2014 Fencing
Capsules from CF360:
LIVE RESULTS from 2015 NCAA Fencing Championships
New Bonus Offering from CF360:
Headshot Photo Galleries (with info. & notes) of 2015 NCAA Field
M-Foil | M-Epee | M-Sabre | W-Foil | W-Epee | W-Sabre
• CF360 2015 Fencer Focus (Q&A): Men's Foil | Men’s Epee | Men’s Sabre
CLICK HERE for CF360’s annual in-depth look at the 2015 NCAA Fencing Championship field (March 19–22) – bigger and better than ever
(all sorts of notes & info. for college fencing fans! )
– 2015 NCAA Regional Results (March 7–8): –
Northeast | Mid-Atlantic/South | Midwest | West
CLICK HERE for updated/final CF360 College Fencing Coaches Polls for 2015 (3–17–15)
• Fencing Coaches Poll History (spreadsheets; 2001-15): MEN | WOMEN
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See right sidebar for event schedules
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Bouting Schedules & Event Preview Links
for key weekend action on Jan. 24-25, 2015
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2014 NCAA Championship FINAL RESULTS (PDF)
2014 NCAA Final Team Standings (top-8)
1. Penn State – 180 (WF27–WE26–WS33 ... MF37–ME23–MS34)
2. Princeton – 159 (WF26–WE31–WS30 … MF21–ME27–MS24)
3. St. John's – 156 (WF27–WE24–WS10 … MF29–ME29–MS37)
4. Ohio State – 149 (WF32–WE19–WS30 … MF23–ME22–MS23)
5. Harvard – 146 (WF16–WE24–WS38 ... MF26–ME23–MS19)
6. Notre Dame – 138 (WF38–WE24–WS10 ... MF33–ME14–MS19)
7. Columbia – 107 (WF30–WE8–WS2 ... MF19–ME24–MS24)
8. Pennsylvania – 89 (WF16–WE7–WS8 ... MF8–ME21–MS29)
(note: PSU and OSU had max. 12 fencers; others above had 11 or 10 … SJU 1 WS..HARV 1 WF..Penn 1 MF.. ND 1 ME & 1 WS..COL 1 WE & 1 WS..Penn 1 WE & 1 WS)
Men's Champions: Foil – Gerek Meinhardt (Notre Dame)
Epee – Yevgeniy Karychenko (St. John's) | Sabre – Kaito Streets (Penn State)
Women's Champions: Foil – Lee Kiefer (Notre Dame)
Epee – Vivian Kong (Stanford) | Sabre – Adrienne Jarocki (Harvard)
LIVE RESULTS (2014 NCAA Championships; March 20-23)
CF360 Exclusive – In-depth breakdown of 2014 NCAA Fencing Entrants' Hometowns
CF360 2014 Fencer Focus (Q&A) – Women's Foil | W-Epee | W-Sabre
CF366 Guest Columns – NCAA Capsule Previews
• Women's Foil – Dayana Sarkisova (Northwestern '13)
• Women's Epee – Hannah Safford (Princeton '13)
• Women's Sabre – Caroline Vloka (Harvard '12)
• Men's Epee – Jonathan Yergler (Princeton '13)
• Men's Sabre – Aleks Ochocki (Penn State '12)
CLICK HERE for CF360 release on 2014 NCAA Fencing Champ. entries
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Video Look Back at Princeton's 2013 NCAA Title (CF360 exclusive) …
CLICK HERE for main page with links to all Princeton videos listed below:
• 2013 Post-NCAA Title Video Interviews:
Stone Siblings (Eliza, Rob & Gracie) | Zoltan Dudas | Eve Levin
• Earlier CF360 1-on-1 Video with Princeton:
Jonathan Yergler 2011 | Ambika Singh 2011 | Eliza Stone 2010
More CF360 Video Interviews (2014 NCAA entrants)
(from 2009-13 seasons; more being added all week)
Women's Foil: Lee Kiefer (ND) – medium, mobile & large | Mona Shaito (w/ brother Zain; OSU; 2-parts)
Women's Epee: Francesca Bassa part-1 & part-2 (STAN)
Men's-Foil: Zain Shaito (w/ sister Mona; OSU; 2-parts)
David Willette (w/ sister Doris; PSU)
Group interview with the 2013 semifinalists: Alex Massialas (Stanford), David Willette (PSU), Gerek Meinhardt (ND) and Miles-Champey Watson (PSU): medium size | mobile version
Gerek Meinhardt (ND; action–2009 NCAA final vs. Nick Chinman; photos+video)
(Note: video are full-HD and may require initial download time before viewing.)
