04/21/08 5:00am
The Penn women's tennis team suffered its biggest loss of the season to Yale this weekend - without even playing the Bulldogs.
After winning both matches against Cornell and Columbia to finish the season with a 6-1 Ivy record, the Quakers had done everything they could to defend their Ancient Eight title.
04/14/08 5:00am
The school from Athens brought multiple Olympians to the NCAA Gymnastics Northeast Regionals , and for one day, Penn's Marissa Rosen got to be their teammate.
Rosen was paired with the No. 1-seeded Georgia team, whose Courtney Kupets and Courtney McCool were both part of the silver-medal-winning U.
04/11/08 5:00am
For the second year in a row, Penn gymnast Marissa Rosen will miss out on Spring Fling. Believe it or not, she has somewhere better to be.
Tomorrow, Rosen will represent the Quakers at the NCAA Northeast Regionals at Penn State. Her qualifying score of 38.
04/04/08 5:00am
When the men's tennis team faces off against Brown and Yale at Lott Courts this weekend, junior Justin Fox hopes "history will repeat itself."
Penn has beaten both New England schools by a 5-2 margin, each of the last two years and wants to make it three in a row.
03/31/08 5:00am
For the women's golf team, 13 days is all it takes to finish the spring season.
The Quakers tee off at the Hoya Invitational today - just one week after their opener - for their last tournament before Ivy Championships.
"Several Ivy League schools competing so it will be a nice gauge for us to see where we are and what we've done with our spring break," coach Francis Vaughn said - although he said the same thing before last weekend's First Market Bank Invitational, at which his squad finished 17th out of 20.
03/24/08 5:00am
Before the women's tennis team took on Marshall and William & Mary this weekend, senior co-captain Julia Koulbitskaya predicted that her team would have to be "well-prepared at the bottom of the lineup."
Her words proved prophetic. On Saturday, the Quakers lost the top two singles slots, but victories further down the depth chart propelled them an upset over No.
03/20/08 5:00am
Since January, Penn gymnastics has battled its way through four dual-meets, two tri-meets, two tournaments and one quad-meet without ever coming out on top.
And now, in the last regular-season meet of the year, the Quakers finally picked up that elusive win.
03/03/08 5:00am
It looks like no one can stop Sara Coenen.
After going undefeated in the 100- and 200-yard backstroke in league competition this season, Penn's star sophomore won both titles at the Ivy League Women's Swimming and Diving Championships.
The Quakers (7-5, 4-3 Ivy) finished fifth overall, but they broke seven school records in the process.
02/28/08 5:00am
Penn swim coach Mike Schnur wants his women to swim "as if their hair is on fire."
While Harvard and Princeton are expected to finish first and second at the Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships, running today through Saturday, the rest of the slots are all very much up for grabs.
02/22/08 5:00am
When the Penn women's tennis team faces off against the Terrapins, the Quakers will play a young team that is out to prove itself. Of the eight women on the Terps' roster, seven are underclassmen.
That doesn't mean Maryland (1-4) doesn't have what it takes to win.
02/11/08 5:00am
Harvard may have dominated the pool this past Saturday, with a 189-104 victory, but it was Penn's seniors who had the crowd on their side as they competed in their final career home meet.
Before the meet began, Coach Mike Schnur introduced his four senior swimmers - Alex Keeney, Chris Weitekamp and co-captains Devon Carr and Pat Gallagher - to a crowd filled with family members and friends.
02/04/08 5:00am
One week after suffering a two-point loss to Navy, the women's swim team had extra motivation in its final dual-meet before Ivy Championships.
"The goal of the meet was to take the frustration of losing to Navy to fuel our race against West Chester," said co-captain Megan Carlin.
01/28/08 5:00am
This year's women's swim meet against Navy was almost a carbon copy of last year's contest. The teams were evenly matched, the outcome was determined by the same race and the final score was relatively similar.
But this time, a different team found itself on the winning end.
01/22/08 5:00am
For the women's swim team, the final score of this weekend's meet against Yale does not tell the whole story.
Although the Quakers fell to the Bulldogs 186-114, coach Mike Schnur was more than pleased with the results, calling it the "best meet of the year by far.
01/18/08 5:00am
The girls' swim team spent 10 days in Boca Raton, Fla., over winter break. But the trip was anything but a vacation.
The Quakers practiced in the pool for two hours in the morning and another two in the afternoon, and also had dry land workouts every day.
12/11/07 5:00am
The drought is finally over. The Penn men's swim team captured its first win against Columbia after five straight years of losses to its Ivy rivals from New York.
The Red and Blue defeated the Lions 185-114 at Sheerr Pool this past Saturday.
"It was a nice win, but more important than winning, it was seeing how fast the men can swim," coach Mike Schnur said.
12/07/07 5:00am
Forget the Penn and Princeton rivalry.
When the women's swim team faces off against the Columbia Lions tonight, that's when the competition will get really heated.
"It is a great rivalry," said head coach Mike Schnur. "Neither team really likes each other a lot.
11/29/07 5:00am
The Penn men's and women's swim team will face off against unfamiliar faces this weekend at the second annual Kenyon Invitational.
A change from the usual Ivy competition, the Quakers will compete against powerhouses like Kenyon and Kansas.
Because the Invitational is scheduled the same way as the Ivy League Championships, with the preliminary events in the morning and finals in the afternoon, it gives both teams a good opportunity to prepare for the championships at the end of the season.
11/19/07 5:00am
The women's swimming team defeated Cornell 217-83, but fell to Princeton 113-184 in the home opener and the first meet of the Ivy season.
Sophomore Melissa Gardel gave the Quakers (3-1, 1-1 Ivy) their first victory of the day, finishing on top in three-meter dive with 248.
11/08/07 5:00am
When the women on Penn's swim team step onto the poolside for their first meet this Saturday, they know they have big shoes to fill for the coming season. Last year, the Quakers finished fourth at the Ivy Championships and compiled a 12-4 overall record, one of their best seasons ever.
