All-Ivy all-year-long

I realize that my year in review column might have seemed a little harsh to some, while others thought it didn't even go far enough in describing Penn's performance this past year. Since my column focused on Ivy regular season standings, I've now analyzed another indicator of athletic success, Penn's All-Ivy selections.

The post will be a little bit backwards. If you want to see how each sport did individually, continue after the jump. But first, here are some conclusions based on each team's individual honors.

Of Penn's 31 teams that are eligible for All-Ivy teams, 21 failed to receive a proportional amount of All-Ivy selections. In other words, when the Quakers only manage one All-Ivy selection in M. Hoops when there's 15 spots for the eight teams, that's a failing, since they would have been expected to have had roughly two. Of the 10 teams that were overrepresented on the All-Ivy teams, three won Ivy titles (M. Soccer, M. Fencing and W. Lax), as those sports earned 22, 41 and 21 percent of their respective All-Ivy selections. Wrestling also did very well, earning 32% of the All-Ivy nods.

Looking at individual awards, the Red and Blue did very poorly. Penn only received 1.5 Player of the Year awards (Kristen Lange won the W. Squash award and Emma Spiro was W. Lax co-Player of the Year) and just a single Rookie of the Year honor (W. Lax's Erin Brennan). Meanwhile, Dartmouth and Harvard shared the lead with five POY awards, and the Crimson dominated Rookie of the Year, with eight selections.

In the end, while maybe my original column marginalized the non-championship teams, it appears that the Quakers had a below average year on an individual level: Penn nabbed just 95 out of 862 All-Ivy selections. If all eight Ivy teams participated in all Ivy sports, each team would "expected" to get 1/8 or 12.5 percent of All-Ivy selections. But because some sports have fewer teams, Penn would've been expected to get roughly 112 selections, or 13 percent. Thus, their 11.02 percent of 95/862 was below average.

Again, after the jump I have a breakdown of how Penn did for every sport, listed alphabetically. I'll give the rundown of Penn selections, including the fraction of total selections, followed by which school had the Player and Rookie of the Year.

Baseball: Zero people on the first team (13 players); three second team selections: sophomore 3B Dan Williams, freshman SS Derek Vigoa and junior OF Tom Grandieri; one honorable mention (junior William Gordon). Total: four out of 41 selections. Player of the Year: Dartmouth's Nick Santomauro, Rookie of the Year: Dartmouth’s Joe Scalafini.

M. Hoops: Zero first or second teamers, and only one honorable mention (sophomore Tyler Bernardini). (Despite winning Big 5 Rookie of the Year, Zack Rosen was not selected as the Ivy League equivalent.) Total: one out of 15. Player of the Year: Dartmouth's Alex Barnett. Rookie of the Year: Cornell’s Chris Wroblewski.

W. Hoops: Senior forward Carrie Biemer made the first team, but the Quakers didn't have another pick, including any selections on the freshmen team. Total: one out of 18. POY: Dartmouth's Brittney Smith. ROY: Brogan Berry of Harvard.

Cross Country: Literally zero selections on either men's or women's first or second teams (which is zero for 28). There wasn't a POY or ROY.

M. Fencing (All-Ivy teams are determined by winning percentage at the two-day Ivy Championship): Two first team sabres (juniors Andrew Bielen and Jonathan Berkowsky), two second team epees (sophomore Jacob Wischnia and senior Ben Wieder), one first team foil (Zane Grodman) and two second team foils (freshmen Alex Simmons and Vidur Kapur). That's seven out of 17. There isn't an official POY or ROY, but the highest winning percentage of anyone was Columbia's Jeff Spear, and the highest-scoring rookie was Alexander Mills of Princeton.

W. Fencing (chosen just like the men): Two second team sabres (freshman Dominika Franciskowicz and sophomore Danielle Kamis) and two second team foils (freshmen Laura Paragano and Mia Howell). Total: four of 18. Unofficial POY and ROY: Noam Mills of Harvard.

Field Hockey: Zero first teamers or honorable mentions, but three second teamers (seniors Margaretha Ehret and Rachel Eng and junior Sarah Warner). Total: three out of 31. League champion Princeton swept POY and ROY (Katie Reinprecht and Kathleen Sharkey, respectively).

Football: three first team selections (senior OL Chris Kovalcik, sophomore K Andrew Samson and junior CB Chris Wynn), six second team selections (sophomore RB Michael DiMaggio, juniors DL Joe Goniprow, LB Jake Lewko and LB Jay Colabella and seniors TE Josh Koontz and DL Joe Rost), two honorable mentions (Guillermo Ruffolo and Britton Ertman). That equals a respectable 11 out of 84. POY: Harvard QB Chris Pizzoti. ROY: Harvard DB Matthew Hanson.

M. Golf: Penn had two selections (senior Brett Rendina and freshman Scotty Williams) on the seven-person team. Dartmouth's Peter Williamson swept POY and ROY.

W. Golf: Zero people on the seven-person team. POY: Susannah Aboff (Princeton). ROY: Christine Cho (Harvard).

M. Lax: No first teamers, and just one on each of the second team (senior Craig Andrzejewski) and honorable mention category (senior Drew Collins). Total: two out of 32. POY: Jordon Burke (Brown). ROY: Rob Pannell (Cornell).

