Friday, Penn faces Cornell — one of the weakest teams in the Ivy League — and it has a chance to make a strong statement to the rest of its opponents.

Forrest Clancy chose to play soccer at Penn despite growing up in London. His recruitment process began after Clancy sent a YouTube video of his game highlights to Penn coach Rudy Fuller.

The Penn men’s soccer team fell to its 33rd Street rivals at Vidas Field, 2-1, on a late goal. In the 10th minute, Drexel crossed what should have been a harmless grounder into the box, but no one picked it up until the Dragons’ Nathan Page found it near the penalty spot and drove it into the top left corner.

After a weekend when the Quakers tallied 10 goals in two games and secured their first two wins of the year, they’ll face Drexel on Wednesday in their last game before Ivy play begins Saturday.

Colleen Fink was brought in to be the head coach in 2010 after a successful venture at nearby Haverford College. There, she took the Fords from 10th place to fifth in the Division III Centennial Conference — propelling the program from irrelevance to the playoffs.

The best thing Alex Dayneka and Claire Walker of the Penn women’s soccer team did this summer was get away. Dayneka interned in Botswana, while Walker participated in an urban studies program in Berlin.

Copeland, the big man in the middle, is the anchor, heart and soul of the Quakers’ defense. But he cannot do it alone.

Even through two games, it’s too early to predict how the Quakers’ season will play out.

Plans are in motion to create an AstroTurf field for Penn’s field hockey program, to be located just south of Rhodes Field.

On Sept. 5, Zachary Weiner and his colleagues launched The Sports Quotient, a blog dedicated to covering and debating all things sports.

The Quakers won the Rehoboth Beach Invitational, finishing first in an 11-team field after coming in third in last year’s tournament.

Six Ivies competed at the tournament, and Penn finished above only Dartmouth. The Quakers’ team score of 954 was nine strokes above Brown, the next-closest Ancient Eight finisher. Harvard was the highest-placing Ivy team, followed by Yale, Princeton and the Bears.

Penn goalkeeper Carly Sokach saved a penalty stroke with 12 minutes left against Harvard Saturday, and the Quakers ultimately prevailed for their first Ivy win of the year.

The Quakers could not pull out the win against Princeton, falling in the five-set battle at home Friday. It was deja-vu Sunday, as Penn fell to a different Tigers team: Towson.

The outcome of the football game Saturday wasn’t the result of the Quakers’ inability to execute plays. Rather, Penn’s loss to Villanova was due to the failure of the coaches to adjust to the demands of the game.

The Penn men’s soccer team took on Rider Sunday to grab its second win of the season, 7-2, after gaining its first ‘W’ Friday against Fairleigh Dickinson as part of the Princeton Tournament.

With four seconds remaining on the game clock, the Quakers found a way to defeat the team that knocked them out of title contention last season.