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Sports
Mark of a champion
Swimmer Mark Andrew wins fourth straight Ivy title in 400-yard individual medley.
Courtside with Princess Aghayere
The senior forward discusses growing to love basketball, how her game has improved, and moving from sixth woman into the starting five.
Running into the history books
On Sunday at the Ivy Heps, Calvary Rogers became the first sprinter in conference history to win the indoor 200m dash three years in a row.
Sedky takes home College Squash Association’s top honor
The senior has been conferred the 2019 Betty Richey Award.
Back to back
The women’s track and field team has won the Ivy League Indoor Track & Field Heptagonal Championships for the second straight season.
Remaining men’s basketball home games to be broadcast in Mandarin
Four Penn graduate students who are Chinese natives and fluent in Mandarin will serve as announcers, with the video available on ESPN+ and Stretch Internet.
Big 5 big-ups Brodeur
The junior forward has been named Big 5 Co-Player of the Week.
Men’s tennis team serves up ECAC title
Over the weekend in Philadelphia, the Quakers won their first ECAC Championship in 12 years.
Rogers races to school record in 200m
The senior sprinter ran a 21.05 at the Texas Tech Shootout over the weekend.
Triple threat
Freshman Bryce Washington earns his third consecutive Ivy League Rookie of the Week award.
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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