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CLICK HERE for final 2014 CF360 Coaches Poll
• Fencing Coaches Poll History (spreadsheets; 2001-14): MEN | WOMEN
SEE RIGHT SIDEBAR FOR NCAA REGIONAL INFO. & LINKS (March 8-9)
(more Feb. results being added … )
CF360 National Weekly Fencing Awards (2014) – week-1 | week-2 | week-3
Early-Feb. Results: Northwestern Duals (Feb. 1-2) | Eric Sollee Invit. (Feb. 1)
BIG WEEKEND Results (Jan. 25-26, 2014; listed below)
St. John's Invit. | Philly Invit. | NYU Invit. | NFC Meet #2 (at BC)
Early 2014 Results: • Penn State Invitational (1–12–14)
• Western Invitational (1–11–14; at Stanford; link to raw results)
PDF lists of top returners from 2013 fencing season (indicated by highlighting):
from NCAA Champ. | from Northeast Reg. | from Mid-Atlantic/South Reg. | from Midwest Reg. | from West Reg.
above – longtime friends and club teammates Alexander Massialas (left) and Gerek Meinhardt (right) squared off in the 2013 NCAA men's foil semifinals, with the freshman Massialas going on to win the NCAA title. Meinhardt, now ranked No. 1 in the world and a grad. student at Notre Dame, was the 2010 NCAA champion and '09 runner-up during his own freshman season. The San Francisco natives were members of the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team.
– photo by Pete LaFleur/CollegeFencing360.com; all rights reserved
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© 2009 photo of Aleks Ochocki and Wes Glon by Pete LaFleur (CollegeFencing360.com), all rights reserved and please credit accordingly
Contact: Pete LaFleur (editor@collegefencing360.com)
Update (8/29/13; scroll down for news/info. regarding former PSU coach Emik Kaidonov) – Penn State has announced that longtime PSU assistant/associate head coach Wes Glon (pictured at right, with 2009 NCAA sabre champion Aleks Ochocki) will serve as interim head fencing coach for the 2013-14 season. The official release – which can be found HERE – ends by noting: "At the conclusion of the 2013-14 season, a national search for a head coach is planned." … Glon first joined the Penn State coaching staff in 1985 and has served as weapon coach for the program's sabre squads. Two of his fencers – Thomas Strzalkowski ('92, '93, '94) and Ochocki ('09, '12) – have won multiple NCAA men's sabre titles (Peter Cox was the '89 champ and Vitali Nazlimov in '91). Glon's 2013 sabre duo of Adrian Bak and Shaul Gordon both reached the NCAA semifinal/medal round, with Gordon (currently a PSU sophomore) finishing as the national runner-up. Bak's brother, Daniel Bak, was the 2010 NCAA runner-up while fencing for Penn State (he beat Ochocki in the '10 NCAA semifinals but lost to Daryl Homer of St. John's in the final; Ochocki had defeated Homer in the '09 NCAA final, with Homer going on to NCAA titles in both 2010 and '11 before earning a spot on the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team). … Glon's women's sabre fencers at Penn State have included three who claimed NCAA runner-up finishes (women's sabre became an NCAA event in 2000): converted foilist Sophie Hiss ('04), Caity Thompson ('07) and Monica Aksamit ('12).
CLICK HERE for CF360 exclusive video interview with former Penn State fencing coach Emik Kaidonov and his longtime assistant Wes Glon, following PSU's 2010 NCAA title (at Harvard).
BREAKING NEWS (8/24/13) – CollegeFencing360 has received direct confirmation, on Aug. 24, from Penn State that Emmanuil (Emik) Kaidonov (pictured at left) no longer is head coach of the PSU fencing program. The short, official statement reads as follows: "This is a confidential personnel matter and we therefore are not at liberty to discuss it. He [Kaidoniv] no longer is a University employee." CF360 also was informed that Penn State "will not have any additional comment at this time."
