CF360 was able to obtain the final "Fencer Strength Factor" (FSF) numbers that comprised the primary formula used in selecting entrants to the 2009 NCAA Championship. Bear in mind that the FSF numbers primarily are used to compare fencers from within the same region – thus, the relative nature of these "seeds" can be skewed a bit (fencers who have missed some colllege events, due to international events, also may be seeded below their talent level). Most notably, 2008 Olympians Emily Cross (foil, Harvard) and Becca Ward (sabre, Duke) are "seeded" (albeit hypotheticall) in the middle of their fields – but both clearly can be at the top of their respective podiums on Sunday.
Included below are the 24 NCAA entrants in each of the women's weapons, listed (hypothetically and unofficially) by what their seeding would be based on their final FSF number:
WOMEN'S FOIL NCAA "SEEDS"
1. Oksana Dmytruk (Ohio State)
2. Doris Willette (Penn State)
3. Samantha Nemecek (Northwestern)
4. Nicole Ross (Columbia)
5. Hayley Reese (Notre Dame)
6. Lindsay Knauer (OSU)
7. Devynn Patterson (NW)
8. Emily Cross (Harvard)
9. Allison Glasser (PSU)
10. Lucille Jarry (Princeton)
11. Adi Nott (ND)
12. Melissa Parker (Temple)
13. Laura Paragano (Penn)
14. Shelby MacLeod (HAR)
15. Abby Caparros-Janto (COL)
16. Katherine Pitt (Yale)
17. Andrea Oliva (PRIN)
18. Nora Szita (St. John's)
19. Jessica Tranquada (Cornell)
10. Amanda Rysling (NYU)
21. Sophie Ciarvino (NYU)
22. Jessica Wacker (Stanford)
23. Valeria Makeeva (Yale)
24. Pilar Alicea (UC San Diego)
25. Alyssa Lomuscio (Fairleigh Dickinson)
WOMEN'S EPEE NCAA "SEEDS"
1. Ewa Nelip (Notre Dame)
2. Nina Westman (Penn State)
3. Courtney Hurley (ND)
4. Anastasia Ferdman (PSU)
5. Julia Tichnova (Ohio State)
6. Neely Brandfield-Harvey (Columbia)
7. Susannah Scanlan (Princeton)
8. Noam Mills (Harvard)
9. Tess Finkel (COL)
10. Kristin Howell (Temple)
11. Maria Larsson (HARV)
12. Tanya Novakovska (St. John's)
13. Christa French (Northwestern)
14. Grace Wu (TEM)
15. Rebecca Moss (Yale)
16. Kayley French (NW)
17. Jasjit Bhinder (Princeton)
18. Tasha Hall (Cornell)
19. Joanna Guy (SJU)
20. Miriam Baranov (OSU)
21. Stephanie Wheeler (Penn)
22. Simone Barrette (Air Force)
23. Sallie Dietrich (COR)
24. Kersten Schnurle (Stanford)
1. Daria Schneider (Columbia)
2. Eileen Hassett (Notre Dame)
3. Falencia Miller (Ohio State)
4. Sarah Borrmann (ND)
5. Jackie Jacobson (COL)
6. Dagmara Wozniak (St. John's)
7. Caity Thompson (Penn State)
8. Caroline Vloka (Harvard)
9. Margarita Tschomakova (OSU)
10. Dora Varga (SJU)
11. Danielle Kamis (Penn)
12. Becca Ward (Duke)
13. Dominika Franciskowicz (Penn)
14. Monica Aksamit (PSU)
15. Whitney White (Northwestern)
16. Kamali Thompson (Temple)
17. Audrey Borrosso (TEM)
18. Alex Heiss (Cornell)
19. Anna Hanley (Brandeis)
20. Lisa Verzino (NYU)
21. Alyxandra Mattison (NYU)
22. Robin Shin (MIT)
23. Eva Jellison (Stanford)
24. Alicia Trigiero (UC San Diego)