When freshman outfielder Leah Allen suited up to play her first Ivy League games of the season on Monday against Yale, she donned royal blue glitter in place of eye black.

After 22 seasons at Penn — including 19 as quarterbacks coach — Larry Woods announced his retirement Wednesday.

In track and field, conventional wisdom holds that specialization optimizes results. For the most part, runners run, sprinters sprint, jumpers jump and throwers throw. But Noel Jancewicz was never one for conventional wisdom.

After facing some turmoil on and off the field, Penn women’s lacrosse was able to keep itself focused and earn a much needed-victory.

Facing Brown, the Quakers stepped onto the field Tuesday looking for their second consecutive sweep of an Ivy doubleheader, and got just what they wanted, downing the Bears with two 3-2 victories at Meiklejohn Stadium.

After a weekend full of rainouts, Ivy season couldn’t have come soon for Penn baseball.The Quakers were originally supposed to play a doubleheader against Yale on Saturday afternoon but the weather washed out both games, leading to a Monday matinee between the Red and Blue and the Elis.

The sun was beaming for Penn softball Tuesday, both literally and figuratively.

Though rain pounded Penn’s campus over the weekend, the men’s and women’s rowing teams found different ways to deal with the precipitation.

Searching for its first conference victory against Yale, the Red and Blue picked up a season-saving victory over the Elis, 6-5.

Hoping to defy expectations and win its first match of Ivy play this season, the outgunned Penn women’s tennis team instead lost in predictable fashion to a rival squad.

It’s the beginning of a new era for the Penn men’s swimming team — and Chris Swanson is leading the way.

Penn Athletics is releasing its second album by artist Jerome Allen. Allen saw this album as his chance to truly break the shackles of coaching and find his inner muse. Allen is hoping that the lyrics on the album provide sufficient motivation to his less-than stellar team in the upcoming season.

With fifth-year senior quarterback Billy Ragone graduating following this past season, Penn football coach Al Bagnoli has some big shoes to fill.

With the sudden departure of M. Grace Calhoun, Penn quickly put together a new advisory committee to find the new replacement for Steve Bilsky.

If you want to get something done, sometimes you just have to do it yourself.

Call it what it was — an utter devastation.

Welcome to Mahoney era of Penn Athletics.After the stunning resignation of M. Grace Calhoun, Provost Vincent Price announced on Sunday that Mike Mahoney, the Director of Penn’s Athletic communications, would be the next Director of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics, effective July 1.