4/22
Sports
Two Quakers take home Ivy Heps titles
First-year sprinter Moforehan Abinusawa won the 60m and second-year distance runner Bronwyn Patterson was victorious in the 800m.
Playing hard and breaking records, Kayla Padilla leads by example
The fourth-year do-it-all guard on the women’s basketball team is in the final stages of her sensational career at Penn.
Kalandadze sets new Ivy record in 1,650-yard freestyle
The fourth-year swimmer broke the 14-year-old record at the Ivy League Championships at Princeton over the weekend.
Penn’s hoops teams lock up spot in Ivy tourney
Both the women’s and men’s basketball teams have advanced to the Ivy League Tournament, which will take place March 10-12 at Princeton.
Hafez named Ivy League Rookie of the Year
The first-year player on the men’s squash team finished the regular season with a 13-1 record. He is the second consecutive Quaker to take home conference Rookie of the Year honors.
Ivy League applauds Padilla, Sawyer
Kayla Padilla of the women’s basketball team has been named Ivy League Player of the Week and teammate Simone Sawyer has been selected Ivy League Rookie of the Week.
Quakers cook Crimson
On Saturday at the Palestra the women’s basketball team avenged its recent loss to Harvard, and on Saturday in Massachusetts, the men’s basketball defeated the Crimson, their fifth-straight win.
Dingle named Big 5 Player of the Week
The third-year guard led the Quakers to their fourth straight win over the weekend and averaged 26 points across two games.
Penn sports teams win the weekend in places near and far
Quaker athletes were victorious across the winter sports spectrum, kicked off by the men’s tennis team’s triumph over Navy on Friday.
Quakers crush Crimson
The men’s basketball team beat Harvard 83-68 on Saturday at the Palestra. Four Quakers scored in double figures.
In the News
These Penn Relays will have more prestige in the track world, and more prize money for stars
This year’s Penn Relays again will have a set of races with big international stars on Saturday, and though exact numbers weren’t provided, the increase in prize money more than doubles what it was before.
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After a back injury, this Penn senior’s record-breaking track success is ‘a long time coming’
Penn fourth-year Isabella Whittaker has set multiple program and Ivy League records this season and has Olympic hopes.
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For Penn’s wrestling team, an ‘innovative’ succession plan from one program legend to another
Matt Valenti will take over the Penn wrestling program in 2025-26, when longtime coach Roger Reina will move into an emeritus role for one season before retiring from coaching.
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The success of women’s college basketball is more than just Caitlin Clark
Kenneth Shropshire of the Wharton School says that women’s college basketball needs to cultivate more superstars and superstar matchups like Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese to keep investors bought in and fans engaged.
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With one jump, Scott Toney set a Penn pole vault record, and topped his late brother’s mark in a fitting tribute
Scott Toney, a Wharton School fourth-year and pole vaulter from Mountainview, California, recently broke the Penn program record in a tribute to Marc Toney, his late brother and fellow pole vaulter.
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