teams may sign up, or individuals may sign up and be assigned to a short-handed team. Lane sponsorships are available for $50 and $100. For more information, contact John Spadaro at 734-337-8536.
The bowlathon proceeds support the society’s endowed scholarship and campus projects. In the fall, the society awarded a record $5,500 in scholarships recently to four Penn State New Kensington students: Lynsie Headley of Ford City; Alissa Dolensky of Lower Burrell; Adis Juklo of Pittsburgh; and Carley Carnahan of Lower Burrell.
The Alle-Kiski Society Endowed Scholarship was established in 1992 and fully endowed at $15,000 six years later. The society surpassed the coveted $100,000 mark in May. The endowment now stands at $109,000, more than double its number of $51,000 five years ago. As the scholarship fund grows, so does the amount of the annual awards. A total of $1,300 in scholarships went to the first campus recipients -- Kelly Doyle, Tara Murrell and Nicholas Wichowski. This year, the four students each got more than the total of the inaugural recipients. Since 1998, the society has awarded $53,500 to 59 campus students.
New and recent Penn State graduates are encouraged to attend the monthly board meetings at 6:30 p.m. on the third Monday of the month. The next meeting is Monday, Feb. 15, at The Elks Lodge in Tarentum.
For more information or to RSVP for the alumni basketball social, contact Bill Woodard at uxw1@psu.edu
For more on the Alle-Kiski Society, visit http://www.nk.psu.edu/Alumni/alumorg.htm
For more on the basketball team, visit http://psnkathletics.com/sports/mbkb/index