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In early November, I sat high atop the Palestra’s fabled bleachers and watched something magical happen. For the first time in my tenure at Penn, men’s basketball defeated Villanova in a thrilling matchup.
For the 16th straight year, Penn football will put its players to work for a cause even more important than collecting wins at Franklin Field.
On campus, the weekend of Quaker Days brought overcast skies. In upstate New York, where No. 12 Penn women’s lacrosse played at Cornell, the conditions weren’t much better. Despite the lack of sunshine, the Quakers’ trip home was brightened with a big win, as Penn defeated the Big Red 11-7 on Saturday afternoon.
This past weekend, when most of campus was preparing for some of the first warm spring days and a solar eclipse, Penn women's golf traveled to Bowling Green, Ohio. While in the Buckeye State, the Quakers were crowned victors for the first time this season, having won the team title in the Dolores Black Falcon Invitational.
In 1979, Jimmy Carter was President of the United States, Superman was the highest-grossing movie in America, and, for about three weeks in March, Penn men’s basketball was atop the world. After going 13-1 in Ivy League play and clinching the second of five straight conference titles under then-head coach Bob Weinhauer, the Quakers secured a spot in the March Madness tournament. But that was only where the magic began.
After going 3-1 over the past week, Penn baseball saw a pair of athletes receive Ivy League honors, with sophomore outfielder Ryan Taylor named the conference's Player of the Week and senior right-handed pitcher Cole Zaffiro selected as Pitcher of the Week. This marks the fourth consecutive week that a Quaker has been honored by the Ancient Eight.
This past weekend, Penn wrestling wrapped up its conference season with a trip to the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships in Lewisburg, Pa. Following the conclusion of the two-day event, the Quakers finished tied for fourth overall and had five wrestlers earn automatic slots to the NCAA Championships in Kansas City.
Even though Ivy League Indoor Heptagonals aren’t until the end of the month, Penn track and field’s indoor season continued in earnest this past weekend, as the Quakers traveled to State College, Pa. for the Sykes and Sabock Invitational.
Coaching turnover is a major yet unavoidable part of college football. At the end of a season, coaches leave, seeking greener pastures or a chance at more responsibilities at a different school. But once the sting of a coach’s departure has worn off, the opportunity for a program to partially reinvent itself under a new coach beckons.
Heading into Saturday’s contest, Penn women’s basketball had won its last 16 games against Dartmouth. For the past eight years, the Quakers defeated the Big Green twice per season like clockwork, and last season, Dartmouth proved just as hapless against the rest of the Ivy League, going a dreadful 0-14 against conference opponents.
On the field, senior forward Lis Zandbergen, senior goalkeeper Frederique Wollaert, and sophomore forward Livia Loozen are a strong group. They each started all 17 games that Penn field hockey played this season, with Loozen scoring six goals to come in second on the team and Zandbergen adding three assists to her own pair of scores. In the net, Wollaert was a consistent presence for the Quakers, racking up a .744 save percentage and allowing under two goals per game.
Penn Athletics has a series of wide-ranging funding gaps across a variety of sports, according to an analysis by The Daily Pennsylvanian of publicly available data. This includes significant disparities in the salaries of men’s and women’s coaches, recruiting expenses, and the costs of game-day and other operations.
While most of campus and the country was spending time with family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, Penn men’s basketball (5-3) stayed in Philadelphia over the break, as the Quakers hosted the annual Cathedral of College Basketball Classic at the Palestra. One of several traditional ‘Feast Week’ tournaments, Penn played host to Lafayette, Belmont, and Monmouth over the weekend.
Teams show their true colors when the stakes are the highest, and the lights are the brightest.
There’s only one chance to make a first impression, and on Saturday, Penn women’s basketball took full advantage of this opportunity, as the Quakers thoroughly trounced Marist 74-51 at the Palestra to open its season.
Before I do anything else, I'd like to address the question posed in the title of this column. I'm aware that a team doesn't look the exact same every week. There are injuries — both the ones that keep players out of games and the ones that are played through — which are regularly sustained and recovered from in a sport as physical as football. There are fluctuations in game plans that come with different opponents, that require different players and aspects of the team to step up.
With its second loss to Brown last Friday, the road between Penn football and an Ivy League title has immediately become murkier. Now with two conference losses, the Quakers have a limited array of options at their disposal to finish the season atop the Ancient Eight standings for the first time since 2012.
It's often said that there's no such thing as a second chance to make a first impression. Last month, Penn men's basketball showed the first glimpses of its upcoming season at Ivy League Media Days, where coach Steve Donahue, senior guard Clark Slajchert, and senior center Nick Spinoso spoke to the media at large for the first time since last March.
Johnnie Walter had a dilemma.
With one game left in the Ivy League soccer season, Penn finds itself locked in a three-way tie for the top of the Ivy table, as the Quakers, Harvard, and Yale have all picked up 11 points through their first six conference games. Therefore, this weekend's games will be all-important for both a regular season Ivy League title and seeding in the Ivy League Tournament, whose winner will have an automatic bid to advance to the NCAA Tournament.