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Tatijana Stewart made the NCAA épée semifinals Sunday.
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Tigers Finish NCAAs with Five All-Americas, Another Top-10 Finish
March 24, 2019 | Men's Fencing, Women's Fencing
Tatijana Stewart concluded the Princeton fencing season with an NCAA semifinals bid and made if five All-America honorees as the NCAA Championships came to a close in Cleveland.
Stewart finished fourth in the field of 24 women's épée fencers to qualify for the semifinals, where she battled top-seeded Amanda Sirico of Notre Dame to a 14-12 final.
The 14 round-robin wins from Stewart, Princeton's lone women's representative at the championships, put Princeton in ninth place with 80 wins along with those from Princeton's five men's NCAA qualifiers during Thursday's and Friday's competition. It's the 27th consecutive year Princeton has posted a top-10 finish at the NCAAs.
Joining Stewart, who is now 2 for 2 in earning All-America honors along with her seventh-place finish a year ago, were NCAA finalist Daniel Kwak, a sophomore saber who is a first-time All-America, rookie foil Mohamed Hamza, senior épée and two-time All-America Wesley Johnson, and junior épée and first-time All-America Wesley Yuan.
Complete results are available here.
Stewart finished fourth in the field of 24 women's épée fencers to qualify for the semifinals, where she battled top-seeded Amanda Sirico of Notre Dame to a 14-12 final.
The 14 round-robin wins from Stewart, Princeton's lone women's representative at the championships, put Princeton in ninth place with 80 wins along with those from Princeton's five men's NCAA qualifiers during Thursday's and Friday's competition. It's the 27th consecutive year Princeton has posted a top-10 finish at the NCAAs.
Joining Stewart, who is now 2 for 2 in earning All-America honors along with her seventh-place finish a year ago, were NCAA finalist Daniel Kwak, a sophomore saber who is a first-time All-America, rookie foil Mohamed Hamza, senior épée and two-time All-America Wesley Johnson, and junior épée and first-time All-America Wesley Yuan.
Complete results are available here.
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