Here's the rundown of Thursday's bouting schedule, as the 2012 NCAA Fencing Championships opens up with four rounds of women's competition in each weapon (14 bouts per fencer, with nine more for each competitor on Friday to complete the round-robin ... followed by semifinals and title bouts in each weapon; medal round does not count to team score). Teams receive one point for every individual win in the round-robin.
One subtle – but often important – factor is when teammates have to be split into different "travel groups" (there are eight groups of three, in each weapon). Here are the teammates who will not have the benefit of fencing alongside each other:
• St. John's women's foil
• Duke women's epee
• Columbia women's epee
Among the five teams that qualified the maximum 12 fencers, St. John's is the only one that has one of its women's weapon groups split – and that could prove to be a detriment, as StJ juniors Irina Koroleva and Evgeniya Kirpicheva (both natives of Russia) won't have the benefit of each other's insight, support, etc.
2012 NCAA FENCING CHAMPIONSHIP
Day-1 Bouting Schedule (women; starts 10 a.m.) ... Thur., March 22 (at Ohio State) ... courtesy CF360
WOMEN'S FOIL ROUND-1 (all six fencers face each other; 15 total bouts per strip)
• Notre Dame (Grace Hartman & Madi Zeiss) w/ travel partner Rose Forcier (UCSD)
in six-fencer pool w/ OSU (Allison Jenvick & Mona Shaito), w/ travel partner Lily McElwee (Stanford)
• Temple (Alyssa Lomuscio & Mikayla Varadi), w/ travel partner Alina Antokhina (PSU)
in six-fencer pool w/ Penn (Sarah Parmacek & Luona Wang) w/ travel partner Lauren Miller (Yale)
• Cornell (Christine McIntosh & April Whitney) w/ travel partner Irina Koroleva (St. John's)
in six-fencer pool w/ Princeton (Eve Levin & Ambika Singh), w/ travel partner Evgeniya Kirpicheva (St. John's)
• Harvard (Alex Kiefer & Kathy Chou) w/ travel partner D'Meca Homer (Columbia)
in six-fencer pool w/ Northwestern (Dayana Sarkisova & Devynn Patterson), w/ travel partner Kathryn Hawrot (Brown)
WOMEN'S FOIL ROUND-2 (3-vs.-3; six total bouts per strip)
• Cornell (Christine McIntosh & April Whitney) w/ travel partner Irina Koroleva (St. John's)
vs. Northwestern (Dayana Sarkisova & Devynn Patterson), w/ travel partner Kathryn Hawrot (Brown)
• Notre Dame (Grace Hartman & Madi Zeiss) w/ travel partner Rose Forcier (UCSD)
vs.Harvard (Alex Kiefer & Kathy Chou) w/ travel partner D'Meca Homer (Columbia)
• Penn (Sarah Parmacek & Luona Wang) w/ travel partner Lauren Miller (Yale)
vs. Princeton (Eve Levin & Ambika Singh), w/ travel partner Evgeniya Kirpicheva (St. John's)
• OSU (Allison Jenvick & Mona Shaito), w/ travel partner Lily McElwee (Stanford)
vs. Temple (Alyssa Lomuscio & Mikayla Varadi), w/ travel partner Alina Antokhina (PSU)
WOMEN'S FOIL ROUND-3 (3-vs.-3; six total bouts per strip)
• OSU (Allison Jenvick & Mona Shaito), w/ travel partner Lily McElwee (Stanford)
vs.Harvard (Alex Kiefer & Kathy Chou) w/ travel partner D'Meca Homer (Columbia)
• Northwestern (Dayana Sarkisova & Devynn Patterson), w/ travel partner Kathryn Hawrot (Brown)
vs. Princeton (Eve Levin & Ambika Singh), w/ travel partner Evgeniya Kirpicheva (St. John's)
• Notre Dame (Grace Hartman & Madi Zeiss) w/ travel partner Rose Forcier (UCSD)
vs. Penn (Sarah Parmacek & Luona Wang) w/ travel partner Lauren Miller (Yale)
• Cornell (Christine McIntosh & April Whitney) w/ travel partner Irina Koroleva (St. John's)
vs. Temple (Alyssa Lomuscio & Mikayla Varadi), w/ travel partner Alina Antokhina (PSU)
