To be the best, you have to beat the best. Penn women’s tennis will have a chance this weekend to start proving that they deserve the exciting expectations surrounding the program for the 2016 season as they travel to compete in the International Tennis Association Kickoff Weekend. The tournament is reserved only for teams ranked in the top 100 in the ITA preseason rankings.

It isn’t always pretty. Coming off of a big win over Princeton last weekend, the Quakers came out flat against La Salle before fighting off a late comeback en route to a 78-68 win on Martin Luther King Day.

The Quakers’ team score landed them fourth of the five teams — a strong showing for the Red and Blue’s first competition, especially with a few shakes early on.

Not a bad start. On Saturday, Penn men's tennis opened up its season with a strong 7-0 victory over Navy, logging wins all across the board.

For a meeting between two of the top five women’s sides in the country, the No. 2 Penn and No. 5 Stanford matchup seemed to carry little of the tension that one would expect of such high ranked goliaths.

It’s Harvard’s world, and unfortunately for Penn men’s and women’s swimming and diving, they are still living in it.

They’re off to the best start in school history. Let’s see if they can keep it going.

After weeks of practicing and an intrasquad meet back in December, the Penn gymnastics team kicks off their season in earnest this Sunday at the Lindsey Ferris Invitational, hosted by George Washington University, in Washington D.C.

Winter has finally arrived here in Philadelphia, but while temperatures fall, things are just starting to heat up for Penn in the Ivy League swimming season.

Penn wrestling’s head coach Alex Tirapelle likes to stress the importance of communication to his athletes.

Although Penn boasts countless spectacular student-athletes, the most impressive aspect of their success may not even be the athletic success itself.

2016 has already been a noteworthy year for two Penn basketball players no longer with the team.

Penn wrestlers were back on campus a few days early this semester to kick off the 2016 dual meet season in a hard fought 27-10 loss to Lehigh at the Palestra on Sunday. The Quakers had already gotten a taste of the 10th ranked Mountainhawks over winter break at the Southern Scuffle in Chattanooga, Tenn.

From the warmup, you could tell that something was special about this Penn basketball game. The Palestra crowd, often all too sparse in recent years, was today sizeable, raucous and often on their feet.

As many people start their new years with resolutions and hope, the Penn fencing team is following suit in preparation for a trophy-laden 2016.

All great things must come to an end. Penn Squash knows that all too well after this weekend.

In a season defined by dominant veteran performances, Penn swimming’s youth movement made a mark of its own over the weekend.