The senior forward is only the third player in Penn field hockey history to be awarded All-Ivy recognition in each of her four years.
Senior Alexa Schneck, a forward/midfielder on the field hockey team, has been named a First-Team All-Ivy awardee, the fourth time in her four years at Penn that she has earned All-Ivy honors.
A two-year captain from Reading, Pennsylvania, Schneck joins former teammate Alexa Hoover and Class of 1987 grad Donna Berk as the only Quakers to be selected All-Ivy four times.
This season, Schneck tallied 25 shots, 14 shots on goal, two goals, four assists, and eight points. Penn finished 4-3 in conference and 7-10 overall.
As a freshman and sophomore, she was named Second-Team All-Ivy. During her junior season, she was a First-Team All-Ivy honoree.
Playing the center midfielder position as a sophomore, she ranked third on the team with 10 points and four goals.
Last year, she led the Red & Blue in all offensive categories, recording 10 goals, five assists, and 25 points. She was also tops in the Ivy League with four game-winning goals.
For her career, Schneck has amassed 19 goals, 15 assists, and 53 points in 66 career starts.
Sophomore back/midfielder Gracyn Banks, sophomore forward Madison Jiranek, and freshman defender Elita Van Staden merited All-Ivy honors this year as well. All three are Second-Team All-Ivy honorees.
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.
Rashi Sabherwal, a doctoral student in political science, explores how women engage politically in society in informal roles through her research in India.
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.
