Last Thursday, 2020 graduate and former Penn track and field standout Nia Akins was announced as Penn’s first-ever top 30 honoree for the 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.

Women have been present at the University since the late 1800s, but the first mention of a formalized association of women’s athletics at Penn is found in the 1917 women’s yearbook.

Although coach Mike Schnur has been with Penn swimming for 29 years, this coming season may be his most trying yet.

The Big Green join a growing list of Penn’s peers, including Brown and Stanford, that have cut varsity sports in recent times due to revenue lost from the coronavirus pandemic.

While 2020 has been an unusual year by any standard, it's probably a safe bet that few foresaw that football players would be spending more time in pools than swimmers.

It was a long weekend for Penn men's swimming, as the team competed in the Ivy League Championships, where they set several personal records. 

At this time in the year, most of Penn’s winter sports have wrapped up their regular seasons, and now it's time for championship competition. 

Penn women’s swimming and diving traveled to Providence, R.I. for the Ivy League Championships this weekend and finished with a total of 949.5 points.

Penn men and women’s swimming and diving competed against West Chester in an exciting meet at Sheerr Pool on Saturday afternoon. 

Here’s what to look forward to as fencing, wrestling, and swimming and diving enter the final portions of their seasons.

As captain of the team, Xue has consistently put up fast times and has helped lead her team to victory.

The men’s team fell by a score of 169-128, while their women counterparts lost, 187-113. Even in the losses, the teams had respectable performances.

Here’s what to look forward to this weekend as Penn squash, wrestling, and swimming and diving enter the home stretches of their respective seasons.

While both the men’s and women’s teams were able to edge out the Big Green, they both also fell to the host Bulldogs. 

In this week's edition of Is Stat So?, Kayla Padilla continues to be a force on the court, swimming races past the competition, and Evan Lee set a program record in the heptathlon.

While everyone on campus is gearing up for final exams, Penn swimming competed last week at the Miami of Ohio Invitational.

Diveris, who has competed in the Ivy League Championship the past two seasons, has been consistently placing in the 1-meter and 3m dives.