2009-10 Notre Dame Fencing Information Guide

2009-10

Fencing Barron Nydam

2008 & 2009 Men’s Sabre All-American

Eileen Hassett

2008 & 2009 Women’s Sabre All-American

Enzo Castellani

2009 Men’s Foil All-American

Hayley Reese

2009 NCAA Runner-Up 2008 & 2009 Women’s Foil All-American

Date Event Jan. 15 - 18 USFA NAC (Senior/Junior) ^

Site/Host San Jose, Calif.

Convention Center

Jan. 23 NYU Duals

New York, N.Y. New York University

Jan. 24 St. John’s Challenge

Queens, N.Y. St. John’s University

Jan. 30-31 Northwestern Duals

Evanston, Ill. Northwestern University

Feb. 6-7 Notre Dame Duals Notre Dame, Ind. Notre Dame Feb. 12-15

USFA National Junior Olympics ^

Memphis, Tenn.

Mar. 6-7 MFC Championships Notre Dame, Ind. Notre Dame Mar. 13-14 NCAA Midwest Regional

Evanston, Ill. Northwestern University

Mar. 25-28

TBA

NCAA Championships

Apr. 23-26 USFA Div. I National Championships ^

Sarah Borrmann

2008 NCAA Champion 2008 Women’s Sabre All-American

2009-10 NOTRE DAME FENCING

2010 Notre Dame Fencing Schedule

Avery Zuck

2009 Men’s Sabre All-American

Courtney Hurley

2009 Women’s Epee All-American

Gerek Meinhardt

2008 U.S. Olympian 2009 NCAA Runner-Up 2009 Men’s Foil All-American

Virginia Beach, Va.

Home events listed in boldface and will be held at the Joyce Center ^ - Non-collegiate event

Kelley Hurley

2008 U.S. Olympian 2008 NCAA Champion 2007 NCAA Runner-Up 2007 & 2008 Women’s Epee All-American

Zach Schirtz

2008 men’s Foil All-American

Steve Kubik

2008 Men’s Foil All-American

www.und.com Fencing Cov.indd 1

1/6/10 1:19:08 PM

Athletics by the numbers 25

National Championships (11 in football, seven in fencing, two in women’s soccer, two in men’s tennis and one in men’s golf, men’s cross country and women’s basketball)

10

Conference championships won by Irish teams in 2008-09 (BIG EAST, Central Collegiate Hockey Association and Great Western Lacrosse League)

101

BIG EAST Conference championships won by Notre Dame in 14 seasons of conference play

210

All-time Academic All-Americans, second most of any university

84

Academic All-Americans since 2000, more than any other school

48

NCAA postgraduate scholarship recipients since 1964, including four in 2008-09

13

Irish programs which finished their 2008-09 season nationally ranked

19

Notre Dame teams (out of 22) with a graduation rate of 100%

9

Irish athletic teams that earned a perfect score of 1,000 in the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate report in 2008-09

14

Programs honored by the NCAA for Academic Progress Rate scores in 2009

5,500

Hours of community service completed by Notre Dame student-athletes during the 200809 school year

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME History •

•

The University of Notre Dame du Lac was founded in 1842 by Father Edward Sorin. Adjacent to South Bend, Ind., and nestled next to Saint Mary’s and Saint Joseph’s Lakes, the University was started with $310 in cash and three log buildings in disrepair.

Notre Dame would establish many firsts for Catholic institutions of higher learning, including the first Catholic law school, the first Catholic engineering school and the first student residence with private rooms, Sorin Hall.

Students •

Graduate and undergraduate students at the University come from all 50 states and more than 100 countries worldwide.

•

Notre Dame’s graduation rate of 95 percent is exceeded by only Harvard and Princeton.

•

Notre Dame’s 98 percent retention rate between the freshman and sophomore years is among the highest in the country, thanks in large part to the University’s unique First Year of Studies Program.

