2008 Woodie Awards
There are some 700 golf courses on the continent of Australia, all of which golftoday.com deems "prestigious" and "picturesque."
Meg Bender didn't want to see even one of them.
"I've been playing golf since I was five or six," the women's golf team senior said.
A program still in its infancy, the Penn women's golf team has yet to win an Ivy League title. But coach Francis Vaughn says his players have their eyes set on doing exactly that this season.
If the Quakers are going to show such a dramatic improvement from last fall - when they never finished higher than sixth - they will have to do it with a young and shorthanded roster.
The Ann Arbor News, a paper with a modest circulation of 50,000, published an ambitious, four-part series this week detailing the dirty administrative tricks that the University of Michigan used to keep its athletes eligible and functioning. A refreshing piece of reporting, the series has since endured the wrath of dozens of angry Wolverine lifers, excusing the inexcusable.
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Nittany Lions declawed
Penn State's offense shut down for over 40 minutes while Red and Blue put up 12 goals
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This game was all Penn, with only a small side of State.
The No. 6 women's lacrosse team turned in its most dominant performance of the season, using a 12-0 run to handily defeat No. 19 Penn State 14-7.
Although the Nittany Lions were able to answer the Quakers' first two goals, the third launched an offensive explosion that would not cool down until midway through the second half.
Penn State's offense shut down for over 40 minutes while Red and Blue put up 12 goals
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The Penn men's tennis team dispatched Navy 7-0 last year, but with injuries and losses piling up over the past two weeks, this year's matchup figured to be a struggle.
The Midshipmen swept the doubles point to take an early lead, and five of six singles matches went to three sets, but the Quakers managed to grind out a 4-3 overall victory to snap a six-match losing skid.
Since January, Penn gymnastics has battled its way through four dual-meets, two tri-meets, two tournaments and one quad-meet without ever coming out on top.
And now, in the last regular-season meet of the year, the Quakers finally picked up that elusive win.
