Penn State hockey participant Gavin McKenna has been charged with felony aggravated assault, Us Weekly can affirm.
The 18-year-old athlete was charged on Wednesday, February 4, with one depend aggravated assault — makes an attempt to trigger SBI or causes harm with excessive indifference, in keeping with court docket paperwork obtained by Us.
McKenna can be dealing with a misdemeanor cost of straightforward assault and abstract prices of harassment — topic different(s) to bodily contact and disorderly conduct have interaction(d) in combating, per the submitting. (Native ABC affiliate WHTM was first to report the information.)
The incident allegedly involving McKenna — who’s projected to be a prime 2026 NHL Draft decide — passed off on Saturday, January 31, in keeping with the docs. The case is at the moment “awaiting preliminary listening to,” in keeping with court docket data.
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Us Weekly has reached out to a rep for Penn State’s males’s hockey staff for remark.
The date of McKenna’s alleged altercation coincides with Penn State’s most up-to-date house hockey recreation towards Michigan State, held at Beaver Stadium in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
The No. 5 ranked Penn State Nittany Lions misplaced to the No. 2. Michigan State Spartans in a detailed 5-4 recreation. Throughout the recreation, McKenna, a freshman, secured one aim and one help.
Whereas particulars in regards to the alleged altercation haven’t been launched, State Faculty Police filed prices towards McKenna on Wednesday, per the police report.
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McKenna’s case is at the moment assigned to Magisterial District Decide Casey McClain in State Faculty Borough, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
Previous to McKenna’s alleged involvement within the reported assault, the athlete was a rising star on the college’s males’s hockey staff.
In line with his staff bioMcKenna is rated because the No. 1 prospect for the 2026 NHL Draft.
Earlier than taking part in for the Nittany Lions, McKenna performed three seasons with the Drugs Hat Tigers as a part of the Western Hockey League, main the staff to the 2025 WHL Championship and a Memorial Cup Finals, per his bio.
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Final yr, McKenna was named the 2025 Canadian Hockey League (CHL) and Western Hockey League (WHL) Participant of the 12 months, turning into the third youngest CHL Participant of the 12 months behind NHL icons Sidney Crosby and John Tavares.
McKenna, who’s from Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, was a part of Staff Canada’s 2024 U18 World Championship staff once they gained the gold medal. He scored 10 targets with 10 assists for 20 factors in seven video games, in keeping with his Penn State profile.
Penn State hockey head coach Man Gadowskyin the meantime, beforehand applauded McKenna for being “very well mannered” and “respectful” through the staff’s media day through WHTM in September 2025.
“His work ethic is great, he matches into our locker room extraordinarily effectively,” Gadowsky added.
To this point, throughout his freshman yr at Penn State, McKenna has already scored 11 targets and leads the staff in factors with 32 scored in 24 video games performed.
McKenna final posted on social media on Tuesday, February 3. He shared a sequence of photographs of himself and his teammates of their hockey uniforms out on the ice. “Hockey valley 👏,” he captioned the add.
McKenna and the Nittany Lions are set to play their subsequent recreation away at Michigan on Friday, February 13.