This weekend, the men's track and field team travelled to Tallahassee, Fla. for the NCAA East Regionals, hoping for successful performances and, perhaps, an invitation or two to the NCAA Championships next week. All any member of the team is leaving with is a tan.

Jesse Carlin is fast. Learning how fast, though, surprised even her. The outgoing senior won the 800-meter event at this weekend's NCAA East Regionals in Tallahassee, Fla. Winning the event gave her an automatic bid to the NCAA Outdoor Championships at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa June 11-14.

I had lunch with a former high school classmate last week, like me an aspiring journalist and, like me, a blogger. She asked me how many different sites I had ever posted for, and, silly me, I told the truth: two. When she told me that she wrote regularly for four blogs - two were paying gigs, one served to keep the fam up to date on her goings-on, and the last one was a personal diary - I didn't know who to be sad for, me or her.

This weekend marks the beginning of the final stretch for many of Penn's best senior track and field athletes. They will be competing in the NCAA East Regionals in Tallahassee, Fla. on Friday and Saturday. Of the seven athletes wearing the Red and Blue, five will be running with the knowledge that a loss will bring an end to their collegiate careers.

Heavyweight rowing continues losing ways In its final head-to-head competition of the season, the men's heavyweight rowing team continued its disappointing season, losing the Madeira Cup to Cornell. Penn fell first in the freshmen 8 race by 6.8 seconds. Cornell clinched the Cup in the varsity 8 race, clocking in at 6:11.

If graduating senior Max Mauro thought that Penn's season-ending victory over Army would be his last collegiate lacrosse game ever, he received a welcome surprise when he was selected to the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association North/South All-Star game for seniors.

TOWSON, Md, May 25 - Over the past two years, Northwestern has been the one roadblock for the women's lacrosse team. Going into Sunday's NCAA final, Northwestern had given Penn two of the team's three losses since the start of the 2007 campaign. And after defeating the Quakers 10-6, Northwestern remains Penn's fly in the ointment.

The Penn women's tennis No. 1 doubles team knew they could beat their first-round opponents in the NCAA doubles championship. In fact, they had already topped them in the fall. When advancement in the NCAA tournament was on the line, however, the 29th-ranked team from Arkansas bested the Quakers' Ekaterina Kosminskaya and Julia Koulbitskaya, 6-4, 6-2 May 22 in Tulsa, Okla.

TOWSON, Md. When I joined the Daily Pennsylvanian sports section two years ago, never did I think I would cover an NCAA national championship game. And looking at Penn Athletics history, there's no reason I should have thought so. In the long history of Penn sports, never had a Penn team played in an NCAA-sanctioned championship game of a team sport.

The women's lacrosse team continues its history-making season, even after losing in the NCAA championship game. Yesterday, five members of the team were named to the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association All-American teams. That is the most ever for the program, and only the third time in history that more than one Quaker has been honored.

Coming into Saturday's Women's Lacrosse NCAA quarterfinal against Boston University, sophomore Emma Spiro had a modest 14 goals and two assists in 16 games. So while she has contributed to the Quakers' offense this year, she's rarely been the player of the game.

If you think reading The Daily Pennsylvanian's April Fools issue is funny, writing it is a riot. The joke issue is a time when DP editors can relax and have fun, and that April night two years ago should have been a break from my daily grind as a sports editor.

Thirty-two years ago, Betty Costanza never could have imagined the success that the Penn women's track team would have over the next three decades. That's because there wasn't a varsity team - just a newly formed club squad. She was a pioneer of the program and its first (and, until 2002, its only) head coach.

For the graduating seniors, last weekend's Outdoor Heptagonal Championships was an event to remember. For the rest of the Quakers, it was a track meet they'd rather forget. Stacy Kim was named Co-Athlete of the Meet and Jesse Carlin won the 800-meter title; on the men's side, Tim Kaijala won his second-straight 800m and Mike Hall finished just five points back of first in the decathlon.

Boy, did I get gypped. The Daily Pennsylvanian, like most other campus student organizations, is of the hierarchical sort. You put in the time, you make the commitment, you work your way up and then the perks start rolling in. Well, I put in the time. I made the commitment - half the guys in my fraternity didn't even know me by the time my term as sports editor had finished.

When the women's lacrosse team held its annual winter meeting in early 2005, the freshmen sat in the back of the room, as is customary for the team's youngest members. But when the coaches asked the Quakers what their team goals were, the Class of 2008 had something to say.

The University Board of Trustees Executive Committee heard updates from administrative officials and from the heads of two Trustee Committees at their Stated Meeting Thursday afternoon. After chairman James Riepe opened the meeting, Penn President Amy Gutmann spoke briefly about accolades the University and its researchers and professors had received in the past few months.