By Gordon Brunskill — gbrunski@centredaily.com
UNIVERSITY PARK — It was a quest three decades in the making, so the feeling was understandable.
The first time he stepped on the ice with a pair of skates at Pegula Ice Arena, Joe Battista said he was “numb.”
“That was cool, taking the first step out there,” Penn State’s associate athletic director for ice arena and hockey development said. “I had a little lump in my throat and a tear in my eye.”