Women's Fencing frosh impress at first meet of the season
The Penn women's fencing team is back in business after slashing their way through the competition at the Temple Open this past weekend.
Below are your search results. You can also try a Basic Search.
The Penn women's fencing team is back in business after slashing their way through the competition at the Temple Open this past weekend.
For the past two weeks, there has been a lot of action in Hutchinson Gymnasium's fencing room. With the Temple Open this weekend, the Penn women's fencing team had to begin intensive training in order to continue to shine in national competition.
It couldn't have worked out better.
Stamina will be a huge factor this weekend as the Penn women's golf team heads to Trenton Country Club in Trenton, N.J., to compete against Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton and Brown in the Ivy League Championships.
(Penn: 13th at NCAAs)
Teammates never like giving each other a loss, but when Penn foilists Lauren Staudinger and Emanuelle Humblet faced off at the beginning of the final round-robin, their battle was the start of a day of individual triumph.
While the University was on recess, the women's fencing team spent part of its spring break dominating the field at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic South Regional Championship in Madison, NJ. At the end of the day on Saturday, March 10, the Penn women's fencing team emerged with four individual bids to the NCAA Championships, which will be held at Drew University this Thursday through Sunday. The Quakers will send foilists Lauren Staudinger and Emanuelle Humblet, eppeist Kimberly Linton and sabreist Mindy Nguyen to the next round of competition. The foil squad fared impressively well, with Staudinger capturing third and Humblet taking fourth in a field of 24. Linton, in grand form, was fifth in the eppes and sabreist Nguyen battled her way to seventh place to lengthen her last season as a Penn fencer. Eppeists Rebecca Richman and Elizabeth Kriedman had strong performances, finishing 11th and 16th while foilists Stacy Wertleib and Kate Zimmerly took 11th and 19th place. With a great showing in the Regionals, Penn will be a team to watch out for at the Championships this weekend.
The revenge-minded Penn women's fencing team completely fulfilled its goals for this weekend, finishing second overall in the Intercollegiate Fencing Association invitational tournament last weekend.
It's time for revenge.
This could have been a weekend for the Penn women's fencing team to make a run at the Ivy title with No.9 Columbia and Cornell coming to town.
The Penn women's fencing team, who recently vaulted into the No. 10 position on the USFCA College Fencing Coaches' Poll, has a chance to move even higher when they face the No. 1 and No. 2-ranked teams this weekend.
Penn 4-1 in competition The Penn women's fencing team was in its finest form as it steamrolled the opposition and emerged undefeated this weekend at Weightman Hall.
This Saturday, the Penn women's fencing team has the chance to extend its current five-match winning streak when it squares off against Temple, Rutgers and Harvard.
In 48 hours, the Penn women's fencing team was overwhelmed by a strong No. 8 Yale squad at Weightman Hall and then bounced back to go 5-0 at the Brandeis/MIT Invitational Tournament.
The Penn women's fencing team will slice through a doubleheader this weekend beginning Ivy League play Saturday against Yale in Weightman Hall and traveling to Brandeis on Sunday for a five-team multi-meet.
In the Nittany Lions' den, Penn held strong going 3-1 at a multi-meet at Penn State on Saturday.
After a long layoff, the Penn women's fencing squad is primed for its first official meet of the season -- Saturday's Penn State Invitational. In this competition, the Quakers will face Duke, North Carolina, Ohio State and Hunter College.
The No. 10 nationally ranked Penn men's squash team is in for a showdown with emerging national power Denison in New Haven this Saturday.
As the fencing season returns, the violent clash of foils, epees and sabres can be heard well outside the doors of the Penn women's fencing team's practice room.