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Collegiate women's fencing gained equal footing with the men starting in 2000, when women's sabre first became part of the NCAA Championships. The list below shows the 14 fencing programs that have qualified the most NCAA entrants during the women's sabre era (2000-10).
Northwestern has sent the sixth-most women's fencers (51) to the NCAAs over the past 11 years, ranking ahead of such noteworthy programs as Stanford and several top Ivy League teams (most notably Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale).
Temple is tied for ninth among the schools with the most NCAA women's fencer entrants since 2000, ahead of upper-level teams Yale and Stanford. Cornell (21) rounds out the group of 14 schools that have sent 21-plus women's fencers to the NCAAs in the women's-sabre era.
Most NCAA Fencing Championship Women's Entrants
(women's sabre era; 2000-10 .... max. is 66 per team)
65 – Notre Dame ... one WE in 2007
64 – Penn State ... one WE in 2001, one WS in 2008
61 – St. John's ... one WF in 2000, one WE in '03, no WE in '04, one WF in '09
57 – Columbia
52 – Ohio State
51 – Northwestern (does not sponsor varsity men's fencing team
46 – Harvard
44 – Princeton
43 – Penn
42 – Temple (does not sponsor varsity men's fencing team)
31 – Yale
29 – Stanford
23 – Wayne State
21 – Cornell (does not sponsor varsity men's fencing team)