If the Quakers want to beat Penn State at home on Saturday and get a winning streak going, they’ll have to be on guard … in more ways than one.

On paper, Penn Athletics’ presence on campus Saturday couldn’t be any better. And in reality, it was awesome.

After a strong showing two weeks ago at Heptagonal Championships, the Red and Blue are looking to improve upon their pre-meet rankings of ninth for the men and eighth for the women. Both teams are chasing top six finishes in the region.

In last season’s finale, Penn and Harvard squared off on Rhodes Field to determine which team wouldn’t get last place in the conference. But on Saturday, the two will play in Boston with an Ivy League title on the line.

The Ivy League title may be out of reach for Penn volleyball, but there is still the chance to end the season on a long winning streak and with a victory against every team in the Ivy League.

Penn’s stars will get theres, but if the Quakers hope to succeed this season, they’ll need their bench to contribute too.

In his freshman year, Tyler Kinn received tough news, but has since rebounded to start in goal for Penn soccer.

Which first-year contributor do we expect to make the biggest impact this season for the Quakers?

While the Quakers surely didn’t win the game because of execution, it wasn’t because of luck either. It was thanks to effort.

Al Bagnoli has become one the most important people in Penn sports and will leave behind a remarkable legacy when he eventually steps away from the game.

The Quakers were headed for another middle of the pack finish as they entered the final game of the first half of the Ivy season against Dartmouth. Penn was 2-4, sitting in a last-place tie with Dartmouth, Cornell and Princeton.

With women’s and men’s soccer, field hockey and football trying to hang onto their postseason hopes and men’s hoops tipping off for the first time all season, our staff followed every high and low point of Homecoming weekend, minute-by-minute.

The Quakers waited to hear their name get called. But they never did, learning that they hadn’t been awarded an NCAA at-large bid and that their season was over.

For sophomore swimmer Chris Swanson, outdoing freshman year will be a much taller order. In addition to setting three school records in the 500, 1000 and 1650 meter freestyle events, Swanson also captured an individual title at the Ivy League Championships in the 1650 freestyle.

Penn (0-1) will look to assuage its rebounding woes as the Quakers travel to New Jersey to take on Monmouth (1-0).

Down 14-12 in a fifth set and facing two match point opportunities for Harvard, Penn women’s volleyball showed the resilience that has made it so dominant over the past few weeks.

Why did Penn basketball even find itself with such a deep hole to come back from in the second half? The answer is Penn’s lack of defensive rebounding against a team it shouldn’t have lost to.