Black History Month: A look at some of the most prominent women to play for Penn
Penn has seen some of the nation's premier black athletes come through its doors over the last century, and there are no doubt many more to follow.
Penn has seen some of the nation's premier black athletes come through its doors over the last century, and there are no doubt many more to follow.
The Quakers ended the dual meet season on Sunday in Bethlehem, Pa. Hoping to steal a win away from No. 20 Lehigh, the Red and Blue came up short and concluded the regular season with a 34-6 defeat.
Penn ended the afternoon in third place with a score of 193.100, just two points behind Yale, which took home the trophy with a score of 195.100.
This weekend in Cambridge, Mass., Penn women's track repeated as champions with 136 points while the men finished second behind Princeton.
The Quakers ended the dual meet season on Sunday in Bethlehem, Pa. Hoping to steal a win away from No. 20 Lehigh, the Red and Blue came up short and concluded the regular season with a 34-6 defeat.
Penn ended the afternoon in third place with a score of 193.100, just two points behind Yale, which took home the trophy with a score of 195.100.
On Friday, Penn women’s squash bowed out in the first round in an 8-1 loss to Trinity. In the consolation bracket, the Red and Blue dropped both of their matches against Columbia and Drexel.
After four days of competition, Penn finished fifth with 865.5 points and won two individual titles at DeNunzio Pool.
Both the Penn men's and women's teams beat William & Mary, with the men clinching a 4-3 victory to end the weekend with a positive outcome.
After a disappointing double-overtime loss to Harvard last weekend, Aghayere helped the Quakers get back on track as the Red and Blue swept a weekend series against Columbia and Cornell.
Moments of brilliance, like the win over Villanova in December, are nice, but poise that lasts for an entire season? That’s magical.
The sweep of the New York Ivies makes the Quakers 8-1 in League play with just five regular season games remaining.
The Quakers got the job done on Saturday in a strong 68-50 win over Cornell, which sat two slots above them in the conference standings entering the game.
From the start of the contest, the Quakers struggled to keep up with the Blue Devils, ultimately losing 17-7.
In the end, the offenses would come back down to earth and the Quakers would win, 69-58, in a game that was close but never really in doubt.
Saturday's game between Penn women's lacrosse and Johns Hopkins was tightly contested, but the Quakers emerged victorious.
Penn men's and women's basketball will look to pick up Ivy wins over Cornell on Saturday, as the women tip off at 4:30 while the men take the court at 7:00.
It doesn’t make much sense that a group that beat Villanova, Temple, and Miami (Fla.) this season has a 3-6 Ivy League record. But that’s what can happen when a team struggles to close games out in the final minutes.
The Quakers’ disappointing conference play continued in a 79-77 loss to Columbia at the Palestra.
Entering Friday’s contest versus Columbia, the Quakers ranked fourth in the NCAA in opponents field-goal percentage (33.0) and fifth in points allowed per game (51.9).