Bagnoli introduced as Columbia football coach
One day after confirming the hire, Columbia officially introduced its new head football coach, Al Bagnoli
One day after confirming the hire, Columbia officially introduced its new head football coach, Al Bagnoli
The Red and Blue defeated both Princeton and Drexel at the Palestra this weekend to complete its home dual meet season with a perfect 6-0 record.
Ivy League swimming has for many years been just a three horse race. But at this year’s Ivy Championship Meet, Penn women’s swimming showed that the rest of the league that it is not so far behind. The Red and Blue finished fourth overall with 952 total team points, the most the team has registered at Ivies since 2008.
It's official: Al Bagnoli is going to Columbia. After the Columbia Spectator reported on Sunday that Penn football's all-time winningest coach had agreed to take the reins of the Lions' football program, Columbia's athletic department officially confirmed Monday that Bagnoli had been chosen as the Light Blue's next head coach. "Over the past decadeColumbia Athletics has built a new winning tradition, enhancing the collegiate experience for thousands of student-athletes and our campus community," Columbia President Lee C.
The Red and Blue defeated both Princeton and Drexel at the Palestra this weekend to complete its home dual meet season with a perfect 6-0 record.
Ivy League swimming has for many years been just a three horse race. But at this year’s Ivy Championship Meet, Penn women’s swimming showed that the rest of the league that it is not so far behind. The Red and Blue finished fourth overall with 952 total team points, the most the team has registered at Ivies since 2008.
In the first real snowstorm of the year, Penn women’s lacrosse was not cuddled up in bed watching Netflix, drinking hot cocoa or wishing it was a weekday like the rest of us.
Exactly three months after his final game coaching the Red and Blue, Al Bagnoli -- Penn football's winningest coach -- has agreed to take the head coaching position at Columbia, the Columbia Spectator reported Sunday afternoon.
When Penn basketball met Dartmouth at the Palestra on Jan. 30, the Quakers picked up their first Ivy win of the season largely because they limited Big Green guard Alex Mitola to six points. On Saturday, the Red and Blue were nowhere near as lucky. In a game that featured 11 lead changes, Dartmouth rode 15 second-half points from Mitola and managed to surmount Penn's largest lead of the game with a clutch 17-6 run late in the contest, one that allowed the Big Green to pull away with a 67-62 win.
Penn men’s basketball started Friday with the announcement that junior captain and leading scorer Tony Hicks was been suspended for the weekend’s games against Harvard and Dartmouth. Matters only became worse from there. The Quakers suffered a 69-46 slaughter at the hands of the four-time defending champion Crimson at Lavietes Pavilion Friday night, as Harvard won its 7th straight contest and Penn coach Jerome Allen recorded his 100th loss at the helm of the program. Wesley Saunders led the way for the Crimson (18-5, 8-1 Ivy) with a game-high 15 points while shooting 77.8 percent from the field, and Steve Moundou-Missi added 14 points to go along with four offensive rebounds. Playing without Hicks, who averages 13.0 points per game, the Quakers (7-15, 2-6) committed just three turnovers in the first half and entered the intermission down, 31-24, in large part due to 14 early second-chance points for the Crimson. The Red and Blue managed to cut the lead down to 31-28 with 17:23 remaining in the second half, but after that point, the tide turned for good.
Well, this is getting pretty familiar. On a snowy Boston night at a sold-out Lavietes Pavillion, the Quakers were handed another humbling loss by Harvard, a 69-46 defeat that emphasized just how far Penn is from the Ancient Eight’s top tier. It was the fourth consecutive loss for the Quakers, with each defeat coming by at least 16 points.
The Quakers' 71-61 victory over Harvard was the 68th career win for seniors Kathleen Roche, Kara Bonenberger (who was honored before the game for scoring her 1000th career point earlier this month), Renee Busch and Katy Allen, breaking the record they had previously shared with the senior class of 2003.
College junior Cameron Countryman was arrested for assault and reckless endangerment.
Penn basketball junior guard Tony Hicks has been suspended by the program for this weekend's Ivy doubleheader against Harvard and Dartmouth, Penn Athletics announced on Friday.
Some people fear knowing their limits. Carey Celata welcomes it. In her second season on the women’s track-and-field team and first since leaving the women’s squash program, the redshirt sophomore has had a wildly successful indoor season.
The three-peat: the oft-cited and highly coveted signifier of a bona fide dynasty, a feat accomplished by so few in the arena of American athletics.
But, by the skin of their teeth, the Penn men’s squash team earned its second consecutive berth in the prestigious Potter Cup, set to take place over the weekend at Trinity’s Kellner Squash Center. The No. 8 Quakers (8-6, 3-4 Ivy) jumped up two spots from tenth in the CSA rankings over the weekend after defeating Cornell 8-1 at home, a crucial match that sealed Penn’s place in the Potter Cup.
They say history has a tendency to repeat itself. Hopefully for Penn women's hoops, this saying will hold true. On Friday and Saturday, women’s basketball (14-7, 5-2 Ivy) will indeed try to repeat history as they take on Harvard and Dartmouth for the second time this season.
Looking into the eyes of a four game road streak against a crew of Ivy foes, Penn men’s basketball — owner of the longest active losing streak in the Ivy League — is hoping a change of scenery will improve their fortunes. While a loss to Yale last weekend was not unexpected, a 75-48 point loss is always hard to chew and a defeat at the hands of cellar-dwelling Brown the next day didn’t ease the Quakers’ pain. Since Penn’s thrilling victory over Cornell on Feb.
Long-time Penn football coach Al Bagnoli retired at the end of the 2014 season, ending his 23-year tenure as the winningest coach in Penn history. But he may not be done just yet. Bagnoli, 62, had spoken about moving into a role within the Penn Athletics administration after retirement, but, according to Mike Jensen of the Philadelphia Inquirer, he is in talks to take over as Columbia’s head coach.