It’s time for another battle of top women’s lacrosse programs at Franklin Field. Penn women’s lacrosse will play host to Northwestern in the teams’ ninth head-to-head in the past eight seasons.

Not many players can look back at a season of batting .278 and tallying 31 RBI and call it an off year. But for Penn softball’s Leah Allen, that’s exactly what 2015 was.

It’s a common saying in the world of track and field: “One moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory.” The track and field athletes competing this weekend may not be able to achieve a lifetime of glory just yet, but they can get close — qualification for the NCAA preliminaries.

Well, hopefully they got that out of their system. In their last action before kicking off Ivy League play on Friday against Yale, Penn softball fell in both games of a doubleheader versus Lehigh at Penn Park on Wednesday afternoon.

While the spring season is just getting started for Penn women’s golf, it’s been a journey long in the making, dating back to last year. The current academic year featured four fall tournaments — and they started with a bang.

Unlike other Penn sports teams, the golf teams do not have a course that they can practice on located on or very near campus.

What’s a team to do when it’s already reached the pinnacle of a conference? Reload, of course. Penn men’s golf will rely heavily on new faces if it is to contend once again in 2016.

In its final hurrah of the 2015-16 season, Penn fencing fought through four days of intense competition at NCAA Championships in Waltham, Mass., to take eighth and score 98 points.

While most of Penn’s campus was rejoicing over a beautiful spring weekend, Penn women’s tennis headed to Princeton, N.J., with the hopes of doing something they have failed to do since 2008: Beat the Tigers.

Perfection is hard to reach in sports. To be able to play an entire game without a single blemish is something that few can claim to do.

No matter the team, it is commonplace to worry about the potential for trap games. Regardless of the opponent’s record, an Ivy League contest is a battle with a rival, and wins never come easy.

Every senior hopes for a storybook ending when they get ready to compete for the last time, and that’s just what Penn men's swimming senior Chris Swanson got at this weekend's NCAA National Swimming and Diving Championship.

You should never dig a hole that you can’t crawl out of. Unfortunately for Penn women’s lacrosse, the hole that they dug for themselves in the first part of Wednesday’s game was just a bit too deep. The No. 14 Quakers squared off with the top team in the nation under the lights at Franklin Field, falling to Maryland by a score of 12-8 in a game that appeared to be a comfortable win for the Terrapins (7-0) until about 10 minutes in to the second half.

It’s championship season, and while most eyes are on the basketball this week, Penn has a chance to make the podium nationally in the pool.

They say the enemy of your enemy is your friend, but do not go telling that to either Penn or Princeton when they meet for Ivy openers this weekend.

There’s no other way of putting it — it’s the end of an era. Penn men's swimming legend Chris Swanson has one meet left to bear the colors Red and Blue.

While the season may be over for Penn’s basketball teams, the awards keep coming in.