In the midst of a rocky season, Penn men’s tennis has not been able to catch a break. The Quakers dropped conference face-offs to No.

The first one is always the hardest. Following a rough beginning to the Ivy League season, Penn women’s tennis carved out its first win in Ancient Eight play over the weekend.

It was do or die for the Red and Blue. On Saturday's game against Harvard — the penultimate Ivy game of the season — Penn was able to live to fight another day.

The Big Red weren't able to break the momentum of the red-hot Quakers this weekend. Penn baseball took three out of four games from Cornell over the weekend in the teams’ opening series of Lou Gehrig Division play.

Penn claimed three of its four weekend games against Cornell, winning in comeback fashion in its final game on Sunday to keep pace with the rest of the Ivy League South Division.

The Ivy League has long had a rule that a player cannot play at the school after graduating, prompting players like Columbia's Alex Rosenberg to withdraw from school to remain eligible. And this year, the Ancient Eight is dealing with a significant outflow of players with remaining eligibility.

Come Friday morning, the Palestra will be nearly unrecognizable to its basketball season regulars. For the first time in the University’s history, the Cathedral of Basketball will host the USA Gymnastics Nationals on for three days of intense team and individual competition from April 10-12. The weekend’s meet features eight teams from around the country, including familiar faces from Brown and Yale.

Being a part of Penn rowing means carrying on a long a rich history. And the current crews are about to contribute another chapter.

There's a team from Penn competing for a national championship this weekend. But nobody would be surprised if you didn't know that. While a variety of the University's perennial varsity teams are in the midst of quests for Ivy League titles and bids to their sport's respective end-of-season tournaments, Penn club tennis will take part in the United States Tennis Association's Tennis on Campus National Championship in Cary, N.C., beginning on Thursday. Competing against teams from 63 other schools from across the nation, the Quakers are accustomed to the pressurized environment that accompanies playing at nationals, having qualified for the tournament in each of the past four seasons.

Mother Nature and Villanova combined to give Penn softball an awfully rude welcome home on Wednesday. The Wildcats dominated the Quakers, opening up a huge lead and withstanding a late rally en route to an 8-4 victory.

One week after splitting up to opposite coasts for the Florida Relays, Sam Howell Invitational and Stanford Invitational, the Red and Blue will be competing as one unit at this weekend’s George Mason Invitational in Fairfax, Va., albeit without a number of key contributors.

The date was April 13, 2014. Those of you with keen memories will remember this day as the Sunday of last year’s Fling weekend.

While Penn track and field’s runners and jumpers practice on the track at famous Franklin Field, the Red and Blue’s throwing team is almost always hidden, out of view behind the Hollenback Center down River Fields Drive. As a result of their isolation, the throwers take a different approach to practice and have become members of a close-knit unit.

Part of what makes college athletics so dynamic and fun is its constant turnover of student-athletes.

“I didn’t think it was a big deal... In the worst case, I thought that I’d be missing one match.” If only that were the case.

After a weekend road trip, Penn softball is looking forward to staying close to home. In the midst of the Ivy League stretch, Penn will face local rival Villanova at Penn Park on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, Penn baseball took a seven-game winning streak to Plymouth Meeting, Pa., to take on Villanova in the Liberty Bell Classic.