** pre-Regional seeding information has been added to this page (analysis to follow Monday night)**
Note – CF360 still hoping to get full results, pool grids, bout scores, etc. (should have by later Monday)
Penn State freshman foilist David Willette (left) won the 2010 Mid-Atlantic/South Regional title – as did his sister, PSU senior women's foilist Doris Willette (the 2007 and '09 NCAA champion).
The Mid-Atlantic/South Region receives six automatic men's foil spots into the NCAA Championship (March 25-28, at Harvard), with a maximum of two per team. The qualification formula is based on two elements: pre-regional seeding factor (40%) and placement/finish at the Regional (60%). The NCAA round-robin format will include 24 total fencers in each weapon, as qualified from the four regions. There also are two total 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).
The MA/S Region's six automatic men's foil representatives are expected (unofficially) to include Penn State's David Willette and Miles Chamley-Watson, Penn's Alex Simmons and Princeton's Alex Mills (plus two others). Princeton is hoping to qualify David Mandle through the alternate process. ... here is some partial men's foil data for the M-A/S Regional (hopefully more to come):
NCAA 2010 MID-ATLANTIC/SOUTH REGIONAL – MEN'S FOIL
(Saturday, March 13 ... Madison, N.J./Drew University ... partial results)
1 – David Willette (Penn State .. fr. ... Lafayette, CA ... #3 seed)
2 – Michael El-Saleh (Penn State ... so. ... Houston, TX ... #7 seed)
3 – Alex Simmons (Penn ... so. ... Sonoma, CA ... #5 seed)
4 – Dorian Cohen (Duke ... jr. ... Brooklyn, NY ... #8 seed)
5 – Alex Mills (Princeton ... so. ... Milburn, NJ ... #2 seed)
6 – Daniel Gomez (Penn State ... fr. ... Mexico City, Mexico ... #4 seed)
7 – Miles Chamley-Watson (Penn State ... so. ... Philadelphia, PA ... #1 seed)
8 – Vidur Kapur (Penn ... so. ... Syosset, NY ... #11 seed)
9 – Kevin Nadeau (North Carolina ... so. ... Austin, TX ... #19 seed)
10 – Samuel Perkins (Penn State ... jr. ... Petaluma, CA ... #6 seed)
11 – Ben Van Son (Haverford ... fr. ... Rochester, NY ... #9 seed)
12 – Marcus Howard (Princeton ... so. ... Philadelphia, PA ... #17 seed)
13 – David Mandle (Princeton ... so. ... Losa Altos Hills, CA ... #12 seed)
others posted
18 – Andrew Simon (Duke ... sr. ... Guilford, CT ... #10 seed)
27 – Eliot Cohen (Duke ... sr. ... Brooklyn, NY ... #23 seed)