2008 Woodie Awards
With an 11-game winning streak, a No. 2 national ranking, and only one loss this year - to No. 1 Northwestern - women's lacrosse coach Karin Brower hoped for a top-three seed in the NCAA Tournament.
She didn't get it.
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When the Penn women's tennis team hits the court at noon Friday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Williamsburg, Va., onlookers have every reason to doubt the Quakers.
This is a team, the skeptics might say, that is bereft of senior leadership in the lineup and outmatched in the singles lineup.
Thursdays at the Penn Relays include many high-school and long-distance events, and this year's wasn't without notable finishes and records.
The high-school field events were particularly impressive, with Kimberly Williams of Vere Tech in Jamaica setting a Relays record in the triple jump.
After working for 15 of them, I should know by now:
What makes a good editor?
They should come up with the best story ideas. They should be supportive of the good writing, critical of the bad. They should push me when I should be working harder, but more importantly, they should tell me to take a breath when I'm in a little too deep.
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Baseball reaches for a rabbit, but the hat's empty
Penn runs out of miracles against Brown, chokes away League title
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Coach John Cole is proud of how far he has brought his young Penn team.
"[The media] didn't give us a chance, … counted us out early," Cole said. "And we won our first [division] title in 12 years."
But with the Ivy League crown and a trip to the NCAA Tournament on the line, the Quakers' magic ran out against Brown.
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When I was looking at colleges, a big factor in my 17-year-old head was sports.
I saw one school's chancellor talk about how excited he is that his school no longer focuses on athletics. On a tour at another, I scoffed when the guide explained how while the school's teams are horrible, some students still cheer for them.
Playing under a new league format, the Penn softball team had a chance to take the first-ever Ivy League championship series.
But Harvard's Shelly Madick wouldn't have it, as she limited the Penn bats to one hit in over nine innings. The Quakers fell 4-0 in game one, and the Crimson completed the sweep with a 4-2 victory in the second contest to earn the Ivy League title.
Not 13 minutes into the biggest game of their lives, against No. 5 seed Maryland on Sunday, rock-solid Penn goalkeeper Sarah Waxman and the rest of the No. 4 Quakers were shell-shocked.
"It hit me pretty hard," Waxman, a junior, said of the Terps' four quick goals.
I have a confession to make: I was never really all that into sports. Not at first, anyway.
I casually followed baseball and hockey, but wasn't one of those guys who could recite stats or name 500 different players. And I was in the marching band in high school, but really couldn't care less about how our thoroughly mediocre football team did.
Kaijala, Boston impress, but Penn left in the dust
Quakers take two titles as Cornell wins men's Outdoor Heps; women fail to crack top half
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Tim Kaijala won two Heptagonal championships last season, in the 1,000-meter and as part of Penn's winning 4x800m relay team.
This year, he finally took home the title in his bread-and-butter event, the 800m, besting the field with a 1:49.76 and leading the Quakers to a fourth-place finish at the Ivy Heps in Princeton, N.
Quakers take two titles as Cornell wins men's Outdoor Heps; women fail to crack top half
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The Quakers defeated the Terriers 11-5 behind a hat trick by junior attacker Rachel Manson and solid all-around defensive play in front of a near-capacity crowd at Rhodes Field.
