Penn gymnastics posts season-highs for all events in loss
Against Bridgeport and former Olympian Monica Mesalles Sallare, Penn narrowly fell 195.325-193.975 at the Palestra despite posting its fourth-highest overall score in program history.
Against Bridgeport and former Olympian Monica Mesalles Sallare, Penn narrowly fell 195.325-193.975 at the Palestra despite posting its fourth-highest overall score in program history.
Penn trailed by 12 at the half but came back to seal a 67-57 victory over Dartmouth, its second road win of the season. The Quakers played 20 minutes of their best basketball in the second half, shooting 16-for-21 (76.2 percent) from the field.
The Quakers couldn’t make a dent in the Crimson’s lead after the early going and easily fell to Harvard at Lavietes Pavilion, 73-54.
On the heels of their first win over Harvard in 18 tries, the Quakers (12-9, 5-2 Ivy) thoroughly dismantled Dartmouth (6-15, 4-3) on Saturday, 63-40, catapulting themselves into sole possession of second place in the Ivy League.
Penn trailed by 12 at the half but came back to seal a 67-57 victory over Dartmouth, its second road win of the season. The Quakers played 20 minutes of their best basketball in the second half, shooting 16-for-21 (76.2 percent) from the field.
The Quakers couldn’t make a dent in the Crimson’s lead after the early going and easily fell to Harvard at Lavietes Pavilion, 73-54.
Penn women’s basketball scored one of its biggest wins in recent memory Friday night, beating Harvard 77-72. It was the Quakers’ first home win over Harvard in 11 years.
This weekend, both teams are heading down to Virginia for the Cavalier Invitational, while the men’s Ivy team goes up to Cambridge to take on Harvard in their rescheduled snowstorm meet
Having yet to drop a single match this season, Penn women’s tennis looks to keep its record unblemished in their last home contest of the winter.
In the Quakers’ only meet at the Palestra all season, against Bridgeport, it is the Red and Blue’s most–and least–experienced members that merit watching.
As one of the most successful seasons in Penn women’s squash history nears its close, all eyes in the sport have fallen on the Quakers as they travel to compete in the prestigious Howe Cup.
Even with the recent news of wrestling’s demise from the 2020 Olympic Games, the Penn wrestling team is pushing on bravely. The No. 23 Quakers travel to New York to face Columbia this weekend.
The Quakers go into Friday and Saturday as the fourth-place team in the Ivy League, and they get the chance to move up in the standings by facing two of the teams ahead of them, Harvard and Dartmouth.
When the Red and Blue (5-17, 2-3 Ivy) confront Harvard (13-7, 5-1) Friday in Cambridge, Mass., the Quakers will look for Cartwright to score early and often.
Penn men’s tennis got an unexpected scare Sunday, relying on the No. 5 singles match to give the Quakers a 4-3 win over Georgetown.
Even without Fran Dougherty and with Darien Nelson-Henry coming off of a low-grade MCL sprain, the Quakers should still have an advantage in the paint against the Crimson.
It isn’t common for the Ancient Eight to be involved in disagreements with the NCAA. Yet former Penn President Harold Stassen led the University into a fight with the NCAA that nearly resulted in Penn’s expulsion from the organization.
Kerry Scalora’s ACL injury setback was not a 24-hour, week-long or even month-long thing. It was a long, grueling eight months of pure hell. But she still made her way back.
Matthew White, 1979 College graduate and starting center on Penn’s 1979 Final Four men’s basketball team, was stabbed to death in his Delaware County home Monday morning.
Wrestling head coach and former Olympian Rob Eiter reacts to the International Olympic Committee’s decision to drop wrestling from the Olympic program starting with the 2020 Games.