The 11 fencers at the 2010 NCAAs who were four-time NCAA entrants came from all six weapons, led by three in men's epee (not including one multi-weapon career participant) and two women's epeeists. The 10 included three from Penn State, along with fencers from Yale, Wayne State, Columbia, Air Force, NYU, Temple, Norhwestern and St. John's
Five of the "four-timers" also were four-time All-Americans (top-12 NCAA finish), led by Wayne State men's epeeist Slava Zingerman (the '07-'09 NCAA champion), along with Northwestern women's epeeist Christa French and three from Penn State: multi-weapon talent Nick Chinman (foil '07-'09, epee '10), women's epeeist Nastia Ferdman and women's sabreist Caity Thompson. Ferdman impressively finished in the top-6 all four years (4th-6th-1st-3rd, from '07-'10) while Thompson competed as a graduate/5th-year student this season (she did not fence for PSU in 2008, due to Olympic qualification).
MULTIPLE WEAPONS (1)
• Nick Chinman (Penn State) ...
m-foil 5th in '07, 4th in '08, 1st in '09
m-epee 3rd in '10
John Gurrieri (left)
Peter French (left)
• Tanya Novakovska (St. John's) ... 5th in '07, 8th in '08 & '09, 13th in '10
Caity Thompson (left)
Note that several of the fencers listed on this page took off one year (or two) from college fencing, in order to focus on Olympic qualification. Those fencers include Columbia men's epeeist Dwight Smith and Penn state women's sabreist Caity Thompson (both did not fence in '08 college bouts).
The second list below shows the 26 fencers who made their third appearance at the NCAAs in 2010 – with 18 of those fencers (non-seniors) likely to be making their fourth trips to the NCAAs one year from now (in 2011).
11 ... men's sabre
6 ... men's epee
6 ... women's sabre
5 ... women's foil
5 ... women's epee
2 ... multi-weapons (MF/ME and WF/WE)
Julia Tikhonova (left)
w-foil 17th in '08
w-epee 11th in '09 & 17th in '10
17th in '08, 11th in '09, 17th in '10
Alexis Landreville (St. John's) ... 16th in '07, 18th in '09, 10th in '10
*Daniel Trapani (Air Force) ... 14th in '08, 5th in '09, 22nd in '10
*Graham Wicas (Princeton) ... 3rd in '08, 2nd in '09, 20th in '10
* – one year of eligibility remaining
Thomas Abend (Princeton) ... 19th in '07, 10th in '09, 12th in '10
Daniel Bak (Penn State) ... 3rd in '08 and '09, 2nd in '10
*Andrew Fischl (Vassar) ... 21st in '08, 23rd in '09, 16th in '10
*Jakub Gibczzynski (Wayne State) ... 10th in '08, 20th in '09, 19th in '10
*Lucas Janson (Stanford) ... 15th in '08, 9th in '09 and '10
*Max Murphy (Stanford) ... 19th in '08, 12th in '09, 17th in '10
*Barron Nydam (Notre Dame) ... 6th in '08, 10th in '09 and '10
Jeff Spear (Columbia) ... 1st in '08, 7th in '09 and '10
*John Stogin (Princeton) ... 20th in '08, 19th in '09, 21st in '10
*Kevin Ziechmann (North Carolina) ... 24th in '08, 21st in '09, 23rd in '10
Hayley Reese (Notre Dame) ... 11th in '08, 2nd in '09, 5th in '10
Nicole Ross (Columbia) ... 3rd in '08, 5th in '09, 1st in '10
Doris Willette (Penn State) ... 1st in '07 and '08, 2nd in '09
Kayley French (Northwestern) ...
14th in '07, 20th in '09, 16th in '10
9th in '07, 6th in '09, 11th in '10
2nd in '07, 1st in '08, 6th in '10
Sarah Borrmann (left)