We've just received the "travel" groups for the upcoming NCAA Fencing men's round-robin, as 24 fencers will face each other spread over two days (March 19-20). Each "group" will travel together throughout both days, facing a different group in each round.
Travel groups sometimes can be inconsequential – but they also can provide a huge boost (or tough obstacle), as teammates sometimes are not paired together in the same group. This occurs when there are more than eight pairs of teammates that have qualified in a specific weapon. As you can see below, this had no effect in sabre but nearly all of the men's epee entrants are teammares (22 of the 24) – meaning that three sets of teammates had to be split up.
More on this later tonight (CF360 editor Pete LaFleur is in transit, about to board a plane).
MEN'S FOIL
GROUP A
Dorian Cohen (DUKE)
Daniel Cohen (DUKE)
Alexis Landreville (SJU)
GROUP B
Michael Fong (UCSD)
Benjamin Dorn (UCSD)
Alex Khoshnevissian (STAN)
GROUP C
Andras Horanyi (OSU)
Colin Sutter (OSU)
Will Friedman (BRAN)
GROUP D
Nicholas Chinman (PSU)
Miles Chamley-Watson (PSU)
Alexander Mills (PRIN)
GROUP E
Zane Grodman (PENN)
Vidur Kapur (PENN)
Kai Itameri-Kinter (HARV)
GROUP F
Gerek Meinhardt (ND)
Enzo Castellani (ND)
Alexander Kao (NYU)
GROUP G
Shiv Kachru (YALE)
John Gurrieri (YALE)
Jonathan Yu (BROWN)
GROUP H
Sherif Farrag (COL)
Kurt Getz (COL)
Adam Pantel (BROWN)
MEN'S EPEE
GROUP A
Graham Wicas (PRIN)
Mike Elfassy (PRIN)
Benjamin Wieder (PENN)
GROUP B
Maxwell Dettlinger (PSU)
James Moody (PSU)
Jonathan Parker (DUKE)
GROUP C
Jason Pryor, OSU
Igor Tolkachev, OSU
Slava Zingerman, WSU
GROUP D
Greg Schoolcraft (ND)
Karol Kostka (ND)
Mykhaylo Mazur (WSU)
GROUP E
Clayton Kenney (STAN)
Kevin Mo (STAN)
Peter French (AFA)
GROUP F
Dwight Smith (COL)
Lorenzo Casertano (COL)
Daniel Trapani (AFA)
GROUP G
Benji Ungar (HARV)
Karl Harmenberg (HARV?
Stanley Vaksman (SJU)
GROUP H
Michael Pearce, YALE
Alexander Cohen, YALE
Nicholas Vomero, SJU
MEN'S SABRE
GROUP A
Max Murphy (STAN)
Lucas Janson (STAN)
Jonathan Ott (UCSD)
GROUP B
Jonathan Berkowsky (PENN)
Andrew Bielen (PENN)
John Stogin (PRIN)
GROUP C
Bobby Zeichmann (UNC)
Kevin Zeichmann (UNC)
Adam Austin (BRAN)
GROUP D
Max Stearns (OSU)
Mike Momtselidze (OSU)
Peter Truszkowski (DUKE)
GROUP E
Daniel Bak (PSU)
Aleksander Ochoki (PSU)
Robert Zeichmann (UNC)
GROUP F
Barron Nydam (ND)
Avery Zuck (ND)
Jakub Gibczynski (WSU)
GROUP G
Daryl Homer (SJU)
Alejandro Rojas (SJU)
Peter Souders (BC)
GROUP H
Valentin Staller (HARV)
Andrew Fischl (VAS)
Jeff Spear (COL)