Penn football against Harvard on November 13, 2021. Credit: Anna Vazhaeparambil 
Penfall Sports, entering its second full season after a pandemic hiatus, is looking for on-page results and a conference title. pose a challenge. In recent past seasons, we’ve pointed out weaknesses and fixed them with quick turnarounds, but this year we’re looking at the exciting prospect of tracking each team’s progress. Whether they want to forget their bad record and start with a clean slate, or build on last fall’s winning momentum.
cross country
Penn will return to a familiar track and update that record as the campaign builds towards a championship season. The Quaker begins near home with his three conventions in Pennsylvania. There, the benchmark against competitors competes again in the end-of-season championship competition. With proven leadership under coach Steve Dolan, Penn is looking to finish 3-of-8 in the Ivy League Heptagonal and 6-of-26 in the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional.
field hockey
Penn closed out the 2021 season with six wins in seven games. Each of those losses came only against a nationally ranked team earlier in the season. This honed the team for consistent conference wins that lifted Red and Blue to third place in the Ivy League.
The team has also been able to maintain a reliable group of upperclassmen. This is essential in promoting the team to reach the last few margins of winning the Ivy League crown. The Quakers will look to maintain command over each of their Ivy League rivals while chasing Harvard and Princeton, his only two teams ranked in the Ivy League last season.
football
Coach Ray Priore’s brigade welcomes 25 recruits to lead the Quakers into their seventh season in pursuit of the last recorded victory record in 2018. Penn will start with back-to-back home games to kick off the 2022 season. This is a test to his sophomore quarterback Aiden Sane, who has played his five games in 2021, and younger players stepping up to leadership responsibilities.
“[Saiyin] “He stepped into a situation where you don’t know what’s going to happen,” Priore said., ‘This guy can play. This child can play with a big dog. That was something we all noticed last season. This kid, he’s a player, he’s going to go out and work hard and compete. What more could a quarterback ask for to take control and execute the offense the way it should?”
With a lukewarm offense averaging just 19.1 points per game, resistance to bold attacks, new calls to compensate for weaknesses, and a bottom league finish to close out the season, Priore’s prescription for the team has set the 2021 campaign in the midst of it all. It should be something close to heroism to fill in. truck. But with a mix of seasoned veterans, a well-populated freshman and sophomore class, and a quarterback who hasn’t quite reached his peak yet, the team has an interesting arsenal of talent that hints at potential. I am proud.
golf
Women’s golf has followed last year’s lead from opening the fall season with 12-of-14 finishes at the Nittany Lion Invitational to securing first-place finishes at spring’s Prospect Bay Intercollegiate and Hartford Invitational. Proven impressive improvement progress throughout the campaign. But with 6 of his 6 finishers in the Ivy League Championships and luck and injury deserted the team, there’s a lot of hope and affirmation left for the upcoming fall season.
The position has remained vacant since July, with coach Jason Calhoun stepping away from the role of the past five years. ‘s 18-year resume includes a recent run to the 2022 Big East Championship.
The men’s team finished middling in the four 2021 autumn competitions, their best result of the year. But under his new leadership, White found an early chance to make a statement about Green by taking a field trip at the Alex Lagowitz memorial on Labor Day weekend opening the season.
Women’s soccer
With a near-clean home record only ruined by Princeton in the season finale, and two clear triple-win streaks, Penn is consistent with solid contributions to a final record of 9-5-2, and wins are often dramatic. was claimed at a margin.
Seven seniors return in Penn’s campaign for the Ivy League crown. However, with his coach’s departure, Casey Brown, the team will operate under the new leadership of Dr. Chrissy Turner, who has led Monmouth to his eight Metros, Atlantic Athletic, Conference, and Championships over the past decade. will be
While comfortable with aggressive attacking strategies, Penn, who is also keen on countering opponents’ chances through transition, has all it takes to build a formidable team in his second season back from a pandemic pause. holding a card
men’s soccer
Despite a tough finish of four games without a win in the Ivy League, Penn Men’s Soccer proved solid teamwork and quickly rectified their weaknesses early in the season.
“When you look back at that season, you feel there were a lot of bright spots,” said coach Brian Gill. We would have walked away.But at the end of the day those margins are the difference to get us to the next level we want.”
The team has proven some exceptional outings at the peak of its form. It repairs the weakness of conceding quickly following one’s own scoring. Still, Penn struggled in conference away games late in the season, dropping to sixth in the Ivy League.
“I don’t think you can look back and feel embarrassed or feel like you didn’t put in your best effort,” Gill said. I hope that it will be something that you can check if it is not enough.
The experienced team of seniors will look to improve on last season’s shortcomings through a combination of mentorship from seniors, graduate students, and the unique talents of new recruits.
sprint football
The Quakers need to set the bar higher after a 5-2 season in which Penn averaged a 40-point margin on every win, including a 63-0 stomper against Cornell. Penn is on his eighth straight win streak against the Big Reds as the only other Ivy League opponent, but this season will see the Quakers suffer their only loss in 2021 with Navy and Army. We will fight again.
volleyball
Two Ivy League wins at home provided a glimpse of hope at the end of Penn’s 8-15 season as the Quakers repeated 3-0 wins against Columbia and Cornell. Volleyball resumes its campaign with his three-game weekend invitational that earned him three wins to start the season in 2021.
Coach Meredith Shaman, now in her second year with the Reds and Blues, must address the team’s vulnerability to an extended losing streak and instead reverse the team’s momentum to maintain its winning streak. With a mix of exciting talents of experienced seniors and freshmen, the 2022 season will rely on the team’s resilience through challenges of all kinds.
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