Penn State Nittany Lions field hockey
| Penn State Nittany Lions | |
|---|---|
| University | Pennsylvania State University |
| Conference | Big Ten Conference |
| First season | 1964 |
| Athletic director | Dr. Patrick Kraft |
| Head coach | Hannah Prince 2026 season |
| Field | Char Morett-Curtiss Field at the Penn State Field Hockey Complex Capacity: 1200 |
| Location | State College, Pennsylvania |
| Colors | Blue and white |
| NCAA Tournament championships | |
| 1980 (AIAW), 1981 (AIAW) | |
| NCAA Tournament Runner-up | |
| 1979 (AIAW), 2002, 2007 | |
| NCAA Tournament Final Four | |
| 1982, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1993, 2002, 2007, 2022 | |
| NCAA Tournament appearances | |
| 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 | |
| Conference Tournament championships | |
| 1989, 1990, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2011, 2012, 2016 | |
| Conference regular season championships | |
| 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2022 | |
The Penn State Nittany Lions field hockey team is the intercollegiate field hockey program representing Pennsylvania State University. The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), although it was also previously a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10). The Penn State field hockey team plays its home games at Char Morett-Curtiss Field at the Penn State Field Hockey Complex on the university campus in State College, Pennsylvania. The Nittany Lions captured the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) national championship twice, in 1980 and 1981, and have won 10 regular-season conference titles as well as eight conference tournament championships. While Penn State has qualified for the NCAA tournament 30 times, and has made seven appearances in the semifinals and two in the championship game, it has never won the NCAA national championship.
Penn State's head coaching position became open for just the second time since 1986 in December 2025, when the team did not renew the contract of Lisa Bervinchak Love after three seasons. On January 13, 2026, former Saint Joseph's head coach Hannah Prince was hired to become the seventh head coach in program history. Three days later, Prince appointed Mark Wadsley, with whom she had coached at Saint Joseph’s from 2023 to 2025, as Penn State associate head coach.