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Between the two teams, 19 of the 29 fencers were either freshmen or sophomores.
Despite the relative inexperience of a young squad, the Crimson fencers were able to overcome the odds and capture a No. 6 and No. 9 national ranking on the men’s and women’s sides, respectively, at season’s end.
Staller won the silver medal at the Garret Penn State Open, and teammates sophomore James Hawrot and freshman Thomas Kolasa captured fifth in their respective weapons. In the Ivy League Championships, the men finished tied for second place after defeating Yale, Brown, and Columbia and falling to Penn and Princeton...
“Both teams did extremely well in the postseason,” Staller said. “We qualified the maximum number of fencers, which only four other teams were able to do.”
But the win-loss totals are not completely representative of the fall. Of Harvard’s 12 defeats, seven were by two goals or less. Two of those were one-goal overtime losses to New Hampshire and Columbia at the end of the season.