RELEASE: Jan. 21, 2009
CONTACT: Pete LaFleur (editor@collegefencing360.com)
First Edition of the 2010 USFCA College Fencing Coaches' Poll
Men – 1. Penn State ... 2. Notre Dame ... 3. Ohio State ... 4. Princeton ...
5. Columbia ... 6. Pennsylvania ... 7. Harvard ... 8. St. John's ... 9. Yale ... 10. Duke
... Others receiving votes: North Carolina, NYU, Air Force, Stanford, UC-San Diego, Sacred Heart, Brown and Johns Hopkins
5. Columbia ... 6. Pennsylvania ... 7. Harvard ... 8. St. John's ... 9. Yale ... 10. Duke
... Others receiving votes: North Carolina, NYU, Air Force, Stanford, UC-San Diego, Sacred Heart, Brown and Johns Hopkins
Women – 1. Penn State ... 2. Notre Dame ... 3. Harvard ... 4. Columbia-Barnard ...
5. Northwestern ... 6. Ohio State ... 7. Temple ... 8. Pennsylvania ... 9. Princeton ...
10. Yale ... Others receiving votes: Duke, St. John's (NY), Cornell, Brown, Stanford, North Carolina, UC-San Diego, NYU and Sacred Heart
5. Northwestern ... 6. Ohio State ... 7. Temple ... 8. Pennsylvania ... 9. Princeton ...
10. Yale ... Others receiving votes: Duke, St. John's (NY), Cornell, Brown, Stanford, North Carolina, UC-San Diego, NYU and Sacred Heart
Notes – An
analysis of these top teams is forthcoming on CF360 ... defending NCAA
champion Penn State holds down the top spot in both polls and is led by
four returning NCAA champions (men's foilist Nick Chinman, men's
sabreist Aleksander Ochocki, women's foilist Doris Willette and women's
epeeist Anastasia Ferdman) ... Penn State was #2 in the final 2009
USFCS polls (for men and women) while Notre Dame was #1 in both
rankings of the final '09 polls (ND went on to be the 2009 NCAA
runner-up) ... Columbia is the only other fencing program currently in
the top-5 for both men (#5) and women (#4) ... Princeton's surging
men's program checks in at #4 in the current poll (the Tiger women are
ranked 9th) ... Ohio State's men are ranked #3 but the OSU women are
outside the top-5 (6th) ... Harvard's women are a top-5 team (#3) but
the Crimson men are ranked 7th ... other programs with both men's and
women's team in the top-10 include Pennsylvania (men 6th; women 8th)
and Yale (men 9th; women 10th) ... the other top-10 teams: St. John's
men (8th), Duke men (10th), Northwestern women (5th) and Temple women
(7th) ... see RANKINGS tab for standings in the final 2009 poll (the earlier 2009 polls also are listed below).