STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - October 13, 2005 - The official website of Penn State Athletics - www.GoPSUsports.com - continues to experience substantial growth, posting a record number of page views in September. The site has also launched a Penn State Athletics web auction to benefit Penn State Athletics and the Kevin Dare Memorial Fund Scholarship.
A first for Penn State athletics, the online auction features numerous items for fans to bid on, including a Joe Paterno signed football helmet, Homecoming football game packages, basketball and wrestling packages and a Winter Weekend experience. Using eBay's online auction engine for secure bidding and payment, the auction site is available by going to www.GoPSUsports.com and clicking on the auction tile.
Penn State's official website's record-setting September garnered 4.317 million pages views and over 330,000 unique visitors, also an all-time best. The site has launched numerous new features recently, including football's Game Day Central, video highlights on the home pages of sports whose seasons are underway, Success With Honor feature stories and expanded photo gallery coverage.
Powered and designed by WinMill Software, GoPSUsports.com offers the most comprehensive Penn State Athletics information available to alumni, fans and the media. GoPSUsports.com also is an online partner of the College Sports Online network of collegiate athletic websites, operated by CSTV - College Sports Television.
In addition to information on all 29 Nittany and Lady Lion athletic programs and All-Sports Museum, fans can join the Nittany Lion Club, purchase tickets and Penn State merchandise, at GoPSUsports.com. Radio and TV programming information and radio broadcasts of all Penn State football, basketball and wrestling contests, as well as competitions from selected other sports, are available on GoPSUsports.com as an audio webcast. Live scoring and statistics are available on the site for all home football and basketball contests as well as home events for many other sports.
September's record setting pace builds upon the momentum set during the 2004 calendar year when GoPSUsports surpassed 30 million page views. The site experienced a 17.9% increase in viewership from 2003 to 2004.