Home of the Penn State University Cheerleading Team, Lionettes Dance Team and the Nittany Lion Mascot Booster Club
Board Members
Lou Ann Kloss - President
Lou Ann is a proud State College native. She was the Assistant Cheerleading Coach from 2000-2015. She retired from coaching in 2015 and relocated to South Carolina with her husband, Paul. After spending four years in the south, they decided to return back to Happy Valley.
Lou Ann then re-joined the Nittany Lion Pride Booster club as the President.
WE ARE thrilled to have her back!!
Marci Harmon - Treasurer
Marci Harmon is a 1982 graduate of Penn State University with a degree in Accounting and a 1987 graduate of the MBA program at Fairleigh Dickinson University. While at Penn State, Marci was in Alpha Phi Sorority, a little sister at Theta Chi Fraternity, founder of the Penn State Twirling Club and danced in Thon each year that she was a student there. Marci and her husband, Brian (’83 SpCom) (the Penn State Spirit Squad Photographer), live in Long Valley, NJ and also have a second home in State College, PA. They have two children Jason (’12 AerospaceEngr) and his wife Katie ('13 Acctg) who live in Clark, NJ and Jessica (’14 M.Ed and BS Education) and her husband Bobby Miller who live in Alexandria, VA. Marci is a Certified Public Accountant and owns her own accounting firm, Marci J. Harmon, CPA LLC. In her spare time she is involved in the Penn State Alumni Admissions Program, the Schreyer Honors College Parents Council, the Alpha Phi Alumni Association, the THON Hope Gala Advisory Board, the State College Quarterback Club and the Nittany Lion Pride organization. Her daughter Jessica was a Penn State cheerleader from 2010-2014 (and one of the founders of the current Cheer House), and Marci is proud to serve as the Treasurer of the Nittany Lion Pride Booster Club.
Doreen Schivley - Membership -Chairperson
Doreen Schivley lives in State College, Pa with her husband Mark. Doreen received a BS in Special Education from Penn State in 1978 and a Master's Degree in Psychology from Washington College in 1983. She retired from teaching in the field of Special Education from the Kent County Public Schools (Chestertown, MD) in 2008 after a 30 year career. Hobbies include reading, dancing, cooking, picking grapes for a local winery, swimming, and watching sports. In State College, Doreen is a docent/volunteer at the Penn State All-Sports Museum. She and her husband, Mark are members of the Nittany Lion Club, Life-time members of Back the Lions and the Penn State Alumni Association, State College Quarterback Club, Lady Lion Cager Club, Friends of Penn State Men's Hockey, Tailback Club, Centre County Penn State Alumni Association, and of course Nittany Lion Pride. In addition, Doreen was selected to be an inaugural member of the Nittany Lion Fan Council.
As an undergraduate, Doreen danced in Thon in 1976 and 1977 when it was a full 48 hours and held in the HUB ballroom. Doreen also tried out for the cheerleading squad. She is a member of Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority and a Sigma Pi Little Sister.
Kimberly Fragola- Secretary
Anthony Fragola
Anthony has been a resident of State College Pa since 1997. A U.S. Army and Air Force Veteran and a small business owner. Anthony is a graduate from The Pennsylvania State University, where he majored in Economics with advanced studies in Macroeconomics, Money and Banking. Anthony continues to be an active volunteer in the community.Along with serving on the Board to Nittany Lion Pride. Anthony serves on the Board of two Local Industrial/Economic Development Authorities and is a graduate of the Leadership Centre County program. Anthony is married to Kimberly Fragola, both of whom were born and raised in western Pennsylvania but came to University Park as Penn State students and never left. We Are, of course...Penn State!
HOBBIES: Ham Radio enthusiast and Proud to Support Penn State Football along with other athletic programs.
INTERESTING FACT: Anthony's parents immigrated from Italy, making him a first- generation American.