•

Academics •

•

•

•

The University is organized into four colleges - Arts and Letters, Science, Engineering and the Mendoza College of Business - the School of Architecture, the Law School, the Graduate School, six major research institutes, more than 40 centers and special programs and the University library system.

Notre Dame is among a select group of schools that ranks in the top 25 on the U.S. News & World Report survey of the nation’s top colleges and in the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Directors’ Cup for overall success in athletics.

•

Community service is a hallmark of Notre Dame. About 80 percent of Notre Dame students engage in some form of voluntary community service during their years at the University, and at least 10 percent devote a year or more after graduation to service in the United States and around the world.

•

The University’s Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) annually sends 180 recent graduates to teach in some 100 understaffed Catholic schools in the southern, southeastern and southwestern United States and in South Bend. A national model, ACE has received the Higher Education Award from the Corporation for National Service for leadership in using national service resources through AmeriCorps.

Notre Dame has one of the highest undergraduate residential concentrations of any national university, with 80 percent of its students living in 27 residence halls.

Alumni

Notre Dame is rated among the nation’s top 25 institutions of higher learning in surveys conducted by U.S. News and World Report, Princeton Review, Time, Kiplinger’s, and Kaplan/Newsweek.

Notre Dame ranks fifth in a listing of “dream schools” in a survey of parents by the Princeton Review. The top five are Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, New York University and Notre Dame.

Service

•

The medical school acceptance rate of the University’s preprofessional studies graduates is 80 percent, almost twice the national average.

•

Notre Dame ranks first among Catholic universities in the number of doctorates earned by its undergraduate alumni - a record compiled over some 85 years.

•

The University’s network of 270 alumni clubs -- including 60 international clubs -- is the most extensive in higher education.

•

With graduates renowned for their loyalty and generosity, Notre Dame annually ranks among the top five in percentage of alumni who contribute to the University.

•

In recent years, Notre Dame alumni have won a Nobel Prize in medicine, a Pulitzer Prize in journalism, and an Emmy Award for contributions to television technology.

Table Of Contents THIS IS NOTRE DAME University of Notre Dame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3 University Leadership. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5 Academic Excellence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7 Athletic Facilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9 Sports Medicine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Strength and Conditioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Excellence On the Field. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Excellence Off the Field. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 City of South Bend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Student Welfare and Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Monogram Club. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Media Information & Quick Facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Season Preview Fencing A-Z notebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-25 Men’s roster and pronunciation guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Women’s roster and pronunciation guide . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Season preview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28-30 Coaching Staff Head Coach Janusz Bednarski. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32-33 Assistant Coach Gia Kvaratskhelia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Assistant Coach Merek Stephien. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Support Staff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Student Athletes Women’s Epee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38-43 Women’s Foil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44-47 Women’s team pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Women’s Sabre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49-52 Men’s Epee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53-56 Men’s Foil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57-61 Men’s Sabre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62-66

Season in Review 2008 recap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 2008 results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Departed Monogram Winners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70-80 History and Records Irish Fencing History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82-83 2003 NCAA Champions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84-85 2005 NCAA Champions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86-87 NCAA Championship teams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Coaching Legends. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89-90 Four-Year All-Americans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91-93 All-American by weapon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Men’s All-Americans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Women’s All-Americans, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Award Winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96-98 Men’s records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99-102 Women’s records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103-104 NCAA results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105-108 NCAA records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 NCAA men’s individual results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110-111 NCAA women’s individual results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112-113 Conference Championship history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Women’s team results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Men’s team results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116-117 Men’s all-time roster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118-128 Women’s all-time roster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129-131

MEDIA INFORMATION The Notre Dame Sports Information Office always is interested in assisting members of the media in their coverage of the Irish fencing program. Publicity and media information for Notre Dame fencing is handled by SID assistant Dan Colleran. Please feel free to contact Colleran at the Notre Dame Sports Information Office.

Photographs, feature ideas and results are always available from the Sports Information Office. For fencing information and interviews, please contact Colleran at (574) 631-4780. All interviews with coaches and athletes should be arranged through the Sports Information Office.

