2009-10: Finished campaign with a 26-8 overall record ... Opened the season with three straight 3-0 victories, against Drew, Sacred Heart and Duke (1/10) ... Concluded the season-opening Philadelphia Invitational with a team-best 13-2 mark (1/10) ... Also was 3-0 against Johns Hopkins (1/23) and NYU (1/30) ... Concluded his career with a 125-28 record ... Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area.
2008-09: First-team All-Ivy … NCAA Championships qualifier … IFA sabre silver medalist … IFA Sabre Team champion … IFA Men’s Three-Weapon champion … IFA Six-Weapon champion … Finished the campaign with a 31-7 record … Won the bronze medal at the Temple Open (11/16) … Recorded an 8-1 mark at the Princeton Multi-Meet (1/25) … Went 3-0 against both Duke and Drew at Princeton … Went 2-1 against eventual national champion Penn State (1/25) … Went 8-1 at the New England Invitational (2/1) … Went 13-2 in Ivy bouts … Was undefeated in Ivy competition against Princeton (2/8), Harvard (2/23) and Yale (2/23) … Won nine bouts at the IFA Championships to help Penn to a sabre team championship, a men’s three-weapon title, and an overall six-weapon crown (2/28) … Went 3-1 in the individual tournament to capture the silver medal … Finished sixth at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional (3/7) to automatically qualify for the NCAA Championships … Won nine bouts at NCAAs to finish 14th (3/19-20).
2007-08: Member of the IFA Champion sabre team ... Compiled a 25-7 record in the regular season ... Started the season with an 8-0 day at the Penn Multi-Meet (12/1) ... Went 2-0 against North Carolina (1/13) ... Went 10-5 in Ivy League Round Robins ... Had a 3-0 match against Yale (2/3) ... Had 11 wins at IFA Championships (2/24) to finish in sixth place.
2006-07: Honorable mention All-America ... Second-team All-Ivy ... NCAA Championships qualifier, where he finished tenth overall in sabre ... Went 43-6 in the regular season and 12-3 in Ivy bouts ... Went 12-2 at the Penn State Invitational (1/27), sweeping opponents from UNC, Haverford and Duke ... Went 6-0 against opponents from Brandeis and MIT at the MIT Multi-Meet (2/4) ... Recorded sweeps of opponents from Princeton (2/11), Yale (2/11) and Brown (2/25) ... Part of a sabre squad that finished second at IFAs (3/15).
High School: 2006 19-and-under men’s sabre National Champion ... Finished second at 2004 Cadet Junior Olympics ... Placed fifth at the 19-and-under World Cup in Budapest Hungary ... Member of the 16-and-under men’s sabre team in 2005 in Linz, Austria.
Personal: Son of Elizabeth Knortz and Stanley Bielen... Enrolled in College of Arts and Sciences.
