Until this weekend, Penn men’s tennis had yet to play a tournament in the 2016 season at full strength. Its veteran star, senior Vim De Alwis, was recovering from knee surgery after getting injured late in the 2015 season, and rookie sensation Dmitry Shatalin was stuck sorting through NCAA clearance bureaucracy.

Rest is for the weak. That has been Penn wrestling’s mantra as of late. And, after a weekend consisting of several closely contested and grueling dual matches, the Quakers have certainly earned a respite.

This past Friday at Staten Island was one for the books for Penn track and field. Returning for the second time this month to the Ocean Breeze Complex in New York, the Red and Blue broke records and brought the heat to the highly competitive Fastrack National Invite.

ITHACA, N.Y. — Steve Donahue went back to Newman Arena on Saturday and walked away with another win — this time for a different team. The first-year Penn basketball coach returned to his old stomping grounds at Cornell as the Quakers handed the Big Red a 92-84 defeat just a day after falling at Columbia, 63-53.

Three Ivy League doubleheader weekends, three sweeps, and a win against each of the seven other Ivies. You can’t ask for a better start to conference play.

Three Ivy League doubleheader weekends, three sweeps, and a 7-0 record in conference play.

In the first-year Penn coach’s return to Cornell, where he coached for a decade, Penn defeated Cornell, 92-84, to give Donahue his first win against his former program.

There’s no such thing as a moral victory? Probably true for the majority of sports, but for Penn gymnastics on Friday night, it may be reasonable to make a slight exception.

In what was surely a must win for the Quakers, they did just that. On Friday night within the safe confines of the Palestra, Penn routed Columbia in a 71-51 showing.

NEW YORK – Midway through the second half on Friday, despite having gone down by 11 after halftime, Penn basketball managed to whittle its deficit against Columbia down to a single point. That’s as close as the Quakers would get.

After a busy season filled with plenty of ups and even a few downs, the Penn squash teams will end their regular season schedules with red and blue opponents of their own. On Friday, both second-ranked squads will have their final home match of the season against Columbia at the Ringe Squash Courts.

Things seem to be falling into place this weekend for Penn men’s tennis.

Panthers and Tigers and Bears, oh my! That's what the Penn gymnastics team will be facing this Friday at the Shelli Calloway Invitational in Towson, Maryland, as the team will compete against Towson, Pitt and Ursinus.

For Penn track and field, the importance of Friday’s Fastrack National Invite is crucial.

Penn (16-3, 5-0 Ivy) will host Columbia (12-9, 1-5) on Friday night before welcoming Cornell (13-7, 5-1) to the Palestra on Saturday. The first-place Quakers will be taking on both their closest and most distant competition in the second-place Big Red and the last-place Lions.

It’s a Tuesday night game at Villanova for Penn women’s basketball. At tipoff, in the first chair on the bench, senior captain Keiera Ray intently watches a contest that she won’t be able to enter. Donning her Penn sweats, she is still one of the players. And with clipboard in hand, she is now one of the coaches as well.

This summer, however, three members of the men’s lacrosse team will add white to their color scheme and play for a different and perhaps more meaningful purpose.