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Zach Klitzman


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Senior Goodbye: Zach Klitzman | A balancing act with my leading ladies at Penn

Zach Klitzman borrows a line from Wedding Crashers to explain his love for women’s lax and his difficulty staying objective.

May 13, 2010

W. Lax receives No. 8 seed for NCAA tournament

The drop from No. 4 in the media poll to the No. 8 seed was the biggest decline the seniors — who have won Ivy titles in each of their four years — have experienced on selection day.

May 10, 2010

W. Lax wins inaugural Ivy tournament

Penn held on 9-8 to win the tournament and clinch its fourth consecutive automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Quakers will wait until May 9 to receive their first-round draw for the NCAAs.

May 2, 2010

W. Lax advances to Ivy Tournament final

W. Lax beats Princeton, 13-9, to earn berth in Ivy championship game.

May 1, 2010

Klitzman | Fall predictions come true

Now that classes are over, it’s time to see how bad my predictions for this year were.

April 29, 2010

Penn wins fourth-straight outright Ivy title

With a 19-5 victory over Brown, the Quakers became the first team to win four in a row since Harvard won five from 1988-92.

April 26, 2010

Penn on high road to Ivy title

Penn's defeat of then-No.6 Dartmouth gave it a top 10 victory and Harvard’s 11-9 upset of Princeton put Penn in the driver's seat for the regular season title.

April 20, 2010

Avoiding Hanover hangover

The No. 7 Quakers will need to perform in Hanover, N.H., if they want to extend their 26 Ivy game winning streak.

April 15, 2010

Klitzman | Weak shots in front of a large crowd

W. Lax missed a golden chance to earn a key victory and establish itself as the marquee spring sport.

April 13, 2010

Rivalry renewed on 33rd Street

The Quakers now have a chance to exact some revenge against the top-ranked, five-time defending NCAA champion Wildcats squad (9-0) tonight at Franklin Field.

April 9, 2010

Shell-shocked Penn downs Lions

After the women’s lacrosse team got outplayed in a 12-6 loss to No. 2 Maryland Friday, the team came back from a 4-2 deficit to clobber Columbia, 19-7.

April 5, 2010

Klitzman | Donahue is a hot option for open jobs

Cornell coach Steve Donahue is a high-profile candidate to take over at Siena or St. John's.

March 30, 2010

Last-quarter scoring rally brings win

Within three minutes of a late timeout, junior Giulia Giordano scored twice and assisted on another goal. Before the Big Red realized what had happened, Penn scored nine goals in the last 14:42 to win the game, 15-6.

March 29, 2010

Penn tries to flip the Blue bird

Ousted from the top five in the coaches’ ranking for the first time since March 3, 2009, the No. 7 Penn women’s lacrosse team will need a convincing win over Johns Hopkins tonight if it wants to reclaim a spot in the upper echelon.

March 24, 2010

Last chance at the big dance

The Quakers start their season Saturday at Drexel with some unfinished business­ — their ultimate goal of a national championship.

February 25, 2010

Last chance at the big dance

The Quakers start their season Saturday at Drexel with some unfinished business, namely their ultimate goal of a national championship. Penn, which went 15-3 in 2009, was defeated by Northwestern for the third straight season in the NCAA tournament last year.

February 25, 2010

Klitzman | Allen must believe in change

If M. Hoops wants to prolong its celebration, it must address lineup changes, slow starts and 3-pointers.

February 2, 2010

Klitzman | Big 5 back in the day

Senior Zach Klitzman looks back on the Men's Basketball team's last Big 5 win, in his freshman year.

January 27, 2010

Klitzman | A holy Trinity of one team

Zach Klitzman predicts that the men's squash team will fall to Trinity and its 211-game winning streak.

January 22, 2010

Killing two birds with one win

While Monmouth's 2-7 record is better than winless Penn’s, both teams will be desperate for a win Saturday as Penn travels to West Long Branch, N.J.

December 10, 2009

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