WOMEN'S FOIL ROUND-4 (3-vs.-3; six total bouts per strip)
• Princeton (Eve Levin & Ambika Singh), w/ travel partner Evgeniya Kirpicheva (St. John's)
vs. Temple (Alyssa Lomuscio & Mikayla Varadi), w/ travel partner Alina Antokhina (PSU)
• OSU (Allison Jenvick & Mona Shaito), w/ travel partner Lily McElwee (Stanford)
vs. Cornell (Christine McIntosh & April Whitney) w/ travel partner Irina Koroleva (St. John's)
• Penn (Sarah Parmacek & Luona Wang) w/ travel partner Lauren Miller (Yale)
vs. Harvard (Alex Kiefer & Kathy Chou) w/ travel partner D'Meca Homer (Columbia)
• Northwestern (Dayana Sarkisova & Devynn Patterson), w/ travel partner Kathryn Hawrot (Brown)
vs. Notre Dame (Grace Hartman & Madi Zeiss) w/ travel partner Rose Forcier (UCSD)
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WOMEN'S EPEE ROUND-1 (all six fencers face each other; 15 total bouts per strip)
• Harvard (Emma Vaggo & Nadia Eldeib) w/ travel partner Megan Floyd (Sacred Heart)
in six-fencer group w/ Northwestern (Courtney Dumas & Kate Cavanaugh), w/ travel partner Jill Bratton (Temple)
• Notre Dame (Ashley Severson & Nicole Ameli) w/ travel partner Amrit Bhinder (Penn)
in six-fencer group w/ Ohio State (Carolina Piasecka & Katarzyna Davrowa), w/ travel partner Cory Abbe (Brown)
• Princeton (Kat Holmes & Hannah Safford) w/ travel partner Sarah Collins (Duke)
in six-fencer group w/ Penn State (Marg Guzzi & Oksana Samorodov) w/ travel partner Emily D'Agostino (Duke)
• St. John's (Zsofia Fath & Alina Ferdman) w/ travel partner Lydia Kopecky (Columbia)
in six-fencer group w/ Stanford (Ashley Titan & Rebecca Chung) w/ travel partner Diana Tsinis (Columbia)
WOMEN'S EPEE ROUND-2 (3-vs.-3; six total bouts per strip)
• St. John's (Zsofia Fath & Alina Ferdman) w/ travel partner Lydia Kopecky (Columbia)
vs. Penn State (Marg Guzzi & Oksana Samorodov) w/ travel partner Emily D'Agostino (Duke)
• Harvard (Emma Vaggo & Nadia Eldeib) w/ travel partner Megan Floyd (Sacred Heart)
vs. Princeton (Kat Holmes & Hannah Safford) w/ travel partner Sarah Collins (Duke)
• Ohio State (Carolina Piasecka & Katarzyna Davrowa), w/ travel partner Cory Abbe (Brown)
vs. Stanford (Ashley Titan & Rebecca Chung) w/ travel partner Diana Tsinis (Columbia)
• Northwestern (Courtney Dumas & Kate Cavanaugh), w/ travel partner Jill Bratton (Temple)
vs. Notre Dame (Ashley Severson & Nicole Ameli) w/ travel partner Amrit Bhinder (Penn)
WOMEN'S EPEE ROUND-3 (3-vs.-3; six total bouts per strip)
• Northwestern (Courtney Dumas & Kate Cavanaugh), w/ travel partner Jill Bratton (Temple)
vs. Princeton (Kat Holmes & Hannah Safford) w/ travel partner Sarah Collins (Duke)
• Stanford (Ashley Titan & Rebecca Chung) w/ travel partner Diana Tsinis (Columbia)
vs. Penn State (Marg Guzzi & Oksana Samorodov) w/ travel partner Emily D'Agostino (Duke)
• St. John's (Zsofia Fath & Alina Ferdman) w/ travel partner Lydia Kopecky (Columbia)
vs. Notre Dame (Ashley Severson & Nicole Ameli) w/ travel partner Amrit Bhinder (Penn)
• Harvard (Emma Vaggo & Nadia Eldeib) w/ travel partner Megan Floyd (Sacred Heart)
vs. Ohio State (Carolina Piasecka & Katarzyna Davrowa), w/ travel partner Cory Abbe (Brown)
WOMEN'S EPEE ROUND-4 (3-vs.-3; six total bouts per strip)
• Stanford (Ashley Titan & Rebecca Chung) w/ travel partner Diana Tsinis (Columbia)
vs. Notre Dame (Ashley Severson & Nicole Ameli) w/ travel partner Amrit Bhinder (Penn)
• St. John's (Zsofia Fath & Alina Ferdman) w/ travel partner Lydia Kopecky (Columbia)
