page_title: Penn State Nittany Lions
section_title: Men's volleyball
hierarchical_section_title: Penn State Nittany Lions / Sports sponsored / Volleyball / Men's volleyball
caption_attribution_description: The Pennsylvania State University Nittany Lions men's volleyball team are honored at the White House by President of the United States George W. Bush for the side's winning the 2008 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I championship.
context_page_description: The Penn State Nittany Lions are the athletic teams of Pennsylvania State University, except for the women's basketball team, known as the Lady Lions. The school colors are navy blue and white. The school mascot is the Nittany Lion. The intercollegiate athletics logo was commissioned in 1983.
  Penn State participates as a member institution of the Big Ten Conference at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level for most sports. Penn State is one of only 15 universities in the nation that plays Division I FBS football and Division I men's ice hockey. Two sports participate in different conferences because they are not sponsored by the Big Ten: men's volleyball in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association and women's ice hockey in College Hockey America. The fencing teams operate as independents.
  Penn State has finished in the top 25 in every NACDA Director's Cup final poll, a feat only matched by nine other institutions: Stanford, UCLA, USC, Florida, Ohio State, Texas, North Carolina, and Michigan.
context_section_description: The men's volleyball team is coached by Mark Pavlik. The program has won two NCAA National Championships in 1994 and 2008 and 16 EIVA titles out of 17 years, including 10 consecutive. They finished as NCAA National runners-up in 1982, 1995 and 2006, to UCLA each time (twice at Rec Hall). They reached the NCAA final four 24 times including 13 out of the last 14 years through the 2008 season and an NCAA record 10 consecutive (1998–2008).
  The men's first national title came in 1994, when they beat powerhouse UCLA in five sets after being down 11–4 in the fourth set and then winning the fourth 15–12 and the fifth with the same score. The win made Penn State the first school outside of California in the then-24 year history to win an NCAA Men's volleyball championship. They won the NCAA title again in 2008, defeating Pepperdine 3–1. 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.
  Pavlik was named the 2008 AVCA National Coach of the Year.
caption: The men's volleyball team is honored in June 2008 at the White House for President of the United States George W. Bush for winning the 2008 NCAA Championship
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