Senior Dana McCurdy set a Penn record on Saturday afternoon in the 400-meter hurdles. Too bad no one was there to see it.
The Quad wasn't the only place left largely empty by the dismal weather -- Franklin Field was mostly vacant as well.
Even some of the schools expected to compete in the Penn Invitational were discouraged by the steady rain which plagued Philadelphia all afternoon. Only about half of them showed up.
Women's coach Gwen Harris, whose athletes found shelter in the locker room when they weren't competing, summed it up best by saying, "It was cold."
Considering the wet track, it's hard to believe that one of Harris' athletes had a record-setting day.
McCurdy ran the 400m hurdles in 1:00.7, edging out Saint Joseph's Kaydian Reid by 0.15 seconds for first place.
The fastest 400m hurdles run in Penn history also qualified McCurdy for NCAA regionals.
Teammate Tina Morrison also qualified for regionals with a decisive win in the 800m run. Her first-place time of 2:09.58 was just more than five seconds better than Cornell's Ruth Morgan.
Harris commended McCurdy and Morrison for persevering over Mother Nature.
"It's pretty awesome. One of the things we really talk about is how to compete in bad weather and what are we going to do. We have to prepare ourselves so we can do as best as we possibly can."
On the track, Shaunee Morgan won the 100m dash (12.41 seconds) and Jamie Liberti ran fastest in the 1,500m (4:33.04).
Shot putter Charity Payne salvaged the Quakers lone win in a field event with a 13.30-meter throw.
Meanwhile, the Penn men brought home three wins of their own.
In individual events, Mark Materna's 3:56.11 and Mike LaQuaglia's 14:43.71 outlasted their competitors in the 1,500m and 5,000m runs, respectively.
After a 1-2 finish in the 4x100m relay at the Navy Invitational last weekend, Penn settled for first and third on Saturday.
The Quakers' greatest nemesis throughout the day was Penn State.
Three of the Quakers' five silver medal finishes came at the hands of the Nittany Lions: Jason Ellis in the 100m (11.23), David Whitehurst's 110m hurdles (14.84), and the 4x800m relay team (7:52.86).
Sam Shepard also placed second in the 400m dash (49.24).
Anthony Abitante's second-place pole vault (4.73 meters) was the best result for the Quakers in the field events.