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Collegiate women's fencing gained equal footing with the men starting in 2000, when women's sabre first became part of the NCAA Championships. The list below shows the 14 fencing programs that have qualified the most NCAA entrants during the women's sabre era (2000-09).
Northwestern has sent the sixth-most women's fencers (46) to the NCAAs over the past 10 years, ranking ahead of such noteworthy programs as Stanford and several top Ivy League teams (most notably Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale).
Temple is tied for ninth among the schools with the most NCAA women's fencer entrants since 2000, ahead of upper-level teams Yale and Stanford. Cornell (18) rounds out the group of 14 schools that have sent 18-plus women's fencers to the NCAAs in the women's-sabre era.
Most NCAA Fencing Championship Women's Entrants
(women's sabre era; 2000-09 .... max. is 60 per team)
59 – Notre Dame ... one WE in 2007
58 – Penn State ... one WE in 2001, one WS in 2008
55 – St. John's ... one WF in 2000, one WE in '03, no WE in '04, one WF in '09
51 – Columbia
47 – Ohio State
46 – Northwestern (does not sponsor varsity men's fencing team)
38 – Princeton
38 – Temple (does not sponsor varsity men's fencing team)
28 – Yale
27 – Stanford
22 – Wayne State
18 – Cornell (does not sponsor varsity men's fencing team)