Word: fencer
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...expect to lose," said Penn Captain Tom Wroth, who expects his squad to challenge Columbia's streak of six consecutive Ivy League titles. "Fencer to fencer, we are a much stronger team...
...losing. I didn't know I was making a comeback either. All I could think about was 'Oh My God, my thesis is due in 11 days.'"--Harvard women's fencing Captain Penelope Papailias about her rally from a 4-0 deficit to defeat Yale's top-ranked fencer in March...
...participants are unusually passionate about this rather obscure, unpopular sport filled with strange, hard-to-pronounce European names. "It is combat, and there's romance to it," says Arthur Phillips, the number-one foil fencer on the Crimson...
Zivkovic, a former Olympian fencer from Yugoslavia, said that the sport is not very well-known in the United States because of the lack of teachers. As a matter of fact, Zivkovic's six predecessors who have coached the Harvard team in this century have been from France or Yugoslavia...
...losing. I didn't know I was making a comeback either. All I could think about was 'Oh My God, my thesis is due in 11 days."--Harvard women's fencing Captain Penelope Papailias about her rally from a 4-0 deficit to defeat Yale's top-ranked fencer at the Northeast Regionals last weekend in New Haven...