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What’s a Penn State spring game, or spring practice in this case, without a special moment to be celebrated? After Penn State’s spring practice in Beaver Stadium on Saturday, the Nittany Lions surprised redshirt junior Drew Hartlaub with a scholarship. And what better way to learn of the news than from a true legend of the program?
Jack Ham, a College Football Hall of Fame linebacker for the Nittany Lions and a current radio analyst on the Penn State sports radio network, visited the team in the locker room after the spring practice. Other than hearing one of the program’s best all-time players offer some encouragement and words of advice moving forward, Ham was given the opportunity to inform Hartlaub that he is now on scholarship. Naturally, the locker room burst into celebration.
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Hartlaub has been well respected within the Penn State program throughout his collegiate career. Hartlaub has played in 30 games for Penn State, all as a member of the special teams unit. Last season, Hartlaub was named the coaching staff’s special teams player of the week following his performance against Michigan with a fumble recovery. It was the second time of Hartlaub’s career he had been recognized as the team’s special teams player of the week.
In 2019, Hartlaub was recognized as the team’s developmental squad defensive player of the week following games against Buffalo and Iowa, showing Hartlaub is dedicated to playing a role in practices that helps lead to victory on Saturdays. He was also named the scout team special teams player of the year in his redshirt freshman season of 2018.
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