Soccer
One Penn soccer player's summer with Nashville SC, a club with Major League dreams
One player who looked particularly fit and sharp at the start of the season was sophomore winger Dami Omitaomu. While many of the team plied their trade at local soccer clubs across the country, from New Hampshire to California, Omitaomu’s summer situation stood out for several reasons.
Penn men's soccer looks to rebound from winless opening weekend
After losing their first two matches of the season 0-2 to Monmouth and Bowling Green last weekend, Penn men’s soccer will look to rebound this Sunday at home against Seton Hall.
Penn women's soccer returns home in search of first win
The Quakers (0-2-2) will look to break out of their scoring rut as they return home this Saturday to take on Bucknell (1-4-0). Through four games this season, the Red and Blue have only squeaked across one goal: a 12-yard strike off the foot of senior midfielder Erica Higa in the team's most recent game against UC Riverside.
Tempers flare as Penn men's soccer drops tight two contests to open season
Two narrow losses provided a somber start to Penn men’s soccer’s season, with a pair of 2-0 defeats at the hands of Monmouth and Bowling Green frustrating the Quakers over the weekend.
Which Penn Athletics team has the best title odds this fall?
With fall athletics underway, many Penn teams will be vying for Ivy League and even national glory. Which team has the best chances of claiming or defending a trophy? Three of the Daily Pennsylvanian sports editors talked it out.
Penn women's soccer loses tight pair of games to open season
The Quakers opened their season on Friday at Rhodes Field with a 1-0 loss to Lehigh and repeated that scoreline two days later on Sunday against La Salle. The Quakers (0-2) showed promise in both games, but ultimately, they failed to convert on their opportunities.
Here's what fall sports you have to look forward to at Penn
There's a lot to catch up on, but here's an overview of the seven Penn Athletics programs in competition this fall:
Penn Athletics is set to make multiple appearances on ESPN this fall
This fall season will feature 25 Ivy League matches on ESPN’s live internet streaming network, ESPN3. Penn will feature in six of these games across four different sports. Here is a look at the Quakers' matchups to be featured on the ESPN channel throughout this fall.
Junior Alex Touche wins Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year for Penn men's soccer
Touche is only the third player in program history to be honored as Player of the Year and also earned first team All-Ivy recognition.
Fifth-year players and sophomore rookies: Penn's unusual rosters upon return to play
The unusual makeup of rosters after season cancellations presented unordinary opportunities for many Penn athletes, from upperclassmen leading two classes of rookies to players returning for a fifth year.
Penn men's soccer's Jerel Blades named Ivy League Player of the Week
Blades assisted on sophomore Joey Bhangdia’s goal just 69 seconds into the game, and later sent it home himself in the 17th minute to give Penn a 2-0 lead.
Penn's Rhodes Field attracts global soccer talent
Rhodes Field: home to Penn men’s and women’s soccer, the US men’s national team, and Swansea City AFC. No, you didn’t misread that; Penn’s soccer stadium hosted a Premier League team and a national team in the midst of a major tournament within the span of just a few days this past week.
On and off the pitch, Penn women's soccer trio creates memories for life in service trip to Rwanda
Erica Higa really, really loved her first visit to Rwanda a year ago. So much so, as a matter of fact, that the Penn women’s soccer rising senior had to coerce a couple of friends to come along for round two.
Penn fall teams begin to release 2017 schedules
Penn football, women’s soccer, and field hockey all recently released their fall 2017 schedules. The Quakers are looking forward to a competitive and successful season across the athletics department.
Undergraduate Sports Business Club hosts soccer panel
"Soccer is the fastest growing sports market in the US." That statement, as well as many others on the state of soccer domestically and abroad, featured prominently on Monday evening at the Undergrate Sports Business Club's "Inside the Industry: Soccer" Panel.
In hastily scheduled game, Penn men's soccer drops season finale 3-0 to Columbia
For the second time in just five days, the Penn men’s soccer team was taking on an Ivy League foe at Roberts Stadium in Princeton.
Sands ties Penn women's soccer record with third Ivy League Rookie of the Week award
The season ended, but there are still awards left to be had. On Monday, despite Penn women’s soccer’s 1-1 draw on the road at Princeton, freshman Emily Sands was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week. Sands was responsible for the Quakers’ lone goal on the road, scoring the equalizer in the game’s 28th minute after catching Princeton off-guard with a stunning left-footed shot to the upper-right corner of the net. This marks the fourth time this season the Red and Blue have taken home Ivy League Rookie of the Week this season — with Sands earning three and classmate Kitty Qu taking home the remaining one. Sands is just the second Penn player ever to earn three such awards, with Kerry Scalora having matched the feat in 2010 — only one player in Ivy history has every won more than three Rookie of the Week awards: Princeton’s Mimi Asom won the honor six times last season. Scalora went on to win Rookie of the Year in 2010 and ended up a three-time All-Ivy honoree in her time in University City.
In season finale, Penn women's soccer draws Princeton, 1-1
It may not have been the icing on the cake, but it was a pretty great cake nonetheless. Penn closed out its season in a 1-1 draw at its Princeton rival.
Penn men's soccer escapes Princeton with draw
After Harvard cancelled the rest of their men’s soccer season, the Ivy League standings flew wide open.