BRIEF | Penn track & field shines at Mountain Hawk Invitational
On Saturday at Lehigh University, the men’s team won the meet with a combined total of 181 team points. Meanwhile, the women’s team finished second with a team score of 170 points.
On Saturday at Lehigh University, the men’s team won the meet with a combined total of 181 team points. Meanwhile, the women’s team finished second with a team score of 170 points.
Penn women’s tennis proved solid enough to win handily at Levy Tennis Pavilion, even after splitting up the best duo in the Northeast region — freshman Sonya Latycheva and sophomore Sol Eskenazi.
On Saturday, the Quakers narrowly defeated a No. 4 Trinity squad ranked just one place above them, 6-3, in a match that featured plenty of drama.
Watching Nelson-Henry Saturday against the Hawks, it was easy to see why the center earned Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors after his efforts versus St. Joe’s and his first career double-double at NJIT on Thursday.
Penn women’s tennis proved solid enough to win handily at Levy Tennis Pavilion, even after splitting up the best duo in the Northeast region — freshman Sonya Latycheva and sophomore Sol Eskenazi.
On Saturday, the Quakers narrowly defeated a No. 4 Trinity squad ranked just one place above them, 6-3, in a match that featured plenty of drama.
Quakers allowed 11 three-pointers in loss to their Big Five rivals, despite Darien Nelson-Henry’s 17 points
The No. 5 women’s squash team faces another major test this weekend when it welcomes No. 4 Trinity College to Ringe Courts.
Penn gymnastics will face off against Rutgers, Bridgeport and Ursinus in New Brunswick, N.J., on Saturday at 1 p.m.
This weekend, the women’s swimming team heads to Providence, R.I., for its last conference meet against Harvard and Brown.
With Penn heading to Lehigh Saturday for the second time in six weeks, they hope to build on what has been a solid season thus far.
The men’s swimming team will take the trek northward to Providence, R.I., to square off against Brown.
Having faced three top-10 schools within the span of a week, the Quakers take to the courts Saturday against No. 2 Trinity.
Penn held NJIT to just 27.7 percent shooting from the field, a season-best for the Quakers’ defense, as they took a 54–53 victory at the Fleisher Center on Thursday night.
Villanova (14-2, 4-0 Big 5) pulled away from the Quakers with an early second half run, defeating the Quakers in a low-scoring affair, 48-44.
Penn has the worst proportionality of male to female athletes in the Ivy League, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics database.
The Quakers are just 2-13 and have yet to win a road game this season. Penn will seek its first road win and 1700th win as a program Thursday night against the NJIT Highlanders (9-8) at the Fleisher Athletic Center.
In his four years as an assistant coach at NJIT, Bowman played a large role in helping the program achieve respectability — going from 1-30 in his first season to 15-15 and 15-17 in his third and fourth seasons, respectively.
Tuesday, Penn Athletic Director Steve Bilsky gave a vote of confidence to coach Jerome Allen despite the fact that the Quakers could still end up with their worst record in the Ivy League era, since Penn is now 2-13 on the season.
Junior Alex Ott joins the DP Sports staff after two seasons of varsity baseball at Penn. Despite notching 17 appearances as a freshman (the fifth highest single-season total in school history), Ott chose to walk away from the sport with great reluctance and a greater story.