An official release/statement has yet to be posted on the Penn State athletics website, but word of this major news began leaking out online on Aug. 23. Kaidonov's teams combined to win 12 NCAA Championships during the men's/women's combined format, which began in 1990. PSU's final title under coach Emic came in 2010, with earlier NCAA titles in 1983 (women), '90, '91, '95-2000, '02, '07 and '09. Kaidonov's career as Penn State head coach spanned 31 seasons (1983-2013).
As of Aug. 24, there was no official word about the status of the Penn State assistant coaching staff (although all remain listed on the team roster page and/or athletics staff directory).
During the Kaidonov era, Penn State fencing developed a deep rivalry with Notre Dame, including the final years of legendary ND coach Mike DeCicco's career (DeCicco passed away earlier this year, on March 29). In the 24-year history of the NCAA combined format, Penn State and Notre Dame (4; '94, '03, '05, '11) have combined to win 16 team championships while also finishing as runner-up a combined 16 times (eight each). In eight different seasons from 1994-2009, Penn State and Notre Dame both finished in the top-2 spots at the NCAA Championship (PSU was runner-up to ND in '94, then ND finished second to PSU every year from 1996-2000).
Penn State fencers during the Kaidonov era combined to win 27 NCAA individual titles, including eight in women's foil, seven in men's sabre, six in women's epee and five in men's foil (only one in men's epee and none in women's saber, which made its NCAA debut in 2000). Former PSU women's foil standout Olga Kalinovskaya (NCAA champ in '93, '94, '95, '96) and men's sabre star Thomas Strzalkowski ('92, '93, '94) are two of only 14 fencers in NCAA history to win three or more NCAA individual titles. Four other PSU fencers from Kaidonov's teams have been two-time NCAA champions: men's foilist Non Panchan ('02, '03), recent men's sabre standout Aleks Ochocki ('09, '12), women's foilist Doris Willette ('07, '09) and women's epeeist Katarzyna Trzopek ('03, '06).
Penn State's elite fencers over the past three decades have included several who never won an NCAA individual title, most recently men's foilist Miles-Chamley Watson – who reached at least the NCAA semifinals in all four years while competing with the Nittany Lions ('09, '10, '11, '13). Chamley-Watson was NCAA runner-up to Notre Dame's Ariel DeSemet in 2011, took a year of in 2012 to compete with Team USA at the Olympic Games in London, and most recently became the first U.S. men's fencer ever to win a World Championship individual title (Aug. 9, 2013, in Budapest).
Penn State's NCAA Fencing Individual Champions who competed during the Emmanuil Kaidonov era (1983-2013)
Men's Foil (5) – Adam Feldman ('86), Edward Mufel ('89), Non Panchan ('02, '03), Nick Chinman ('09)
Men's Epee (1) – Daniel Landgren ('00)
Men's Sabre (7) – Peter Cox ('89), Vitali Nazlimov ('91), Thomas Strzalkowski ('92, '93, '94), Aleks Ochocki ('09, '12)
Women's Foil (8) – Jana Angelakis ('83), Olga Chernyak ('92), Olga Kalinovskaya ('93, '94, '95, '96),
Doris Willette ('07, '09)
Women's Epee (6) – Charlotte Walker ('98), Jessie Burke ('00), Katarzyna Trzopek ('03, '06), Nastia Ferdman ('09), Marg Guzzi ('10)
Kaidonov's official Penn State biography no longer is linked on the PSU website but can be found HERE
CF360 will continue to follow this story and how it impacts the Penn State program going forward, including the search for a new head coach.
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2013 NCAA FINAL RESULTS (PDF)
* CLICK HERE for NCAA Live Stats *
PDF Results: End Day-3 | Day-2 Results | Day-1 Results
Final Team Standings (top-8)
1. Princeton – 182 (MF27-ME31-MS25 … WF26-WE35-WS38)
2. Notre Dame – 175 (MF35-ME20-MS22 ... WF40-WE33-WS25)
3. Penn State – 163 (MF37-ME22-MS35 ... WF21-WE18-WS30)
4. Ohio State – 146 (MF26-ME29-MS15 … WF25-WE26-WS25)
5. St. John's – 139 (MF22-ME12-MS31 ... WF23-WE22-WS29)
6. Harvard – 134 (MF29-ME30-MS16 ... WF15-WE22-WS22)
7. Columbia – 117 (MF9-ME20-MS27 ... WF28-WE13-WS20)
8. Stanford – 111 (MF29-ME18-MS17 ... WF3-WE33-WS11)
(note: Princeton & ND had max. 12 fencers; others above had 11 ...
