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University of Pennsylvania Athletics

2009 Softball

5 Diana Ark

  • Class Sophomore
  • Highschool Ridge
  • Hometown Basking Ridge, N.J.

Biography

2010-11: Fenced in both epee and sabre, finishing the season with a 4-9 record in sabre and a 17-2 mark in epee ... Finished with a 6-0 record in epee at the Philadelphia Invitational, highlighted by a 3-0 mark against Sacred Heart (1/23) ... Went 3-0 versus Drew in epee at the Penn State Invitational (1/29) ... Went 6-1 in epee at the MIT Invitational, including three bout victories over NYU (2/6) ... Went 2-1 in sabre against Brown (2/13) ... Fenced sabre at the Ivy League Championships, finishing with a 4-8 record (2/12-13) ... Fenced sabre as Penn won the overall team title at the 2011 U.S. Weapon Squad Championships (2/27) ... Placed 18th fencing epee at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional (3/12).

2009-10 (Fencing): Finished with a 24-11 overall record ... Went 3-0 versus four teams ... Finished 5-0 at Penn State Invitational, beating Haverford 2-0 and Drew 3-0 (1/23) ... Finished 11-4 at the Eric Sollee Invitational (1/30) ... Went 1-0 versus Brown at the Ivy League Championships (2/28).

2008-09 (Fencing): Finished season with an 11-4 record … Went 2-0 against Drew at the Princeton Multi-Meet (1/25) … Won five bouts at the New England Invitational (2/1) … Won her only Ivy League bout against Brown (2/8).


2008 (Softball): Started 29 of 35 games played ... Opened collegiate career with a double and a run scored, part of a 2-for-4 day against Lafayette (3/2) ... Drove in first two collegiate RBI in a 4-3 extra-inning victory over IPFW (3/10) with a double that tied the score in the sixth ... First three-hit performance came as part of an 11-4 victory over Columbia (4/27).

2007-08 (Fencing): Compiled an 11-2 record ... Won all three of her bouts against Johns Hopkins (1/13) ... Had a 4-0 day against Haverford and Cleveland State (1/26), winning two bouts against both schools.

High School: Four-year letterwinner in both fencing and softball ... captained the fencing team her junior and senior seasons, and was named a senior leader for the softball team her senior season ... Second Team All-Conference softball player in 2005 ... First Team All-County and All-Conference in 2007 and ... Second Team All-Area in 2007 ... in fencing, earned Second Team All-State honors in 2006 and 2007 ... NJISAA Scholar Athlete ... winner of the Zoned Sports Academy Softball Scholarship ... National Honor Society member and a member of student government.

Personal: Daughter of Johanna and Ted Ark ... Enrolled in the Wharton School.

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Historical Player Information

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    2008Freshman

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    2009Sophomore

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