



INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Men’s and Women’s Fencing Committee has announced the field of 144 competitors who will participate in the 2014 National Collegiate Men’s and Women’s Fencing Championships. Ohio State will host the championships at French Fieldhouse in Columbus, Ohio.

Among the field are 3 members of the 2012 US Olympic Fencing Team, Men’s Foilists Gerek Meinhardt (Notre Dame) and Alexander Massialas (Stanford) as well as Women’s Epeeist Susannah Scanlan (Princeton).

The men’s and women’s fencing championships include individual events in each of the six weapons (men’s épée, men’s foil, men’s sabre, women’s épée, women’s foil, women’s sabre).

Fencers will compete in a round-robin format of five-touch bouts. After the round-robin, the top-four finishers in each weapon will fence in semifinal 15-touch bouts, with the winners fencing to determine first and second places, and the non-advancing fencers 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. In 2013, Princeton won the NCAA championships followed by Notre Dame and then Penn State.

3 schools (Ohio State, Penn State, and Princeton) qualified the maximum of 12 athletes. Based on the scoring for NCAAs, having more athletes qualified gives the school a greater chance at amassing the points needed to win the overall NCAA championship. With 11 fencers qualified, Harvard and St. John’s look to be in contention also. Columbia and Notre Dame will have their work cut out for them with 10 fencers qualified in the tournament.

Total fencers qualified by school:

School Total Qualified Ohio State 12 Penn State 12 Princeton 12 Harvard 11 St. John’s (N.Y.) 11 Columbia-Barnard 10 Notre Dame 10 Penn 9 Stanford 7 Air Force 5 Duke 5 Northwestern 5 Sacred Heart 5 Yale 5 Brown 4 Temple 4 Brandeis 3 Wayne State (Mich.) 3 Cornell 2 MIT 2 New York University 2 North Carolina 2 Cleveland State 1 NJIT 1 UC-San Diego 1

Individuals Qualified for the 2014 NCAA Fencing Championships

The following individuals were selected to participate in this year’s championships:

Men’s Epee

Simon Jones Brown Northeast Paul Duchow Cleveland State Midwest Brian Ro Columbia-Barnard Northeast Jake Hoyle Columbia-Barnard Northeast Alessio Santoro Duke Mid-Atlantic/South Dylan Nollner Duke Mid-Atlantic/South Alexander Eldeib Harvard Northeast Mike Raynis Harvard Northeast Joseph Rafidi MIT Northeast Garrett McGrath Notre Dame Midwest Inaki de Guzman Ohio State Midwest Kristian Boyadzhiev Ohio State Midwest Clifford Fishler Penn Mid-Atlantic/South Royce Shipp Penn Mid-Atlantic/South Conor Shepard Penn State Mid-Atlantic/South Yasser Mahmoud Penn State Mid-Atlantic/South Alex House Princeton Mid-Atlantic/South Jack Hudson Princeton Mid-Atlantic/South Charles Clark Sacred Heart Northeast Jonathan Jacovino Sacred Heart Northeast Cooper Schumacher St. John’s (N.Y.) Northeast Yevgeniy Karyuchenko St. John’s (N.Y.) Northeast Jake Harbour Stanford West Paul Riviere Stanford West

Men’s Foil

Alex Chiang Air Force West Noah Berman Brandeis Northeast Adam Mathieu Columbia-Barnard Northeast Harrison Bergman Columbia-Barnard Northeast Joseph Lam Duke Mid-Atlantic/South Brian Kaneshige Harvard Northeast Michael Woo Harvard Northeast Christian Vastola New York University Northeast David Kong NJIT Mid-Atlantic/South Gerek Meinhardt Notre Dame Midwest Kristjan Archer Notre Dame Midwest Christopher Colley Ohio State Midwest Zain Shaito Ohio State Midwest Jason Chang Penn Mid-Atlantic/South David Willette Penn State Mid-Atlantic/South Nobuo Bravo Penn State Mid-Atlantic/South Michael Dudey Princeton Mid-Atlantic/South Rodney Chen Princeton Mid-Atlantic/South Andrew Holmes Sacred Heart Northeast Max Blitzer St. John’s (N.Y.) Northeast Michele Caporizzi St. John’s (N.Y.) Northeast Alex Massialas Stanford West Stephan Aman Stanford West Quentin Schneider Wayne State (Mich.) Midwest

