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38 Days, 38 Sports: Men's Fencing
August 19, 2013 | Men's Fencing
As a countdown to the start of the 2013-14 athletic schedule, GoPrincetonTigers.com will take a look at each of Princeton's 38 sports. A new post will be added each day Monday through Friday until the first Princeton athletic events on Aug. 31.
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| Princeton Men's Fencing: Five Numbers to Know |
| 1925 | First year as a varsity sport | 14 | Ivy League titles | 2 | NCAA team championships | 117 | Dual-match wins in seven years under head coach Zoltan Dudas | 8 | NCAA individual champions |
| Head Coach |
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Zoltan Dudas |
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| Top Returner |
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Michael Dudey |
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| Top Senior |
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Robert Stone |
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| Ten Princeton Men's Fencing Facts |
• At the helm for seven seasons, Zoltan Dudas is already Princeton's third-winningest coach with 117 dual-match victories.
• When Jonathan Yergler '13 won the NCAA epee title in 2012, he was the eighth Tiger to win an NCAA individual title.
• Princeton's fencing room is named for Stan Sieja, who was Princeton's coach from 1946-82. He is the program's all-time winningest coach with 258 victories.
• Princeton's NCAA team title in 2013 was the program's first NCAA team title of the combined men's/women's era. The Tiger men won their only previous NCAA team title in 1964.
• Princeton's Ivy League title in 2010 was the program's first since 2001. The team followed it up with another Ivy title in 2012, the program's 14th all-time.
• Since 1946, the program has had just three coaches, with Stan Sieja (1946-82), Michel Sebastiani (1983-2006) and Zoltan Dudas (since 2006) serving in that role over the past 67 years.
• The five winningest seasons in program history have all come in the last five years. The Princeton men won a team-record 23 dual matches in 2011-12.
• The Ivy League began naming the Most Outstanding Performer at the Ivy League Championship in 2011. Princeton has won two of the three honors, going to Alexander Mills '12 in 2011 and rising sophomore Michael Dudey, also the first Ivy Rookie of the Year from Princeton, in 2013.
• Princeton has had a first-team All-Ivy League honoree in 55 of the 58 years the Ivy League has named all-league teams.
• Soren Thompson '05 is perhaps the most successful international fencer in the modern era among Princetonians. At the 2004 Olympic games, Thompson advanced to the quarterfinals in the men's epee competition.
July 10 - Baseball
July 11 - Field Hockey
July 12 - Football
July 15 - Women's Tennis
July 16 - Men's Heavyweight Crew
July 17 - Women's Basketball
July 18 - Men's Outdoor Track
July 19 - Women's Open Crew
July 22 - Men's Lacrosse
July 23 - Women's Squash
July 24 - Men's Golf
July 25 - Women's Volleyball
July 26 - Men's Basketball
July 29 - Women's Lacrosse
July 30 - Men's Hockey
July 31 - Women's Swimming
Aug. 1 - Men's Tennis
Aug. 2 - Women's Cross Country
Aug. 5 - Wrestling
Aug. 6 - Women's Indoor Track
Aug. 7 - Men's Cross Country
Aug. 8 - Women's Outdoor Track
Aug. 9 - Men's Swimming
Aug. 12 - Women's Hockey
Aug. 13 - Men's Lightweight Crew
Aug. 14 - Women's Soccer
Aug. 15 - Men's Indoor Track
Aug. 16 - Softball
Aug. 19 - Men's Fencing