An assortment of 57 fencers from the four West Region schools (Stanford, Air Force, UC San Diego and Cal Tech) will be in action at the 2011 NCAA West Regional, on Sat., March 5 at the Air Force Academy's Cadey Gymnasium East Gym.
Saturday's results will count to 60% of the individual qualification for the NCAA Championships, to be held March 24-27 at Ohio State. The other 40% is based on each individual's "fencer seeding factor" (i.e. regular-season dual-meet bouts). The relative strength factors are listed below, shown as seeds 1-2-3, etc. (in some cases, there are significant gaps between certain seeds).
The West Regional format in each weapon will be one pool in each weapon, with each fencer facing the others and placements based on won-loss record
The NCAA Championships again will feature 24 competitors in all six weapons, with each of the four regions receiving a varying number of automatic berths in each weapon. Each school can qualify a maximum of two fencers in each weapon for the NCAA Championship. The West Region's allotment of automatic berths is two in each weapon except men's epee (3). Following the Regional, the West also can submit two candidates in each weapon as "at-large" nominees for the NCAAs (there are two total at-large spots available in each weapon, for the respective 24-fencer fields in each weapon).
CollegeFencing360 will be on-site at Air Force ... stay-tuned to this blog and the CB360updates Twitter feed (feed conveniently posted on CF360 main page).
NCAA FENCING WEST REGIONAL
Sat., March 5 ... Air Force Cadet Gymnasium East Gym (Colorado Springs, CO)
Seedings listed below
WOMEN'S FOIL (6 entrants ... 2 automatic NCAA berths)
1 – Meaghan Conway (Stanford)
2 – Jia (Julia) Wu (UC San Diego)
3 – Rebecca Chung (Stanford)
4 – Rose Forcier (UC San Diego)
5 – Amrit Khalsa (UC San Diego)
6 – Maneeshika Madduri (Stanford)
WOMEN'S EPEE (10 entrants ... 2 automatic NCAA berths)
1 – Francesca Bassa (Stanford)
2 – Simone Barrette (Air Force)
3 – Kersten Schnurle (Stanford)
4 – Ashley Titan (Stanford)
5 – Juli Nokleberg (Air Force)
6 – Katherine Lynch (Stanford)
7 – Olivia Prosseda (Air Force)
8 – Casey Gilchrist (UC San Diego)
9 – Amy Bianchini (UC San Diego)
10 – Diane Yi (UC San Diego)
WOMEN'S SABRE (9 entrants ... 2 automatic NCAA berths)
1 – Heather Nelson (Air Force)
2 – Elissa Gesner (UC San Diego)
3 – Laura Decker (Cal Tech)
4 – Suraya Omar (Syanford)
5 – Alexandria Stanley (UC San Diego)
6 – Saskia Hicks (Air Force)
7 – Lianna Louis (Stanford)
8 – Atira Richards (Stanford)
9 – Jordan Conway (UC San Diego)
MEN'S FOIL (11 entrants ... 2 automatic NCAA berths)
1 – Turner Caldwell (Stanford)
2 – Daniel Cohen (Air Force)
3 – Alex Khoshnevissan (Stanford)
4 – Phil Arredondo (Stanford)
5 – Brennan Louis (UC San Diego)
6 – Nicholas Stockdale (Air Force)
7 – Michael Fond (UC San Diego)
8 – Alexander Lavin (UC San Diego)
9 – Joseph Schenkel (UC San Diego)
10 – Travis Dyson (Air Force)
11 – Eugene Vinitsky (Cal Tech)
MEN'S EPEE (13 entrants ... 3 automatic NCAA berths)
1 – Kevin Mo (Stanford)
2 – Jake Harbour (Stanford)
3 – Kian Ameli (Stanford)
4 – James Galamba (San Diego)
5 – Cole Connely (Stanford)
6 – Nicholas McGuinness (UC San Diego)
7 – Daniel Trapani (Air Force)
8 – Terry Lee (Cal Tech)
9 – Chase Houser (Air Force)
10 – Benjamin Rinaldi (Air Force)
11 – Patrick Burton (UC San Diego)
12 – Anson Lam (Cal Tech)
13 – Stanford Schor (Cal Tech)
MEN'S SABRE (8 entrants ... 2 automatic NCAA berths)
1 – Max Murphy (Stanford)
2 – Nicholas Bartuzik (UC San Diego)
3 – Scott Pippin (Air Force)
4 – Lucas Jansen (Stanford)
5 – Jeremy Klepner (Stanford)
6 – Emerson Woerner (Air Force)
7 – Jonathan Ott (UC San Diego)
8 – Bryson Abilay (UC San Diego)