vs. Northwestern (Courtney Dumas & Kate Cavanaugh), w/ travel partner Jill Bratton (Temple)
• Princeton (Kat Holmes & Hannah Safford) w/ travel partner Sarah Collins (Duke)
vs. Ohio State (Carolina Piasecka & Katarzyna Davrowa), w/ travel partner Cory Abbe (Brown)
• Penn State (Marg Guzzi & Oksana Samorodov) w/ travel partner Emily D'Agostino (Duke)
vs. Harvard (Emma Vaggo & Nadia Eldeib) w/ travel partner Megan Floyd (Sacred Heart)
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WOMEN'S SABRE ROUND-1 (all six fencers face each other; 15 total bouts per strip)
• Princeton (Eliza Stone & Diamond Wheeler), w/ travel partner Kamali Thompson (Temple)
in six-fencer group w/ Notre Dame (Lian Osier & Abigail Nichols), w/ Chloe Grainger (Northwestern)
• Penn State (Nicole Glon & Monica Aksamit), w/ travel partner Becca Ward (Duke)
in six-fencer group w/ St. John's (Anna Limbach & Martyna Wieczorek) w/ travel partner Robin Shin (MIT)
• Columbia (Essane Diedro & Sammy Roberts) w/ travel partner Chelsea Rosenbaum (BC)
in six-fencer group w/ Harvard (Caroline Vloka & Kara Lee) w/ travel partner Chelsea Rosenbauer (Brown)
• Ohio State (Allison Miller & Margarita Tschomakova) w/ travel partner Dominika Franciskowicz (Penn)
in six-fencer group w/ Gillian Litsynski (UNC), Elissa Gesner (UCSD) & Jilua Klepner (Stanford)
WOMEN'S SABRE ROUND-2 (3-vs.-3; six total bouts per strip)
• Harvard (Caroline Vloka & Kara Lee) w/ travel partner Chelsea Rosenbauer (Brown)
vs. Gillian Litsynski (UNC), Elissa Gesner (UCSD) & Jilua Klepner (Stanford)
• Princeton (Eliza Stone & Diamond Wheeler), w/ travel partner Kamali Thompson (Temple)
vs. Columbia (Essane Diedro & Sammy Roberts) w/ travel partner Chelsea Rosenbaum (BC)
• Notre Dame (Lian Osier & Abigail Nichols), w/ Chloe Grainger (Northwestern)
vs. Penn State (Nicole Glon & Monica Aksamit), w/ travel partner Becca Ward (Duke)
• St. John's (Anna Limbach & Martyna Wieczorek) w/ travel partner Robin Shin (MIT)
vs. Ohio State (Allison Miller & Margarita Tschomakova) w/ travel partner Dominika Franciskowicz (Penn)
WOMEN'S SABRE ROUND-3 (3-vs.-3; six total bouts per strip)
• Notre Dame (Lian Osier & Abigail Nichols), w/ Chloe Grainger (Northwestern)
vs. Columbia (Essane Diedro & Sammy Roberts) w/ travel partner Chelsea Rosenbaum (BC)
• Harvard (Caroline Vloka & Kara Lee) w/ travel partner Chelsea Rosenbauer (Brown)
vs. Ohio State (Allison Miller & Margarita Tschomakova) w/ travel partner Dominika Franciskowicz (Penn)
• Penn State (Nicole Glon & Monica Aksamit), w/ travel partner Becca Ward (Duke)
vs. Gillian Litsynski (UNC), Elissa Gesner (UCSD) & Jilua Klepner (Stanford)
• Princeton (Eliza Stone & Diamond Wheeler), w/ travel partner Kamali Thompson (Temple)
vs. St. John's (Anna Limbach & Martyna Wieczorek) w/ travel partner Robin Shin (MIT)
WOMEN'S SABRE ROUND-4 (3-vs.-3; six total bouts per strip)
• Ohio State (Allison Miller & Margarita Tschomakova) w/ travel partner Dominika Franciskowicz (Penn)
vs. Penn State (Nicole Glon & Monica Aksamit), w/ travel partner Becca Ward (Duke)
• Notre Dame (Lian Osier & Abigail Nichols), w/ Chloe Grainger (Northwestern)
vs. Gillian Litsynski (UNC), Elissa Gesner (UCSD) & Jilua Klepner (Stanford)
• Harvard (Caroline Vloka & Kara Lee) w/ travel partner Chelsea Rosenbauer (Brown)
vs. Princeton (Eliza Stone & Diamond Wheeler), w/ travel partner Kamali Thompson (Temple)
• Columbia (Essane Diedro & Sammy Roberts) w/ travel partner Chelsea Rosenbaum (BC)
vs. St. John's (Anna Limbach & Martyna Wieczorek) w/ travel partner Robin Shin (MIT)