PHILADELPHIA – For the second time this season, Emily Sands, of the University of Pennsylvania women's soccer team, was named the Ivy League Player of the Week, the league office announced on Monday. Sands – who scored twice on Saturday against Yale in a 2-1 win – shared the honors with Princeton's Courtney O'Brien.

In another important Ivy League contest – at this point, they all are – Sands put the Quakers ahead 1-0 in the 49th minute after Megan Lloyd delicately lofted a ball in behind the defense that the junior tucked away. After the Bulldogs equalized in the 65th minute, however, Sands came through with the match winner with under 10 minutes remaining in regulation. Sasha Stephens – another Ivy League Player of the Week from earlier this season – whipped in a corner that Breukelen Woodard rose up and won, but her header blasted off the crossbar, leaving a rebound for Sands to pounce on. She did, scoring her seventh match winner of the season and keeping Penn undefeated in league play.

Sands leads the Quakers with eight goals – just one shy of breaking into the top 10 all-time for goals in a season – and has a pair of assists with three games remaining. Her seven match winners are the second most in the country as Penn is enjoying one of its best seasons in program history.

The Quakers are 11-1-1, their best record in school history, while sitting in sole possession of first place in the Ivy League at 4-0-1, the best five-game start in the program's existence. Penn hosts Delaware State on Monday night and continues its hunt for an Ivy crown on Saturday at Rhodes Field against Brown.

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