Composite Schedule


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Final 2009 Postseason Events
("Red-Letter Days")
Various links (coverage/recap, etc.) will be added to this listing


Week of Feb. 23 – March 1    (follow the IFAs and MFCs on the CF360 blog)

Saturday, Feb. 28
Intercollegiate Fencing Association (IFA) Championships  
(at Brandeis; Waltham, Mass.)

Top-10 teams Columbia, Harvard, Penn and Princeton, plus Boston College, Brandeis Brown, Cornell (women), MIT, NYU, Vassar & Yale.

Saturday, Feb. 28 – Sunday, March 1
Midwest Fencing Conference (MFC) Championships  
(at Notre Dame; Notre Dame, Ind.)

Top-10 teams Notre Dame, Ohio State and Northwestern (women), with other varsity teams including Cleveland State, Detroit, Lawrence and Wayne State ... non-varsity/club teams: Bowling Green, Case Western, Chicago, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Oberlin, Purdue, Xavier and Wisconsin.

Note that the two events listed above have no statistical bearing on qualification for the NCAA Regionals.


Week of March 2 – March 8

Saturday, March 7
NCAA Fencing WEST Regional
(at Stanford; Palo Alto, Calif.)    4 schools
Air Force, Cal Tech, UC San Diego and Stanford.

Saturday, March 7
NCAA Fencing MID-ATLANTIC/SOUTH Regional
(at Drew University; Madison, N.J.)    7 schools

Drew, Duke, Fairleigh Dickinson (women), Haverford, Johns Hopkins, Lafayette, N.J.I.T., North Carolina, Penn, Princeton, Stevens Tech and Temple (women).

Saturday, March 7 – Sunday, March 8
NCAA Fencing MIDWEST Regional
(at Ohio State; Columbus, Ohio)   
13 schools
Cleveland State, Detroit, Lawrence, Northwestern (women), Notre Dame, Ohio State and Wayne State.

Sunday, March 8
NCAA Fencing NORTHEAST Regional
(at MIT; Cambridge, Mass.)   
18 schools

Boston College, Brandeis, Brown, Columbia, Cornell (women), Harvard, Hunter, MIT, CC New York (women), NYU, Queens College (women), Sacred Heart, St. John's, Tufts (women), Vassar, Wellesley (women), Yale and Yeshiva.


Week of March 9 – March 15

No intercollegiate events

Week of March 16 – March 22

Thursday, March 19
NCAA Championships – Day 1
(at Penn State; State College, Pa.)
• Men's Foil/Epee Sabre ... rounds 1-4 (13 round-robin bouts per fencer)


Friday, March 20
NCAA Championships – Day 2
(at Penn State; State College, Pa.)
• Men's Foil/Epee/Sabre ... rounds 5-7 (10 round-robin bouts per fencer)
• Men's Foil/Epee/Sabre ... medal round
(semifinals, final and third-place bout; all are 15-touch bouts and do not count to team scores)

Saturday, March 21
NCAA Championships – Day 3
(at Penn State; State College, Pa.)
• Women's Foil/Epee Sabre ... rounds 1-4 (13 round-robin bouts per fencer)


Sunday, March 22
NCAA Championships – Day 4
(at Penn State; State College, Pa.)
• Women's Foil/Epee/Sabre ... rounds 5-7 (10 round-robin bouts per fencer)
• Women's Foil/Epee/Sabre ... medal round
(semifinals, final and third-place bout; all are 15-touch bouts and do not count to team scores)
• Presentation of team awards

Note: each round-robin win (5-touch bouts) counts as one point in the team standings.

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