Matt McGloin
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| Penn State Nittany Lions – No. 11 | |
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| Position | Quarterback |
| Class | Senior |
| Major | Journalism |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | December 2, 1989 Scranton, Pennsylvania |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Weight | 209 lb (95 kg) |
| Career history | |
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| High school | West Scranton High School Scranton, Pennsylvania |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Matthew James "Matt" McGloin (born December 2, 1989) is the current starting quarterback for Penn State University's football team. He is the first former walk-on quarterback to start at Penn State since scholarships were reinstated in 1949. Prior to his college career, McGloin was a Pennsylvania all-state quarterback while attending West Scranton High School.
Early years
Matt McGloin was a three sport (football, basketball and baseball) stand-out at West Scranton High School earning ten varsity letters. He was a three-year starter at West Scranton, throwing for 5,485 career yards with 58 touchdowns. As the starting quarterback, McGloin led his team to two PIAA Class AAA district titles and a league title. He was named the 2007-08 Athlete of the Year by the Scranton Times-Tribune, who also named him as their Athlete of the Week three times. He was also a four year starter and scored 1,300 career points for the school's basketball team and also served as the team captain. He garnered many league and tournament all-star and MVP awards. McGloin was three year starter on the varsity baseball team as an infielder and pitcher. During his senior year, he was named all - region as a two way player. He hit over .400 and led his team in many offensive categories as well as registering a 7-0 record on the mound. In his senior season, he led his high school baseball team to its first conference championship in 16 years. He played on the prestigious Mid Atlantic Prospects summer travel baseball team (Philadelphia, PA).
College career
2009
McGloin joined the Nittany Lions football team in 2009 as a walk-on. He was a backup in 2009, playing against Syracuse, Eastern Illinois, Michigan, and Michigan State. In the Blue-White game, McGloin was a combined 9-of-13 for 111 yards and threw two touchdown passes, one for each team. After playing behind Daryll Clark and Kevin Newsome in 2009, he ended up third on the depth chart in early 2010 behind Rob Bolden, a true freshman from Detroit.
2010
McGloin was in a three-quarterback competition for the starting job in 2010 with Newsome and Bolden. Bolden won the starting job for the season-opener against Youngstown State, Newsome played in the 4th quarter and scored a touchdown, and McGloin played one play, where he handed off to third string tailback Curtis Dukes. On October 23, 2010, McGloin entered the Nittany Lions game against Minnesota as the team's second-string quarterback after Kevin Newsome was sidelined with a stomach flu. Bolden had left the game with a concussion. McGloin then entered the game and threw two touchdowns in relief of Bolden, providing Penn State with its first Big Ten victory after losses to Illinois and Iowa.[1]
On October 30, McGloin made his first start at quarterback. During the game he threw for 250 yards and a touchdown in a 41-31 win over Michigan. However, a week later against Northwestern, Bolden was once again named the team's starting quarterback. Bolden, however, was pulled from the game by Penn State coach, Joe Paterno, after he was sacked twice and lost a fumble on one of the plays. McGloin entered the game and rallied the Nittany Lions from a 21-point deficit to a 35-21 victory. McGloin threw 4 touchdown passes in the game. The victory was also the 400th of Paterno's career.[2]
On November 10, Paterno officially named McGloin the team's starter.[3]
McGloin scored the first passing touchdowns in Ohio Stadium by a Penn State quarterback since 1963 and put them up 14-3 at halftime.
Statistics
Through end of week 2 of the 2012 season, McGloin's statistics are as follows:[4]
| Passing | Rushing | |||||||||||||
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| Season | Team | GP | Rating | Att | Comp | Pct | Yds | TD | INT | Att | Yds | TD | ||
| 2009 | Penn State | 2 | 0.0 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2010 | Penn State | 6 | 128.5 | 215 | 118 | 54.9 | 1,548 | 14 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 2 | ||
| 2011 | Penn State | 13 | 118.3 | 231 | 125 | 54.1 | 1,571 | 8 | 5 | 24 | -12 | 0 | ||
| 2012 | Penn State | 3 | 135.8 | 104 | 59 | 56.7 | 688 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 16 | 0 | ||
| Totals | 24 | 125.1 | 552 | 302 | 54.7 | 3,807 | 30 | 15 | 47 | 10 | 2 | |||
Personal
Matt McGloin is the youngest of three children to Paul and Catherine McGloin. Paul is a retired City of Scranton employee. Catherine is a graduate of Marywood University and homemaker. Together, they co-own McGloin's Floral in Scranton. Matt has two older brothers: Paul (age 34), played baseball and graduated from the University of Scranton. John (age 27), played baseball and graduated from Lehigh University. Paul is an accomplished baseball coach and teacher. He served as Matt's high school baseball coach. John is an architect.
References
- ^ DiPaola, Jerry (October 25, 2010). "McGloin steps up for Penn State". Pittsburgh Tribune Review. Retrieved November 10, 2010.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Musselman, Ron (November 7, 2010). "Paterno earns 400th win as Penn State tops Northwestern". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved November 10, 2010.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Musselman, Ron (November 10, 2010). "Paterno picks McGloin to take on Ohio State". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved November 10, 2010.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Matt McGloin". www.sports-reference.com. Sports Reference. Retrieved September 11, 2012.