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Women's Fencing Ivy League Round-Robins on Tap This Weekend

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PRINCETON, N.J. – The 2019 Ivy League Fencing Round-Robins get underway this weekend at the Lanman Center on the campus of Yale University. The field will include four Ivy League teams ranked in the most recent edition of the CollegeFencing360 poll.
 
Action gets underway on Saturday, Feb. 9 at 10 a.m. For more information on the 2019 Ivy League Round-Robins and the complete bout schedule, click here.
 
Two of the three women’s individual League champions from a season ago will return to defend their titles, while 11 All-Ivy selections from 2018 will compete. No. 3 Columbia tallied a perfect 6-0 record to earn its 11th women’s fencing championship in program history.  No. 6 Princeton finished second with a 5-1 record rounded out by No. 7 Harvard (4-2) and No. 9 Penn (3-3).
 
First-Team All-American Sylvie Binder of Columbia will return to the strip with her sights set on a second consecutive individual title in foil. Last year, Binder turned in a 13-1 record en route to a first-place finish. The Armonk, N.Y., native will carry a 26-3-1 season record into the weekend.
 
Kasia Nixon, the reigning national and Ivy League champion in epee, is back for her junior year. Nixon posted an impressive 17-1 mark to take home the women’s epee title in 2018. The Los Angeles, Calif., native most recently helped the Tigers to a 3-3 record at the Northwestern Invite highlighted by an 18-9 win over fifth-ranked Ohio State. Nixon posted a 29-4 record throughout the two-day event.
 
Princeton’s Maia Chamberlain, the 2018 national and Ivy League champion in saber, is taking the year off to prepare for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. The Tigers will also look to senior saber Riya Dave, who went 13-5 at the Round-Robins a year ago to earn second-team All-Ivy recognition.
 
No. 3 Columbia is led by five All-Ivy returners highlighted by defending Ivy League individual foil champion Sylvie Binder and reigning NCAA National Champion in foil Iman Blow. In 2018, Blow became the eighth foilist to take home a national championship in Ivy League history and the first to do so in foil since 2011 when Harvard’s Alexandra Keifer did so. Blow owns a 29-7 record so far in 2018-19.  Finishing out the Columbia All-League contingency is a trio of juniors in saber Violet Michel, foil Ester Schreiber and epee Giana Vierheller
 
No. 9 Penn is led by a pair of All-Ivy selections in foil from a season ago in junior Danielle Ferdon and sophomore Nicole Wong. The Quakers most recently went 4-2 at the Northwestern Duals with their two losses coming against top competition in No. 1 Notre Dame and No. 2 Northwestern.
 
Rounding out the 11 returning All-Ivy selections are Cornell sophomore foil Marissa Viqueria, Harvard senior epee Shawn Wallace and Yale senior foil Sarah Park.
 
Action gets underway on Saturday, Feb. 9 at 10 a.m. For more information on the 2019 Ivy League Round-Robins and the complete bout schedule, click here.