04/09/17 11:42pm
Heading into this weekend, Penn men’s tennis knew that this was going to be one of, if not the toughest, pair of matches the team would face all season. The Quakers took on Columbia and Cornell this weekend, dropping both matches to the top-25 ranked programs.
02/27/17 10:52pm
It was a busy weekend for the Penn men’s and women’s tennis teams with both teams splitting a pair of matches.
The women’s squad played their first match of the weekend on the road in College Park to take on the No. 42 ranked Terrapins, falling 6-1.
02/12/17 4:53pm
Coming into the weekend, Penn men's basketball’s chances to make the Ivy League Tournament and compete for a March Madness bid seemed almost nonexistent. The Quakers were not shooting well, and seemed unable to hold teams off down the stretch in games. But by early Sunday afternoon, it appears as though the Red and Blue have life once again.
02/10/17 10:58pm
This season has not been kind to Penn men’s basketball. Coming into Friday’s game against Columbia, the Quakers were winless in six Ivy League contests and in desperate need of a better performance to have any shot of making the Ivy League Tournament. The Red and Blue were able to gut out the victory on the back of 48 rebounds and 12 three-pointers. Let’s go to the player ratings.
01/31/17 5:29pm
In just under seven years, Penn men's tennis' Kyle Mautner turned from a kid who practiced very little into one of the most highly touted recruits in the country and one of the best players in the Ivy League. The path to this point required hard work and a lot of time away from home, but for Mautner, it was all part of a special opportunity that has led to him playing at the top of the Quakers’ lineup.
01/22/17 7:29pm
There were mixed results for Penn men's tennis in the opening weekend of its spring season, as the Red and Blue kicked off the year down in the Volunteer State with a win over Middle Tennessee State and a sweep at the hands of Vanderbilt.
12/12/16 11:15pm
When Yale men's basketball beat Baylor in the first round of the 2015 NCAA tournament, the entire sports world celebrated the win as a "victory for the nerds." The kids who studied textbooks at halftime had defeated a Big 12 school on the biggest stage.
12/06/16 10:41pm
Penn men’s basketball knew that its opening set of non-conference games to start the season would be challenging. The Quakers were right.
11/28/16 11:28pm
When Kris Jenkins hit a buzzer-beating three to defeat North Carolina and give Villanova the NCAA national championship, the entire city of Philadelphia celebrated. Fast forward eight months, and the Wildcats are 6-0, ranked No. 2 in the country and playing like a team poised for another title run.
On Tuesday night, Penn basketball will be taking on the defending champions and Big 5 rival at the Palestra for the Quakers’ home opener.
11/17/16 11:13pm
This Saturday, Penn will be facing a very different type of opponent as the Quakers (1-0) will fly down to Miami to take on the Hurricanes (2-0), one of the most highly touted ACC programs.
11/14/16 10:56pm
It was a big week for Penn sports, with three athletes receiving individual awards.
11/06/16 10:21pm
After Harvard cancelled the rest of their men’s soccer season, the Ivy League standings flew wide open.
10/23/16 11:50pm
After conceding four goals to both Villanova and Dartmouth during a three-game losing skid, Penn men’s soccer righted the ship on Saturday against Yale.
The Quakers (4-4-5, 2-2 Ivy) blanked the Bulldogs (2-7-2, 1-2-1 Ivy) by a score of 3-0 on goals from Dami Omitaomu, Gideon Metrikin and Alec Neumann.
10/17/16 9:41pm
In their first Ivy League game of the year, Penn football took on Dartmouth, a team that shared the conference title with the Quakers in 2015.
10/04/16 12:03am
Penn men’s soccer head coach Rudy Fuller has had dozens of assistant coaches in his tenure at the school since his arrival 19 years ago. And out of that cast, in a true testament to Fuller’s leadership and coaching prowess, four of them have become head coaches — either at other D-I programs, or professionally.
09/14/16 11:33pm
In 2008 and 2013, Rob Irvine was on the sideline as the Penn men’s soccer team won the Ivy League Championship.
09/06/16 2:00am
It seems the lack of success last year can be attributed to two main points: youth and injuries to the team’s few experienced leaders.
In 2016, look for those issues to be almost completely resolved.
04/27/16 12:30am
Mostly unnoticed during the comeback and in the post match celebration, however, were the chants his teammates were belting out.
They weren’t in English.
Led by senior Ismael Lahlou, the chants for Pompan, the hero of the match, were in Arabic.
04/21/16 12:25am
The expansion and widespread success of club sports across the country has had a tremendous effect on college students over the last decade.
04/10/16 10:46pm
Coming off its first Ivy League win of the season last weekend, Penn women’s tennis hoped to build on that confidence as two ranked opponents, Harvard and Dartmouth, arrived in Philadelphia.
With a 4-3 win over Harvard and a 5-2 victory against Dartmouth, the Quakers (10-7, 3-2 Ivy) did just that.