PSU 1 WE, OSU 1 MS, StJ 1 ME, HARV 1 WF, COL 1 MF & STAN 1 WF)
Men's Champions: Foil – Alex Massialas (Stanford)
Epee – Marco Canevari (Ohio State) | Sabre – Michael Mills (Penn)
Women's Champions: Foil – Lee Kiefer (Notre Dame)
Epee – Courtney Hurley (Notre Dame) | Sabre – Eliza Stone (Princeton)
• Guest Columns (2013 NCAA insights & predictions)
Men's Sabre – Aleks Ochocki (Penn State '12)
Men's Foil – Reggie Bentley (Notre Dame '12)
Women's Epee – Lydia Kopecky (Columbia '13)
Women's Sabre – Caroline Vloka (Harvard '12)
CF360 Video Interviews (2013 NCAA entrants)
(from 2010-12 seasons; more being added all week)
M-Sabre: Daryl Homer part-1 & part-2 (StJ) • Max Stearns (OSU; 3-parts)
2009 M-Sabre Final (Daryl Homer/StJ vs. Aleks Ochocki/PSU; photos+video)
Men's-Foil: Miles Chamley-Watson (PSU; to be added)
Ariel DeSmet part-1 & part-2 (ND)
Zain Shaito (w/ sister Mona; OSU; 2-parts) • Turner Caldwell (STAN)
David Willette (w/ sister Doris; PSU)
Gerek Meinhardt (ND; action–2009 NCAA final vs. Nick Chinman; photos+video)
Men's-Epee: Jonathan Yergler 1 & 2 (PRIN)
(Note: video are full-HD and may require initial download time before viewing.)
Women's Epee: Francesca Bassa part-1 & part-2 (STAN)
Courtney Hurley (ND; being added)
Women's Foil: Dayana Sarkisova • Mona Shaito (w/ brother Zain; OSU; 2-parts)
Women's Sabre: Eliza Stone (PRIN; being added)
Full Bouting Schedule (2013 NCAAs; spreadsheet download)
(round-1 is full 7-bout round-robin; other rounds 4 vs. 4)
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CLICK HERE for 2013 NCAA Fencing Championship entrants
(more analysis & historical perspective to follow)
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NCAA REGIONAL COVERAGE (March 9-10, 2013)
• MID-ATLANTIC/SOUTH (3/9) – Final Results (PDF) | Live Stats
Men's Entries | Women's Entries
• MIDWEST (3/9-w.; 3/10-m.) – Home Page (w/ results) | Live Stats
Women's Entries | Men's Entries
• WEST (3/9) – Final Results (HTML)
Men's & Women's Entries
• NORTHEAST (3/10) – Final Stats (PDF) | Live Stats
Men's Entries | Women's Entries
note – entry lists linked above include regional/national seeds & other info.
(also see CF360updates Twitter feed for regional news & notes)
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• 2013 CF360 Fencing Coaches Poll #3 (March 5, 2013)
• CF360 Weekly Awards: Jan. 28-Feb. 3 | Jan. 21-27
(more coming for past few weeks)
• CF360's Big-Event Recaps:
St. John's Invitational (w/ event archive)
NYU Invitational (w/ event archive)
(also will be posting other events from late Jan./early Feb.)
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2012 NCAA Championship Quick Links
• Full & Final Results (PDF)
thru Day-3 ... Day-2 ... Day-1
Top-5 Teams: OSU, PRIN, ND, StJ, PSU
Indiv. Champs: Evgeniya Kirpicheva (w-foil, StJ, so.)
Katarzyna Dabrowa (w-epee, OSU, so.)
Becca Ward (w-sabre, Duke, sr.)
Zain Shaito (m-foil, OSU, so.)
Jon Yergler (m-epee, PRIN, jr.)
Aleksander Ochocki (m-sabre, PSU, sr.)
