Sports Features
The busiest man in Penn Athletics
Marcus Jones may be the busiest man in Penn Athletics.
Building Penn women's soccer's perfect schedule
Anyone who has watched college football in the last decade show know that strength of schedule for teams on the national stage matters. A lot.
Penn field hockey's need to get defensive
For Penn field hockey, the plan is pretty simple: find a way to win Ivy contests, even when those results don’t come easy. And sitting on a 7-1 record with two wins in conference, that is exactly what it has done.
For Grace Calhoun, it's time to rebrand Penn Athletics
It’s time to hit the refresh button for Penn Athletics. In the eyes of Athletic Director Grace Calhoun that means new uniforms, new initiatives, new programming and, most importantly, a new vision.
Liveblog: Penn football (1-1) vs. Dartmouth
Follow along live as senior sports editor Riley Steele, senior sports reporter Steven Tydings and associate sports editor Jacob Adler cover Penn football's Ivy and home opener against Dartmouth.
Feature of the Week | Penn women's soccer's Sasha Stephens keying young attack
Rewind to four weeks ago. It was a clear late-August day and Sasha Stephens had just stepped onto Rhodes Field clad in Red and Blue for the first time.
Future of Penn volleyball has winning in her past
Unlike last year, Penn volleyball coach Kerry Carr has the veteran firepower needed to keep the team from being reliant on freshmen.
Roundtable: Bold predictions for the rest of the fall
Penn football’s recent upset victory over Villanova — the program’s first in more than 100 years — has sent tremors throughout the Penn Athletics community.
Penn field hockey's offense on historic pace
They say defense wins championships. But while its too early to talk about championships for Penn field hockey after only one Ivy League contest, it looks like the team’s offense is ready to prove this well-known maxim wrong. After losing to Liberty on the first day of the 2015 season, the Quakers’ attack has been nothing short of unstoppable in the three weeks since.
Uncertainty surrounding Penn women's soccer's goalkeepers
Tear, strain, break, and fracture. In the midst of a season packed with daily practices and arduous games, injuries are an unfortunate and inevitable part of all sports. For Penn women's soccer, injuries are the ill-fated reality with which they must deal.
Penn football takes home Ivy, national honors after 'Nova upset
Penn football's stunning win over Villanova last Thursday earned its players some hardware this week. On Monday, sophomore wide receiver Justin Watson was named Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week.
Penn athletes ditch jerseys for scrubs
For all of Penn’s student-athletes, there exists a never-ending juggle between athletic and academic commitments.
Penn sprint football freshman making most of opportunity
Number 29 got the ball with just under seven minutes left in the first quarter of Penn sprint football’s home opener. With the Quakers already up 7-0, the freshman running back looked like he wasn’t going to gain any yardage as multiple Franklin Pierce players made contact with him. But he shocked everyone by fending off the Quakers' opponents before reeling off another 20 yards into the endzone.
Penn football's midweek foe dealing with injury barrage
If Penn football is going to buck one of the longest active losing streaks in the sport, it might actually be the squad's lack of game experience in 2015 that helps it out.
Recapping the weekend in Penn Athletics
This past weekend marked the first time in 2015 that each of the Red and Blue's fall sports teams were in action.
Penn men's soccer freshmen get national exposure
Nigel Blackwood and Gavin Barger were granted the special opportunity of training together at the highest level of junior soccer before ever donning the Red and Blue.
Sprint Football Issue | One final goodbye to a Penn legend
While Mike Beamish may have graced the gridiron at Franklin Field last Saturday, Penn sprint football will have to adjust to life without its former star and captain this season. Beamish participated for the fifth time in the program's annual Alumni Game last weekend, but not as a member of the Quakers' current team.
Football Supplement | End of the waiting game for Ray Priore
"For anything to be worth anything, it takes time."
Football Supplement | Quakers' rejuvenated secondary seeks 2015 comeback
The play of Penn football’s defense in 2014 was, well, indefensible. The Quakers struggled mightily to stop opposing offenses a year ago, surrendering an average of 31.9 points per game.