PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania women's lacrosse team leaves the city limits for the first time this season, heading down to Colonial country to face William & Mary in a Friday night matchup. This is the first of three non-conference road games in a row for the Quakers, before they close out the season with six of their last eight against Ancient Eight foes.

PLEASE NOTE: This game has been moved from Saturday morning to Friday night due to the forecast for inclement weather on Saturday in the Williamsburg area.
 
GAME 5 – #14 PENN (4-0, 0-0 Ivy League) at WILLIAM & MARY (3-4)
Friday, March 8, 2024 | 7 p.m.
Williamsburg, Va. | Martin Family Stadium at Albert-Daly Field
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The Series with W&M
*Friday marks just the fourth meeting between the Quakers and the Tribe in women's lacrosse and the first since the teams opened the 2001 season in Philadelphia, W&M winning 9-8 in overtime. The other meetings came in 1980—a USWLA National Championship quarterfinal at Princeton, Penn winning 8-6—and 1993 (a 14-8 Tribe victory at Franklin Field).
 
*This will mark just the second time Penn head coach Karin (Brower) Corbett has coached against her alma mater, that 2001 game coming in her second season as the Quakers' mentor.  A field hockey/lacrosse standout for the Tribe, she was a 2005 inductee into the W&M Athletics Hall of Fame.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Penn won twice last week but were moved down a spot in the IWLCA national poll after defeating a pair of unranked teams, Temple (11-6) and Columbia (16-5). The Quakers are getting a little more love from Inside Lacrosse and USA Lacrosse Magazine, both of whom moved Penn up one spot this week to 12th.
 
*With Saturday's win over the Lions, Penn has won ten Ivy League games in a row going back to the 2022 season. That includes an undefeated 7-0 campaign last year when they won their 14th Ancient Eight title.
 
*The Quakers then defeated Harvard and Yale to win the Ivy League Tournament, earning the league's NCAA Championship bid. In its 16th NCAA appearance, Penn beat UConn in the first round and gave eventual finalist Boston College all it could handle in the second round before falling, 9-7.
 
*Penn returns almost all of the key components from last year's team including the reigning Ivy League Attacker of the Year (senior Niki Miles), Midfielder of the Year (junior Anna Brandt), and Defender of the Year (senior Izzy Rohr). The trio has garnered preseason All-America honors from Inside Lacrosse and US Lacrosse, and Miles and Rohr were named to the Tewaaraton Award's preseason watch list.
 
*The trio made history last year, as it marked the first time players from the same program won all three major positional honors since the Ivy League began awarding them in 2013. (Prior to that, the Ivy League did a Player of the Year and a Rookie of the Year.)
 
*Penn had 10 women earn All-Ivy last year; all of them are back this season.
  FIRST TEAM: Brandt (unanimous), Miles (unanimous), Rohr (unanimous)
  SECOND TEAM: Erika Chung, Kaitlyn Cumiskey, Grace Fujinaga, Maria Themelis, Kelly Van Hoesen
  HONORABLE MENTION: Aly Feeley, Natasha Gorriaran
 
*Not surprisingly, Penn was a unanimous pick to repeat as conference champion this season, scooping up all 16 first-place votes for 128 points in the Ivy League's preseason media poll that was announced on February 13.
 
*On top of the returning group, the Quakers secured two transfers for this season: Grace Turner (Stanford) and Carli Fleisher (Northwestern). Fleisher—named the 2022 National High School Player of the Year by USA Lacrosse Magazine—had her first two collegiate points last Wednesday at Temple, a goal and an assist.
 
*Miles has picked up where she left off last year, leading Penn with 13 goals and 17 points. She also has 22 draw controls, nearly double any of her teammates. (Brandt is second on the team with 12.)
 
*Despite missing Wednesday's game against Temple, Chung leads the Quakers with 12 assists, dishing out four in the season opener against Drexel, three (to go with two goals) vs. Hopkins, and five in last Saturday's win over Columbia (part of a seven-point day for the junior).
 
*Junior Keeley Block was Penn's second-leading scorer and got honorable mention All-Ivy recognition as a freshman in 2022, and is back after missing all of last season due to injury. (So let's go ahead and make that 11 All-Ivy players in the lineup.) She appears to be rounding back into form—after posting three points across the first two games this season, she had a hat trick last Wednesday at Temple and then two more points (1g/1a) against the Lions.
 
*Freshman Catherine Berkery has nine goals already this season and has hit for multiple goals in each of the last three contests (4 vs. Hopkins, 2 each at Temple and vs. Columbia).
 
*Don't look now, but Penn may be unleashing still another weapon offensively; senior Julia Chai had her first four goals of the season last Saturday after entering the season with 14 points across her first two seasons.
 
*Overall, 12 different players have already scored for the Quakers through four games this season and two others have collected an assist.
 
*Defensively, seniors Aly Feeley, Grace Fujinaga and Rohr all had three caused turnovers against Columbia (Penn picked up 15 as a team). Feeley currently leads the team with seven CTs, followed by Rohr who has six. Fujinaga and junior Natasha Gorriaran are next, with five each.
 
*At the other end, Van Hoesen was last week's Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week; that was before she had 11 saves (.647 save percentage) in the Quakers' only road game so far this season, at Temple.
 
*Berkery is one of eight freshmen who have joined the Red and Blue roster this season; the group hails 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 is in her 25th season at the helm. The coach for 12 of Penn's 14 Ivy titles and a two-time Ivy League Coach of the Year—the honor has only been given since 2015—she has been head coach for 258 of the program's 411 wins.
 
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