Pantall is in his seventh season as the strength and conditioning coach for the Nittany Lion and Lady Lion basketball teams and in his 15th year as strength and conditioning coach at Penn State, He joined the department in February of 1998 after serving as a graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach for two years under long-time Nittany Lion football strength coach John Thomas.
Over the past 15 years, he has worked with all of Penn State[apos]s varsity athletic programs. He has also worked with many professional athletes, including the Washington Redskins and Cincinnati Bengals football teams.
Pantall played football for four years at Penn State and was a member of the 1995 Rose Bowl championship team. After joining the team as a walk-on in 1992, he earned three varsity letters and played in 36 consecutive games. He graduated from Penn State in 1996 with a bachelor[apos]s degree in health education/kinesiology.
In 1999, he completed his Masters of Education in counselor education at Penn State. A State College native, Pantall was a two-year football letterman at State College High School and a key figure in the Little Lions winning the District 6 Class AAAA title in 1991. He won the Steve Suhey Award as the team[apos]s top offensive lineman as a senior.
Pantall and his wife, Sarah, have two children, Scotty and Sadie, and reside in State College.