W. Lax: The best team at Penn in terms of quality All-Ivy selections, the Quakers led the League with four first team selections: junior midfield Emma Spiro -- who was named co-Player of the Year with Princeton's Holly McGarvie -- senior defense Hillary Renna and juniors Ali DeLuca and Courtney Lubbe (the first two were unanimous). The team also had two second teamers, senior Becca Edwards and freshman Erin Brennan -- who was named unanimous ROY. Finally Kailiegh Wright was an honorable selection. Total: seven out of 34.

M. Rowing (the teams that come in first and second at the EARC Championships, which includes non-Ivy schools, are considered the respective All-Ivy teams): For the lightweights, Princeton beat out Harvard, while Penn finished eighth. For the heavyweights, Brown outpaced Harvard while Penn came in 14th. No rower of the year.

W. Rowing (done just like the men): Yale and Harvard finished first and second, respectively, while Penn got seventh.

M. Soccer: W. Lax had more selections on the first team, but M. Soccer had a higher percentage of All-Ivy selections, as it had eight out of the 37 players (roughly 22 percent). First team: seniors Omid Shokoufandeh and Alex Grendi. Second team: seniors Brian Mascarenhas and Drew Healy. Honorable mention: seniors John Elicker and Ryan Porch and freshman Jake Levin. However, Dartmouth swept the individual awards (POY: Craig Henderson, ROY: Lucky Mkosana).

W. Soccer: Two first teamers (senior Natalie Capuano and sophomore Sarah Friedman) and three honorable mentions (Molly Weir, Marin McDermott and Ellen Larkin). Total: five out of 39 (12.8%). POY: Sophie Reiser of Columbia. ROY: Melanie Baskind of Harvard.

Softball: Despite their 15-18-1 record, softball did pretty well in All-Ivy selections, grabbing seven out of 42 spots: Alisha Prystowsky (a unanimous selection) and Kelsey Wolfe, both got first team honors. Jess Lupardus, Jamie Boccanfuso and Keiko Uraguchi all got second team. Finally, Sarah Patrick and Meg Krasne got honorable mention. League champion Cornell swept the individual awards.

M. Squash: The Quakers had zero selections on the nine-person team, as Princeton swept POY (Mauricio Sanchez) and ROY (Chris Callis).

W. Squash: Penn had two members on the nine-person team, including Ivy Player of the Year Kristen Lange. Harvard's Nirasha Guruge won ROY.

M. Swimming (whoever gets first or second in the 22 races at the Ivy Championships gets All-Ivy): freshman Brendan McHugh won the 100-yard breaststroke and finished second in the 200. Fellow freshman Jeff Cragg placed second in the 3-meter dive. Total: 3 out of 44. Swimmer of the Year went to Alex Righi of Yale. Diver of the Year went to Daniel Dickerson of Princeton. (No official ROY, though McHugh certainly would've been in the discussion.)

W. Swimming (just like the men): The women didn't have any top-two finishers, so total is zero out of 44. Princeton swept Swimmer and Diver of the Year.

M. Tennis: One first team selection (junior Hicham Laleej) and one honorable mention (senior Jonathan Boym who might have made either first or second team had he not been hampered by injuries). Total: two out of 18 singles players and zero out of eight doubles teams. Harvard (POY) and Columbia (ROY) split the individual awards.

W. Tennis: The women's team had three individuals, as Maria Anisimova got second team while Ekaterina Kosminskaya and Lauren Sadaka got honorable mention. Sadaka and Emily Wolf got honorable mention doubles. Total: three out of 19 singles and one out of nine doubles. Harvard (POY) and Princeton (ROY) shared the individual honors.

M. Indoor Track: All track teams, whether indoor or outdoor, men or women, had similar All-Ivy procedures. The two teams were based on the results at the Ivy League Indoor then Heptagonal Championships. Also, there were no individual awards. So for M. Indoor, zero first team runners, but John Carelli won the triple jump. He also finished second in the high jump, while Max Westman also was second, competing in the pentathlon. Total: three out of 38.

W. Indoor Track: Zero first teamers, but two second team selections: Hannah Cope (60-meter hurdles) and Anna Aagenes (800-meters). Total: two of 38.

M. Outdoor Track: The men did better outdoor than indoor, which isn't surprising since the Heptagonal Championships took place at Franklin Field. Darryll Oliver won the 800 meters, Westman won the decathlon and the team won the 4x100-meter relays. Joey Brown finished second in the 100 meters and Anthony Abitante came in second in the pole vault. Total: five out of 38.

W. Outdoor Track: Franklin Field couldn't help the women, as only Aagenes in the 800 again and the 4x100 relay team placed, both getting second. Total: two out of 38.

Volleyball: The Quakers had a first team selection (Julia Swanson) and a second team selection (Madison Wojciechowski). Total: two out of 21. POY was Cat Dailey of Yale and ROY was Anne Carroll Ingersoll of Harvard.

Wrestling: Penn did very well in All-Ivy wrestling, as eight of the starting 10 got at least honorable mention, although only 149-pounder Cesar Grajales (unanimous) and 141-pounder Rick Rappo got first team honors. In the end, they had eight out of 25 spots, which is a very good 32 percent (of course there are only six schools that participate in Ivy wrestling, but 32 percent is still about double the expected 16.67 percent).