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Sports
School track & field records broken at meet in New York
New school records were set in the hammer throw, shot put, and pole vault.
Washington crosses Delaware State, leads Penn to victory
The Quakers buzzed the Hornets 76-48 on Tuesday night in Dover.
By the Numbers: Women’s soccer team
Running numbers around the Ivy League co-champions’ memorable season.
Men’s basketball team slam dunks Stockton
The Quakers demolished the D-III school 112-63 on Saturday at The Palestra.
Nine Quakers named All-Ivy
Led by unanimous selection Nick Miller, nine members of the Penn football team have been awarded All-Ivy honors.
In the air with Camillia Nwokedi
The senior captain on the Ivy League co-champion women’s soccer team chats about the season and her Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year award.
Goodman has great week, earns Ivy, Big 5 awards
The junior guard on the men’s basketball team has been named Ivy League Player of the Week and co-Big 5 Player of the Week.
Russell earns Big 5 Player of the Week honors
The senior captain came up big in Penn’s three games.
AD Calhoun named chair of NCAA Council Strategic Vision and Planning Committee
The Strategic Vision and Planning Committee has oversight responsibility of administrative functions related to the management of the Division I governance structure.
Women’s basketball team sails past Saint Joseph’s
The Quakers beat the Hawks 65-45 on Thursday, Penn’s largest margin of victory ever in the series.
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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