Men’s Sabre

Ryan Redhead Air Force West Adam Mandel Brandeis Northeast Geoffrey Loss Columbia-Barnard Northeast William Spear Columbia-Barnard Northeast Chris Monti Duke Mid-Atlantic/South Alexander Ryjik Harvard Northeast Eric Arzoian Harvard Northeast Andrew Kelly New York University Northeast Sam Austin North Carolina Mid-Atlantic/South John Hallsten Notre Dame Midwest Kevin Hassett Notre Dame Midwest Fares Arfa Ohio State Midwest Ryhs Douglas Ohio State Midwest Shaul Gordon Penn Mid-Atlantic/South Steven Yang Penn Mid-Atlantic/South Adrian Bak Penn State Mid-Atlantic/South Kaito Streets Penn State Mid-Atlantic/South Peter Pak Princeton Mid-Atlantic/South Philip Dershwitz Princeton Mid-Atlantic/South Ferenc Valkai St. John’s (N.Y.) Northeast Roman Sydorenko St. John’s (N.Y.) Northeast Travis Tibbitts UC-San Diego West Hugh O’Cinneide Yale Northeast Reed Srere Yale Northeast

Women’s Epee

Mason Speta Columbia-Barnard Northeast Victoria Wines Cornell Northeast Sarah Collins Duke Mid-Atlantic/South Emma Vaggo Harvard Northeast Isabel DiTella Harvard Northeast Courtney Dumas Northwestern Midwest Dina Bazarbayeva Northwestern Midwest Ashley Severson Notre Dame Midwest Nicole Ameli Notre Dame Midwest Caroline Piasecka Ohio State Midwest Eugenia Falqui Ohio State Midwest Aleina Edwards Penn Mid-Atlantic/South Jessica O’Neil-Lyublinsky Penn State Mid-Atlantic/South Jessie Gottesman-Radanovich Penn State Mid-Atlantic/South Katherine Holmes Princeton Mid-Atlantic/South Susannah Scanlan Princeton Mid-Atlantic/South Megan Floyd Sacred Heart Northeast Alina Ferdman St. John’s (N.Y.) Northeast Isis Washington St. John’s (N.Y.) Northeast Francesca Bassa Stanford West Vivian Kong Stanford West Chantal Montrose Temple Mid-Atlantic/South Rachael Clark Temple Mid-Atlantic/South Katherine Miller Yale Northeast

Women’s Foil

Madeleine Girardot Air Force West Mary McElwee Air Force West Caroline Mattos Brandeis Northeast Kathryn Hawrot Brown Northeast Jackie Dubrovich Columbia-Barnard Northeast Sara Taffel Columbia-Barnard Northeast Angelica Gangemi Cornell Northeast Alexandra Kiefer Harvard Northeast Jennifer Yamin Northwestern Midwest Lee Kiefer Notre Dame Midwest Madison Zeiss Notre Dame Midwest Mona Shaito Ohio State Midwest Alanna Goldie Ohio State Midwest Cassidy Seidl Penn Mid-Atlantic/South Luona Wang Penn Mid-Atlantic/South Alina Antokhina Penn State Mid-Atlantic/South Clarisse Luminet Penn State Mid-Atlantic/South Ambika Singh Princeton Mid-Atlantic/South Sharon Gao Princeton Mid-Atlantic/South Irene Spezzamonte St. John’s (N.Y.) Northeast Marta Hausman St. John’s (N.Y.) Northeast Fatima Largaespada Temple Mid-Atlantic/South Zuzanna Sobczak Wayne State (Mich.) Midwest Lauren Miller Yale Northeast

Women’s Sabre