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Saturday, July 11, 2026
The Daily Pennsylvanian

Amy Gutmann


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Despite a stellar sophomore season for the Red and Blue's field hockey program, star rising junior Alexa Hoover is hard at work to earn her team its first Ivy title in 24 years. 

The Red and Blue’s field hockey team had a bittersweet 2015. After barreling through nationally ranked opponents weekly, the Quakers seemed poised to take back the Ivy League championship that had eluded them since 2004. However, the season finale against Princeton did not feature the end result that the team wanted.


Besides all her work on the solar power and clean water team, sophomore midfielder Erica Higa also taught volleyball and soccer.

As spring semester ended and students prepared to embark on their various summer journeys, one women’s soccer player had reason to be especially excited. Erica Higa, a sophomore midfielder for the Red and Blue, traveled to Rwanda alongside fellow Penn Athletics representative coach Kerry Major Carr of women’s volleyball and around ten other Penn students and faculty as part of the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Rwanda Gashora Program. The program was created to explore the possibilities of using solar energy and information communication technology in low-resource communities in developing countries.