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Student Athletes
A deep dive with Anna Kalandadze
The fourth-year distance swimmer discusses swimming 11,000 yards a day, competing at the NCAA Championships, learning to dive from watching Michael Phelps, her interest in coral reef restoration, and getting circled by a shark.
Women’s lax team earns at-large NCAA tourney bid
The eighth-seeded Quakers will battle Richmond at 1 p.m. on Friday at Franklin Field.
Magnificent Quakers win seventh Ivy Heps Outdoor championship
On Sunday at Princeton, the women’s track and field team won its fourth Ivy Heps Outdoor title in five seasons.
Rohr earns back-to-back Ivy Defender of the Year awards
The fourth-year on the women’s lacrosse team is only the second player in conference history to win the award two times.
Penn Athletics unveils Coulson Family Training Complex in Franklin Field
The renovations have added top-of-the-line locker rooms, meeting rooms, and connected spaces worthy of the championship traditions of Penn football.
Quakers make history at 128th running of Penn Relays
Penn athletes had several noteworthy performances on the track and in the field at the Relays at Franklin Field.
Rhoads breaks 31-year-old school record in pole vault
James Rhoads, a third-year student on the men’s track and field team, broke the school record in the pole vault at the Mt. SAC Relays over the weekend in Walnut, California.
Penn marks National Student-Athlete Day
Staffers from the Pottruck Center for Student-Athlete Success lauded the University’s nearly 1,000 student-athletes on Monday with goodies and giveaways on Locust Walk.
Valenti tapped to succeed Reina as wrestling coach in 2025
On April 1, 2025, Penn Athletics Hall of Famer and two-time NCAA wrestling champion Matt Valenti will succeed Roger Reina as head coach of the Quakers.
Fallon finishes second in nation at NCAA Championships
The third-year swimmer set a new school record in the 200-yard breaststroke and was awarded First-Team All-American honors.
In the News
After a back injury, this Penn senior’s record-breaking track success is ‘a long time coming’
Penn fourth-year Isabella Whittaker has set multiple program and Ivy League records this season and has Olympic hopes.
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The success of women’s college basketball is more than just Caitlin Clark
Kenneth Shropshire of the Wharton School says that women’s college basketball needs to cultivate more superstars and superstar matchups like Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese to keep investors bought in and fans engaged.
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With one jump, Scott Toney set a Penn pole vault record, and topped his late brother’s mark in a fitting tribute
Scott Toney, a Wharton School fourth-year and pole vaulter from Mountainview, California, recently broke the Penn program record in a tribute to Marc Toney, his late brother and fellow pole vaulter.
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Meet the Masterman junior who just represented Brazil in the Youth Olympics
Masterman junior and Youth Olympics speedskater Lucas Koo, the son of Hyun (Michel) Koo of the School of Dental Medicine, hopes to attend the Wharton School after graduation.
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How managing nine younger siblings prepared Mataya Gayle to run Penn’s offense
Gayle is the Quakers’ second-leading scorer and has started every game this season.
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A curious mind and a bit of meditation have helped Sam Brown start strong at Penn
First-year Brown starred at Lower Merion while his father led the 76ers.
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