2024-25 • SOPHOMORE SEASON
Awards: Earned Academic All-Big Ten honors…Named to the Allentown Regional All-Tournament Team…Named Allentown Regional Most Outstanding Player.
Season: Skated in all 40 games…Had career bests across the board with 20 points on 12 goals and eight assists…Scored three powerplay goals along with a pair of shorthanded scores…Had 40 blocked shots.
at Alaska (10/6): Tallied one goal in a 5-0 win to complete a series sweep. Michigan (11/22-23): Had on assist on Friday night before registering a career-best three points on one goal and a pair of assists on Saturday. Colgate (11/26-27): Recorded one assist on Friday before adding a goal on Saturday during a series sweep. vs. Army (12/12): Collected one assist in a 4-1 victory. vs. Notre Dame (1/3): Had a primary assist during a 3-3 tie at Wrigley Field. Michigan State (1/10): Scored a goal in a 6-4 loss. Canisus (1/17): Tallied one assist in a 4-0 victory. Ohio State (1/24): Registered one goal and one assist in a 6-6 tie. Notre Dame (2/14): Scored on the powerplay before collecting the game-winning shorthanded goal in a 5-3 win. at Michigan State (2/21): Recorded one goal in a 2-2 tie. Minnesota (2/28): Had an assist in a 4-3 overtime victory. vs. Maine (3/28): Collected a pair of goals in a 5-1 rout of the top-seeded Black Bears. vs. UConn (3/30): Scored the opening goal of the regional final, a 3-2 overtime win to send Penn State to its first-ever Frozen Four.
2023-24 • FRESHMAN SEASON
Season: Played in 31 games scoring six goals with five assists for 11 points..
at St. Lawrence (10/14): Collected his first career assist in a 4-1 victory. AIC (10/21): Added an assist in a 6-4 loss. at Michigan (11/17): Registered his first career goal in a 6-4 loss. Lindenwood (11/24): Scored a goal in a 9-3 victory. Minnesota (12/1): Recorded the lone goal in a 4-1 loss. at Notre Dame (1/19): Tallied an assist on the lone goal in a loss. Michigan (2/17): Scored the game-winning goal in a 4-2 victory. Wisconsin (2/24): Notched an assist in a loss. At Ohio State (3/1-2): Tallied an assist in a 5-2 win on Friday before scoring both goals in a 2-1 victory on Saturday for his first career multi-goal and multi-point game to complete the series sweep.
BEFORE PENN STATE
Spent the 2021-23 seasons with the Tri-City Storm of the United States Hockey League…Played 116 games totaling 63 points on 32 goals and 31 assists…Helped the Storm to a 47-11-0-4 record and the Anderson Cup Title (USHL regular season champion) during the 2021-22 season…Spent two years with the Pittsburgh Penguins Elite from 2016-18.
PERSONAL
Son of Kelly and Dennis Dowiak…Is the youngest of three children with an older brother, Mack, and an older sister, Sage…His brother Mack is a 2016 graduate of Penn State…Intending to major in business.