Battista coached Penn State's club hockey team for 19 years and was instrumental in building the Nittany Lions' Division I program that is headed to its first Frozen Four. Joe Battista ...

Photo courtesy Penn State Athletics Joe Battista is considered the “Godfather” of ice hockey at Penn State University. The Penn State hockey team will appear in its first-ever Frozen Four ...

As Penn State goaltender Arsenii Sergeev bear-hugged his coach, Joe Battista did the same with his wife. In their South Carolina living room, watching the Nittany Lions celebrate a Frozen Four bid ...

Joe and Heidi were sitting down to dinner as their phone rang. It was Pegula, a Penn State alumnus who owned a gas-drilling company, and he wanted to talk hockey at his alma mater. Pegula and wife ...