To improve her team’s mental toughness, in-game durability and end-of-game execution, coach Kelly Carr and her coaching staff have taken an old sports adage to heart — practice how you play.

Even though Penn’s expectations have been tempered, Saturday’s match against Yale and the rest of the games this season hold plenty of significance for a young squad still struggling to gel.

Only one win that separates this season’s Penn field hockey team from tying its overall win record from the past two seasons combined.

Andrew Holland and Eric Williams graduated from St. Ignatius High School in 2008 and 2011, respectively, and while playing for the Wildcats, they both led their squads to Ohio state championships.

Last season, the Quakers led Division I in shutout percentage (.765), posting 13 shutouts in 17 matches. Making that possible was current senior goalkeeper Sarah Banks, who earned first team All-Ivy honors a season ago.

Jim Steel is a strong man. He has been for a long time. And for a long time, he’s been helping other people get strong too.

In the best season of her collegiate career, senior Kyle deSandes-Moyer is finally seeing her years of hard work pay off.

There’s one simple explanation for the Quakers’ miserable 2-10 and 0-3 Ivy records: The defense has let the team down in virtually every single game.

At the Head of the Charles Regatta, the men’s lightweight, men’s heavyweight and women’s teams will be joined by 9,000 athletes in what is the ultimate two-day competition.

Penn kicks off its Class of 2017 recruiting with the son of baseball Hall of Famer Dave Winfield and an Atlanta all-metro star.

Throughout the season, the Red and Blue have demonstrated the ability to mount comebacks late in games, and Saturday’s win fits that mold.

A contingent of researchers — including several from the Penn community — came together to make “Head Games,” a documentary about brain trauma in sports.

Penn’s new men’s golf coach spent the last 20 years golfing professionally off and on as a member of the PGA and Web.com tours. Making the cut for 60 PGA tournaments, he once placed as high as second. He also won two Web.com tournaments.

On Saturday, the crew teams participated in the Navy Day Regatta, and with multiple top-three finishes, there is much to be optimistic about for this upcoming season and beyond.

Penn’s inexplicable defensive collapse against Columbia’s last-ranked Ivy offense was alarming. The Lions moved the ball at will in the second half and racked up 475 total offensive yards in the game, almost 200 over its season average.

It was a tale of two halves for the Red and Blue, as a taut first-half affair quickly descended into chaos as Army’s Marquis Morris shredded the Quakers’ defensive front.

The Quakers went into their matchup against Dartmouth undefeated in the Ancient Eight, but in the end fell to the Big Green, 2-1.