Quakers enter postseason ranked No. 3 in the nation
The Ivy League champion men’s lacrosse team has earned its highest ranking since 1984.
Penn’s 9-3 men’s lacrosse team, winners of nine straight games and the undisputed champions of the Ivy League, is ranked No. 3 in the country by three leading college lacrosse polls—the team’s highest ranking since 1984.
After starting off the season with three straight losses to No. 3 Maryland, No. 5 Duke, and No. 5 Penn State, the Quakers have been on a roll, downing the likes of No. 11 Villanova, No. 8 Cornell, and No. 2 Yale. On April 13, Penn won its first Ivy League title since 1988 by defeating Harvard 26-13, and they finished the season with a perfect 6-0 conference record. Their nine-game winning streak is tied for the second-longest in school history.
Senior attacker Simon Mathias has scored a goal in 32 straight games, the longest streak in the country.
Junior attacker Adam Goldner and freshman midfielder Sam Handley are tied for the team lead with 53 points apiece. Goldner has 46 goals and seven assists; Handley has 31 goals and 22 assists.
Senior attacker Simon Mathias has scored a goal in 32 straight games, the longest streak in the country, and has scored a point in 55 straight games, the second-longest streak in the nation. He currently ranks fourth in Penn history in goals (108) and assists (176).
Headed into the opening round of the Ivy League Tournament this weekend, the top-seeded Quakers gear up for Brown on Friday, May 3, at Robert Kraft Stadium at Columbia University.
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.