CREDITS The Notre Dame Fencing Guide was written and edited by SID Assistant Dan Colleran, with editorial assistance provided by sports information interns Brent Henningfeld and Michael Scholl as well as student assistants Ted Zinzer, Daniel DeJaegher Chris Rehagen and Notre Dame fencing statistician Dave Stabrawa.

Design and page layout by Cindy Lemcke of Ave Maria Press, Inc. Inside and outside cover design

by Dave Scholtes of Ave Marie Press, Inc., Notre Dame, Ind. Photography by Mike Bennett/Lighthouse Imaging, Matt Cashore, L.K. Dunn, Heather Gollatz, Pete LaFleur/Collegefencing360.com, Matt Staver, NCAA photos, www.fencingphotos.com, Marcus Snowden, Vanessa Gempis, Tara Hunt and assistant coach Marek Stepien.

1

ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

Exceptional Education Since its founding, Notre Dame has stressed mixing academics with faith and has done so while becoming one of the top institutions of higher learning in the nation. Featuring five undergraduate colleges (Arts and Letters, Science, Architecture, Engineering and Business), the First Year of Studies, the Graduate School and the Law School, the University finds itself attracting some of the top students and faculty in the country. Students also participate in cutting edge research and diverse study abroad opportunities, enabling Notre Dame to offer one of the top academic experiences in the world.

2 22 37 5

2

Ranking of the Mendoza College of Business by BusinessWeek, in its annual survey of undergraduate business programs.

Ranking of the Notre Dame Law School by U.S. News and World Report.

National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships won by faculty in the College of Arts and Letters, more than any other university in the nation.

Publications in which the University of Notre Dame is ranked among the top 25 institutions of higher learning (U.S. News and World Report, Princeton Review, Time, Kiplinger’s and Kaplan/Newsweek).

First Year of Studies The First Year of Studies program provides all first-year students with the opportunity to gain a wide-ranging liberal arts background before choosing a specific major within Notre Dame’s five undergraduate colleges. A progressive advising program for all student-athletes enables the University to follow the academic progress of all student-athletes on a regular basis. Key to the program is the fact that it is not run by the athletics department but by the University administration.

Student-Athlete Success Notre Dame expects the best out of its student-athletes just as it does of every other student on campus. Notre Dame has had unprecedented academic success among its athletes, consistently ranking among the top NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision schools in graduation rates and academic progress. With more Academic All-Americans than any other school since 2000, Irish athletes have shown themselves capable of performing in the classroom while competing on the field at an elite level.

14

Programs honored by the NCAA for Academic Progress Rate scores in 2009, more than any other of the 119 Football Bowl Subdivision universities. The APR measures multi-year academic success by team members.

9

Irish teams which recorded a perfect score of 1,000 in the NCAA’s 2009 Academic Progress Rate report, more than any other Football Bowl Subdivision institution. Notre Dame also had 11 additional programs with scores of 990 or better and all 26 varsity teams placed above NCAA standards.

19 100 .863

Programs which achieved a perfect 100 percent graduation rate according to the NCAA’s Graduation Success Rate, second most among Football Bowl Subdivision institutions.

Federal graduation rate percent achieved by nine Irish teams, according to the latest NCAA figures. Notre Dame had 11 teams ranked first in their respective sport.

Percentage of Irish varsity sports (19 of 22) to achieve a perfect 100 percent graduation rate according to the NCAA’s Graduation Success Rate. Notre Dame was one of only 10 institutions with more than half its programs achieving a 100 percent graduation rate and no other school saw more than 80 percent of its programs achieve a perfect score.

3

SPORTS MEDICINE

Sports Medicine While no athlete plans on an injury, Notre Dame is prepared with one of the top sports medicine teams in the country to help keep its athletes fit and ready to compete. With training facilities in the Joyce Center, Notre Dame Stadium and the Guglielmino Athletics Complex, the training staff is always there to care for athletes. With approximately 200 years combined experience on the full-time staff, Notre Dame also boasts a partnership with the renowned South Bend Orthopaedics to provide first-class care.

