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University of Pennsylvania Men’s Basketball September 2019 THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE 2O19 BIG 5 CHAMPIONS
QUAKER QUOTES FROM THE DESK OF JOHN R. ROCKWELL HEAD COACH STEVE DONAHUE I hope this newsletter finds everyone doing well since our last newsletter at UPCOMING EVENTS: the end of the season! Summer has come and gone, and now we are looking September 27th – First day of ahead to get ready for a tremendous season. practice October 10th – NYC Alumni Before practice starts, we will be doing small group workouts a few times a Event at the Penn Club: all Penn week to hammer in fundamentals and bring our freshmen up to speed on Men’s and Women's former Quaker Offense. I’d like to congratulate our newly annouced captains, Ryan players, coaches, and managers are invited. Stay tuned for an Betley, Devon Goodman, and AJ Brodeur who have all done a great job at email invite! leading by example and guiding our freshmen. This is an exciting time of th October 18 – Mentoring Panel: year, one where our players can focus on getting better individually in order This is an opportunity to to aid in the team’s success. network with alumni and help educate our student athletes about possible career paths. Please reach out to Sarah Parks In other news, we have officially released our full schedule for the year! A if you are interested in few highlights include our season opener at Alabama, Thanksgiving in volunteering for this event! Anaheim, CA, three BIG 5 home games and one throw back game against th October 19 – Red & Blue Widener. We played against Widener in the first ever game in the Palestra Scrimmage at 12pm on December 30th, 1926 when they were named Pennsylvania Military College. You can find the full schedule here! Be sure to keep an eye out for Follow our program and the save the date for all Penn Basketball events for this season. We strive to coaching staff on social media! realize the positive impact of keeping all our alumni involved as much as @PennBasketball possible throughout the season. @Coach_Donahue @NatGraham42 @JoeMihalich Other than that, it’s business as usual here, getting ready for the season! @CoachT_Meaux Please be sure to stay in touch and let us know if we can ever do anything to @Saraparques help out members of our Whānau!
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On August 21st, the freshmen moved into the Quad. A few guys did some tremendous work helping the incoming freshmen and their families move into their dorms in the Quad. Then the following Sunday the whole team spent the day playing against freshmen in the pop-a-shot activity at the New Stu dent Orientation Picnic in Franklin Field! All around a great week for Penn Basketball!
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