Off to the races they go. After a brief layoff following the end of track and field season, Penn's cross country teams are eagerly anticipating their season opener at the Big 5 Invitational this Friday.

The old saying goes, two’s company, three’s a crowd, four’s too many. But for coach Fuller and the Quakers, four might be the magical number. Penn has four great options for the goalkeeping position, according to the team, but only time will tell if four is truly too many or a blessing. “I could probably say without hesitation, I’ve been at Penn 18 years and this is probably the deepest goalkeeping crop that I’ve had in my time at Penn,” Fuller said.

With every season comes a set of new faces eager to translate their athletic achievements in high school to the collegiate level.

It wasn’t the ending anyone had hoped for. Three games into the Ivy League season last year, everything was looking up for Penn men’s soccer.

Penn men’s soccer is entering unique territory in the program’s history.  Two years removed from an Ivy League title, gone now are graduated mainstays like Duke Lacroix and Kamar Saint-Louis.

Hurricane Erika may have skirted Florida last week, but a new storm is heading south this weekend.

Every fall, a new batch of wide-eyed freshmen storms the campus to start their college careers. For Penn volleyball, the case is no different.

In preseason practice, Penn football wide receiver Christian Stapleton broke his finger, sending him to the trainers.

The Palestra may be known as the Cathedral of College Basketball, but this weekend its occupants will pay homage to gods of another sport.

While Penn volleyball will certainly be hoping for this season to play out differently than last, some things are best left unchanged.

It is by no means uncommon for a weekend doubleheader to feature clear high- and low-water marks. Only this weekend for Penn men’s soccer, the high point found them threatening to summit the pinnacle of the collegiate landscape, and the low point featured a team that was almost unrecognizable from earlier.

A breakdown of Penn Athletics' early season

And they’re off.

On the surface, a 2-2 record in the opening weekend doesn’t seem like it would lend much meaningful insight into such a seemingly enigmatic team. But actually, it’s the first truly promising sign that the team is zeroing in on its exciting potential.

Three games into Nicole Van Dyke’s tenure, Penn women’s soccer is firing on all cylinders. And to hear her players tell it, most of the credit should go to the first year coach.

As hard as it was, Brandon Copeland sat and watched.

Starting off as a college athlete presents a unique set of challenges. While all new students deal with classic struggles such as meeting new friends and figuring out which classes can knock out the most requirements at once, varsity athletes have to balance their academics and social lives with early morning practices and long weekend road trips.