In an interview at the beginning of the school year, Penn President Amy Gutmann spoke to the state of Quaker athletics.
The football team is in the City of Brotherly Love this weekend looking to spoil Penn's Homecoming game at Franklin Field.
Throughout the week, Sports Editor Stephen Wood exchanged emails with Ian Wenik of the Daily Pennsylvanian about the upcoming Princeton-Penn football game. Here's how their conversation went: Stephen Wood, The Daily Princetonian Sports Editor: I'll start off: what do you think caused that debacle last weekend?
The men’s and women’s hockey teams are gearing up for an important weekend of league hockey, as both squads will face off against Yale on Friday night and Brown Saturday night.
Last season, the football team took the field against Penn trying to keep its hopes of an Ivy League title alive, only to have them dashed by the eventual champions.
The No. 13 men’s water polo team begins its postseason this weekend with the CWPA Southern Division tournament in Annapolis, Md.
“The nature of collegiate athletics, not to be cliche, is that you have turnover,” women’s basketball head coach Courtney Banghart said at her team’s preseason press conference. That makes it sound simple, but her team and the men’s basketball team will see more than their share of turnover as their seasons get underway this weekend.
Following a heartbreaking end to its 2012-13 season, the men’s basketball team will soon begin a new quest for the Ivy League title that eluded it by one game last spring.
As the end of the season approaches, Harvard is in the lead but has by no means locked up the Ivy League title.
It’s not often that a team goes into a season with high expectations after losing four of its five starters from the previous year, especially when one of those players is among the greatest the league has ever seen.
Men’s Basketball1. Princeton vs. Harvard Saturday, Feb.
The wrestling team is set to open its season this Sunday at the Binghamton Open in New York, and junior Ryan Cash will be back for his third year wrestling for the Tigers in the 125-pound classification.
In its final non-conference game of the regular season, the men’s soccer team fell 2-0 at homeTuesdaynight to American University(6-7-5 overall, 3-3-2 Patriot League). It was the Tigers’ (6-8-1, 3-1-1 Ivy League) first shutout loss at Roberts Stadium since September. The first half proved frustrating for the Tigers early on.
With three games left in the season, several teams could still win the Ivy League title. It all depends on Princeton, however, as the Tigers have surged back to relevance and now control their own destiny.
The weekend ended on a high note for the women’s soccer team, as it dominated the senior night game against Cornell with a 4-0 win at Roberts Stadium.
For the cross country teams, the Ivy League Championships are always one of the toughest meets of the season.
The men’s hockey team started its season with a bang in a 3-2 overtime win over Dartmouth in the Liberty Hockey Invitational on Oct.
Over fall break, the women’s hockey team had a tough slate of ECAC opponents to officially open its season.
