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...championship repeat was just not in the cards. The Harvard fencing team entered the season as the unquestioned defending national champion, but came away with a sixth-place finish at the year-end NCAA Championships in Madison, N.J. this weekend. Senior captain Tim Hagamen led seven All-Americans for the Crimson with an individual title in the sabre. The finish is the second best in school history after last year’s national championship season. After regional competition, Harvard qualified just nine fencers for nationals, a number mathematically insufficient to allow the team to repeat. But two at-large...
With a national championship, All-Americans, an Ivy League title, and Junior World competitors, the Harvard Fencing team would seem to have no problems breezing into NCAA Championships to defend its title. But after last year’s fairy tale performance, Harvard has to deal with the pressure of entering the tournament as defending champions this weekend in Madison, N.J., without a full 12-person team...
...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...
...we’ll have a full week of spring training coming up, so we’re all going in with high expectations.” As for the heavyweights, last season was historic for all the wrong reasons—the squad failed to make the NCAA Championships for the first time in nine years. But that team was young. This team is more experienced. As seen in placing sixth in the top 40 at Crash B Sprints over the winter, the team is succeeding. —Staff writer Walter E. Howell can be reached at wehowell@fas.harvard.edu...