Penn women's squash clinches Ivy title
For the women’s squash team, Sunday’s 9-0 sweep of Columbia was more than just a win; it was the win that capped off a perfect conference season and clinched Penn’s first Ivy League title in seven years.
For the women’s squash team, Sunday’s 9-0 sweep of Columbia was more than just a win; it was the win that capped off a perfect conference season and clinched Penn’s first Ivy League title in seven years.
Cornell came into the Palestra and beat the Quakers, 60-49, leading from the game's early moments all the way through to the final buzzer.
After a monumental performance at the Armory Invitational this past weekend, the Quakers are yearning to continue their campaign at the Sykes & Sabock Challenge Cup in State College.
It's Tony Hicks' world and the rest of us are just paying rent. Despite falling behind by 12 to begin the game and never leading until under a minute remained, Penn basketball rode the junior guard's 20 second half points and game-winning jumper with four seconds remaining to its sixth consecutive win over Cornell, 71-69. The Red and Blue looked overwhelmed from the onset.
Cornell came into the Palestra and beat the Quakers, 60-49, leading from the game's early moments all the way through to the final buzzer.
After a monumental performance at the Armory Invitational this past weekend, the Quakers are yearning to continue their campaign at the Sykes & Sabock Challenge Cup in State College.
It's been awhile since Penn basketball played a game away from the Palestra. But after putting together a stretch of the team's most respectable games this season, the Quakers are looking to continue to piece wins together in the Empire State.
With a history stretching back one and a half centuries, competitive rowing constitutes one of Penn’s oldest traditions.
Following his sophomore season, C.J. Cobb stepped away from wrestling after a decade and a half of hard work and success. But he does not regret his decision one bit. In fact, it was his decision to walk away that made him fall back in love with the sport.
The Palestra will see its first Ivy action of the year from the women’s team as the Quakers take on Cornell on Friday and Columbia on Saturday.
At the 2014 Penn Relays, now-junior Thomas Awad posted an astounding 3:58.34 mile time. That was after months of arduous training for the event. At the Armory Invitational on Saturday, he almost broke a four-minute mile again.
It was an action-packed weekend on the road for Penn squash, as the women swept Yale and Brown while the men split against the two schools. The No 2 women's squad beat No.
The play started with a turnover. Before the Palestra crowd knew it, freshman forward Mike Auger was streaking down the court, eventually finishing the breakaway with an emphatic one-handed jam.
The victory was no small task – in a press release the Intercollegiate Tennis Association called the match the “biggest upset of the year.”
The Penn Athletes and Allies Tackling Homophobia club on campus is a safe place for athletes and allies to talk about their sexuality and any relevant problems that occur within their athletic communities.
Some habits die hard. Few people understand this oft-quoted cliché better than Nikola Kocovic. The former Penn men’s tennis captain, who graduated from the College last year, is back with the program as an assistant coach for the 2014-15 season.
On a cold night at Rhodes Field, Mariano Gonzalez-Guerineau took the field for one final game with Penn men’s soccer. It was the end of a successful career, but the beginning of a new opportunity for the senior.
In his first competitive action since earning All-American honors at cross country Nationals, star junior runner Thomas Awad headlined the efforts of Penn track and field at the New York Armory Invitational over the weekend.
To cap off their regular seasons, Penn men’s and women’s swimming teams blew past West Chester and La Salle this weekend, hopefully gaining momentum before the Ivy League Championships.
That was ugly... I mean really ugly. There were no redeeming qualities for Penn basketball’s blowout loss at home against Harvard.