When Glen Miller arrived in West Philadelphia three years ago to be introduced as the next coach of Penn, he was greeted with something he had not come to expect in his prior 15 years as an NCAA coach: a legitimate press conference. Roughly eight reporters from The Daily Pennsylvanian and many more members of the local media huddled around him to get a close look at Fran Dunphy's replacement.

Entering its final game of the season, the traditionally strong but recently slumping men's lacrosse team has no prospects of an Ivy League championship or even a winning record. But will their unfavorable circumstances prevent the Quakers (4-8, 2-4 Ivy) from pulling together one last all-out effort in Saturday's season finale against Army in West Point, N.

As the Penn women's lacrosse team prepares to face Stanford in the final game of the regular season, Becca Edwards, for one, is eyeing revenge. "I think we really have a lot of motivation," the senior said. "[Stanford is] the only team that we lost to in the regular season last year, and personally, for me that's the game I tore my ACL in, so I think it will be a fun game for us.

The NCAA announced the 2009 Women's Lacrosse Tournament bracket, and Penn received the No. 4 seed. The Quakers (13-2, 7-0 Ivy) will face unseeded Fairfield (17-2) Sunday at Franklin Field in the first round. The Quakers were predicted to get the No. 3, No.

For the Penn women's track and field team, this year's Penn Relays were all about the record books. Having qualified for Friday's ECAC final with its best finish of the season Thursday, the 4x100-meter relay team topped that in the final with its time of 46:74.

For three quarters, it seemed like the seniors on the men's lacrosse team forgot yesterday's matchup against Towson was their last home game. But in the final 15 minutes, Penn's 10 seniors turned it on, leading the Quakers to a 5-0 fourth quarter and a 10-6 come-from-behind win over the Tigers.

Derek Vigoa stepped up to the plate with the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth inning of Penn baseball's final game of the season. The home contest against Columbia was tied at 9 with two outs. On the mound for the Lions was Brian Valero, a teammate of Vigoa's last season at Christopher Columbus High School in Miami, Fla.

After the final softball game of their Penn careers, seniors Emily Denstedt and Anna Puglisi expressed mixed feelings. According to Puglisi, the game was "fantastic, pretty much as good as it could've gone. It was a great comeback." Denstedt was more disappointed with her own performance.

This weekend's Ivy League Golf Championships were supposed to determine the best team in the conference this year. After a wild finish yesterday, they did anything but. Columbia edged Penn by a single stroke - the Lions shot 10-over par (291-283-284 - 858) compared to Penn's 11-over (285-286-288 - 859) - to capture its second-straight title at the Atlantic City Country Club in Northfield, N.

It may have been easy for the Penn men's track and field team to get lost in the crowd at the Penn Relays this weekend, but Quakers' history was made. The Red and Blue started the Relays off with a bang Wednesday when senior Max Westman won the decathlon, a two-day event, with 6,842 points.

Royal Mitchell heard the gun go off. He drove out of the blocks to begin his 100-meter dash Friday at the Penn Relays. He just didn't know when to stop. A legally blind athlete competing in the Visually Impaired 100-meter dash, Mitchell had to rely on the crowd and the officials around the track to tell him to slow down after he crossed the finish line.

In an effort to boost the transparency of the men's basketball program, Penn Athletics hosted its first annual "town hall" meeting with coach Glen Miller yesterday at the Inn at Penn. In his opening remarks, athletic director Steve Bilsky said that the meeting had been planned since last summer as part of an effort to open up the team to its most loyal supporters - season-ticket holders, former players, parents and alumni - and was not a result of the team's 10-18 performance this season.

EVANSTON, Ill., April 25 - On a cold, wet and windy day, the Penn women's lacrosse ship was sunk by a familiar storm on the shores of Lake Michigan. The No. 3 Quakers traveled to face fellow undefeated No. 1 Northwestern Saturday in a battle of two of three remaining unbeatens in Division I.

Improving Quakers get same result Though the year was different, the result was the same for women's golf at the Ivy League Championships. The Quakers finished fifth for the third-straight year this weekend at the Atlantic City Country Club in Northfield, N.

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In a sport where half a second can separate first from last, 10 years might feel like a long time. Maybe even a little longer for Marion Jones. Two grand-jury testimonies, five doomed-to-be-stripped Olympic medals and six months in jail longer. A full decade after anchoring the Nike International team to victory in the 4x200 meters at the 1999 Penn Relays, the former track star returned to West Philadelphia last night to headline the latest installment of the "Race and Sports" lecture series in Huntsman Hall Auditorium, a program co-sponsored by the Wharton Sports Business Initiative and the Center for Africana Studies.

Towson coach Tony Seaman should feel right at home Sunday at Franklin Field. After all, he is Penn's all-time winningest men's lacrosse coach. Seaman's squad (6-8) visits the Quakers (3-8, 2-4 Ivy) on the heels of a midweek, double-overtime loss to No. 7 Johns Hopkins.