Here's a look at the hometowns for the 144 entrants in the 2014 NCAA Fencing Championships … some interesting results … final compilation breakdowns and general analysis by CF360's Pete LaFleur … thanks to Andy Seroff for his great work in accumulating and assembling the info. (may revisit this topic later) … – PL
Hometown Breakdown of 2014 NCAA Fencing Championship Entrants ...
- 120 of the 144 entrants (83%) hail from U.S. hometowns
- They hail from exactly half of the states (25), plus Washington D.C
- More than one-half of those from concentration within three states:
23 from California ... 22 from New York ... 21 from New Jersey - Texas with 8
- Massachusetts with 5, Virginia with 4
- 3 each from Georgia, Illinois, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island
- 2 each: AZ, DC, FL, KY, MN, UT and WA
- 1 each: AL, CO, CT, ME, NV, NM, NC and OH
- The 17% from foreign hometowns (24 total) span 15 counties, including 3 each from Canada, Italy and Poland ... 2 each from England, France and the Ukraine ... 1 each from Bulgaria, Rep. of Georgia, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, Mexico, Norway, Russia and Sweden
ALABAMA (1 WF)
Luona Wang (Pennsylvania) ... women’s foil ... Vestavia Hills
ARIZONA (1 ME, 1 MS)
Rhys Douglas (Ohio State) ... men’s sabre ... Scottsdale
Garrett McGrath (Notre Dame) ... men’s epee ... Mesa, AZ
CALIFORNIA (23 total ... 16 men, 7 women
(8 MF–3 ME–5 MS–2 WF–2 WE–3 WS)
(13 NorCal, 10 SoCal ... 9 Bay Area ... 5 San Francisco)
(4 from Penn State, 3 Stanford, 3 Notre Dame, 2 each: Brown, Columbia, Harvard & Penn)
Stephen Aman (Stanford) ... men’s foil ... Westlake Village
Eric Arzoian (Harvard) ... men’s sabre ... Beverly Hills
Noah Berman (Brandeis ... men’s foil ... Palo Alto
Nobou Bravo (Penn State) ... men’s foil ... San Francisco
Jason Chang (Penn) ... men’s foil ... Mountain View
Aleina Edwards (Penn) ... women’s epee ... Los Angeles
Jessie Gottesman-Radanovich (Penn State) ... women’s epee ... Frisco
John Hallsten (Notre Dame) ... men’s sabre ... Sacramento
Joseph Lam (Duke) ... men’s foil ... San Francisco
Geoffrey Loss (Columbia) … men's sabre ... Laguna Beach
Alex Massialas (Stanford) ... men’s foil ... San Francisco
Mary McElwee (Air Force) ... women’s foil ... San Francisco
Gerek Meinhardt (Notre Dame) ... men’s foil ... San Francisco
Joseph Rafidi (MIT) ... men’s epee ... Los Angeles
Mike Raynis (Harvard) ... men’s epee ... Chatsworth
Paul Riviere (Stanford) ... men’s epee ... San Diego
Kaito Streets (Penn State) ... men’s sabre ... Redwood City
Caitlin Taylor (Brown) ... women’s sabre ... Elk Grove
Travis Tibbitts (UC San Diego) ... men’s sabre ... Santa Barbara
Christine Whalen (Brown) ... women’s sabre ... San Juan Capistrano
David Willette (Penn State) ... men’s foil ... Lafayette
Sarah Yee (Columbia) ... women’s sabre ... Sacramento
Madison Zeiss (Notre Dame) ... women’s foil ... Los Angeles
COLORADO (1 ME)
Simon Jones (Brown) ... men’s epee ... Louisville
CONNECTICUT (1 WF)
Lauren Miller (Yale) ... women’s foil ... Greenwich
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (Washington D.C.) (1 MS, 1 WE)
Katherine Holmes (Princeton) ... women’s epee
Reed Srere (Yale) ... men’s sabre
FLORIDA (1 ME, 1 WE)
Sarah Collins (Duke) ... women’s epee ... Palm Harbor
Alessio Santoro (Duke) ... men’s epee ... Delray Beach
GEORGIA (1 MF, 1 WF, 1 WS)
Julia Abelsky (Northwestern) ... women’s sabre ... Sandy Springs
Madeleine Girardot (Air Force) ... women’s foil ... Atlanta, GA
Alexander Chiang (Air Force) ... men’s foil ... Atlanta
ILLINOIS (1 MS, 1 WE, 1 WS)
