GRR: Penn State
Penn State Men’s Rugby opens up their new era with a game at Mount St. Mary’s and this is with new Head Coach Zac Mizell.
A star at Arkansas State, helping them to a D1A final in 2012, and later capped by the USA 7s team, Mizell has coached at Life, University of Texas, and, most recently, Adrian.
Lauren Shissler has a job ahead of her.
Penn State men’s rugby has hired Zac Mizell as its head coach.
Mizell comes to Penn State after serving as the men’s rugby head coach at Adrian College in 2023-24, where he was the Midwest Rugby Conference Coach of the Year. He also currently serves as head coach of the men’s elite team at the Ohio Aviators Rugby Academy.
The Penn State Rugby Foundation and Booster Club are seeking candidates for the Head Coach positions for both the Men’s and Women’s Rugby teams.
Women's Head Coach kate Daley has taken a position at Dartmouth, while Men's Head Coach Justin Huntley has moved on to a different, non-rugby job.
Tom Speicher was working on his second children’s book when tragedy struck.
The author of a book about Waffles the Guinea Pig (modeled after his own pet) about the days of the week and organization, Speicher was working on a follow-up related to baseball when his partner in life, Maria, learned the terrible news that her daughter, Alexis, had died.