Penn women's basketball ready for battle with Navy
It takes most teams a couple of games to warm up early in the season before the players really hit their stride, both the best teams and the worst teams.
It takes most teams a couple of games to warm up early in the season before the players really hit their stride, both the best teams and the worst teams.
With finals fast approaching, many Penn students are already hoping that some late-semester academic fireworks to salvage their GPA's. But we Quakers aren't the only ones on campus with something to prove.
If there was one takeaway from Penn squash’s recent triumph in the Battle for 33rd Street it’s this: they’re coming.
Penn men’s athletics may still be far away from reaching title nine in 2015-16 (eight titles away, for those counting), but women are still making an impact on the men’s athletic program across the board.
With finals fast approaching, many Penn students are already hoping that some late-semester academic fireworks to salvage their GPA's. But we Quakers aren't the only ones on campus with something to prove.
If there was one takeaway from Penn squash’s recent triumph in the Battle for 33rd Street it’s this: they’re coming.
It’s only a four-block journey from Drexel’s squash courts to Penn’s, but when the Dragons came to face the Quakers last Tuesday, the walk back must have been a painful one.
With Colorado State down 49-48 and eight seconds remaining, Ellen Nystrom drove for a pull-up jumper over Penn’s Sydney Stipanovich. But the ball hit front iron and landed safely in the hands of sophomore Beth Brzozowski, securing a fourth straight win for Penn women’s basketball.
There’s no such thing as luck for the Penn women’s swimming and diving team.
They work together, but only when the rest of us aren't paying attention.
The Quakers have many things to be thankful for, but rest isn't one of them.
Three matches. Three wins.
All the attention was understandably on football’s first Ivy League title, but this Saturday in Louisville, Ky., men’s cross country capped an historic season on a high note.
So much for home-court advantage. Penn women’s basketball never trailed on the road Sunday en route to a 67-60 win over New Hampshire, its third in a row.
“Unfortunately you don’t get to play defense in swimming.”
Penn fencing will hope to justify its top-tier status and potentially usurp another fencing powerhouse when it attends the Elite Invitational on Saturday.
George Washington may have beaten the British, but he certainly won’t be beating the Quakers anytime soon. At least, that’s what Penn squash is hoping for.
When Penn swimming heads to New Jersey for its first Ivy tri-meet with Cornell and Princeton this weekend, a hot topic will be the presence (or absence) of hair on Big Red swimmers’ legs.
Holding an opponent to fourteen points in a half is not bad for a football team. And for a basketball team, holding an opponent to fourteen points in a half is downright ridiculous.
Penn men’s swimming took care of business in dominating fashion last Friday at home against Columbia and again on Saturday afternoon against Villanova at Sheerr Pool.