Word: foilists
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...women’s foil went undefeated, rolling past Duke by a 9-0 count despite the absence of world-class foilist Emily Cross...
...mixed results in their season debut at the Garret Penn State Collegiate Open this weekend, with the women’s team racking up an impressive tally of successes while a slightly limited men’s squad put on a lackluster performance. The Crimson’s women foilists set a blistering pace for the year to come, as junior captain and reigning junior world champion Emily Cross placed No. 1 and freshman Arielle Pensler finished No. 4. All four competing Harvard foilists finished in the tournament’s top ten. “The women were here...
...don’t have to go overseas to find some really good players.”“And certainly everybody wants to come to Harvard. That’s a big plus for us,” he adds, using as an example world champion foilist Emily Cross, “who turned down a full scholarship” to Stanford to come and fence for the Crimson.“That’s huge, the fact that somebody’s willing to bypass a full scholarship to a very good school like Stanford...
...knew what she would do for an encore. Last year’s Harvard Crimson Female Rookie of the Year, sophomore foilist Emily Cross already boasted a Junior World Championship title and All-America status. With such an accomplished resume, even she did not know what more she could do to prove herself on the junior circuit. And then she helped the Harvard fencing squad to its best season ever. After that: a repeat of her Junior Worlds glory. It was an improbable ending to a season that started off slowly; despite strong performances in Ivy play, Cross struggled...
...never really thought in my wildest dreams that this could be possible,” said women’s co-captain and foilist Chloe Stinetorf. “Coming in as a freshman four years ago, we weren’t that strong of a team. Even at the beginning of this year, we thought we could maybe take third at NCAAs—but winning was just a wild dream that...