14 8,500

4

Total sports medicine staff members. Head athletic trainer Jim Russ leads three associate trainers, eight assistant trainers and two physical therapists.

Square feet of cutting-edge sports medicine technology, including two 3,500-gallon therapy pools, a full x-ray unit and an MRI machine.

SPORTS MEDICINE/STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING

Strength and Conditioning The task of keeping athletes in top physical condition is up to the strength & conditioning staff. The strength and conditioning staff knows the demands of competing on an elite level and is committed to ensuring Irish athletes are always in the best possible condition.

From weight lifting to wind sprints and from warming up to cooling down, the strength and conditioning staff has every aspect covered.

10 25,000

Full-time employees working with Irish varsity athletes. The strength and conditioning staff includes director Ruben Mendoza, eight coaches, one nutritionist and one intern.

Square feet in the Haggar Fitness Complex, which is located in the Guglielmino Athletics Complex, including a weight room, a 45yard artificial turf agility field, a Gatorade hydration station, six plasma TVs and a 28-speaker sound system.

5

THIS IS NOTRE DAME

The University of Notre Dame When Father Edward F. Sorin started his school in the northern Indiana wilderness, he had only $300, three log buildings badly in need of repair and a far-sighted vision of establishing a liberal arts school to meet the growing educational needs of the frontier. He dreamed of building a great university, and in 1842, he founded the University of Notre Dame du Lac. Over the years, the University of Notre Dame du Lac would evolve into a preeminent place for Catholic thought. While becoming one of the top undergraduate institutions in the country, Notre Dame has also been at the cutting edge of research, including such innovations as the transmission of wireless messages and the development of synthetic rubber. The University also has stressed residential life, with four of five students living on campus. Students come to Notre Dame not only to learn how to think, but to learn how to live, keeping faith with the vision of Father Sorin.

1842 11,733 23.9 5

6

The University of Notre Dame was founded by Rev. Edward F. Sorin, C.S.C., as an independent, national Catholic university adjacent to South Bend, Ind., on St. Mary’s and St. Joseph’s Lakes.

Total enrollment at the University of Notre Dame, with 8,371 undergraduate students.

Karat gold in the famed Golden Dome, which tops the Main Building at the heart of campus.

Notre Dame’s ranking by Princeton Review in a list of “Dream Schools” which takes into account academics and student life, among other attributes.

Student Body Notre Dame is one of a handful of universities with a truly international student body, coming from more than 100 nations and all 50 states. The most recent freshman class featured 88 percent of students in the top 10 percent of their high school class. In addition, there are no fraternities or sororities at Notre Dame, with the school’s 28 residence halls housing more than 80 percent of the student body, serving as the focal point of social, religious and athletic activities.

95 97 80 50/100

Graduation rate percentage among Notre Dame students, third in the nation behind only Harvard and Princeton.

Retention rate between freshman and sophomore year which thanks to the University’s renowned First Year of Studies Program, ranks among the highest in the country.

Percent of Notre Dame students who reside in one of 28 on-campus residence halls, where approximately 40 Holy Cross religious leaders provide pastoral assistance.

States and countries, respectively, which Notre Dame students call home.

7

UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP

Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. President

Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C, took office as the 17th president of the University of Notre Dame on July 1, 2005. He was elected by the University’s Board of Trustees to a five-year term April 30, 2004.

An associate professor of philosophy and member of Notre Dame’s faculty since 1990, Father Jenkins had served as a vice president and associate provost at the University from July 2000 until becoming president.

Prior to his service in the provost’s office, Father Jenkins had been religious superior of the Holy Cross priests and brothers at Notre Dame for three years. As religious superior, he was a Fellow and Trustee of the University.

