11/17/08 5:00am
Since Ivy League student-athletes are not given scholarships, the women's rowing team's edging out of Duke, Iowa and Miami at the Rivanna Romp in Charlottesville, Va., was that much sweeter for coach Michael Lane. Penn was the only non-scholarship school in the race.
10/20/08 5:00am
Freshmen usually don't get a chance to compete in rowing's varsity championship races.
But at yesterday's Head of the Charles Race in Boston, the men's freshman four was given a chance to shine on the water and finished ninth out of 21 teams with a time of 17:11.
09/12/08 5:00am
Val Cloud has lost plenty of recruits to William & Mary over the years. Indeed, a rising freshman spurned the Penn field hockey coach to play for Tribe. Cloud has returned the favor - tapping the high-school pipeline for talent that had considered the Williamsburg, Va.
05/02/08 5:00am
The men's lightweight rowing season is one filled with familiar races and familiar faces: the Navy Day Regatta, the Head of the Charles, the Princeton Chase, the Callow Cup - all year-in, year-out events.
But this season brings a less familiar foe to the water: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
04/28/08 5:00am
Amid such a trying season, the men's heavyweight rowing team is looking past its competition against other teams and instead focusing on personal improvement.
And after losing to top teams like Harvard, Navy and Northeastern in the Adams and Burk Cups, that attitude has never been more crucial to the development of the program.
04/25/08 5:00am
Tomorrow's race is named after Charles Francis Adams, Secretary of the Navy during the Herbert Hoover administration.
But it's Harvard -- not Navy - that has dominated the Adams Cup, taking home the trophy each of the last seven years.
Those two schools will join Penn for the latest installment of the battle that began in 1928.
04/07/08 5:00am
San Diego may have been a pleasant respite from the dreary weekend weather in Philadelphia, but men's heavyweight coach Fred Honebein hopes that his team is "pissed off" after its trip out West.
The team struggled, finishing 10th overall in the San Diego Crew Classic.
03/24/08 5:00am
Every day in training on the Schuylkill River, the women's rowing team passes its Saint Joseph's counterpart, quietly sizing it up.
"We're trying to start a rivalry," Penn coach Mike Lane said. "They're great competitors."
Last Friday, the Quakers hit the two-kilometer course on the Schuylkill and showed Saint Joseph's what they were made of.
03/21/08 5:00am
There are no stars on the Penn women's rowing team - and that suits head coach Mike Lane just fine.
"The New England Patriots have a 'one-team' motto and so do we," he said.
Lane added that this year's team has more depth and more intensity than previous years'.
11/30/07 5:00am
This weekend the Penn women's squash team will compete against some familiar faces as it battles Yale, Brown, and Columbia over a two-day span.
Some of Penn's competitors are former teammates.
Coach Jack Wyant and freshman Annie Madeira became familiar with some of Yale's competitors over the summer working on the Junior National team.
11/09/07 5:00am
The men's soccer team is in need of a break tomorrow, and there'd be no better time to get it than against No. 15 Harvard on the Crimson's home turf.
It has been a tough season for the Quakers (5-8-2, 2-3 Ivy), who were shut out in their last two contests against Brown and Princeton and have lost five of their last six.
10/19/07 5:00am
As the Penn field hockey team prepares for tonight's game against Yale, the same feelings come to mind as did last season: This one is a must win.
"This is an Ivy game and it is imperative that we win this one," Quakers coach Val Cloud said.
Just like last year, the Quakers (6-7, 2-2 Ivy) enter their game against the Bulldogs in the middle of the Ivy League with a 2-2 record.
10/08/07 5:00am
The field hockey team has hit .500. After a successful weekend, which saw wins over Lock Haven (3-2) and Bucknell (2-0), Penn may have turned a corner.
"We came up to do what we said we wanted to do and we did it," head coach Val Cloud said. "Could we have played better? Of course, but we played well enough to win.
09/24/07 5:00am
After 10 years of disappointment, the women's volleyball team finally got a victory against longtime rival Temple in the Sheraton-Penn Invitational.
"The Temple match was great," coach Kerry Carr said. "We really played on top of our game and beat a strong international team.
09/14/07 5:00am
Penn volleyball coach Kerry Carr has a prime scouting opportunity this weekend.
When she takes her team to the American Volleyball Tournament in D.C., four Ivy League teams will be on display.
It's a Patriot-Ivy League showdown as Penn, Columbia, Cornell and Harvard will face off against Army, Navy, American and Lafayette.
09/06/07 5:00am
The difference between this year's and last year's women's volleyball team is night and day, according to coach Kerry Carr.
And the difference is the incoming freshmen, who in many ways compose the strongest recruiting class that Penn has had in years.
04/25/07 5:00am
This season, it seems as though the men's heavyweight crew team can't help but settle for a second-place finish.
The Quakers took second yet again this weekend in the Blackwell Cup against Yale and Columbia after the same result against Columbia and Princeton the previous time out.
04/20/07 5:00am
This season, it seems as though the men's heavy-weight crew team can't help but settle for a second place finish.
The squad took second yet again this weekend in the Blackwell Cup against Yale and Columbia after the same finish against Columbia and Princeton the previous weekend.
04/16/07 5:00am
Penn saw seven years of frustration erased this weekend.
The women's rowing team breezed past their competition, winning all five races on Saturday and both trophies in the Class of '89 Plate. The team traveled to New Brunswick, N.J. to compete against Rutgers and Cornell.
03/30/07 5:00am
The Columbia women's lacrosse team may just be a pebble in the Quakers' shoe.
And Saturday's game against the Lions is a small obstacle in Penn's campaign for its first Ivy title since 1982.
Though the Lions (3-5) have not proven to be much of an opponent in the past, the Quakers are still starting their usual lineup.
