The women’s squash team is where it wants to be right now.
Following last weekend’s victorious Ivy League double-bill, including a 9-0 home shutout against Brown, Penn (4-0, 3-0 Ivy) ends the fall semester undefeated for the fourth straight year.
The No. 3 Quakers will look to maintain that momentum in 2010, as they travel to Palo Alto, Calif., for the Stanford Round Robin on Jan. 9.
While the team is halfway to matching the eight-game win streak it had to open the 2008-09 season, coach Jack Wyant knows his side cannot afford to treat the trip as a vacation.
“Stanford is without a doubt the best team on the West Coast,” he said.
The Red and Blue have come out on top against No. 6 Stanford in their past three encounters. At the end of the 2008-09 season, the Cardinal were ranked No. 7 in the nation, while the Quakers were at No. 4. Earlier in the year, Wyant considered Stanford to be one of his team’s most competitive opponents this season.
In addition to Stanford, Penn will also square off against Wesleyan and Connecticut.
Despite the Cardinal’s loss to Cornell last month, the Quakers know they must still take Stanford seriously. Stanford handed Princeton its first defeat since February 2008.
