Strength-Factor Hypothetical Women's Seeding (2011 NCAA Fencing)

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.


(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

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