In this week's edition of Is Stat So?, Penn soccer locks down on defense, volleyball gets off to a solid start, and sprint football coach Bill Wagner begins his 50th and final season.

To begin the season on Friday, Penn field hockey fell, 2-0, in a tough battle against No. 10 Wake Forest.

With a number of Penn teams starting their respective seasons this weekend, here are three pressing questions that will be answered by next week.

With last year's senior leaders gone from campus, the Daily Pennsylvanian Sports editors took a look at which underrated underclassmen are poised for breakout seasons. 

The 1988 Penn field hockey team is the best in the program's history.

As their Penn Athletics careers come to a close, these three seniors are taking advantage of their newfound free time.

For some international student-athletes, though, flights are too expensive and time-consuming to make this a reality. Fortunately for football offensive lineman Travis Wang, Penn Athletics is picking up his travel tab. 

Sage was the first ever head coach for both teams at Penn and coached for a total of 50 seasons — leading women’s lacrosse for 26 years and field hockey for 24 years.

After graduating last May, wrestler May Bethea and field hockey player Alexa Hoover decided to stay and offer their skills as Directors of Operations for their respective sports.

Penn field hockey’s season may be over, but the accolades are just coming in. 

Unranked Penn almost pulled off one of the biggest upsets in program history, but the late equalizer the team needed never came.

While Penn women's soccer might have the most important game to play this weekend, here's a look at three others teams that will also be in action.

In this week's edition of Is Stat So?, Karekin Brooks ran all over Brown's defense, women's soccer clinched a share of an Ivy title for the first time in nearly a decade, and men's soccer finally ended its winless streak.

On Saturday, the Quakers celebrated its senior day for five players — Rachel Mirkin, Karen Seid, Sofia Palacios, Page Meily, and Kelsey Mendell — by defeating Brown 1-0. 

In this week's edition of Is Stat So?, a pair of cousins dominated for sprint football, a month-long shutout streak came to an end, and Penn football failed to stop Yale's ground game.

With its chances of winning an Ivy League title on the line, Penn field hockey was able to secure a huge win against Yale in a 2-0 victory in New Haven, Conn. 

No team with more than one loss has ever won an Ivy title, so a second Ivy loss could be fatal for the Red and Blue’s Ivy championship hopes. Penn currently sits at third in the Ivy League behind both Harvard and Princeton.