PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's and women's swimming teams head to Brown this Saturday for their next Ivy League meets. The men's team will compete against Harvard in a dual, while the women's team faces the Crimson and the host Bears. Action is slated to start at noon.
 
Saturday's meet will represent Penn's final road trip this winter before the Ivy League Championships in February, and also the Quakers' final duals against Ivy competition. After this, the Red and Blue are home to face Army West Point and then West Chester the next two Fridays before getting into Championships season.
 
Scouting the Opposition
The Harvard men have already won duals against Dartmouth, Cornell and Columbia, and made waves last weekend by defeating Arizona State in a dual meet. The Crimson are led by Dean Farris, who was the Phil Moriarty High Point Swimmer of the Meet at last year's Ivy League Championships, and overall they return seven All-Ivy swimmers from a year ago.
 
The Brown women are 1-2 against Ivy foes in dual action so far this winter, defeating Dartmouth but falling to Yale and Princeton. The Bears also competed in the Big Al Invitational at Princeton in early December and took second out of 10 teams. Last year, Brown scored its best point total at the Ivy Championships since 2006.
 
The Harvard women return six individual All-Ivy honorees from a year ago, when the Crimson finished second to Yale at the Championships. Four women were Ivy champions last year, and two of them—Mike Dahlke and Jing Leung—were the lone Ancient Eight representatives at the NCAA Championships.