Photo Story: Nittanyville 2017
Photo posted December 7, 2017 in
News by Stephanie Kovacs
During the week prior to Penn State home football games, hundreds of students carry tents, pillows and sleeping bags to Gate A of Beaver Stadium to participate in Nittanyville. Nittanyville is the long tradition of camping out for the best seats at the upcoming game. Campers come and go, but each season brings new experiences, new friendships, and memories to last a lifetime. Campouts include games, activities, visits from football players, and movie nights.
Campers race into the Beaver Stadium before the game against the Indiana Hoosiers on September 30, 2017. / Photo by Stephanie Kovacs
Anna Lewis, a senior at Penn State majoring in public relations, drums along with the cowbell, played by Mitchell Hutula, a junior at Penn State majoring in economics, prior to the game against the Pittsburgh Panthers on September 9, 2017.
/ Photo by Stephanie Kovacs
Campers passionately sing the Alma Mater outside of Beaver Stadium on September 30, 2017 prior to the matchup against the Indiana Hoosiers.
/ Photo by Stephanie Kovacs
About 106 tents are on the sidewalk outside Gate A during a weeklong campout leading up to the 2017 home matchup against the Michigan Wolverines on October 21, 2017 at Beaver Stadium.
/ Photo by Stephanie Kovacs
Campers work on schoolwork in their tent during the weeklong leading up to the 2017 home matchup against the Michigan Wolverines on October 21, 2017 at Beaver Stadium. / Photo by Stephanie Kovacs
Campers help as a tent is being blown by a gust of wind at Gate A of Beaver Stadium November 16, 2017.
/ Photo by Stephanie Kovacs
Campers set up tents on October 16, 2017 at Gate A, of Beaver Stadium for the weeklong campout leading up to the game against the Michigan Wolverines.
/ Photo by Stephanie Kovacs
Andrew Flatley, a junior at Penn State majoring in advertising, dunks in the final round of the annual slam dunk contest during the weeklong campout as Brian Mastro, a sixth-year senior at Penn State majoring in meteorology, celebrates the dunk. / Photo by Stephanie Kovacs
Cory Lestochi, a junior majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State, and Autumn Harth, a junior majoring in secondary English education at Slippery Rock University, work on a banner to hang on the front rail of the student section at Beaver Stadium September 9, 2017.
/ Photo by Stephanie Kovacs
PJ Mullen, an advisor of Nittanyville, plays Spike Ball with campers at Gate A outside Beaver Stadium on September 7, 2017.
/ Photo by Stephanie Kovacs
Saquon Barkley plays trashcan football and talks with campers as ESPN cameras follow him around Gate A of Beaver Stadium on October 19, 2017. / Photo by Stephanie Kovacs
The Nittany Lion greets campers before they run in to the stadium for the game against the Indiana Hoosiers in Beaver Stadium September 30, 2017.
/ Photo by Stephanie Kovacs
Campers watch the final home game of the 2017 season in Beaver Stadium on November 18, 2017. / Photo by Stephanie Kovacs