Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer.
Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026
The Daily Pennsylvanian

Women's Basketball

Maria Sharapova

What do you do when you can’t play the sport you love? Turn your fighting energy towards a different arena: the business world. On a hiatus from the game of tennis, 29 year-old Maria Sharapova has chosen to attend Harvard Business School for a two-week summer program.


Two of the Red and Blue's women’s lacrosse players were honored by Inside Lacrosse this week as part of its year-long awards recognition. Senior attack Nina Corcoran and freshman defender Katy Junior received awards after being named on the All-ILWomen team and the All-Rookie team, respectively.

The Latest


Womens Lax vs. Rutgers

Two of the Red and Blue's women’s lacrosse players were honored by Inside Lacrosse this week as part of its year-long awards recognition. Senior attack Nina Corcoran and freshman defender Katy Junior received awards after being named on the All-ILWomen team and the All-Rookie team, respectively.



Despite a stellar sophomore season for the Red and Blue's field hockey program, star rising junior Alexa Hoover is hard at work to earn her team its first Ivy title in 24 years. 

The Red and Blue’s field hockey team had a bittersweet 2015. After barreling through nationally ranked opponents weekly, the Quakers seemed poised to take back the Ivy League championship that had eluded them since 2004. However, the season finale against Princeton did not feature the end result that the team wanted.


Besides all her work on the solar power and clean water team, sophomore midfielder Erica Higa also taught volleyball and soccer.

As spring semester ended and students prepared to embark on their various summer journeys, one women’s soccer player had reason to be especially excited. Erica Higa, a sophomore midfielder for the Red and Blue, traveled to Rwanda alongside fellow Penn Athletics representative coach Kerry Major Carr of women’s volleyball and around ten other Penn students and faculty as part of the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Rwanda Gashora Program. The program was created to explore the possibilities of using solar energy and information communication technology in low-resource communities in developing countries.




Although graduation has passed, Penn rowing has been competing on into the summer — and the lightweights have even qualified for the IRA National Championships in June.

Classes may have ended, but some students are facing finals of a very different variety. With the season coming to a close, Penn rowing has been competing in a host of monumentally important events, notching impressive results along the way.







While most of the the track and field stars performed to expectation, senior distance runner Tommy Awad was denied that chance when he was allegedly pushed to the ground with one lap to go in the 5000m at Heps this Sunday.

While all of Penn spent its weekend trying to end the semester with a bang by studying hours on end, one group of students spent its time seeking to go out with a bang by throwing things, jumping around, and running in circles.






Most Read in Women's Basketball

Penn Connects