Penn women’s soccer struggled to find consistency on either side of the pitch, falling to William & Mary for its first loss of the season, 3-0.

Senior Emily Corcoran and freshman Alexa Hoover scored two goals apiece on attack while senior goalkeeper Allison Weisenfels made three saves to preserve the victory.

On Friday evening, the men’s and women’s Red and Blue squads started off their fall seasons with a bang, blowing away the neighborhood competition at the annual Big 5 Invitational.

Penn women’s soccer looked like it was going to eek out another one-goal victory but a late St. Francis (Pa.) goal led to a 1-1 draw on Thursday night at Rhodes Field

The adage goes: “it’s a marathon, not a sprint”, but starting a distance race on the right foot sure can’t hurt.

In what will be the team’s longest and most-challenging road trip of the season, the team will benefit from the ability to have a home away from home with the families of their players.

After a solid opening weekend at Vagelos Field, Penn field hockey will look to use two more nonconference games to shape into form ahead of Ivy play.

On the athletic field, however, there seems to be no need for a comparison or ranking:  The Ivy League schools play each other for Ivy titles, and the stats clearly say who is the best — after all, the Ivy League is primarily an athletic conference.

A few short days after a tough nonconference loss to Delaware, Penn volleyball will get a shot at No. 1.

Penn women’s tennis lost one of its all-time greatest coaches back in November 1996 when Cissie Leary died of scleroderma. This weekend, the team will once again uphold her memory.

By the end of the 2013 season, Penn sprint football thought it had found a gunslinger in quarterback Mike McCurdy. And as the 2014 campaign dawns, the time is now to develop the strong-armed sophomore into a pure passer.

On the first stop of their four-match road trip the Red and Blue (2-2) were beat down by Delaware (5-3) in three straight sets.

The countdown is coming to an end: Penn football is nearing a field near you? or your Florida relative. There is just a week and a half until the Red and Blue head to the Sunshine State to take on Jacksonville, a Pioneer League squad.

A year after both Penn and Princeton replaced their longtime athletic directors, another Ivy League school is about to begin the search for its next AD.

Though the Quakers were starting a few new players, the real fireworks started flying when the reserves started coming in in the early second half.

With a strong alumni game, a government shutdown and the mercy rule, Penn sprint football had an interesting 2013 to say the least.

In almost any sport, if you spend the fewest minutes on the field of anyone on the team, it makes you a scrub or a benchwarmer. In cross country, though, this same condition makes you something different entirely: a star.