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While his team was unable to reclaim the Madeira Cup from Cornell this year, Penn men's heavyweight rowing coach Fred Honebein is hoping that the Quakers can follow the blueprint to success their rivals followed. In its final home regatta of the season, the team lost every head-to-head race to the Big Red Friday on the Schuylkill River.


The women's lacrosse team pulled out a 9-8 overtime victory the last time they faced Duke, in last year's NCAA Tournament Final Four. Now, with last season in the back of their minds, the two teams will square off once again, though this time it's one round earlier.

Penn is the best four years of your life, I was told. And boy, were they ever. But at a time like this, who can help but think about regrets? I am now staring post-graduation life in the face, and I have to wonder if the years I spent here were enough to make me the kind of man I want to be.

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By Zach Klitzman · May 28, 2009

Leaving Johnny Unitas Stadium last Friday, I was still processing what I had just seen. The women's lacrosse national semifinal between Penn and Northwestern certainly had its boring parts, but the end was a frenetic, frenzied finish that had everyone on the edge of their seats.

For eight members of the Penn men's track and field team, it's time to kick it up a notch. Fatigue and some seniors' conflicts with graduation limited the squad's success at the IC4A Outdoor Championships May 15-17. But tomorrow and Saturday, eight standout Quakers will face the biggest challenge of their season at the NCAA East Regional Championships in Greensboro, N.

Updated May 23 3 p.m. TOWSON, Md., May 22 - Penn almost pulled off one the biggest comebacks in NCAA history, yet fell just short of the incredible. Down 11-7 with 9:14 to go in the NCAA national semifinal against No. 1 Northwestern, the No. 4 Quakers tallied four straight goals, sending the game into overtime.


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Updated May 23 3 p.m. TOWSON, Md., May 22 - Penn almost pulled off one the biggest comebacks in NCAA history, yet fell just short of the incredible. Down 11-7 with 9:14 to go in the NCAA national semifinal against No. 1 Northwestern, the No. 4 Quakers tallied four straight goals, sending the game into overtime.


W. Lax | A Devilish time on tap in NCAAs

The women's lacrosse team pulled out a 9-8 overtime victory the last time they faced Duke, in last year's NCAA Tournament Final Four. Now, with last season in the back of their minds, the two teams will square off once again, though this time it's one round earlier.


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Penn is the best four years of your life, I was told. And boy, were they ever. But at a time like this, who can help but think about regrets? I am now staring post-graduation life in the face, and I have to wonder if the years I spent here were enough to make me the kind of man I want to be.


Ultimate test awaits Penn club

The days of Penn being a national basketball powerhouse may be gone, but give the Quakers a frisbee and a field, and they can compete with the best in the country. For the first time since 1996, the women's Club Ultimate Frisbee team is headed to Nationals.



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"You. I'm glad to see you here," Cindy Shmerler said as she pointed directly at me. I was confused. It took a moment for me to realize why Cindy had singled out me. It was The Daily Pennsylvanian's annual Marquez Conference in the fall of 2007 and Cindy, serving as a panelist, and I were the only two females sitting in the room for the sports writing session.


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Updated May 17, 2:35 p.m. Yesterday on Vidas field, the phrase down to the wire took on a whole new meaning. Senior attack Becca Edwards scored with five seconds left in the second overtime to seal a Quakers victory, 10-9, over Duke and a trip to the Final Four in Towson, Md.



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Just a few years before his tragic passing, sportswriter Dick Schaap wrote in his autobiography that his favorite sport was "collecting people." In four years of writing for the DP, my favorite Penn sport has been just that. I have enjoyed collecting Penn athletes the most because they are some of the more underappreciated and interesting students at this university.


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The Penn men's lightweight rowing team has not been accustomed to a deep roster of rowers --- until this season. In 2008, the team only fielded two Varsity 8 boats and one Freshman boat. After graduating just two seniors from that season, however, the Quakers ballooned to include three Varsity and two Freshman boats.


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May 9 - Legendary college, professional and Olympic coach Chuck Daly, who steered Penn to four Ivy League and Big 5 titles in his six seasons at the helm, died Saturday after a bout with pancreatic cancer. He was 78. Though perhaps best known for directing the Detroit Pistons "Bad Boys" teams to back-to-back NBA championships in 1989 and 1990 and earning Olympic gold with the "Dream Team" at the 1992 Barcelona games, Daly will forever be remembered in West Philadelphia for his successes on the Palestra's vaunted hardwood.


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In a sport where individual accomplishments determine a team's success, the parts don't always add up to the whole. That was the fate of the women's track and field team at last weekend's Heptagonal Championships, the equivalent of Ivy Championships. Despite numerous individuals earning personal bests and ECAC and Regional qualifications, the Quakers finished just seventh as a team with a total of 57 points at Franklin Field.


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This just doesn't feel quite right. These senior columns are supposed to fit in with the whole graduation motif - you know, moving onto bigger and better things, reflecting on our time spent in the best damned windowless office on campus. It's our way of saying thanks to the paper, and the paper's way of thanking us.


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Who else would it be? Yet again Penn is about to enter a key women's lacrosse game and standing directly in its path is Northwestern. Facing each other for the third-straight year on the final weekend of the postseason, the No. 4 seed Quakers (15-2) will play the No.


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Mark Fabish is coming home. After graduating from Penn in 1997, the former receiver served coaching stints at Monmouth and Rhode Island. But now he's returning to 33rd Street, as he was officially named Penn's new tight ends coach Tuesday. "It has been a long-time goal of mine to get back to the University of Pennsylvania," Fabish said in a Penn Athletics press release.



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Updated May 10 5:35 p.m. Despite a win in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the Penn women's lacrosse team is not satisfied. Despite beating Fairfield, 10-8, at Drexel's Vidas Field, the No. 4 Quakers will look to improve on their first game of the extended season.



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