The men’s swimming and diving team ended its seasons with a disappointing sixth-place finish at Ivy championships.
Going into the Ivy Championships, the Red and Blue will be looking to improve upon their disappointing regular season campaign, which included close losses to Princeton, Dartmouth and Yale.
With tough meets coming almost weekly, Friday’s matchup gives the Quakers an opportunity to break away from their normal meet routine.
Penn will have to travel to Manhattan during reading days to take on two of the Ivy’s best.
When senior Brendan McHugh was 17, he participated on a summer swim team with younger brother Dillon, now a freshman, and his three other younger siblings. Thus it was business as usual when the two brothers reunited on the Quakers squad this year.
Though Penn was not able to get the win it needed, the Quakers and Army put on an offensive display in their 58-44 duel, exchanging punch for punch over 60 minutes.
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On the sprint football team, where players often find themselves at different positions or even on opposite sides of the ball.
Navy once again showed why it is a perennial powerhouse in the Collegiate Sprint Football League, dominating the Quakers in a 56-0 rout that put Penn’s hopes for a second-straight conference title in jeopardy.
It wasn’t quite like the 70-0 Princeton beatdown last year, but the sprint football still ran roughshod over the Tigers under the Friday night lights of Franklin Field this weekend.
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