Northeast Pre-Regional Seeds – Men's Foil (2010)

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Notes – CollegeFencing360.com is honoring a request from the NCAA Fencing Committee to not publish the "Fencing Seeding Factor" numbers with this list of seeds (instead, a simple ordering of 1 through 36 is used to indicate relative seed, while omitting the statistical "FSF" data) ... surprisingly, the FSF numbers again have been made public by others, but they will not appear on CF360  •  •  •  the proper name for this event is NCAA Northeast Regional (no "s" at the end of the word Regional and no wording that indicates "qualifier") ... the title NCAA Fencing Northeast Regional can be used as a longer form, and the shorter term Northeast Regional can be used after first reference.

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The seeding data listed below is based on any sanctioned team dual-meet results during the 2009-10 academic year. Note that these seedings are very important to qualification for the NCAA Championships (40% based on seeding; 60% based on Regional performance/finish). Each team can qualify a maximum of two fencers per weapon for the NCAA Championships.

The Northeast Region currently is allocated eight automatic qualifiers for the NCAA Championships in every weapon except women's sabre (9). The NCAA round-robin format will include 24 total fencers in each weapon, as qualified from the four regions. There also are two at-large spots in each weapon, comprising a portion of the 24-fencer fields (again, each team still is limited to two total entrants in each weapon). 

A couple other notes and clarifications: (1) any fencer winning an NCAA Regional weapon title automatically qualifies for the NCAAs (regardless of seeding factor); (2) if a team has more than two fencers falling within the regional qualification standard (i.e. top-8 for most of the weapons in the Northeast), the coach can select which fencers will comprise the two NCAA entrants.

Based on the seedings listed below, Yale and St. John's are in the best position to have the maximum two men's foilists among the eight from the Northeast that will be automatic qualifiers for the NCAAs. Brown and Harvard appear to be the only other teams with a realistic chance to automatically qualify two men's foilists.

NO LIONS –  Perennial national power Columbia conspicuously has no entrants in this Regional men's foil competition. The Lions featured one of the nation's top men's foil duos in 2009, but Sherif Farrag was lost to graduation while fellow All-American Kurt Getz has not fenced in a college event since early February (he has been competing in various international tournaments and may be doing so this weekend). Getz posted a 29-10 record in Columbia dual meets this season: 12-3 at the NYU Invitational (Jan. 23), 11-4 at the St. John's Invitational (Jan. 24) and 6-3 in the home meet vs. Vassar, NYU and Sacred Heart (Feb.3). 

Based on Columbia's official online statistics (thru March 2), only three men's foilists – Getz, fellow senior Isaac Kim (14-25) and freshman Terence "T.K." Kim (3-45) – have competed for the Lions this season. Columbia ended up bouting with only one true men's foil fencer (T.K. Kim) during the two-day Ivy League Championships (Feb. 21 and 28), along with a sabre fencer who took some of the Ivy foil bouts (Columbia forfeited three men's foil bouts in each of its five Ivy League matches).

Recently, Columbia has acknowledged on its website that Isaac Kim (who placed 13th at the 2008 Northeast Regional) had left the team, and he no longer appears on the program's official online roster – which includes five total men's foilists (Getz, T.K. Kim, sophomore Eli Geminder, freshman Eddie Grigoriev and senior Asher Grodman). Geminder did not fence in any bouts for Columbia as a freshman (or this season) while Grodman is a walk-on member of the squad. Grigoriev – who was born in Kazakhstan and is the son of renowned fencing coach Slava Grigoriev – finished in the top-16 at the 2008 Junior World Championships but has yet to fence on the collegiate level.

MEN'S FOIL SEEDINGS – 2010 NCAA NORTHEAST REGIONAL 
 (Sunday, March 14 ... at Brown University ... 8 automatic qualifiers to NCAAs)
1 – Alexis Landreville  (St. John's)  
2 – John Gurrieri  (Yale)
3 – Adam Pantel  (Brown)   
4 – Nathaniel Botwinick  (Yale)  
5 – Philip Jameson  (NYU)  
6 – Jared Reboer  (Sacred Heart)  
7 – Tommaso Dirobilant  (Harvard)  
8 – Shiv Kachru  (Yale)  
9 – Adam Watson  (St. John's)   
10 – Scott Phillips  (Brown)  
11 – Jonathan Yu  (Brown)   
12 – Hao Meng  (Harvard)   
13 – Tavish Pegram  (Vassar) 
14 – Ethan Patterson  (Sacred Heart)  
15 – Jonathan Holbrook  (Yale)  
16 – Philip Butler  (St. John's)   
17 – Sjur Hoftun  (Boston College)   
18 – Jose Samora  (Hunter)  
19 – Ben Nield  (MIT)  
20 – Jesse Besignano  (Vassar)  
21 – Daniel Levine  (MIT)  
22 – Stuart Holmes  (Sacred Heart)  
23 – Andrew Holbrook  (Yale)  
24 – Long Ouyang  (Harvard)  
25 – Andrew Pintea  (Brown)  
26 – Oung-Jo Yuh  (NYU) 
27 – Nick Kazimiroff  (Boston College)   
28 – James Golin  (Brown)   
29 – Sean Norton  (Brandeis)  
30 – Ken Sin  (NYU) 
31 – Michael D'urso  (Vassar)  
32 – Andrew Shirman  (Boston College)   
33 – Richard Lagrandier  (MIT)  
34 – Barret Elward  (NYU)   
35 – Connor Sumner  (Boston College)  
36 – Marcus Ng  (Hunter)

Mar 14, 2010 4:07 AM

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