Penn Track and Field shines against Philly rivals
Penn track and field won ten titles against local teams at the Big Five Invitational.
Penn track and field won ten titles against local teams at the Big Five Invitational.
In her debut appearance at the NCAA Championships, freshman Lunoa Wang became Penn’s first women’s fencer to appear in a championship bout since Jane Hall in 1986.
The Quakers swept their opening three games of the Penn Spring Invitational, but ultimately lost in the final to Villanova.
Penn gymnastics won its first ECAC title since 2004 at the Palestra Saturday, beating Towson in the teams’ third meeting of the season.
In her debut appearance at the NCAA Championships, freshman Lunoa Wang became Penn’s first women’s fencer to appear in a championship bout since Jane Hall in 1986.
The Quakers swept their opening three games of the Penn Spring Invitational, but ultimately lost in the final to Villanova.
The Quakers rebounded from a 3-0 deficit and came back to beat Cornell 11-10.
Going into the fourth quarter, the Quakers seemed poised for an upset over No. 4 Cornell. But thanks to eight unanswered goals, the Big Red came out on top.
The woman who made the miraculous 2000-01 Ivy title season possible will have her spot solidified amongst Penn’s athletic greats this May.
When the Quakers take on the Big Red at Franklin Field on Saturday, Cornell will still be without the two-time Ivy League Player of the Year. But don’t be fooled, the Big Red (5-1, 1-0 Ivy) are still a team to be reckoned with.
The likely goal for Penn and Lafayette this weekend, as they play a set of home-and-home doubleheaders against one another, will be to make some final tweaks to the rotation and round into form.
The women’s lacrosse team will make the always arduous trek to No. 18 Cornell this weekend to face yet another nationally ranked team.
Lange was a four-time first-team All-American and three-time College Squash Association Individual Championship runner-up. But Lange’s ascent while playing on the Women’s International Squash Players Tour circuit has been substantial.
While the Red and Blue would like to bring home their first win at the meet since 2004, they’ll have to go through a Towson squad that has outperformed them on two separate occasions this year.
Coming off of a third-place finish in the javelin at the Wake Forest Invitational, the junior is hoping to find even more success at this Saturday’s Big Five Invitational at Franklin Field.
In the latest U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association Coaches’ Poll, the Ivy League has two teams ranked in the top 13 — No. 4 Cornell and No. 13 Princeton — and two squads, Harvard and Yale, receiving votes.
In a final non-conference tune-up before Ivy play starts next weekend, Penn fell to local rival Temple, 4-3.
Penn women’s softball suffered two narrow defeats Wednesday afternoon in a doubleheader at Lehigh, as the Mountain Hawks scored in just two innings in the two games. Meanwhile, Lehigh’s pitching held Penn scoreless, leading the team to 3-0 and 2-0 victories over the Quakers.
Though seniors Zane Grodman and Vidur Kapur did not win an Ivy title this year — nor any in coach Andy Ma’s three-year tenure — they helped the team come together during a tumultuous period, leaving Ma in excellent position for future seasons.
The Quakers beat Villanova Wednesday afternoon to get their first win against the Wildcats since 2009.