2009 NCAA Championships Field Announced

(analysis to follow)


There was a significant delay on the planned announce time for the NCAA Championship field (catching CF360 a bit off guard) - but the 145 fencers who will compete in the NCAAs are included below (there will be 25 fencers in women's foil, this year only, plus the usual 24 in the other weapons).


Here's a breakdown of NCAA entrants per team (max. two per weapon; note ND's second men's epeeist is Schoolcraft, not Kelly; has been corrected below):


12 (3) – Notre Dame, Ohio State and Penn State

11 (1) - Columbia

10 (1) - St. John's

9 (2) - Harvard and Penn

8 (2) - Princeton and Stanford

7 (2) -  NYU and Yale

5 (4) - UC San Diego, Duke, Northwestern and Temple

4 (1) - Cornell

3 (3) - Air Force, Brandeis and Wayne State

2 (1) - Brown

1 (5) - Boston College, Fairleigh Dickinson, MIT, North Carolina and Vassar

note that Northwestern, Temple, Cornell and FDU sponsor only women's fencing on varsity level


And here's the entire field of 145:


Men's Foil

Brandeis (1) - Will Friedman

Brown (2) - Adam Pantel and Jonathan Yu

UC San Diego (2) - Ben Dorn and Michael Fong

Columbia 2) - Sherif Farrag and Kurt Getz

Duke (2) - Dan Cohen and Dorian Cohen

Harvard (1) - Kai Itameri-Kinter

New York University (1) - Alexander Kao

Notre Dame (2) - Enzo Castellani and Gerek Meinhardt

Ohio State (2) - Andras Horanyi and Collin Sutter

Pennsylvania (2) - Zane Grodman and Vidur Kapur 

Penn State (2) - Miles Chamley-Watson and Nick Chinman

Princeton (1) - Alexander Mills

St. John's (1) - Alexis Landreville

Stanford (1) - Alex Khoshnevissan

Yale (2) - John Gurrieri and Shiv Kachru


Men's Epee

Air Force (2) - Peter French and Daniel Trapani

Columbia (2) - Lorenzo Casertano and Dwight Smith

Duke (1) - Jonathan Parker

Harvard (2) - Karl Harmenberg and Benji Ungar

Notre Dame (2) ­- Karol Kosta and Greg Schoolcraft

Ohio State (2) - Jason Pryor and Igor Tolkachev

Pennsylvania (1) - Ben Wieder

Penn State (2) - Maxwell Dettlinger and James Moody

Princeton (2) - Mike Elfassy and Graham Wicas

St. John's (2) - Stan Vaksman and Nicholas Vomero

Stanford (2) - Clayton Kenney and Kevin Mo

Wayne State (2) - Mykhaylo Mazur and Slava Zingerman

Yale (2) - Alexander Cohen and Michael Pearce


Men's Sabre

Boston College (1) - Peter Souders

Brandeis (1) - Adam Austin

UC San Diego (1) - Jon Ott

Columbia (1) - Jeff Spear

Duke (1) - Peter Truszkowski

Harvard (1) - Valentin Staller

New York University (2) - Hugo Rodrigues and Sam Roukas

North Carolina (1) - Bobby Ziechmann

Notre Dame (2) - Barron Nydam and Avery Zuck

Ohio State (2) - Mike Momtselidze and Max Stearns

Pennsylvania (2) - Jonathan Berkowsky and Andrew Bielen

Penn State (2) - Daniel Bak and Aleksander Ochocki

Princeton (1) - John Stogin

St. John's (2) - Daryl Homer and Alejandro Rojas

Stanford (2) - Lucas Janson and Max Murphy

Vassar (1) - Andrew Fischl

Wayne State (1) - Jakub Gibczynski


Women's Foil

UC San Diego (1) - Pilar Alicea

Columbia (2) - Abby Caparros-Janto and Nicole Ross

Cornell (1) - Jessica Tranquada

Fairleigh Dickinson (1) - Alyssa Lomuscio

Harvard (2) - Emily Cross and Shelby MacLeod

New York University (2)- Sophie Ciavavino and Amanda Rysling

Northwestern (2) - Devynn Patterson and Samantha Nemecek

Notre Dame (2) - Adi Nott and Hayley Reese

Ohio State (2) - Oksana Dmytruk and Lindsay Knauer

Pennsylvania (1) - Laura Paragano

Penn State (2) - Allison Glasser and Doris Willette

Princeton (2) - Lucille Jarry and Andrea Oliva

St. John's (1) - Nora Szita

Stanford (1) - Jessica Wacker

Temple (1) - Melissa Parker

Yale (2) - Valeria Makeeva and Katharine Pitt


Women's Epee

Air Force (1) - Simone Barrette

Columbia (2) - Neely Brandfield-Harvey and Tess Finkel   

Cornell (2) - Sallie Dietrich and Tasha Hall  

Harvard (2) - Maria Larsson and Noam Mills

Northwestern (2) - Christa French and Kayley French

Notre Dame (2) - Courtney Hurley and Ewa Nelip

Ohio State (2) - Miriam Baranov and Julia Tikhanova

Pennsylvania (1) - Stephanie Wheeler

Penn State (2) - Anastasia Ferdman and Nina Westman

Princeton (2) - Jasjit Bhinder and Susannah Scanlan

St. John's (2) - Joanna Guy and Tanya Novakovska   

Stanford (1) - Kersten Schnurle

Temple (2) - Kristin Howell and Grace Wu   

Yale (1) - Rebecca Moss


Women's Sabre

Brandeis (1) - Anna Hanley

UC San Diego (1) - Alicia Trigeiro

Columbia (2) - Jackie Jacobson and Daria Schneider

Cornell (1) - Alex Heiss

Duke (1) - Becca Ward

Harvard (1) - Caroline Vloka

MIT (1) - Robin Shin

New York University (2) - Alyxandra Mattison and Lisa Verzino

Northwestern (1) - Whitney White

Notre Dame (2) - Sarah Borrmann and Eileen Hassett

Ohio State (2)- Falencia Miller and Margarita Tschomakova

Pennsylvania (2) - Dominika Franciskowicz and Danielle Kamis   

Penn State (2) - Monica Aksamit and Caity Thompson

St. John's (2) - Dora Varga and Dagmara Wozniak

Stanford (1) - Eva Jellison

Temple (2) - Audrey Barroso and Kamali Thompson

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