PHILADELPHIA – For the second consecutive week, senior return specialist Julien Stokes had himself a heck of an afternoon on special teams for the University of Pennsylvania football team and earned himself Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week for the second time this season, announced by the Ivy League office on Monday afternoon.
 
He's just the 11th player in program history to earn an Ivy weekly award in back-to-back weeks and the first on special teams.
 
At Lehigh on Saturday, Stokes returned four kicks for 133 yards, including a 60-yarder that set up a go-ahead touchdown early in the third quarter. He now has six kick returns for 193 yards to begin the 2025 season to go along with his four punt returns for 82 yards and a score.
 
The Newbury Park, Calif. native enters the third week of the regular season quite literally the best (statistically) return specialist in NCAA FCS football, ranking first in both punt returns (20.5 yards per attempt) and all-purpose yards (206.5). Additionally, Stokes ranks eighth in kickoff return yards per attempt (32.2).
 
QB Liam O'Brien, WR Jared Richardson, and DL Carter Janki was tabbed to the Ivy League's weekly honor roll for their efforts.
 
Following a hard-fought defeat at the ninth-ranked Mountain Hawks over the weekend, the Quakers return to University City to host two-time defending champion Dartmouth in both the home and Ivy League openers at Franklin Field. Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m.
 
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