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Having lost world-class foil fencer and junior Emily Cross to the rigors of an Olympic training regimen, it would only be natural for one to assume that the Harvard women’s foil fencing squad would be suffering an off year. After all, without Cross, last year’s NCAA champions have had to rely on a starting foil squad comprised entirely of a trio of freshman. As is the case with most sports, freshman fencers typically struggle with the adjustment to the life of a college athlete. Apparently Misha Goldfeder, Arielle Pensler, and Anna Podolsky...
...Heisman, the Hobey Baker, and the Naismith all pale in comparison. In last year’s storybook season, one prestigious medal eluded the decorated Harvard fencing team: the Iron Man, the oldest consistently awarded trophy in collegiate history, bestowed upon the top foil squad at the Intercollegiate Fencing Association (IFA) Championships each winter. At Saturday’s edition in Lawrenceville, N.J., the squad checked off its final to-do item with a men’s foil victory and added wins in the combined men’s and women’s, the women?...
Once again epee was their strongest suit, with a 5-4 success story thanks to sophomore Maria Larsson’s three and senior Jasmine McGlade’s two wins. Sabre fell 9-0, and foil...
...previous weekend fallen to the eighth-ranked Princeton team, swiftly dispatched Brown and Yale, 25-2 and 18-9 respectively, but found Columbia—ranked just above them nationally, at three—more of a challenge. The Lions narrowly took the sabre and foil events, 5-4 each, but the Crimson rallied in epee, putting in a 6-3 performance to take them to a 14-13 victory overall...
Brand agreed, and expressed doubt that the result would have been very different even had junior Emily Cross, erstwhile national foil champion, who has taken time off the team to pursue Olympic possibilities, and junior Carolyn Wright, who is studying abroad this semester, been there...