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Sports
Quakers fee-fi Big 5 foe La Salle
Quakers fee-fi Big 5 foe La Salle
Penn eased to a 65-34 win over the Explorers on Wednesday at The Palestra.
Quakers calm Hurricanes
Quakers calm Hurricanes
The men’s basketball team beat Miami of Florida 89-75 on Tuesday, improving to 7-2—their best start since 1994.
School track & field records broken at meet in New York
School track & field records broken at meet in New York
New school records were set in the hammer throw, shot put, and pole vault.
By the Numbers: Women’s soccer team
By the Numbers: Women’s soccer team
Running numbers around the Ivy League co-champions’ memorable season.
Washington crosses Delaware State, leads Penn to victory
Washington crosses Delaware State, leads Penn to victory
The Quakers buzzed the Hornets 76-48 on Tuesday night in Dover.
Nine Quakers named All-Ivy
Nine Quakers named All-Ivy
Led by unanimous selection Nick Miller, nine members of the Penn football team have been awarded All-Ivy honors.
Men’s basketball team slam dunks Stockton
Men’s basketball team slam dunks Stockton
The Quakers demolished the D-III school 112-63 on Saturday at The Palestra.
Goodman has great week, earns Ivy, Big 5 awards
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
Russell earns Big 5 Player of the Week honors
The senior captain came up big in Penn’s three games.
In the air with Camillia Nwokedi
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.
In the News
Philadelphia Inquirer
Penn football players get around ESPN studios during Ivy League media day
Running back Karekin Brooks and defensive back Sam Philippi visited ESPN for a gauntlet of interviews, toured “content creation studios’’ for interviews filmed for the Ivy League, the NCAA, and ESPN, and filmed a mock highlight package with a real SportsCenter anchor.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Olympic champion Greg Bell returned to Penn Relays with plenty of memories
88-year-old Greg Bell was one of the top athletes of his era. Competing for Indiana, he broke a Penn Relays record and captured four individual titles—three in his specialty, the long jump—from 1956 through 1958. Returning to Franklin Field in 2019, he carried his Olympic gold medal from the 1956 Melbourne Games, which he won seven months after his first Relay record.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Penn women make history with first distance medley relay win at Penn Relays
Women’s distance medley relay team members Nia Akins, Uchechi Nwogwugwu, Melissa Tanaka, and Maddie Villalba won Thursday’s race at the Penn Relays. Coach Steve Dolan said the four are “some of the best runners in Penn history assembled at one time.”
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Usain Bolt remembers his historic 2010 Penn Relays performance: ‘There was a great atmosphere’
No matter where his life and his pursuits take him, the Jamaican icon always will remember his performances at the Penn Relays and what the carnival has done to help young Jamaican athletes get noticed by U.S. colleges.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Forty years after his memorable race, Renaldo Nehemiah to return to Penn Relays
It has been 40 years since Renaldo Nehemiah created one of the most indelible memories in the history of the Penn Relays with his history-making 44.3-second anchor leg for Maryland.
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