Career Honors
Three-time Academic All-Big Ten (2017, 2018, 2019)
Big Ten Sportsmanship Award (2016, 2017)
Two-time Team Captain (2016-17, 2017-18)
Career
Selected as a team captain for both the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons...Serves as the program’s representative on Penn State’s Student-Athlete Advisory Board...Joined the program as a walk-on in October 2015...Was added to scholarship for the 2016-17 season in Spring 2016...Father, Severn, played baseball at Penn State from 1982-85.
2018-19 (Senior Season)
Season: Saw action in two games.
Game-by-game:American (12/16):Played 1 minute in first action of the season in an 80-59 win over the Eagles. Illinois (1/12):Played 1 minute on her Senior Day game against the Illini.
2017-18 (Junior Season)
Appeared in six games...Named team captain prior to the season...Is a two-time team captain, also earning the distinction during the 2016-17 season...Saw action against Siena (11/10), Marshall (11/15), Central Connecticut State (11/20), Manhattan (12/3), Pitt (12/17) and Illinois (2/28).
2016-17 (Sophomore Season)
Selected as Penn State’s recipient of the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award...Appeared in eight games...Saw action against Saint Peter’s (11/13), Georgia State (11/24), Holy Cross (12/7), Pittsburgh (12/10), Wisconsin (1/16), Nebraska (1/19), Illinois (1/29) and Fordham (3/19).
2015-16 (Freshman Season)
Selected as Penn State’s recipient of the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award...Appeared in eight games...Saw action against Central Connecticut State (11/22), Youngstown State (12/8), Sacred Heart (12/20), Maryland (1/27), Nebraska (2/2), Northwestern (2/17), Iowa (2/24) and Indiana (2/27).
High School
Lettered all four years for Upper St. Clair High School...Selected team captain twice for the Panthers...Played AAU basketball for Basketball Stars of America...Also lettered all four years in soccer as a goalkeeper...Was an honorable-mention Elite 11 selection as a senior.
Personal
Full name is Sarah Kathryn McMurtry...Daughter of Lisa and Severn McMurtry...Has two older brothers, Scott and Shane...Both brothers, her mother, father and grandfather all graduated from Penn State...Father, Severn, played baseball at Penn State from 1982-85...Born June 1, 1997 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.