PHILADELPHIA - The 2017 volleyball season may be over, but five members of the University of Pennsylvania women's volleyball team have been featured in the Penn Engineering magazine and recognized for their continued hard work both on and off the court. Caroline Leng, Caroline Raquel, Brooke Behrbaum, Carlie Bolling, and Sydney Morton were all mentioned in the story titled "Play Hard, Work Harder: Taking it to the Edge on the Court and in the Classroom." 

The six were commended for their efforts of balancing their workload on the court as well as taking on a full engineering curriculum.  The article says,

"From mid-August to late November, even as they face down the inevitable intellectual challenges of a new academic year, the women of Penn Volleyball practice their sport three hours a day, four days a week. Add to this their all-important division I competitions, with many players spending additional hours on the road traveling to games out of state...Just as these women feed off of one another's physical energy on the court, they also create and share a strong intellectual energy. Cue players Brooke Behrbaum, Carlie Bolling, Caroline Leng, Sydney Morton, and Caroline Raquel all devoted volleyball players and all Penn engineers."

The article goes through each player's individual stories and the challenges that they face balancing a full athletic and academic schedule. 

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