Thursday, March 20
State College, Pa.
9:00 AM
Princeton University
vs
NCAA Championships
Princeton coaches and women's fencers with the fourth place team trophy.
Photo by: CRAIG HOUTZ
Fourth-Place Finish, Eight All-Americans and Four in Semis Highlight Fencing NCAAs
March 23, 2025 | General, Men's Fencing, Women's Fencing
A fourth-place finish, eight All-American honors and four fencers advancing to the semifinals highlighted the Princeton fencing teams' trip to the NCAA championships, which wrapped on Sunday at Penn State.
Three men's fencers earned All-American finishes when their portion of the event wrapped on Friday, with junior foil Brandon Lee (third), sophomore épée Alec Brooke (seventh) and senior épée Nicholas Lawson (ninth) getting top-12 finishes. Lee advanced to the semifinals, falling 15-9 to Harvard's Andrew Chen. Senior saber Ronald Anglade placed 13th and sophomore foil Ethan Um placed 20th.
When the women's competition closed on Sunday, all five Princeton women earned All-American finishes, with sophomore saber Alexandra Lee placing third, freshman saber Emese Domonkos placing seventh, freshman foil Chin-Yi Kong placing ninth, sophomore épée Hadley Husisian placing third and fellow épée, rookie Leehi Machulsky, also placing third.
Lee, Husisian and Machulsky all advanced to the semifinals, with Lee falling 15-8 to Notre Dame's Magda Skarbonkiewicz, Machulsky falling 15-2 to Notre Dame's Eszter Muhari, and Husisian falling 15-11 to Columbia's Tierna Oxenreider.
The team standings saw Notre Dame take the title with 183 wins, Columbia finish second with 172, and Princeton and Harvard each get 141 wins, with Harvard getting the tiebreaker for third with a greater margin of victory across the total number of bouts, as the Crimson had 181 more touches than their opponents to Princeton's 146 more touches than its opponents.
Full results can be found here.
Three men's fencers earned All-American finishes when their portion of the event wrapped on Friday, with junior foil Brandon Lee (third), sophomore épée Alec Brooke (seventh) and senior épée Nicholas Lawson (ninth) getting top-12 finishes. Lee advanced to the semifinals, falling 15-9 to Harvard's Andrew Chen. Senior saber Ronald Anglade placed 13th and sophomore foil Ethan Um placed 20th.
When the women's competition closed on Sunday, all five Princeton women earned All-American finishes, with sophomore saber Alexandra Lee placing third, freshman saber Emese Domonkos placing seventh, freshman foil Chin-Yi Kong placing ninth, sophomore épée Hadley Husisian placing third and fellow épée, rookie Leehi Machulsky, also placing third.
Lee, Husisian and Machulsky all advanced to the semifinals, with Lee falling 15-8 to Notre Dame's Magda Skarbonkiewicz, Machulsky falling 15-2 to Notre Dame's Eszter Muhari, and Husisian falling 15-11 to Columbia's Tierna Oxenreider.
The team standings saw Notre Dame take the title with 183 wins, Columbia finish second with 172, and Princeton and Harvard each get 141 wins, with Harvard getting the tiebreaker for third with a greater margin of victory across the total number of bouts, as the Crimson had 181 more touches than their opponents to Princeton's 146 more touches than its opponents.
Full results can be found here.
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