PHILADELPHIA – After a stellar performance against Lehigh on Tuesday, the University of Pennsylvania men's soccer team is back in action at Penn Park this weekend, taking on Ivy League foe Harvard in a crucial matchup this Sunday at noon.  
 
MATCH DAY 13 — Penn (4-3-5, 1-1-2 Ivy League) vs. Harvard (4-3-6, 2-0-2 Ivy League)
Sunday, Oct. 22 | 12 p.m. | Penn Park
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Penn vs. Harvard 
The all-time series between these two programs is all notched up, with both teams having 39 wins. Harvard has the most recent win in the series, grabbing a 3-2 win in Cambridge last season after the Crimson scored late in the 84th minute. Penn's latest win came during the 2019 season when the Quakers blanked Harvard 2-0 on the road. When the Quakers face Harvard at home, they have an advantage, holding a record of 27-17-1. The last time these met in University City in 2018, Penn came out on top 1-0 after two rounds of overtime.
 
Rivals vs. Racism
Our match against Harvard is our A Long Talk Day. A Long Talk About The Uncomfortable Truth is an anti-racism activation experience. Participants who self-identify to engage in this experience agree to the completion of pre-work before entering the group discussion. This pre-work is a multimedia collection of content reflecting the truth about the history of racism in the United States and the impact it continues to have on our society today. Penn Men's Soccer team met Kyle Williams and Kamal Carter last year to learn more about A Long Talk. The Team wanted to bring them back for this game to spread more awareness of the cause.
 
Quaker Notemeal
 *Penn scored a season-high five goals in its matchup with Lehigh, with Michael teDuits, Brandon Curran, Michael Hewes, Gavin Seele, and Mateo Zazueta all getting on the scoresheet. 
 
*Senior teDuits and sophomore Seele both scored their first collegiate goals earlier this week, with teDuits' hitting the back of the net in the 19th minute and Seele scoring off a feed from freshman Jack-Ryan Jeremiah in the 77th minute. 
 
*The shutout victory over Lehigh was Penn's first win in the series since the 2009 season.
 
*Senior Hewes leads the Quakers in goals with five on the season after netting one on Tuesday against Lehigh off a rebounded shot from Stas Korzeniowski. Junior Korzeniowski leads the offense in assists (5) and points (13). 
 
*The Quakers did not allow a single Mountain Hawk to attempt a shot on goal, while Penn attempted 14 shots on Lehigh's goalkeeper on the other end of the field. 
 
*Goalkeeper Nick Christoffersen recorded eight saves on goal last week, saving a total of 31 on the season. The senior holds a 0.67 goals-against-average and .795 save percentage. Christofferson has six clean sheets on the season, including three shutout wins against Penn State, Cornell, and Lehigh. 
 
*Penn went 13-3-2 overall last season and won the Ivy League title with a 6-1-0 mark. The Quakers then advanced to the NCAA Championship for the first time since 2013 (11th time overall), defeating Big Ten Tournament champion Rutgers in the first round, 3-0, before falling in overtime to the eventual national champion Syracuse, 2-1. Of note, Penn was the last team to hold a lead against the Orange in the 2022 season.
 
*Penn's 13 wins overall were tied for the second-most in program history along with the 1971, 1973 and 2010 teams. Only the 1972 team (14-1-1) has more.
 
*Penn's six wins in Ivy League play were the most in a season since 1972, when the Quakers won the title with a 6-0-1 mark. The 1971 squad remains the only Penn team to go a perfect 7-0-0 in Ivy play.
 
*Penn returns plenty of firepower from a year ago, starting with the reigning Ivy League Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year in juniors Korzeniowski and Leo Burney. (If you're doing the math, you are correct…both of them won the honors as sophomores.) Last year marked the first time that teammates swept the offensive and defensive honors since the award was split in 2013. The last sophomore to win Ivy Player of the Year before them last year? Rikki Dadason at Columbia in 1993.
 
*The pair of juniors—both of whom received All-America recognition last year by the United Soccer Coaches and College Soccer News—were recently named to the Hermann Award Watch List as announced by the Missouri Athletic Club (MAC). Of the 37 players on the list, they were the only two Ivy Leaguers.
 
*This summer, both players contributed greatly to the success of Ballard FC in USL League 2 play, leading the club to the title in a thrilling victory over Lionsbridge FC, 2-1, on August 5. Korzeniowski scored the opening goal in the match, while Burney played a major role in setting up inside the box for the match winner.
 
*Korzeniowski—who also was Penn's goal scorer in the season opener at Fordham—wreaked havoc on opposing defenses throughout last season, scoring a conference-leading 10 goals and adding six assists for 26 points, the most by a Quaker in more than 25 years. He capped his season with goals in five of the team's final seven matches, including four of the last five Ivy contests.
 
*Penn also returns junior defender Do, who was honorable mention All-Ivy and won the Bill Wilkinson Rookie of the Year Award from the Philadelphia Soccer Six last year as a sophomore. He started all 18 matches last season.

*Hewes was Penn's third-leading scorer last season, netting six goals, while junior Curran was the other multi-goal scorer in 2022.

*At the other end, Penn is bolstered by the return of Christoffersen for another season in goal. (He has gone the distance in all three matches so far this season.) The Canadian played all but four minutes between the pipes in 2022 and earned second-team All-Ivy, then was selected with the 25th pick of the 2022 MLS Super Draft third round (83rd overall) by CF Montréal.
 
*Penn's head coach is Brian Gill, who moved into the director's chair in February 2018 after spending a year as an assistant coach under Rudy Fuller. He was a unanimous selection as Ivy League Coach of the Year last season and his staff was picked as the Northeast Region Staff of the Year by the United Soccer Coaches.

*Christoffersen and Hewes are two of this year's captains, along with senior Jacob Muchnick and junior Aaron Messer. Christoffersen also was a captain last season.
 
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