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Sports
Quakers fall in second round of WNIT
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Ryan Betley back for one more year (but just one)
Five minutes into Ryan Betley’s 2018-19 Penn Quakers season, his season was over. Following a torn patellar tendon and surgery that took out his season, and months of recovery, Betley is looking at a fifth season—just not at Penn.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Penn’s offense comes alive in 28-24 win over Lafayette
The win had plenty of offensive highlights, with senior quarterback Nick Robinson and sophomore wideout Ryan Cragun, senior tailback Karekin Brooks, and wideout Rory Starkey, and ends a four-game Quakers losing streak dating back to last season and sends them into next week’s Ivy League and home opener with Dartmouth on a winning note.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Penn star running back Karekin Brooks one of six brothers, the small one
Karekin Brooks’ five brothers are all defensive line-sized guys—in his mind, he’s always the small one. In last Saturday’s opener at Delaware, Brooks, known as KK to teammates and coaches, ran 28 times for 158 yards and added three catches for 20 more, pushing him to 11th all-time in rushing, with 2,002 yards.
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The Pennsylvania Gazette
‘Very little fazes her’
One of only a few female members of a college men’s basketball staff, May alumna Sarah Parks jumps into a new gig as Director of Operations.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Penn hoops star Princess Aghayere is using her passion for teamwork to save girls’ lives in Liberia
The senior leader of Penn’s 2019 regular season Ivy Champions left Philadelphia after graduation, and traveled 4,600-mile to Liberia. With Penn friends Summer Kollie and Oladunni Alomaja, Aghayere started Rebound Liberia, a youth program whose goal is to use basketball to empower girls in the small West African country.
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