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Fifty-Three Ivy Fencers Set For 2011 NCAA Championships
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PRINCETON, N.J. -- Fifty-three Ivy League
student-athletes are set to chase individual and team glory at the
2011 National Collegiate Men’s and Women’s Fencing
Championships on March 24-27 in Columbus, Ohio. The Ohio State
University will play host to the championships at the French Field
House and St. John Arena. The men’s qualifiers will fence on
Thursday and Friday, followed by the women on Saturday and
Sunday.
Leading the way for the Ivies, Princeton will send 12 fencers to
the championships, followed by Harvard, which qualified 11 fencers.
Columbia and Penn will have nine fencers apiece at the event, while
five each from Yale and Brown will help to comprise the field.
Cornell, which only sponsors women’s fencing, will send two
foilists to the championships.
The National Collegiate Men’s and Women’s Fencing
Championships include individual events in each of the six weapons:
men’s foil, men’s epee, men’s sabre,
women’s foil, women’s epee, women’s sabre.
Fencers will compete in a round-robin format of five-touch bouts.
After the round-robin, the top-four fencers fence semifinal
15-touch bouts, with the winners fencing to determine first and
second places, and the losers being awarded a tie for third place.
Top-four finishers earn first team All-America status, while the
first place finisher is also named the 2011 NCAA Champion in that
weapon. Absolute ties for the final-four seeding will be broken as
follows: for positions one through three, by a coin toss; for
position four, by a fence-off.
The National Champion and each institution’s subsequent
place finish in the championships will be based on points earned by
each individual fencer. A team will be awarded one point for each
victory by its student-athletes for the duration of the
championships.
Among the Ivies, Princeton - with the maximum 12 qualified fencers
– has the best mathematical chance at claiming the 2011
national title, as only Notre Dame and Ohio State also qualified
the maximum 12 fencers. Harvard, which qualified 11 fencers, could
also find itself in the national title race because only three
teams are sending 12 fencers. Since the NCAA added women’s
sabre to the fencing championships in 2000, teams sending 12
fencers to the NCAAs have won 10 of the 11 championships contested
(the only exception was in 2005 when Notre Dame won the title with
11 qualifiers).
Last season, Harvard finished fifth (137 points) to lead the
Ivies, followed by sixth-place Princeton (135), seventh-place
Columbia (98) and eighth-place Penn (81). On the individual level,
Harvard women’s sabreist Caroline Vloka will
have a chance to defend her 2010 title, which was earned with a
15-13 win over Duke’s Rebecca Ward, who is
also back in the 2011 championship field.
Ivy League 2011 NCAA Championship Qualifiers
Men’s
Epee
Alen Hadzic, Columbia
James Hawrot, Harvard
Mike Raynis, Harvard
Clifford Fishler, Penn
Jacob Wischnia, Penn
Mike Elfassy, Princeton
Jonathan Yergler, Princeton
Peter Cohen, Yale
Men’s
Foil
Bo Charles, Columbia
Alexander Pensler, Columbia
Tommaso DiRobilant, Harvard
Lucas Lin, Harvard
Vidur Kapur, Penn
Robert Malcolm, Princeton
Alexander Mills, Princeton
Nathaniel Botwinick, Yale
Shiv Kachru, Yale
Men’s
Sabre
Teddy Weller, Brown
Melvin Rodriguez, Columbia
Thomas Kolasa, Harvard
Valentin Staller, Harvard
Michael Mills, Penn
Evan Prochniak, Penn
Philip Dershwitz, Princeton
John Stogin, Princeton
Women’s
Epee
Cory Abbe, Brown
Katya English, Columbia
Lydia Kopecky, Columbia
Noam Mills, Harvard
Felicia Sun, Harvard
Amrit Bhinder, Penn
Gabriella Foor, Penn
Phoebe Caldwell, Princeton
Hannah Safford, Princeton
Tasha Garcia, Yale
Women’s
Foil
Kathryn Hawrot, Brown
Avery Nackman, Brown
D’Meca Homer, Columbia
Christine McIntosh, Cornell
April Whitney, Cornell
Kathy Chou, Harvard
Alexandra Kiefer, Harvard
Eve Levin, Princeton
HK Yuh, Princeton
Women’s
Sabre
Caitlin Taylor, Brown
Loweye Diedro, Columbia
Samantha Roberts, Columbia
Caroline Vloka, Harvard
Dominika Franciszkowicz, Penn
Danielle Kamis, Penn
Eliza Stone, Princeton
Diamond Wheeler, Princeton
Madeline Oliver, Yale