• Live Stats
• CF360 Video Interviews (quick list)
• Men's Bouting Schedules
• Free CF360 Text Service
• Day-1 Bouting Schedule
• 2012 NCAA Qualifiers (w/ CF360 release/notes)
• The CF360 Fencer Focus Q&A features have returned!
• CLICK HERE for CF360 exclusive video interview with Northwestern All-America foilist Dayana Sarkisova
• Be Sure to check out CF360's new & exclusive
college fencer individual rankings (**updated prior to NCAA Champ.**):
Women's Sabre (others on the way)
NCAA Regional Results & Coverage:
• WEST (men) .... • WEST (women)
• MIDWEST (women) ... MID-ATLANTIC/SOUTH (w-sabre)
• CLICK HERE for all M-A/S & Northeast results
• CLICK HERE for National Fencers of the Week (March 7),
Primetime Performers & Rookie of the Week
• St. John's Invitational & NYU Duals Results
(links in right-schedule sidebar; plus other events/some to-be-added)
• 2012 CollegeFencing360.com Fencing Coaches Poll (2/23 update)
• Air Force Western Invitational Results (Jan. 7, 2012)
• 2011 Fall Semester Events
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COLLEGE FENCING 360 is on-site at the 2011 NCAA Fencing Championships – follow via CF360 Blog, Twitter feed and "Exclusive Video" tab.
Sign up for FREE text-message service for 2011 NCAA selections (F2, then option 11 or 12):
... be sure to follow via the CS360updates Twitter feed and CS360 BLOG
... CLICK AWARDS TAB for top fencers of the week (most recent update - March 10, 2011)
USFCA 2011 national college fencing rankings released
CLICK HERE for full poll, notes, analysis, history, etc.
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CF360 Exclusive Video Interviews
from 2010 NCAAs
ARCHIVED 2010 NCAA BOUTING FOOTAGE
MARCH 26 (women; day-2)
MARCH 27 (men; day-1)
MARCH 28 (men; day-2; team awards)
(click on above links for archived video of the final three days at the 2010 NCAAs ... funded by and provided courtesy of CollegeFencing360.com; streamed through NCAA video player)
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NCAA Updates – see the Twitter feed (on this page)
and the CF360 BLOG for continuing updates ...
check out the AWARDS tab
for CF360 national fencers of the week.
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Be sure to check out the exciting EXCLUSIVE VIDEO offerings on this site ...
and, of course, the CF360 Blog and site Twitter feed will keep rolling year-round.
Welcome to CollegeFencing360.com, a website that made its debut for the 2009 season. Here are some of the primary offerings that you will find on CollegeFencing360.com (note that content continues to be added/updated on a regular basis):
• CF360 BLOG – timely posting of results and other information (including the NCAA Regionals and NCAA Championships).
• EXCLUSIVE VIDEO – bouting action, video interviews and more (originally shot in full HD).
• FENCER FOCUS – pages dedicated to fencers who are 2009 NCAA entrants, prodived i in a profile format with basic bio. info., photos, video (when available) and a Q&A format.
• AWARDS – CF360 announced national fencers of the week six times during the 2009 college fencing season. We also plan to name some overall seasons awards (TBA sometime in the postseason).
• LIBRARY OF LINKS – convenient link pages for team websites, rosters, schedules, media guides, head coachbiographies and feature stories.
• RANKINGS – the online home for the US Fencing Coaches Association national poll ... also stay tuned for CF360's unique ranking system for individual college fencers.
• COMPOSITE SCHEDULE – a full listing of all the college fencing action (including results, coverage links, etc.).
• HISTORY – this will be your destination to find historical information on college fencing (including a special, detailed section dedicated to the current decade)
• TEXT/E-MAIL UPDATES – fans will be able to receive FREE text-messages and/or e-mail messages about college fencing results, major news, etc.
• SPECIAL FEATURES – unique story content (such as the Luke La Valle Tribute) will be part of the regular offerings.
(Note that, on Jan. 10, 2009, we opted for a preliminary site launch in order to pay tribute to Luke La Valle, the former Notre Dame four-time All-American and 1998 NCAA sabre champion who passed away on New Years Eve, following a 21-month battle with lung cancer. Click on link above, or on Special Features in menu bar, for the full La Valle tribute story.)