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Penn’s most successful women athletes during the 1990s were the fencers, who won three Ivy League titles. Other League championships were claimed in field hockey, volleyball, indoor track and field, and cross country, and Penn’s program also grew with the addition of soccer as a varsity sport in the fall of 1991. A significant facility improvement was the renovated boathouse, which opened in the fall of 1996 and included the transformation of the second floor into a top-of-the-line facility with new locker rooms, ergometer, and weight-training areas for the use by its women’s and men’s crews. Also, in 1995-96, an out-of-court settlement agreement to a Title IX complaint, brought by Penn’s women’s coaches and student-athletes, resulted in the renovation of locker rooms and enhancement of coaching positions and support services for women’s programs.
The 1992 field hockey team, led by veteran coach Anne Sage, won the Ivy League championship for the first time since 1988. The 1993 team took a second consecutive Ivy title and became the first Ivy field hockey team since 1982 to end the season undefeated in the League.
Under new head coach Margaret Feeney, the 1990 volleyball team lost its first four matches but picked up momentum as the season progressed and took the League title with a three-game victory over Princeton. Having won the title in 1989, this victory gave Penn its second consecutive Ivy title.
There was no official Ivy League championship in gymnastics after 1990, since only four schools sponsored varsity teams in 1991, but for the first time, Penn’s gymnasts finished with the best record in the League. The team achieved another best in the League performance in 1992, though finishing second in the Ivy Classic. The gymnasts won the Ivy Classic in 1994, with a school-record point total of 184.27, and the 1996-97 team produced the best performances in the program’s history, including a new team balance beam record; a new uneven parallel bars standard for the team; and an individual beam record set by Lizzie Jackson. The team reclaimed the Ivy Classic title in 1997 and broke the overall scoring record for the second time with 185.95 points. Penn’s gymnasts set new records again at the ECAC championships of 1997, and three individual gymnasts finished in the top ten in the all-around competition at that meet. Becky Nadler was the ECAC balance beam champion that year, becoming the first Penn gymnast to take an individual title in those championships. In 1998, Penn became the first Ivy League team to win the ECAC championship, after winning its fifth Ivy Classic crown in eight years.
The storied fencing team, guided by coach Dave Micahnik, won the Ivy League championship in 1992 and 1994, placing third in the 1992 NCAA Eastern Regional and second in 1994. Advancing to the NCAA championships in 1994, Penn ended its season ranked second in the nation. In 1995, the team took the Ivy title for the second year in a row and again finished second at the NCAA regionals.
The Penn women’s soccer program, elevated to varsity status in 1990, placed second in the League in the fall of 1997 and won its first-ever ECAC championship in the sport.
Among individual Penn athlete’s accomplishments, fencer Mary Jane O’Neill competed in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, and in 1995, Barrie Bernstein became the seventh singles player in League women’s tennis history to be a four-time first team All-Ivy selection. Meanwhile, tradition continued to be present at the home of one of the League’s first two institutions to admit women, as Emmy Hansel, a 1998 graduate, first team All-Ivy lacrosse player, and co-captain of the field hockey squad during her senior year, followed in the footsteps of four generations of her family, most recently her mother, and served as a captain for a Penn team.
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