Keep updated on news concerning Penn State sports and news within the Big Ten Conference in the Nittany Sports Now Daily Notebook.
Update (8:26 PM)—
** Penn State football recruiting target Mekhai White is on campus this weekend. White (2024) is a four-star athlete from King George High School in King George, Virginia. He is 6-foot-3, 180 pounds and was offered by Penn State March 13.
📍😁 @CoachTerryPSU @coachjfranklin @coachseider
— Mekhai White (@mekhai_white) April 1, 2022
Update (3:29 PM)—
🙇🏽🙇🏽 pic.twitter.com/CjU5STx79x
— Sam Sessoms (@samuel_sessoms) April 1, 2022
Update (3:12 PM)—
Penn State transfer Sam Sessoms is down to Minnesota, George Mason, UTEP, Michigan, Mississippi State, and Coppin State.
Sessoms, a 6’0” senior averaged 11.6 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 2.6 assists per game.
— PortalUpdates (@portal_updates) April 1, 2022
Update (3:05 PM)—
**Diakite is a freshman from Northwest Catholic High School in West Hartford, Connecticut.
6’10” Badara Diakite’25 @BadaraAliouDia1 of @NH_Lightning & @NWC_athletics has earned an offer from Penn State University #WeAre pic.twitter.com/c2AYFjnjtz
— 𝒜𝓃𝒹𝓇ℯ𝓌 𝒮𝓁𝒶𝓉ℯ𝓇 (@Andrew__Slater) April 1, 2022
Update (11:22 AM)—
**Barnwell (2023) committed to Penn State this past September and publicly shut down his recruitment in January. He’s a 6-foot-6, 250-pound, four-star ATH from Riverbend High School in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Back home tomorrow🦁😁 @CoachTHowle @coachjfranklin @coachseider pic.twitter.com/0cdRgpmvaT
— Mega Barnwell (@mega_barnwell) April 1, 2022
Update (10:33 AM)—
**Gallagher is the No. 1 player in Pennsylvania from the 2023 class according to 247Sports’s composite rankings. Penn State offered the four-star, 5-foot-10, 160-pound athlete from Laurel Highlands High School back in April of 2020. It was the first power five school to do so and just the second overall.
I will be visiting Penn state university on April 30th. @PennStateFball @coachjfranklin @CoachTerryPSU @Coach_Yurcich
— Rodney Gallagher 3rd (LLC💕) (@Rodney_G3) April 1, 2022