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Kam earns First Team All-American Honors at NCAA Outdoor Championships
Kampton Kam at a track and field meet.

Kampton Kam secured an eighth place finish in high jump.

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Kam earns First Team All-American Honors at NCAA Outdoor Championships

At the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships on June 13, Kampton Kam secured an eighth place finish in high jump.

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Tee time with Julie Shin
Julie Shin holds her club after swinging while wearing her Penn uniform.

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Tee time with Julie Shin

The rising fourth-year golfer discusses her All-Ivy season, what she enjoys about the sport, the recent success of the women’s golf team, training and conditioning, hitting a hole-in-one, and the correlation between figure skating and golf.

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Track & Field claims eight titles on final day of Ivy League heps

Track & Field claims eight titles on final day of Ivy League heps

Penn men’s and women’s track & field teams wrapped up competition at the Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Yale on Sunday, May 11, claiming first in the women’s 100m hurdles, 4x400m relay, 100m, and high jump. The men’s team took first in the 400m, 400m hurdles, 4x400m relay, and decathlon; both teams finished third overall. 

Melding loves of ice skating and children’s media
Nick Bausenwein ice skating.

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Melding loves of ice skating and children’s media

Fourth-year communication student Nick Bausenwein took two gap years to skate professionally with a touring show, competed with the Penn Figure Skating Club, and wrote a thesis on children’s perceptions of film character meet-and-greets.

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Penn Athletics’ 2024-25 senior student-athlete awards

Penn Athletics’ 2024-25 senior student-athlete awards

At the annual Quakers Choice Awards banquet on April 30. Five awards were handed out. Among the recipients were Matt Fallon from men’s swimming & diving, and women’s lacrosse standout Anna Brandt.

Newash-Campbell breaks 93-year-old school record in 400m
Nayyir Newash-Campbell running the 400m.

Nayyir Newash-Campbell’s time of 46.14 is first in the Ivy League.

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Newash-Campbell breaks 93-year-old school record in 400m

The second-year sprinter topped Bill Carr’s mark, which was set in 1932.

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Fran McCaffery named new men’s basketball coach
Coach Fran McAffery on a basketball court.

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Fran McCaffery named new men’s basketball coach

The announcement marks a return to University City for McCaffery, who played three seasons for the Quakers and is a 1982 alumnus of the Wharton School.

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