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Sports
Quakers fall in second round of WNIT
Penn defeated American on Friday at the Palestra but fell to Providence on Sunday in Rhode Island.
Malinowski bats .550, earns Ivy League Player of the Week
The sophomore infielder batted 11-20 and scored 10 runs in wins over Lafayette and Fairleigh Dickinson.
On the bars with Jordyn Mannino
The sophomore from Manhasset, New York, discusses performing on the uneven bars and floor for the gymnastics team.
Red & Blue give Blue Devils the blues
The women’s lacrosse team downed the Duke Blue Devils 10-9 on Saturday at Franklin Field.
Ivy League honors four Quakers
Penn picks up the Coach of the Year award, the Defensive Player of the Year award, and All-Ivy honors.
Brodeur, Goodman awarded All-Ivy honors
Juniors A.J. Brodeur (unanimous first-team All-Ivy) and Devon Goodman (second-team All-Ivy) are the Penn picks for the 2018-19 All-Ivy teams.
Powerful play propels Parker to Ivy Co-Player of the Week
The sophomore forward put up impressive numbers against Yale and a conference title-clinching win against Brown.
Brodeur named conference Player of the Week
Heroics by the junior forward helped the defending champion Quakers return to the Ivy League Tournament.
Champs and madness: Quaker basketball teams win big and advance
Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams had a winning weekend, and will face Harvard in the Ivy League Tournaments.
School spirit with Maya Moore
The junior flyer on the cheerleading team discusses the training and practice required for the sport, flipping and flying through the air, and her interest in health and medicine.
In the News
Philadelphia Inquirer
Penn’s female rowers have a new teammate. She’s 10.
With the help of Penn’s women’s rowing team, the sport is bringing Keira McGrenehan joy and relief as she manages ulcerative colitis through a national program called Team IMPACT, which connects kids with serious and chronic illnesses to college athletic teams.
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ESPN
The Ivy's last stand: Penn's 1979 Final Four run marked end of an era
An Ivy League team in the Final Four? Yep. Coach Bob Weinhauer’s basketball team didn’t seem to belong— the Quakers came from a bookworm conference that didn’t, and still technically doesn’t, allow athletic scholarships. Somehow, they found a way to accomplish a ludicrous goal and advance to the Final Four. It’s a feat no Ivy team has accomplished since.
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ESPN
‘Professor Cope’: NFL linebacker’s offseason job? Teaching ‘Life 101’
Brandon Copeland, the New York Jets linebacker heading to free agency next month, and a Wharton graduate, returns to his alma mater to teach Inequity and Empowerment, Urban Financial Literacy along with Brian Peterson, the director of Makku, Penn's Black Cultural Center, calling the course Life 101.
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Philly.com
Why this New York Jets linebacker wants to help Penn undergrads manage their money
Brandon Copeland, a Penn alum and New York Jets linebacker, wished he’d taken a personal finance course to learn the basics of budgeting, investing, retirement planning, and career basics. Now he’s teaching that very undergraduate class.
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Philly.com
Penn looking to put one championship behind while chasing another
The next challenge for men’s basketball is an exclusively Ivy League competition, six straight weekends of grueling Friday-Saturday back-to-backs, on the heels of the Big 5 win at the Palestra.
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