PHILADELPHIA - The University men's and women's fencing teams will head to Lafayette on Saturday as they compete in the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South regional. Competition will start at 9 a.m. for men's and women's foil and épée, 10 a.m. for men's saber and 11 a.m. for women's saber. Live results will be available
here.
The NCAA regional counts for 60 percent of a fencer's NCAA selection résumé while regular-season performance counts for the other 40 percent. Five of the six weapons, except women's foil, have seven NCAA spots allocated from the Mid-Atlantic/South region, with women's foil getting six.
Teams can qualify a maximum 12 fencers, two per weapon, for the NCAA Championships, with each of those fencers competing in 23 bouts and each of those wins adding a point to the team's standing in pursuit of the combined men's/women's team title.
The Quakers qualified the maximum 12 fencers for the men and the women.
Fencing for men will be:
*Note - Ranking reflects seeding.
Epee - No. 2 Justin Yoo (44-17), No. 3 Jake Raynis (60-26), No. 6 Zsombor Garzo (57-28), No. 20 Sean Wilson (41-28)
Saber - No. 6 Andrew Sun (53-23), No. 9 Julian Merchant (35-22), No. 12 Raphael Van Hoffelen (46-25), No. 19 Connor Mills (40-34)
Foil - No. 3 John Vaiani (38-21), No. 8 Willie Upbin (53-27), No. 11 Michael Li (44-22), No. 14 Raymond Chen (36-27)
Fencing for the women are:
Epee - No. 6
Stephanie Wolf (79-34), No. 9
Katherine Sizov (60-41), No. 17
Caroline Sands (24-16), No. 25
Emma Harris (27-45)
Saber - No. 9
Arabella Uhry (72-41), No. 13
Sara Papp (61-44), No. 16
Kathryn Khaw (43-28), No. 18
Miranda Gieg (30-19)
Foil - No. 1
Nicole Vaiani (64-17), No. 7
Danielle Ferdon (51-29), No. 10
Nicole Wong (45-24), No. 18
Simone Unwalla (43-21)
The Mid-Atlantic/South region includes Drew, Duke, FDU (women), Haverford, Johns Hopkins, Lafayette, NJIT (men), North Carolina, Penn, Penn State, Princeton, Stevens and Temple (women).
Last season, junior Justin Yoo won a second-straight epee Regional Championship and will go for his third while the men's team as a whole qualified six fencers for the NCAA Championship. Meanwhile the women qualified five for a total of 11 total Penn fencers representing the Red and Blue at the NCAA Championships.
What's Next
The NCAA Championships are set for March 22-25 at Penn State.
