Princeton University Athletics
Women's Fencing Record Book ? Coaching Records & Program Facts
Updated following 2015-16 season
First Match: Dec. 2, 1988 (at Navy)
All-Time Record: 359-130-0 (.734)
Head Coaching Register: (Ivy Record)
| W | L | T | Pct. | |
| Michel Sebastiani (1988-2006) | 141 (43) | 88 (52) | 0 (0) | .616 (.453) |
| Zoltan Dudas (2006-present) | 218 (47) | 42 (13) | 0 (0) | .838 (.783) |
| Total | 359 (90) | 130 (65) | 0 (0) | .734 (.581) |
Ivy League Championships (9): 1999, 2000, 2001, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016
National Intercollegiate Women’s Fencing Association (NIWFA) Championship (2): 1993, 1994
Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championships (1): 2000
NCAA Championships (1): 2013
Quick Facts:
• Women’s fencing attained full varsity status in 1988.
• In the program’s fifth varsity season, the 1992-93 squad was responsible for a number of “firsts.” The team had its first winning season and brought home Princeton’s
first NIWFA championship, making Michel Sebastiani the first coach to win the title at three institutions. (He previously won at Cornell and New York University.) In
addition, Susan Ginn ’95 won the first épée championship in NIWFA history — women previously had competed only in foil. The team went on to finish sixth at the NCAA
Championships and helped Princeton (combined men and women) to an overall finish of fifth place, its best in 10 years.
• Before 1993, Sandy Hill ’86 was the team’s last participant in the NCAA Championships, competing in the event in 1986 when it was held at Princeton. At the time,
women’s fencing was a club sport.
• Beginning in 1990, the NCAA Championship was a combined men’s and women’s event. In 1993, the men’s epeé and foil squads combined with the women’s foil team
to lead Princeton to a fifth-place finish, its best in 10 years. In 1994, the men’s epeé and sabre squads combined with the women’s foil to take fourth place at the
championships, while the men earned a individual national championship in epeé. Until the runner-up finishes in 2012 and 2014 and the title in 2013, Princeton's best finish since the event became combined in 1990 was fourth, earned
again in 1996, 1999, 2011 and 2015 after the initial fourth-place finish in 1994.
• In 2011, while helping the program to a fourth-place finish at the NCAAs, Princeton's six women's competitors won 87 round-robin bouts, the most of any school. Two
fencers, foilist Eve Levin '14 and saberist Eliza Stone '13, won silver medals. In 2012, Princeton won 88 round-robin bouts, tied for the most of any school, and propelled
the team to a second-place finish overall, the highest in the combined era.
• Princeton broke through with its first NCAA title in 2013, the third consecutive year in which Princeton's women won the most bouts of any school.
• Eva Petschnigg '03 became the first NCAA individual national champion when she defeated top-seeded Monique de Bruin of Stanford 15-13 to win the women's foil
individual crown in 2000. Eliza Stone '13 became the second Princetonian to
win an NCAA title when she took the saber crown in 2013.
• Princeton won the program's first Ivy title during the 1998-99 season. The Tigers were co-champions with Columbia and Yale. Princeton repeated as Ivy League
champion and won its first outright league crown after posting a perfect 5-0 league record in 1999-00. A decade later, Princeton was again undefeated, winning its fourth
Ivy League title overall in 2010. In 2011, the Tigers again finished undefeated in the Ivy, winning their fifth title, before repeating the feat in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
• In 1999 the women combined with the men to win the program's first IFA 5-weapon championship. Princeton won its first-ever IFA three-weapon title in 2000 and
combined with the men to win the six-weapon title in the same year.
• Maya Lawrence '02, Jacqueline Leahy '06, Eliza Stone '13, Susannah Scanlan '14 and Gracie Stone '16 are the program's five four-time All-Americans, with two in epee (Lawrence, Scanlan), two in saber (E. Stone and G. Stone) and one in foil (Leahy).