The last game of the Penn men’s soccer season was supposed to take place on Nov. 12 against Harvard.

Take an easy-going, gun-slinging quarterback from California.

Both Green and sophomore sabre Julian Merchant traveled to Milwaukee, Wisconsin this past weekend to participate in the November North American Cup where they finished 21st and 32nd respectively out of 210 fencers.

In the wake of an exhaustive election season during which major party candidates displayed questionable leadership qualities, it will perhaps bring some amount of solace to know that the future of the men’s and women’s cross country team rests in caring and capable hands.

There’s a new skipper in town — and her name is Lenox Butcher. At the LaserPerformance Women’s Singlehanded National Championship last weekend, Penn sailing’s Lenox Butcher recorded the best-ever finish for a Quaker at a national sailing competition, finishing ninth in a highly competitive field.

This has been a tough week for everyone. Laden with disappointment, grief, and shock, I am in just as much disbelief as all of the other folks out there today.

It was a big week for Penn sports, with three athletes receiving individual awards.

At the end of a historic week, marked by the results of the presidential election on Tuesday night, Penn Cross Country added a little history of their own, with the women’s team earning the program’s first selection to the NCCA Championships, placing third at the Mid-Atlantic Regionals on Friday “It is very exciting,” Coach Steve Dolan said after learning that the women’s season would continue for one more week.

In the movie business, sequels rarely hold up to the original. It’s tough enough to make one good movie, and even more difficult to make another one with the same cast of characters. After entering the 2015 season ranked sixth in the Ivy League preseason media poll and dropping three of its first four games, Penn football won six straight to share the Ancient Eight title with Harvard and Dartmouth.

This Saturday the Penn men’s and women’s swim teams were victorious in their meet against Villanova.

DURHAM, N.C. — Throwing them right into the fire. It’s an interesting strategy. It’s also been a hallmark of Penn women’s basketball coach Mike McLaughlin’s tenure.

Penn volleyball's season came to an end on Saturday, but it really seemed like the Quakers were just getting set to head on vacation. It's hard to view a 3-2 loss to Cornell (12-12, 6-8 Ivy) in the season finale as the end for this 2016 Penn team (10-16, 5-9), because the entire 2016 Penn team will be back for 2017.

Penn finishes fall racing season with fourth place regatta finish. The Quakers competed in their final regatta of the fall racing season, in the Rivanna Romp on Sunday morning.

Penn women’s basketball opened up the season at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Sunday afternoon, taking on Duke to kick things off.

For the second consecutive year, the Red and Blue upset the Crimson in the penultimate game of the season.

A man listed at 6-foot-11 and 265 pounds is inevitably going to leave some big shoes to fill. While the sample size is small with only the first game of the post-DNH era underway, it’s fair to say the Red and Blue have found their post presence of the future.

They say football games are battles in the trenches. A well thrown ball is a bullet. Deep home runs are bombs. All these are overused clichés, but some – including six students on Penn’s campus – actually live them.