Christopher Monti (Duke) ... men’s sabre ... Chicago
Mason Speta (Columbia) ... women’s epee ... Chicago, IL
Gracie Stone (Princeton) ... women’s sabre ... Chicago, IL
KENTUCKY (2 WF)
Alexandra Kiefer (Harvard) ... women’s foil ... Lexington, KY
Lee Kiefer (Notre Dame) ... women’s foil ... Lexington, KY
MAINE (1 ME)
Jonathan Jacovino (Sacred Heart) ... men’s epee .... Brownfield
MASSACHUSETTS (2 ME, 1 MS, 2 WE)
Rachael Clark (Temple) ... women’s epee ... Boxford
Philip Dershwitz (Princeton) ... men’s sabre ... Sherborn
Isabel DiTella (Harvard) ... women’s epee ... Cambridge
Alex House (Princeton) ... men’s epee ... Upton
Yasser Mahmoud (Penn State) ... men’s epee ... Quincy
MINNESOTA (1 WE, 1 WS)
Susannah Scanlan (Princeton) ... women’s epee ... St. Paul
Johanna Thill (Notre Dame) ... women’s sabre ... Chanhassen
NEVADA (1 WE)
Nicole Ameli (Notre Dame) ... women’s epee ... Las Vegas
NEW JERSEY (21 total ... 10 men, 11 women)
(4 MF, 2 ME, 4 MS, 5 WF, 2 WE, 4 WS)
(2 each from Wayne and Franklin Lakes)
Adrian Bak (Penn State) ... men’s sabre ... Franklin Lakes
Harry Bergman (Columbia) ... men’s foil ... Lebanon
Devon Clark (Sacred Heart) ... men’s epee ... Teaneck
Jackie Dubrovich (Columbia) ... women’s foil ... Riverdale
Angelica Gangemi (Cornell) ... women’s foil ... Old Bridge
Sharon Gao (Princeton) ... women’s foil ... Plainsboro
Alisha Gomez-Shah (Northwestern) ... women’s sabre ... Wayne
Julia Greene (Sacred Heart) ... women’s sabre ... Califon
Shriya Joshi (Penn) ... women’s sabre ... Cherry Hill
Brian Kaneshige (Harvard) ... men’s foil ... Maplewood
Andrew Kelly (NYU) ... men’s sabre ... South Orange
David Kong (NJIT) ... men’s foil ... Rutherford
Celine Merza (Ohio State) ... women’s sabre ... Wayne
Hugh O’Cinneide (Yale) ... men’s sabre .. Upper Montclair
Cooper Schumacher (St. John’s) ... men’s epee ... Pompton Lakes
Ashley Severson (Notre Dame) ... women’s epee ... Franklin Lakes
Ambika Singh (Princeton) ... women’s foil ... Skillman
Isis Washington (St. John's) ... women’s epee ... Parsippany
Michael Woo (Harvard) ... men’s foil ... Wayne
Jen Yamin (Northwestern) ... women’s foil ... Allendale
Steven Yang (Penn) ... men’s sabre ... Princeton Junction
NEW MEXICO (1 ME)
Jake Harbour (Stanford) ... men’s epee ... Santa Fe, NM
NEW YORK (22 total; 11 men, 11 women)
(4 MF, 3 ME, 5 MS, 1 WF, 2 WE, 7 WS)
Alexa Antipas (Ohio State) ... women’s sabre ... Stony Brook
Sam Austin (North Carolina) ... men’s sabre ... Dix Hills
Cordelia Avery (MIT) ... women’s sabre ... New York City
Max Blitzer (St. John’s) ... men’s foil ... Staten Island
Clifford Fishler Penn) ... men’s epee ... Great Neck
Alyssa Hofelina (Air Force) ... women’s sabre ... Miller Place
Clifford Fishler Penn) ... men’s epee ... Great Neck
Andrew Holmes (Sacred Heart) ... men’s foil ... Centereach
Adrienne Jarocki (Harvard) ... women’s sabre ... Middle Village
Tiki Kastor (Temple) ... women’s sabre ... New York City
Gillian Litynski (North Carolina) ... women’s sabre ... Niskayuna
Katherine Miller (Yale) ... women’s epee ... New York City
Adam Mandel (Brandeis) ... men’s sabre ... White Plains
Adam Mathieu (Columbia) ... men’s foil ... White Plains, NY
Jessica O'Neill-Lyublinsky (Penn State) ... women’s epee ... North Salem
Peter Pak (Princeton) ... men’s sabre ... Roslyn
Ryan Redhead (Air Force) ... men’s sabre ... Victor
Brian Ro (Columbia) ... men’s epee ... Scarsdale
Alexa Rohan (Stanford) ... women’s sabre ... Stony Brook
William Spear (Columbia) ... men’s sabre ... Wynantskill
Sara Taffel (Columbia) ... women’s foil ... New York City
