Word: foils
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...Dame’s Patrick Ghattas, 15-14, to become just the fourth men’s fencer to win an individual medal in Harvard history and the first in the saber. Hagamen ends his Crimson career with three All-American finishes. The other six All-Americans were senior foil Enoch Woodhouse and junior epee Teddy Sherrill on the men’s side, and epee fencers senior Jasmine McGlade and Maria Larsson, junior sabre Alexa Weingarden, and freshman foilist Misha Goldfeder for the women. —Staff writer Madeleine I. Shapiro can be reached at mshapiro@fas.harvard.edu...
...life of French resistance heroine Lucie Aubrac was the stuff of action novels. With her husband Raymond, who survives her, she founded Liberation Sud, one of the first networks set up by the Resistance, which sought to foil the Nazis during World War II. Before the couple was able to flee to London in 1944, Lucie engineered several of Raymond's escapes from prison--once by smuggling him a virus that enabled him to wriggle away en route to a hospital. The subject of the 1997 hit film Lucie Aubrac, she was given France's highest award, the Legion...
...Crimson qualified nine fencers at NCAA Regional Championships two weeks ago, but junior captain saber fencer Samantha Parker and freshman foil Arielle Pensler became recent additions to the team traveling to nationals when they qualified through NCAA at-large bids. Early last week, Pensler received one of the bids, which go to two fencers in each weapon for men’s and women’s, while Parker captured a bid when a Cornell saber fencer withdrew...
...nine individual fencers that qualified for nationals at the NCAA regional competition at Tufts include saber fencers Hagamen, Dan Sachs, and Alexa Weingarden; foil fencers Kai Itameri-Kinter, Enoch Woodhouse, and Misha Goldfeder; and epee fencers McGlade, Teddy Sherill, and Maria Larsson...
Last year, it was such individual results of junior foil Emily Cross and junior epee Benji Ungar that contributed to the run that culminated in the unexpected victory. This year, with Ungar, missing regionals to compete in a World Cup event, expect impressive results from women’s epee fencers McGlade and Larsson who finished first and second at regionals...