DP Sports Player of the Week: Penn field hockey senior Gracyn Banks
This past weekend, Penn women's field hockey ended its season on a high with an Ivy League victory against Dartmouth.
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This past weekend, Penn women's field hockey ended its season on a high with an Ivy League victory against Dartmouth.
The Penn men's and women's fencing teams' trophy cases will definitely be full after this weekend.
After an early goal by the Bears, the Quakers were unable to find their momentum and suffered their third Ivy League loss of the season.
In a successful weekend for Penn women’s soccer, the team took down Dartmouth 3-1 on Saturday and Delaware State 4-0 on Monday.
The Red and Blue are experiencing a kind of deja vu as they prepare to step onto the field on Oct. 1 against Dartmouth for their first Ivy League game of the 2021 season. After nearly two years of waiting, the stakes couldn’t be higher.
After an early lead, a controversial goal, seven minutes of overtime, and over a dozen headers, Penn women’s soccer won its game against Rice, 2-1.
Penn football's wide receivers demonstrated in 2019 that they are forces to be reckoned with.
The Sheraton University City Volleyball Invitational was a huge success for the Red and Blue's women's volleyball team, who won all three of their matches and swept the tournament. The star of the show was junior captain Autumn Leak, who finished the weekend with 50 kills and a .311 hitting percentage.
Penn women’s soccer started off its season strong and kept its burgeoning winning streak alive with a 3-0 victory against the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) at Rhodes Field. With 386 people in the stands, it was the Quaker’s most well attended women’s match thus far.
The U.S. women’s rowing team went into the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with a goal: win a gold medal. Although they fell short of this aspiration after finishing in fourth place, an integral part of that mission was Regina Salmons, Penn alumna and the youngest member of the Team USA Women’s Eight.
On July 23, Team USA women’s rowing won their heat at the Olympics, advancing straight to the Women’s Eight medal race, which will be held on Thursday, July 29 at 9:05 p.m. ET. The youngest member of the boat, at 24 years-old, is former Penn rower Regina Salmons.
After an intense qualifying process, Isabella Whittaker represented Penn at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships on June 10, earning herself an All-America Honorable Mention.
Attending college in a foreign country can be a tough transition. On top of adjusting to the culture and language of a new country, student-athletes have to balance an intense academic and athletic schedule. This is just a part of everyday life for 13 members of Penn men’s heavyweight and lightweight rowing.
Last year, the COVID-19 pandemic forced spring sports competitions to come to a halt. One such tournament was the annual Penn Relays, the oldest and largest track and field competition in the United States, always hosted by Penn at Franklin Field. This year, the Penn Relays sponsored the Philadelphia Metropolitan Collegiate Invitational (“Philly Mets”), a scaled-down version of the typical week-long extravaganza.
In a devastating defeat, Penn softball lost its first matchup against Drexel this season by a score of 11-2.
From athlete to coach to director, Brian “Rudy” Fuller, has left his mark on the institutions he has served at and continues to do so as he steps into the role of Penn's interim athletic director after M. Grace Calhoun's departure for Brown.
In the wake of the protests and racial activism of last summer, Penn women's soccer, along with the other seven Ivy League teams, formed the Justice Coalition to further their commitment to advancing social justice issues in their communities.
John Edgar Wideman broke barriers both during his time on Penn men’s basketball, as one of the few Black players on the team, and in his illustrious writing career that followed after he graduated.
From battling multiple injuries to losing her last season to COVID-19, senior gymnast Darby Nelson has endured hardships over the course of her gymnastics career. Yet, she continues to set a positive example for her teammates and the young kids she coaches at home.
Basketball has given Matteus Case a lot of firsts: his first sport, his first time traveling abroad, and his first priority. Despite his impressive personal accomplishments and national status, Case always puts his teammates first.