FightOnState.com: Smooth Transition:
“He is asked the question all the time. And for the record, yes, Cilk — pronounced ‘Silk’ — is his actual first name.
‘Nobody believes me,’ Cilk McSweeney said with a smile before Penn State practiced at the Jordan Center last week. ‘They say, what’s your name? I say Cilk. … But most of the time, since it’s spelled C-i-l-k, they call me Click.’
Which is fitting, in a way, because after spending the last few years traveling around the country in search of a basketball home, McSweeney believes his career is finally clicking with the Nittany Lions.
The 6-foot-6, 205-pound shooting guard transferred into the program for the fall semester after spending a season and a half on scholarship at Towson University, and the spring of 2004 working out at San Diego City College. Under NCAA transfer rules, McSweeney is not eligible to play for the Nittany Lions until the 2005-06 season, at which time he will have two years of competition remaining.
McSweeney is not on scholarship. But he is practicing with the team every day and offering moral support from the bench during home games.
‘He’s working hard,’ forward Aaron Johnson said. ‘If we had him this year, he’d be a huge help.’ …”