Competing all season in the No. 1 spot, Douglas finished the regular season with a 10-3 record overall and a 5-2 mark in conference play. He vanquished a host of the league’s top performers, including fellow First-Team All-Ivy awardees Veer Chotrani of Cornell, Spencer Lovejoy of Yale, and James Wyatt of Columbia.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Douglas has been selected First-Team All-Ivy in each of his three seasons. He is also a two-time First-Team All-American.
Eleinen went 12-2 overall in the regular season and 6-1 in the Ivy League, playing primarily at the No. 2 position. He recorded nine 3-0 wins in his 14 matches.
Last season as well, Eleinen, from Alexandria, Egypt, received First-Team All-Ivy recognition, and he was a First-Team All-American.
Douglas and Eleinen are the first Penn duo to be named First-Team All-Ivy in consecutive seasons since Stewart Ballard and David Proctor in 1986 and 1987.
Both players will work to help the Quakers win the National Collegiate Men’s Team Championships, or Potter Cup, from Feb. 28 to March 1 in Boston.
The National Collegiate Individual Championships will be held from March 6-8 at Penn.
Griffin Pitt, right, works with two other student researchers to test the conductivity, total dissolved solids, salinity, and temperature of water below a sand dam in Kenya.
Griffin Pitt’s upbringing made her passionate about water access and pollution, and Penn has given her the opportunity to explore these issues back home in North Carolina and abroad.
Helping robots work together to explore the Moon and Mars
Penn Engineers, NASA, and five other universities tested robotic systems designed to help unmanned explorers cooperate in the dunes of White Sands, New Mexico, paving the way for Moon and Mars exploration.
From framework to actions: Provost John L. Jackson Jr. talks Penn Forward
In a Q&A, Provost John L. Jackson Jr. explains the relationship between the strategic framework In Principle and Practice and Penn Forward—a new University-wide process and action plan that will advance Penn forward for the next decade and beyond.
