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Starting this month, Penn Athletics will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the official start of women’s athletics at the University. This will include content on their website and social media accounts.
As the NBA prepares to open a coronavirus-shortened season on Dec. 22, Penn Today examines a collection of Quakers who have been drafted or signed by NBA teams.
While a senior in high school in 2002, the NBA great played at the Palestra in a showdown pitting Akron, Ohio’s St. Vincent-St. Mary Fighting Irish against Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion Knights.
After decades of superstition and pushback, the first group of women stepped onto Franklin Field with the Penn Band 50 years ago.
The Class of 1923 Ice Skating Rink is celebrating a half-century of service to the Penn community. Penn Today reflects on the facility’s origins, and how it has grown and transformed over the years.
The sprint football legend had a Senior Night to remember in 1999, rushing for the most yards in school and league history.
Philadelphia Eagles co-founder Bert Bell starred on the Penn football team and was later a coach, before embarking on his NFL career.
On Thursday, April 25, the 125th running of the Penn Relays takes its mark at Franklin Field. Tens of thousands are expected to attend from across the globe.
The historic stadium, home to the University of Pennsylvania Quakers and the Penn Relays, is celebrating its quasquicentennial. It is the oldest college stadium in the country.
The director of athletics and recreation discusses the Red & Blue’s recent sports successes, making progress toward the department’s strategic goals, the funding of college athletics, and the 125th running of the Penn Relays.
The 1979 Final Four team was honored on last month at the Palestra as part of Penn’s annual basketball alumni weekend.
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Peter T. Struck of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the most highly paid athlete in history was Gaius Appuleius Diocles, a chariot racer in ancient Rome.
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Wharton School second-year Ryan Torres from Barcelona biked up the world’s tallest volcano in the Andes mountains during Winter Break, breaking the world record for highest altitude reached on a bike.
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John Vasudevan of the Perelman School of Medicine says that Christian Pulisic’s “contusion” is a fancy word for a bruise to the bone or soft tissues, with recovery usually taking between one to three weeks.
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A profile examines Cailyn Chow of Penn Medicine, a lifelong Phillies fan who’s now a ballgirl for the World Series.
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For many of the last 38 years, as Penn Athletic’s director of special events, Kowalski has to be on the short list, maybe even at the top of it, for people who spent the most combined lifetime time at the Palestra and Franklin Field. Her earliest work days were as an undergrad selling tickets and answering to her boss who was also her father, and in honor of the two, the front lobby box office will be named the Donohue-Kowalski Box Office.
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