Contact: Pete LaFleur (editor@collegefencing360.com)
Here's a (hypothetical) look at how the women's entrants in the 2011 NCAA Fencing Championships compare, based on their official "Fencing Strength Factor" (sort of an individual RPI) for the 2010-11 college season. In some cases, this listing can provide a relative comparison when looking at how various fencers end up finishing at the NCAAs. Unlike in the NCAA Regionals, there are no actual seeds used for the NCAA Championships.
Here's a (hypothetical) look at how the women's entrants in the 2011 NCAA Fencing Championships compare, based on their official "Fencing Strength Factor" (sort of an individual RPI) for the 2010-11 college season. In some cases, this listing can provide a relative comparison when looking at how various fencers end up finishing at the NCAAs. Unlike in the NCAA Regionals, there are no actual seeds used for the NCAA Championships.
(Note – There may be quirks in these numbers, such as two-time NCAA runner-up Noam Mills being #9 on this list ... again, these lists simply help for a possible comparative look that is based on the individual fencer results from the college season – dual meets and Regionals).
In the men's competition, the 12 men's foil All-Americans included 10 fencers who were among the top-12 leaders in FSF (eight of the 12 men's epee All-Americans had top-12 FSFs entering the NCAAs, while eight of the men's sabre All-Ameicans also were on pace for such a finish based on their FSFs) ... that all adds up to 28 of the 36 All-Americans parlaying a top-12 FSF "hypothetical seed into a top-12 All-America finish.
... As can be seen below, team leader Notre Dame has the strongest collection of women's competitors – on paper, that is (total of 30 when adding up the six fencers' hypothetical seeds ... followed by Ohio State's 55, St. John's 60, Penn State 62 and Princeton 64 ... Harvard has only five women's entrants, with a total of 53 when adding up their FSF comparative rankings).
| WOMEN's FOIL | ||
| 1. | Hayley Reese | Notre Dame |
| 2. | Doris Willette | Penn State |
| 3. | Oksana Dmytruk | Ohio State |
| 4. | Eve Levin | Princeton |
| 5. | Alexandra Kiefer | Harvard |
| 6. | Evgeniya Kirpicheva | St. John's |
| 7. | Dayana Sarkisova | Northwestern |
| 9. | HK Yuh | Princeton |
| 10. | Alyssa Lomuscio | Temple |
| 11. | Devynn Patterson | Northwestern |
| 11. | Mikayla Varardi | Temple |
| 12. | Rachel Beck | Notre Dame |
| 13. | April Whitney | Cornell |
| 14. | D'Meca Homer | Columbia |
| 15. | Kathy Chou | Harvard |
| 16. | Katie Williamson | North Carolina |
| 17. | Allison Henvick | Ohio State |
| 18. | Kathryn Hawrot | Brown |
| 19. | Christine McIntosh | Cornell |
| 20. | Olga Ostatnigrosh | Penn State |
| 21. | Irina Koroleva | St. John's |
| 22. | Avery Nackman | Brown |
| 23. | Meaghan Conway | Stanford |
| 24. | Jia Wu | UC San Diego |
| WOMEN's EPEE | ||
| 1. | Marg Guzzi | Penn State |
| 2. | Katarzyna Dabrowa | Ohio State |
| 3. | Ewa Nelip | Notre Dame |
| 4. | Courtney Hurley | Notre Dame |
| 5. | Caroline Piasecka | Ohio State |
| 6. | Amrit Bhinder | Univ. of Pennsylvania |
| 7. | Lydia Kopecky | Columbia/Barnard |
| 8. | Alina Ferdman | St. John's |
| 9. | Noam Mills | Harvard |
| 10. | Francesca Bassa | Stanford |
| 11. | Dina Bazarbayeva | Northwestern |
| 12. | Hannah Safford | Princeton |
| 13. | Alyssa Vongries | Penn State |
| 14. | Phoebe Caldwell | Princeton |
| 15. | Emily D'Agostino | Duke |
| 15. | Katya English | Columbia/Barnard |
| 17. | Gabriella Foor | Univ. of Pennsylvania |
| 18. | Kate Cavanaugh | Northwestern |
| 19 | . Chantal Montrose | Temple |
| 20. | Zsofia Fath | St. John's |
| 21. | Felicia Sun | Harvard |
| 22 | . Cory Abbe | Brown |
| 23. | Tasha Garcia | Yale University |
| 24. | Ashley Titan | Stanford |
| WOMEN'S SABRE | ||
| 1. | Dagmara Wozniak | St. John's |
| 2. | Eileen Hassett | Notre Dame |
| 3. | Caroline Vloka | Harvard |
| 4. | Anna Limbach | St. John's |
| 5. | Alison Miller | Ohio State |
| 6. | Samantha Roberts | Columbia/Barnard |
| 7. | Kamali Thompson | Temple |
| 8. | Lian Osier | Notre Dame |
| 9. | Monica Aksamit | Penn State |
| 10. | Loweye Diedro | Columbia/Barnard |
| 11. | Eliza Stone | Princeton |
| 12. | Becca Ward | Duke |
| 13. | Danielle Kamis | Univ. of Pennsylvania |
| 14. | Diamond Wheeler | Princeton |
| 15. | Chloe Grainger | Northwestern |
| 16. | Margarita Tschomakova | Ohio State |
| 17. | Nicole Glon | Penn State |
| 18. | Dominika Franciszkowicz | Univ. of Pennsylvania |
| 19. | Madeline Oliver | Yale University |
| 20. | Robin Shin | MIT |
| 21. | Heather Nelson | Air Force |
| 22. | Caitlin Taylor | Brown |
| 23. | Laura Decker | Cal Tech |
| 24. | Stella Shifrin | Hunter College |