Renee Messina

PSU Asst AD for Athletic Training Services | What we do for ourselves, dies with us. What we do for humanity, lives on forever-Charles Millard

[Lafayette Baseball @LafayetteBsbl]

T1: Boden Fernsler hits a grand slam and Bode Grieve follows with a solo home run, to give the Leopards a 5-0 lead in the first.🐾⚾️

#RDP #RollPards #ClimbTheHill #LafayetteCollege200

[Penn State Baseball Analytics @PSUBASEManagers]

Check out our individual top 5 in game max exit velocity leaders from the fall!

@Michael_A110
@JTurk05
@JackPorter2022
@JaydenDavis191
@jmessina03

We will continue posting stats like these along with the fall spotlights while we wait for the season to start!

[NCAA Men's Wrestling @NCAAWrestling]

We saw that 👀

#NCAAWrestling x @pennstateWREST

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

BETWEEN THE LEGS GAME-WINNER IN OVERTIME 🤯

Penn State beats Michigan in a thriller 🏒

(via @PennStateMHKY)

[Renee Messina @R_MessinaAT]

🐐recognizes 🐐

[Healthy Roster @HealthyRoster]

Penn State wrestling relies on trusted Athletic Trainer for success! https://t.co/LvTESRe6iy

[Josh Bartosik @Josh_Bartosik]

Ben Schoen had a 1-3% chance of playing hockey again after an injury in January 2023.

With the help of doctors and the @PennStateMHKY athletic training staff, he made a comeback that was nothing short of a miracle.

Click the link to follow his journey 👇
https://t.co/gUDBP2Ngje

[Penn State Baseball @PennStateBASE]

Penn State Wins Game 2 to sweep the Fall DH!

Steele 1IP, 0R, 3K
DeMell 1IP, 0R, 3K
Wagner 2H, 2B, R
Jaconski, Jesse 2H, BB
Messina H, RBI

#WeArePennState

[Renee Messina @R_MessinaAT]

Read more about Hands Only CPR. #CPR Awareness week

[Renee Messina @R_MessinaAT]

It’s CPR/AED Awareness Week!❤️
Do you know that you can learn about Hands Only CPR in just 90 seconds and that it could one day help save the life of someone you know or love! Visit
https://t.co/3yltGLIiwH

[Renee Messina @R_MessinaAT]

@Doc_Rhodes Happy birthday!

[Renee Messina @R_MessinaAT]

@PennStateBASE @GoPSUsports @d1baseball @B1Gbaseball Congrats Coach Gambino and staff!

[Penn State Baseball @PennStateBASE]

Congrats to @jmessina03 posting a 4️⃣.0️⃣ GPA to lead our team in the Fall!

#WeAre

[Renee Messina @R_MessinaAT]

@PitchTOpitch23 Sorry for your loss, Josh 🙏🏻

[Renee Messina @R_MessinaAT]

@UliFernsler @KirkSaarloosTCU @CoachDaveLawn @JohnnyD_12 @NoviHSBaseball @15u_Mich_Bulls Congrats Uli! So happy for you!

[Jeff Cook @jeffcook67]

So powerful and impactful. Such an important reminder to check in on those around you. We never know who might be in need and what a difference a moment of care could make.
#WorldMentalHealthDay

[Renee Messina @R_MessinaAT]

@PennStateFH This is what legendary looks like. ❤️ Simply put, we are all better people because of Char.

[Renee Messina @R_MessinaAT]

Just saw injury pic. 😬
Was just saying how Nick Chubb is so good and was running all over my Steelers. Prayers for a complete recovery! 🙏🏻

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

I absolutely love this story........ It made me cry.

"An 87 Year Old College Student Named Rose
The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know.

I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned round to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me
with a smile that lit up her entire being.

She said, “Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?”

I laughed and enthusiastically responded, “Of course you may!” and she gave me a giant squeeze.
“Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked.

She jokingly replied, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids…”

“No seriously,” I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age.

“I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she told me.
After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake.

We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months, we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this “time machine”
as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.

Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I’ll never forget what she taught us.

She was introduced and stepped up to the podium.
As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor. Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, “I’m sorry I’m so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I’ll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.”

As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, “We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop
playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success.

1) You have to laugh and find humor every day.

2) You’ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.

We have so many people walking around who are dead and don’t even know it!

3) There is a huge difference between growing
older and growing up.

If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don’t do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old.

If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight.

Anybody can grow older.

That doesn’t take any talent or ability.

The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change.

4) Have no regrets.

The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those
with regrets.”

She concluded her speech by courageously singing “The Rose.

She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives.
At the year’s end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died
peacefully in her sleep.

Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it’s
never too late to be all you can possibly be.

When you finish reading this, please send this peaceful word of advice to your friends and family, they’ll really enjoy it!

These words have been passed along in loving memory of ROSE.

REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS
OPTIONAL.

We make a Living by what we get,

We make a Life by what we give."

[Penn State Baseball @PennStateBASE]

Staying in the 814! Welcome @jmessina03!

⚾️ First-Team All-Conference at 1B
⚾️ Slashed .364/.400/,564 as a junior
⚾️ Rated No. 8 LHP in PA by Prep Baseball Report, No. 12 1B in PA by Perfect Game

➡️ https://t.co/oM5sJivtAc

#WeAre

[Next Level Prospects @NextLVLProspect]

🚨🚨2025 LHP Alert 🚨🚨
Pbr Futures Games @LakePointSports

#PBRFG23

‘25 LHP Uli Fernsler (@UliFernsler)
TEAM MICHIGAN

Starts today on Field 9

⚡️LHP | 6’3 190lbs | 4.0 GPA
🔥FB 82-85 with run | strikes
⚡️CH | SL mix. confident arm

@15u_Mich_Bulls
@NoviHSBaseball
@PBRMIScout