Usual Suspect: Harvard's Cross Wins Northeast Women's Foil Title

Final standings for the Northeast Regionals women's foil competition are included below (NCAA allocation is nine spots, via the formula that factors in regular-season and Regional performance). Among fencers who competed on Sunday, three of the initial top-12 seeds failed to reach the third and final pool round (final-12): 


•  #4  Abby Caparros-Janto  (Columbia ... placed 16th)
•  #5  Anna Podolsky (Harvard ... placed 18th)
•  #10  Cordelia Link  (MIT ... placed 14th)


These top-12 finishers initially were seeded outside the top-12:

•  #24  Hannah Braaten  (Wellesley ... placed 6th)

•  #15  Zoe Evans  (NYU ... placed 11th)
•  #14  Valeria Makeeva  (Yale ... placed 8th)


WOMEN'S FOIL FINAL STANDINGS – NORTHEAST
JIFBUDZGFGUYEDR.20081002190356 1. Cross, Emily ... Harvard
2. Ross, Nicole ... Columbia  
3. MaCleod, Shelby ... Harvard  
4. Ciaravino, Sophie ... NYU
5. Pitt, Katharine ... Yale 
6. Braaten, Hannah ... Wellesley  
7. Tranquada, Jessica ... Cornell  
8. Makeeva, Valeria ... Yale 
9. Rysling, Amanda ... NYU


Emily Cross (above)


10. Szita, Nora ... St. John's  

11. Evans, Zoe ... NYU
12. Collacino, Jennifer ... Boston College  


Eliminated After Round-2 of Pools
13. Newhall, Jessica ... Brandeis  
14. Hirschfeld, Rebecca ... Cornell  
15. Link, Cordelia ... MIT
16. Caparros-Janto, Abigail ... Columbia  
16. Siskidis, JoAnne ... Sacred Heart  
18. Podolsky, Anna ... Harvard  
19. Dunn, Alanna ... St. John's
20. Kunitomo, Yukiko ... Brown  
21. Pintea, Michelle ... Boston College 
22. Caldwell, Jenna ... MIT
23. Davis-Heim, Jessica ... Brandeis  
24. Kory, Jacqueline ... Vassar  


Eliminated After Round-1 of Pools
25. Dalrymple, Alexandra ... Brandeis  
26. Baines, Dana ... Cornell  
27. Liu, Jillian ... Yale  
28. Chin, Wendy ... Wellesley  
29. Lee, Christine ... Tufts  
30. Truong, Vivian ... Brown  
31. Graham, Lindley ... MIT
32. Lee, Melissa ... Vassar  
33. Lio, Christina ... Hunter  
34. Cook, Christine ... Boston College 
34. Huber, Alexandra ... Columbia  
36. Delean, Tess ... Wellesley  
37. Jafferali, Sarah ... CCNY
38. Chen, Sherry ... CCNY

    editor@collegefencing360.com