PHILADELPHIA – The 2024 campaign kicks off on Saturday afternoon at Franklin Field for the No. 14 University of Pennsylvania women's lacrosse team, hosting Drexel at 3:30 p.m.
 
GAME 1: #14 PENN (0-0) vs DREXEL (2-0)
Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024 | 3:30 p.m.
Philadelphia, Pa. | Franklin Field
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GAME PROMOTION
*The Quakers season opener is their Lace Up For Pediatric Cancer game, supporting the go4thegoal and Gold in September. 

SERIES WITH DREXEL
*The Quakers are meeting the Dragons for the 18th time in program history, as Penn owns a 15-2 lead in a series that dates to 1974.
 
*Penn enters on a three-game win streak against Drexel since 2018.
 
*At Franklin Field, the Quakers are 7-2.
 
*The longest win streak in the series belongs to Penn, stretching seven games from 1994-2012. Drexel has never won back-to-back matchups.
 
*The Quakers have scored 225 goals in the series, averaging 13.24 per game.
 
LAST TIME WE MET
*The two squads squared off at Vidas Field in March 2022 when the Dragons were ranked #24. The Quakers overcame a three-goal deficit in the fourth quarter to secure a 9-8 road victory.
 
*Anna Brandt registered her first career hat trick, scoring two of her three goals in the fourth-quarter comeback.
 
*Keeley Block had two goals, both in the fourth, including the game-tying goal with 10:34 remaining.
 
*The Quakers dominated the draw, 16-6, led by Aly Feeley with five.
 
ABOUT THE DRAGONS
*Drexel has already notched a pair of wins to open its season, toppling Binghamton (14-6) and Wagner (15-3).
 
*The Dragons are led by fifth-year attacker Corinne Bednarik. The reigning CAA Attacker of the Year has totaled 10 goals and nine assists through the first two games to lead the offense. A player that has started in every game of her collegiate career at Drexel, she has 133 goals and 79 assists for 212 points in her career.
 
*The program is led by Katie O'Donnell in her third season. A 2018 grad from Penn State where she was a two-time All-American midfielder, she guided the Dragons the past two seasons with the interim tag before being officially named the full-time head coach in May 2023.  
 
QUAKER NOTEMEAL
*The Quakers have won their last 10 season openers. Last year, they defeated La Salle 21-1 to start the 2023 campaign.
 
*Penn returns practically a complete 2023 roster outside of Kennon Moon to graduation, including all Ivy League major award winners in Niki Miles, Brandt and Izzy Rohr. The trio has garnished several preseason All-America honors from Inside Lacrosse and US Lacrosse.
 
*On top of a large returning group, the Quakers secured two transfers: Grace Turner (Stanford) and Carli Fleisher (Northwestern).
 
*Joining the Red & Blue for their first collegiate season is a class of eight freshmen, hailing from six different states.
 
*The Quakers will be led by four captains this season: Miles, Rohr, Maria Themelis, and Morgan Smith.
 
*Head coach Karin Corbett enters her 25th season at the helm, owning 254 of the program's 407 wins.
 
*Penn is coming off a 14-5 record in 2023, nailing a perfect Ivy League record of 7-0 en route to the program's 14th title. After hosting and rolling through the Ivy League tournament to earn the Quakers' 16th berth to the NCAA tournament, they advanced to the second round for the first time since 2018 before falling in a tight game to national runner-up Boston College, currently No. 2 in the nation.
 
*The Ivy League announced its preseason media poll earlier in the week, as Penn was selected a unanimous pick to repeat as conference champion. The Quakers scooped all 16 first-place votes for 128 points.