CAREER AT A GLANCE
· Gearing enters her second full season (started with Penn State midway through the 2022-23 campaign) with the Nittany Lions as the program’s director of operations.
AT PENN STATE
· Gearing has seen outstanding success on staff at Penn State.
· In 2023, the Nittany Lion women’s cross country program qualified to the NCAA Championships as a team for the first time since 2019. At the regional level, the men’s and women’s groups produced six combined All-Region honorees.
· Penn State competed very well at the conference level during the 2023-24 track seasons, with the women’s group placing second as a team and the men’s group finishing third at indoor Big Tens.
· In 2023, her first season on staff with the Nittany Lions, Gearing saw her sister, Rachel, break Penn State’s outdoor 800-meter school record and win the Big Ten Indoor 800-meter title.
BEFORE PENN STATE
· Gearing competed at Clemson during her undergrad years and finished her collegiate career as a graduate student at Kentucky where she earned First Team All-America honors on the Wildcats’ 2022 DMR team.
THE GEARING FILE
Personal
Year at Penn State: Third
Hometown: Sautee Nacoochee, Ga.
Education: Clemson, 2020 – B.A. in Sports Communication, Kentucky, 2022 – Grad. certificates in Professional & Technical Writing, and Sports, Fitness, and Recreation.
Professional Career
2022-Present – Penn State
· 23-Present – Director of Operations
· 22-23 – Operations Assistant