March 20, 2013

Ivies Set for NCAA Fencing Championships

SAN ANTONIO -- The NCAA Fencing National Championships get underway on Thursday at San Antonio's Freeman Coliseum.

Fifty-one of the 144 participants come from Ivy League members -- 27 on the men's side and 24 on the women's side. Princeton had 12 selections, followed by Harvard and Columbia with 11 selections.

The University of the Incarnate Word and San Antonio Sports are the co-host of 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 finishers will fence in semifinal 15-touch bouts, with the winners fencing to determine first and second places, and the losers being awarded a tie for third place.

An institution's place finish in the championships will be based on points earned by each individual. A team will be awarded one point for each victory by its student-athletes for the duration of the championships.

The men's competition will take place Thursday and Friday, while the women will compete Saturday and Sunday. The first day will have the first four rounds of preliminary competition, while the second day will feature rounds five, six and seven followed by the semifinals and finals.

Ivy League participants are listed below.

MEN'S EPEE
First Name	Last Name	Institution	Region
Kelly	McGuire	Brown	Northeast
Brian	Ro	Columbia	Northeast
Justin	Wan	Columbia	Northeast
Peregrine	Badger	Harvard	Northeast
Mike	Raynis	Harvard	Northeast
Clifford	Fishler	Pennsylvania	Mid-Atlantic/South
Ayyub	Ibrahim	Pennsylvania	Mid-Atlantic/South
Edward	Kelley	Princeton	Mid-Atlantic/South
Jonathan	Yergler	Princeton	Mid-Atlantic/South
Peter	Cohen	Yale	Northeast

MEN'S FOIL
First Name	Last Name	Institution	Region
Adam	Mathieu	Columbia	Northeast
Brian	Kaneshige	Harvard	Northeast
Michael	Woo	Harvard	Northeast
Leland	Berstein	Pennsylvania	Mid-Atlantic/South
Adam	El Kassas	Pennsylvania	Mid-Atlantic/South
Rodney	Chen	Princeton	Mid-Atlantic/South
Michael	Dudey	Princeton	Mid-Atlantic/South

MEN'S SABRE
First Name	Last Name	Institution	Region
Stryker	Weller	Brown	Northeast
Michael	Josephs	Columbia	Northeast
William	Spear	Columbia	Northeast
Eric	Arzoian	Harvard	Northeast
Alexander	Ryjik	Harvard	Northeast
Michael	Mills	Pennsylvania	Mid-Atlantic/South
Evan	Prochniak	Pennsylvania	Mid-Atlantic/South
Philip	Dershwitz	Princeton	Mid-Atlantic/South
Robert	Stone	Princeton	Mid-Atlantic/South
Hugh	O'Cinneide	Yale	Northeast

WOMEN'S EPEE
First Name	Last Name	Institution	Region
Natalie	Gegan	Columbia	Northeast
Diana	Tsinis	Columbia	Northeast
Emma	Vaggo	Harvard	Northeast
Nina	Van Loon	Harvard	Northeast
Amrit	Bhinder	Pennsylvania	Mid-Atlantic/South
Gabriella	Foor	Pennsylvania	Mid-Atlantic/South
Katherine	Holmes	Princeton	Mid-Atlantic/South
Susannah	Scanlan	Princeton	Mid-Atlantic/South

WOMEN'S FOIL
First Name	Last Name	Institution	Region
Jackie	Dubrovich	Columbia	Northeast
D'Meca	Homer	Columbia	Northeast
Angelica	Gangemi	Cornell	Northeast
April	Whitney	Cornell	Northeast
Alexandra	Kiefer	Harvard	Northeast
Luona	Wang	Pennsylvania	Mid-Atlantic/South
Eve	Levin	Princeton	Mid-Atlantic/South
Ambika	Singh	Princeton	Mid-Atlantic/South
Lauren	Miller	Yale	Northeast

WOMEN'S SABRE
First Name	Last Name	Institution	Region
Loweye	Diedro	Columbia	Northeast
Essane	Diedro	Columbia	Northeast
Aliya	Itzkowitz	Harvard	Northeast
Kara	Lee	Harvard	Northeast
Gracie	Stone	Princeton	Mid-Atlantic/South
Eliza	Stone	Princeton	Mid-Atlantic/South
Madeline	Oliver	Yale	Northeast