Loss & Gain The football team may have found a new quarterback, but football and baseball lost a top recruit. Quarterback Gavin Hoffman transferred from Northwestern last month. The 6'6'', 233-pounder threw for 2,199 yards as a redshirt freshman for the Division I-A Wildcats last year. This year, he heads into the Quakers' camp as the popular favorite to replace graduated senior Matt Rader behind center. Meanwhile, recruit Jonathan Searles will still attend Penn in the fall, but the quarterback/pitcher signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates in June after being selected in the eighth round of the Major League First Year Player Draft. So, under league rules, Searles will not be eligible to compete in either sport on the collegiate level. And change extended into the coaching realm as well. Anne Sage is officially no longer the women's lacrosse coach, while Craig Thorpe-Clark was chosen to be Jim Masland's replacement as men's squash coach. Sage had been in limbo after the team petitioned for her to step down as coach in early March. She was the only coach in the history of the Penn women's lacrosse program, but had been criticized for her coaching techniques in recent seasons. Thorpe-Clark, for his part, joins Penn after a four-year stay at Vassar College.
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