INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The NCAA Men’s and Women’s Fencing Committee has announced the field of competitors who will participate in the 2023 National Collegiate Men’s and Women’s Fencing Championships as 53 Ivy League fencers were selected to compete. Among the 53 participants include 23 men and 30 women. Duke University will host the championships at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina, March 23-26, 2023.
LIVE RESULTS
Fencers will compete in a round-robin format of five-touch bouts. After round robin, the top-four finishers in each weapon will fence in semifinal 15-touch bouts, with winners fencing to determine first and second places, and non-advancing fencers being awarded a tie for third place.
An institution’s place finish in the championships will be based on points earned by each individual. A team will be awarded one point for each victory by its student-athletes during round-robin competition.
Last year, the Ivy League produced four individual national champions, including two who are returning to this year's event. Maia Weintraub won the individual title in women's foil and Ashton Daniel placed first in men's foil.
The U.S. Fencing Coaches end of season poll feature all seven programs in the top-15 including Columbai (No. 1), Princeton (No. 2), Harvard (No. 6), Penn (No. 7), Cornell (No. 10), Brown (No. 14) and Yale (No. 15). On the men's side, Harvard (No. 1), Columbia (No. 3), Princeton (No. 4) and Penn (No. 7) are among the nation's top-10 heading into the weekend.
All 12 Ivy League programs will be represented at the event. The following individuals were selected to participate in this year’s championships:
Men’s Epee
Skyler Liverant, Columbia
Teddy Lombardo, Columbia
Ark Ma, Harvard
Jonas Hansen, Harvard
Avery Townsend, Penn
Isaac Herbst, Penn
Ryan Lee, Princeton
Tristan Szapary, Princeton
Theodore Vinnitchouk, Yale
Men’s Foil
Ashton Daniel, Columbia
Joon Paik, Columbia
James Chen, Harvard
Kenji Bravo, Harvard
Blake Broszus, Penn
Davide Lorenzoni, Penn
Brandon Li, Princeton
Mohamed Hamza, Princeton
Men’s Saber
Colby Harley, Columbia
Christopher Walker, Columbia
Simon Kushkov, Penn
Matthew Limb, Princeton
Ronald Anglade, Princeton
Jack Pan, Yale
Women’s Epee
Sofia Yee-Wadsworth, Brown
Ariana Mangano, Columbia
Tierna Oxenreider, Columbia
Faith Park, Harvard
Emily Vermeule, Harvard
Jessica Liang, Penn
Shirley Guo, Penn
Hadley Husisian, Princeton
Jessia Lin, Princeton
Women’s Foil
Delphine Devore, Columbia
Zander Rhodes, Columbia
Asherah Horsley, Cornell
Ever Marinelli, Harvard
Lauren Scruggs, Harvard
Katina Proestakis Ortiz, Penn
Sabrina Cho, Penn
Maia Weintraub, Princeton
May Tieu, Princeton
Emme Zhou, Yale
Helen Tan, Yale
Women’s Saber
Casey Chan, Brown
Vera Kong, Columbia
Nora Burke, Columbia
Elizabeth Tartakovsky, Harvard
Zoe Kim, Harvard
Hailey Lu, Penn
Vivian Lu, Penn
Ryan Jenkins, Princeton
Chloe Fox-Gitomer, Princeton
Sydney Hirsch, Yale
A live feed of semifinal and final bouts will be available at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time on ESPN+. Semifinals and finals, along with other championships highlights, will air on ESPNU at 2 p.m. Eastern time, April 6.