Penn State head coach Bob Warming welcomes one freshman and three transfers
High School/Club/ODP: Inaugural recipient of the Cost Family Endowed Men's Soccer Scholarship...Three-time First Team All-York-Adams Interscholastic Athletic Association (YAIAA) selection, starting three years as a forward for Dallastown Area High School...Scored 73 goals and totaled 39 assists in his career while missing his senior season with a broken foot...Earned YAIAA Player of the Year, All-U.S. East Region and Pennsylvania All-State honors in 2010...Led the Wildcats to a 24-2 record and a conference and District 3 title in the same year...Played club soccer for PA Classics, helping the squad to a 17-7-3 mark in 2011 and to the academy finals, placing second in a national tournament of 64 teams...Named to the ESPN Rise Starting 11 for Pennsylvania in 2011...Co-captained the Philadelphia U-18 Academy team at the MLS Generation Adidas (U-17) Cup, going undefeated in regulation, falling only on PKs in two games.
Personal: Born Christian Nelson Kaschak in York, Pa., March 5, 1994...Parents are Gary Kaschak and Amy Nelson...Had seven relatives who graduated from Penn State...Father wrestled at Penn State from 1981-86...Has one sibling, sister Caroline...Wishes to pursue a major in kinesiology.
