Princeton University Athletics
150 Years • Women's Fencing
November 12, 2014 | Women's Fencing
| Women's Fencing |
| First Match: Dec. 2, 1988 |
| All-Time Record: 277-117 |
| 1988 | In its second varsity competition, Princeton gets a win, defeating NYU on tiebreakers after an 8-8 final |
| 1993 | Princeton posts its first winning Ivy League season |
| 1994 | In the combined men's/women's format, Princeton takes home a trophy from the NCAA Championship for the first time with a varsity women's team, finishing fourth |
| 1999 | Princeton wins its first Ivy League championship following a 4-1 league season |
| 2000 | Eva Petschnigg claims the program's first NCAA individual title, winning the foil championship |
| 2001 | Princeton wins its second Ivy League championship, going 4-1 in Ivy matches to cap a 13-2 season overall |
| 2002 | Maya Lawrence '02, an épée fencer, becomes the program's first four-time All-America |
| 2006 | Michel Sebastiani, the program's first varsity coach, retires |
| 2010 | Princeton goes undefeated in the Ivy for the first time at 6-0, claiming the first in an active streak of five Ivy titles |
| 2013 | Eliza Stone '13 wins the NCAA saber title as Princeton's men and women take the program's first combined team NCAA championship |
The 150th anniversary of the first intercollegiate athletic event in Princeton University history will be Nov. 22, 2014, which will be 150 years to the day that Princeton defeated Williams 27-16 in a baseball game. As part of the 150th celebration, Princeton will be commemorating the history of each of its 38 varsity teams, in reverse order of the time they became varsity programs.
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