With the new Ellen Vagelos Field in place, Penn field hockey has its first field hockey-specific field ever. This signals that Fink’s program will no longer be at a distinct disadvantage in comparison to other Ivies in scheduling, recruiting and gameplay.

All the numbers seemed to finally go Penn’s way last season. But one stat kept getting in the way in 2012 — three goals allowed per game, good for last in the Ivy League. Now the defense is looking to be more aggressive and improve overall.

What our editors took away from Media Day.

Shortly and sweetly revisit the Quakers’ slog through its 3-13 campaign from last year.

From newbies to vets, three of Penn men’s soccer’s sophomores will have to show they’ve grown up if the Quakers hope to reverse Penn’s 0-6 start from a season ago.

After a disappointing season last year, the Penn men’s soccer team is working on one of the most fundamental elements of play: defense. And this time around, it won’t be for just the back line anymore.

For Penn fans who believe soccer is too low scoring, the men’s team has more than enough firepower up front to prove you wrong with the strong pairing of Duke Lacroix and Stephen Baker

After a fall season to forget, three of Penn soccer’s best dedicated their summers to improving their game so that hopefully this year will be one to remember.

Even amid a tough season, Penn soccer had some great moments in 2012. Check out our countdown for its top three games of last year.

The Ivy landscape in men’s soccer is one that puts the odds against Penn rebounding after a disappointing season. We broke down the eight teams from the top all the way on down.

With only seven starts to his credit heading into this year, senior Tyler Kinn is the odds-on favorite to win the starting goalkeeper spot vacated by Max Kurtzman. And the team feels it is safe in Tyler’s hands.

Suddenly protecting lefty fifth-year senior quarterback Billy Ragone’s blind side now falls to … we’ll see.

We caught up with fifth-year senior Sam Chwarzynski at Media Day Monday about his pursuit of a fourth outright Ivy championship in his Penn football career.

The Penn football team looks spruced up in its new white uniforms as the players gather for its annual team picture, and despite it being his first go-round for football’s Media Day, junior Max Kurtzman fits right in.

The team travelled to Italy for nine days, seeing the sights and hearing sounds of a foreign country with the main focus on rebuilding the team’s chemistry.

Attracting thousands of the world’s top Jewish athletes from around 80 nations, the World Maccabiah Games is the third largest international athletic competition in the world.

Fifth-year senior quarterback Billy Ragone walks us through the last nine months of his life, from his gruesome ankle injury of the fourth quarter of Penn’s Ivy title share-clinching win over Harvard on Nov. 10 through Monday’s Media Day scrum.