Penn finally broke through as Potter Cup champions, joining a small list of schools to win the title. And it was a victory shared with those who came before them.
The Quakers had won four matches on March 3 against Trinity College in the Potter Cup. Just one more and they would secure the first national championship in program history.
When the door to his court finally opened and Hafez’s teammates streamed through it, they were also crossing a threshold they’d been knocking at for years. “To be that close and have it stripped away from you is a pretty brutal feeling,” said senior captain Nick Spizzirri, who was a sophomore on the 2022 team. “The guys that graduated before we ended up finally getting the championship obviously put in so much hard work to make the program as high level as it is today. And you have to give thanks to those guys.”
But Khalil fought back to make his debut in January, just in time for the first Ivy matchup of the season against Cornell. He continued to play as one of Penn’s top seeds for most of the year. Penn will run it back next year with the same roster, plus an infusion of new recruits. Spizzirri and fellow senior captain Dana Santry will be back, extending their graduation to comply with Ivy rules.
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