Christian Vastola (NYU) ... men’s foil ... Briarcliff Manor, NY
Victoria Wines (Cornell) ... women’s epee ... Somers
NORTH CAROLINA (1 WS)
Joanna Lew (Yale) ... women’s sabre ... Durham
OHIO (1 WE)
Courtney Dumas (Northwestern) ... women’s epee ... Cleveland
OREGON (1 MF, 1 MS, 1 WS)
Christopher Colley (Ohio State) ... men’s foil ... Portland
Kevin Hassett (Notre Dame) ... men’s sabre ... Beaverton
Diamond Wheeler (Princeton) ... women’s sabre ... Portland
PENNSYLVANIA (1 ME, 1 WE, 1 WS)
Megan Floyd (Sacred Heart) ... women’s epee ... Media
Nicole Glon (Penn State) ... women’s sabre ... State College
Jake Hoyle (Columbia) ... men’s epee ... Philidelphia
RHODE ISLAND (2 WF, 1 WS)
Kathryn Hawrot (Brown) ... women’s foil ... Barrington
Caroline Mattos (Brandeis) ... women’s foil ... Cumberland
Alexandra Tannous (St. John's) ... women’s sabre ... Providence
TEXAS (8 total ... 5 women, 3 men)
(3 MF, 2 ME, 1 WF, 2 WE ... 3 from Houston, 2 from Garland)
Dina Bazarbayeva (Northwestern) ... women’s epee ... Houston
Francesca Bassa (Stanford) ... women’s epee ...Houston
Rodney Chen (Princeton) ... men’s foil ... Dallas
Michael Dudey (Princeton) ... men’s foil ... Bellaire
Jack Hudson (Princeton) ... men’s epee ... Houston
Mona Shaito (Ohio State) ... women’s foil ... Garland
Zain Shaito (Ohio State) ... men’s foil ... Garland
Conor Shepard (Penn State) ... men’s epee ... Colleyville
UTAH (2 ME)
Dylan Nollner (Duke) ... men’s epee ... Ogden
R.J. Shipp (Penn) ... men’s epee ... Orem
VIRGINIA (2 ME, 1 MS, 1 WE)
Iñaki de Guzman (Ohio State) ... men’s epee ... Fairfax
Alexander Eldeib (Harvard) ... men’s epee ... Burke
Chantal Montrose (Temple) ... women’s epee ... Alexandria
Alexander Ryjik (Harvard) ... men’s sabre ... Alexandria
WASHINGTON (1 ME, 1 WF)
Paul Duchow (Cleveland State) ... men’s epee ... Spokane
Cassidy Seidl (Penn) ... women’s foil ... Redmond
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BULGARIA (1 ME)
Kristian Boyadzhiev (Ohio State) ... men’s epee ... Sofia
CANADA (2 MS, 1 WF)
Fares Arfa (Ohio State) ... men’s sabre ... Laval, Quebec
Alanna Goldie (Ohio State) ... women’s foil ... Calgary, Alberta
Shaul Gordon (Penn State) ... men’s sabre ... Richmond, BC
ENGLAND
Kristjan Archer (Notre Dame) ... men’s foil ... Cambridge
Aliya Itzkowitz (Harvard) ... women’s sabre ... London
FRANCE (1 MF, 1 WF)
Clarisse Luminet (Penn State) ... women’s foil ... Lyon
Quentin Schneider (Wayne State) ... men’s foil ... Gonesse
REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA
Teodora Kakhiani (Penn State) ... women’s sabre ... Tbilisi, Georgia
HONG KONG
Vivian Kong (Stanford) ... women’s epee ... Hong Kong
HUNGARY (1 MS)
Ferenc Valkai (St. John’s) ... men’s sabre ... Gödöllő
ISRAEL
Alina Ferdman (St. John's) ... women’s epee ... Ma'alot
ITALY (1 MF, 1 WF, 1 WE)
Michele Caporizzi (St. John’s) ... men’s foil ... Milan, Italy
Eugenia Falqui (Ohio State) ... women’s epee ... Rome
Irene Spezzamonte (St. John’s) ... women’s foil ... Venice, Italy
MEXICO
Fatima Largaespada (Temple) ... women’s foil ... Puebla, Mexico
NORWAY
Caroline Piasecka (Ohio State) ... women’s epee ... Oslo
POLAND
Marta Hausman (St. John’s) ... women’s foil ... Torun
Kaja Klodawska (Wayne State) ... women’s sabre ... Lodz
Zuzanna Sobczak (Wayne State) ... women’s foil ... Gdansk
RUSSIA
Alina Antokhina (Penn State) ... women’s foil ... Moscow
SWEDEN
Emma Vaggo (Harvard) ... women’s epee ... Kullavik
UKRAINE (1 ME, 1 MS)
Roman Sydorenko (St. John’s) ... men’s sabre ... Kiev
Yevgeniy Karyuchenko (St. John’s) ... men’s epee ... Kharkiv