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Greg Johnson covers Penn Athletics and Recreation, which includes sports teams, intramural sports, and the Penn Relays. He manages the annual Research at Penn publication, which highlights notable research from all 12 schools at Penn.
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.
The eighth-seeded Quakers will battle Richmond at 1 p.m. on Friday at Franklin Field.
On Sunday at Princeton, the women’s track and field team won its fourth Ivy Heps Outdoor title in five seasons.
The fourth-year on the women’s lacrosse team is only the second player in conference history to win the award two times.
Penn athletes had several noteworthy performances on the track and in the field at the Relays at Franklin Field.
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.
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.
The third-year swimmer set a new school record in the 200-yard breaststroke and was awarded First-Team All-American honors.
The fourth-year fencer won the NCAA individual title on Sunday in Ohio.
The Quakers bested seven other schools on Saturday with a score of 196.275, their highest of the season.