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Alek Torgersen has something to prove.
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Alek Torgersen has something to prove.
The Palestra may be known as the Cathedral of College Basketball, but this weekend its occupants will pay homage to another sport, as Penn volleyball will take to the historic floor for its first home games of the 2015 season in the Crowne Plaza Invitational.
1. What individual athlete has been most impressive throughout the early part of the season?
On any given weekend afternoon at Rhodes Field, you’ll see women charging up and down the turf, bold red block letters branding “PENN” across their chests. Flurries of action spring up and scatter across the field following the arcs of the soccer ball. Amidst all this chaos, one woman is a point of calm and stillness.
In preparation for the upcoming season, Penn football held its annual Media Day on Tuesday. With a new head coach, as well as offensive and defensive coordinators, there was certainly a lot to be said. Here are the most interesting takeaways from the day.
The 2015-16 school year is about to get underway, and along with new students filling into Huntsman Hall and the Quad, a handful of rookies have a chance to make an immediate impact for Penn Athletics. Our editors debate which team’s freshman class has the most potential.
Take a look at the statistical leaderboards from Penn softball’s 2015 season and one name appears over and over again: Jurie Joyner, Jurie Joyner, Jurie Joyner.
Thanks to Isaac Newton, it is a law of motion that an “object in motion tends to remain in motion.”
Imagine it’s the bottom of the sixth inning in the rubber match of the Ivy League Championship series. Your team is up 3-2, and only three outs separate you from an Ancient Eight crown, an NCAA berth and a chance at glory.
Track is a unique sport in that months of training can boil down to one race that is over in a matter of minutes. The story is no different for Penn’s women’s 4x800-meter relay squad, as just nine minutes separate four runners from glory.
Two teams. Two undefeated records. One winner.
Come Friday morning, the Palestra will be nearly unrecognizable to its basketball season regulars.
When she strides across home plate to take her lefty stance inside the batter’s box, you might not expect anything out of the ordinary from Sydney Turchin. But her opponents know better by now.
Penn gymnastics has been flying high for much of the 2014-15 season, both literally — in their acrobatic competitions — and in Ivy competition, picking up a surprise victory in the Ivy Classic. This weekend served as both a reminder of their success this season and their fall back down to Earth.
What do you do when you’re the biggest fish in your pond? Find a bigger pond.
Although Tuesday’s 55-42 loss to Princeton may have crushed Penn women’s hoops’ hopes of making its second-consecutive NCAA Tournament trip, the squad certainly did not come away from the season empty-handed.
The 2015 season is on the verge of opening, and the women of Penn softball are eager to break out of their bubble, both in the literal and metaphorical sense.
For the powers that be at the Collegiate Squash Association, determining the final team to make the Potter Cup was no easy task. Four Ivy schools — Penn, Cornell, Princeton and Dartmouth — were all in the running heading into last weekend’s docket of matches.
Don’t call it a comeback.
Some victories are just a little bit sweeter than others.