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Sports
Thrice as nice! Brodeur picks up three player of the week awards
The junior forward was honored for his play in Penn’s two wins to open the season.
Penn falls to Harvard on Homecoming
The Quakers were defeated 29-7 on Saturday at Franklin Field.
Men’s basketball team tips off season with W
Penn defeated George Mason 72-71 on Tuesday evening in Fairfax, Va.
Ball in play with Emily Sands
The junior forward and leading scorer on the women’s soccer team discusses her string of game-winning goals and playing for the Ivy League co-champions.
Quakers drop Big Red in 125th overall meeting
Penn picked up its 74th win in the series by defeating Cornell 20-7 on Friday in New York.
Penn leaves it all on the pitch, but falls to Princeton
The women’s soccer team’s phenomenal season came to an end over the weekend with a loss at Princeton.
Keeping goal with Kitty Qu
The junior on the women’s soccer team talks about the team’s unprecedented success and why she welcomes the pressure of being a goalkeeper.
In the circle with Alexa Schneck
The junior forward on the field hockey team chats about her passion for the sport, the peace it brings her, and pounding holes through her parents’ garage.
Quakers down Brown, earn share of Ivy title
The women’s soccer team clinched a share of the Ivy League championship on Sunday with a defeat of the Brown Bears.
Brooks’ 246-yard day boosts Penn past Brown
In a muddy and rainy game in Rhode Island, junior running back Karekin Brooks rushed for 246 yards on 34 carries in Penn’s 13-7 victory.
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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