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Normally, DP Sports Player of the Week goes to just one athlete. But when two players on the same team both don't lose, you can't really justify putting one above the other.
The student-athletes wrote in their letter that Thomas was taking “competitive opportunities” away from them, particularly spots in the Ivy League championship meet.
The Quakers finished the weekend with a 2-1 record after beating Lehigh and LIU, but dropped a crucial match to Cornell that knocked them out of Ivy title contention.
This year, the consistent success now characteristic of the Penn program has continued. The Quakers concluded the first month of the new year with several new entries into their history book.
Penn men's squash, No. 1 in the country, closes its regular season with an outright Ivy League title. Now, it will chase even higher honors at the CSA Team Championships.
In Penn women’s basketball's first matchup against Cornell since before the pandemic, it picked up a critical Ivy League victory and moved past the Big Red in the Ancient Eight standings.
Not even Cornell’s barrage of heckling could stop the Quakers. On Saturday, Penn men’s basketball survived a late surge by Cornell to secure their second win of the weekend, 73-68.
In what was arguably the team’s best defensive performance of the season, the Red and Blue – which came in as a 2.5-point underdog – beat Cornell by a 73-68 margin.
Current statistics show Penn having an 87.4% chance of making the Ivy playoffs, a 14.2% chance of finishing as the top seed, a 24.7% chance at second seed, and a 29.6% shot at third.
Despite early setbacks in his collegiate career, junior guard Jonah Charles has found early success this season, helping lead the Quakers to a breakout season so far.