Penn track and field may be known for traveling distances quickly on the track, but this weekend, the program will take its traveling abilities to the extreme. In the course of only a few days, the Quakers will send athletes to compete in Florida, California and Princeton in what should will serve as their biggest competitive test to date of the still-young season.

Thus, the pressure is on for Saturday. But Penn has been in this position before. And with a little bit of luck, they just might be able to pull off a perfect April once again.

Penn men’s tennis has its eyes on the prize, and the Quakers certainly have the pieces in place to make it happen this season. What is possibly the most talented squad in Penn history started off the year hot, taking down then-No.

As Penn baseball opened up its April slate on Wednesday afternoon, Saint Peter's stood no chance of fooling the Quakers at Meiklejohn Stadium. Behind senior infielder Mitch Montaldo's two home runs and three RBI and a masterful outing by senior pitcher Dan Gautieri, the Red and Blue scored their seventh win in their last eight contests with an 11-4 victory over the Peacocks.

Peaks and valleys? Try Mount Everest and the Grand Canyon. Penn softball split a doubleheader with lowly nonconference foe Lafayette on Wednesday evening.

Recently hired Penn women’s soccer coach Nicole Van Dyke started from humble beginnings, but she comes to Penn with the ambitious goal of putting the Quakers on a national stage. Taking the program to new heights will be no small feat, as Van Dyke succeeds Darren Ambrose, one of the most successful and prolific coaches in Ivy League history.

Coming into 2015, Penn softball pitcher and first baseman Alexis Sargent had already recorded the eighth-most home runs in program history, notched the school's fifth-lowest career earned run average, been named second-team All-Ivy and led the Quakers to the Ivy League Championship series. All in her rookie season. Sargent’s tremendous debut in 2014 wasn’t totally unexpected, as the Virginia native joined the Red and Blue after being named to the All-State team three times in high school, among numerous other accolades.

This week, Penn women’s lacrosse will attempt to tame the Lions before encountering top-ranked Wildcats. The Quakers, off to a fast start and ranked No.

It’s pretty safe to say Penn baseball coach John Yurkow could use a little less excitement in his life.

Late in the third set of her match against Princeton last Saturday, Penn women's tennis' top singles player and senior captain Sol Eskanazi was in the middle of an epic battle. Trailing in a tiebreaker, the senior ripped a lefty forehand up the line, leaving the Princeton player dead in her tracks, forced to watch the ball fly by. “Vamos!” Eskanazi, a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, roared with a big fist pump. As exemplified by Eskanazi, college tennis has recently become a showcase of the best athletic talents from not only the United States, but nations worldwide.

With its season nearly over, Penn men’s swimming sent two representatives to the NCAA Championships for one last hurrah, giving the Quakers an opportunity to showcase their top performers on a national stage.

Saturday proved to feature the first choppy waters of the season for Penn women’s rowing. The annual Connell Cup race saw Penn lose out to Yale and Columbia in the varsity eight race on the Schuylkill on Saturday. The race, originally scheduled to be held on Columbia’s training grounds in Overpeck Park in New Jersey, had to be moved to the Schuylkill due to excessive ice.

In the midst of 30 degree weather at last Saturday’s Penn men’s lacrosse game at Franklin Field, I found myself asking an important question while I still had sensation in my fingers and toes.

Penn baseball had a wild first weekend of Ivy League play.

How can Penn women’s lacrosse continue to push the envelope and improve as a program when the eight-time reigning Ivy League champions have seen such exorbitant success in the last decade? For Bensen, the answer is one which many comedic film series also turn to: getting more offensive. “For the past four years that I’ve been here, our attack has been our weak point,” she said.

Not a bad way to start things off. Penn softball took three of four Ivy League games over the weekend, splitting with Dartmouth  on Friday  and sweeping Harvard  on Sunday.

It was a busy weekend to start the spring season for Penn rowing, with boats in the water on both coasts for each of the program’s men’s squads.