Rob Wong makes court comeback
During Rob Wang’s first two years at Penn, Wong made little impact on the tennis team and quit when his relationship with former coach Nick DeVore deteriorated. However, with a new coach, he’s back on the court.
During Rob Wang’s first two years at Penn, Wong made little impact on the tennis team and quit when his relationship with former coach Nick DeVore deteriorated. However, with a new coach, he’s back on the court.
Brendan McHugh swam for Penn for the last time on Saturday and finished his career with a bang, setting new Penn records and personal bests in the 100 and 200 breaststrokes.
Penn track and field won ten titles against local teams at the Big Five Invitational.
After all these highlights and lowlights, Tuesday’s 3 p.m. meeting with Villanova is the last chance for the Quakers to bring all aspects together at once before the Ivy season.
Brendan McHugh swam for Penn for the last time on Saturday and finished his career with a bang, setting new Penn records and personal bests in the 100 and 200 breaststrokes.
Penn track and field won ten titles against local teams at the Big Five Invitational.
The men’s retained the McCausland Cup by beating George Washington on Saturday.
The Quakers won two out of three games against Lafayette. The third game was a nailbiter with Penn emerging victorious in eleven innings.
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.