In basketball, a coach will say he wants his best player to have the ball when the game is on the line. For Penn men’s swimming coach Mike Schnur, that equivalent player — or in this case, swimmer — is sophomore Rhoads Worster.

When senior Brendan McHugh was 17, he participated on a summer swim team with younger brother Dillon, now a freshman, and his three other younger siblings. Thus it was business as usual when the two brothers reunited on the Quakers squad this year.

Though it took the team some time to adjust, several players faced the challenges head on and worked tirelessly to improve their play.

In the men’s swimming season opener, Penn fell to Columbia in nail-biting fashion, 154-146, Friday night at Sheerr Pool.

After months of hard work, perseverance and a freshmen infusion, the Penn swim teams have put last year’s fatigue behind them, and they’re ready for a season on top.

After women’s swimming fell just short of a top-three finish at its Ivy Championships last weekend, the men face the same challenge this weekend.

Freshman Will Hartje took third in the finals of the 200-yard breastroke, while fellow freshman Michael Lin came in second in the 100 backstroke, with a personal best time of 52.75

The men’s and women’s swimming teams will face six other schools this weekend at the Terp Invite at University of Maryland, giving each swimmer the best chance to end the season on a high note.

The men’s and women’s swimming teams both continued their winning streak against neighborhood rival La Salle Tuesday night.

The Quakers drowned local foe West Chester Friday, as the men and women won 170-105 and 164-111, respectively.

After facing four straight Ivy foes, the Penn men's swimming team will face off against West Chester at home Friday at 5 p.m. in its second-to-last dual meet of the season.

The Penn men’s swimming team defeated both Yale and Dartmouth on Saturday in a tri-meet held in New Haven, Conn.

The Penn swimming teams’ grueling practices and workouts in and out of the pool during their winter break trip to Florida left the men in great shape, but may have temporarily left the women a little worse for wear.

The Quakers were the quickest in the pool Saturday during the Total Performance Invitational at Kenyon, defeating five other teams in the victory. The women also took first place, scoring with 1,443 points. They topped Kenyon for a second straight year.

'Swiver' Will Hartje is a triple threat. The freshman doesn’t just swim and dive — he sings too.

The men's swimming team jumps right into Ivy meets, giving them less time to fine tune their performances

Jeremy Lin is not the only Harvard Athletics graduate who had a great week last week.