Father Jenkins specializes in the areas of ancient philosophy, medieval philosophy and the philosophy of religion.

He is the author of Knowledge and Faith in Thomas Aquinas, published by Cambridge University Press in 1997.

Father Jenkins earned degrees in philosophy from Oxford University in 1987 and 1989. He earned his master of divinity degree and licentiate in sacred theology from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, Calif., in 1988. Prior to entering the Congregation of Holy Cross, he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in philosophy from Notre Dame in 1976 and 1978, respectively.

Father Jenkins was ordained a priest in Notre Dame’s Basilica of the Sacred Heart in 1983. He served as director of the Old College program for Notre Dame undergraduate candidates for the Congregation of Holy Cross from 1991 to 1993.

A native of Omaha, Neb., Father Jenkins was born Dec. 17, 1953.

Notre Dame Administration

President: Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. Provost: Thomas G. Burish Executive Vice President: John Affleck-Graves Vice President and Senior Associate Provost: Christine Maziar Vice President and Associate Provost: Donald B. Pope-Davis Vice President and Associate Provost: Dennis C. Jacobs Vice President for Student Affairs: Rev. Mark L. Poorman, C.S.C. Vice President for University Relations: Louis M. Nanni Vice President for Research: Robert J. Bernhard Vice President and General Counsel: Marianne Corr Vice President for

Business Operations: James J. Lyphout

Vice President and

Chief Investment Officer: Scott C. Malpass Vice President for Public Affairs

and Communications: Janet M. Botz

Vice President for Finance: John A. Sejdinaj

8

Thomas G. Burish Provost

John Affleck-Graves Executive Vice President

Richard C. Notebaert Chairman, Notre Dame Board of Trustees

Patricia Bellia NCAA Faculty Representative

Jack Swarbrick Director of Athletics

John B. “Jack” Swarbrick Jr., a University of Notre Dame graduate who has risen to national prominence as a lawyer, consultant, and executive in the collegiate and Olympic sports industries, is in his second year as director of athletics at his alma mater.

His first year on campus in 2008-09 featured the announcement of plans for a new, free-standing ice hockey arena; creation of an athletic administrative division to enhance athletic performance — plus 35 All-Americans, eight Academic All-Americans and four NCAA postgraduate Scholarship winners.

Notre Dame teams in 2008-09 finished as the NCAA runner-up in both women’s soccer (26-1, led by Hermann Trophy winner Kerri Hanks) and fencing (men 33-0, women 32-2), while the women’s tennis squad advanced to the NCAA semifinals. The Irish men’s soccer squad was seeded 14th in the NCAA bracket, while the hockey team ranked fourth in the final poll after winning CCHA regular-season and postseason crowns. Men’s lacrosse finished unbeaten in the regular season (and second in the final poll) -- and women’s lacrosse won its first BIG EAST title.

Notre Dame also ranked number one in the country (among Football Bowl Subdivision schools) in the most recent Graduation Success Rate (GSR) numbers with a 98 for all student-athletes. The 2009 Academic Progress Rate (APR) statistics included more perfect 1,000 scores by Irish teams (nine) than by any other FBS institution.

Raised in Yonkers, N.Y., and Bloomington, Ind., Swarbrick is a 1976 magna cum laude graduate of Notre Dame with a bachelor’s degree in economics. Upon graduating from Stanford University Law School in 1980, he returned to Indiana to accept a position as an associate in the Indianapolis law firm Baker & Daniels. He was made partner in 1987 and spent 28 years overall with the firm.

As a member of the Indiana Sports Corporation, including the chairmanship from 1992 to 2001, Swarbrick’s leadership efforts resulted in the city earning the bid to host the 2012 Super Bowl; becoming the home of the NCAA headquarters; and hosting the 1987 Pan American Games, the 1991 World Gymnastics Championships, NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Fours, and other college championship competitions plus a wide array of national and world championships in the Olympic sports.

He served as sports commissioner of the 1982 U.S. Olympic Festival in Indianapolis, competition director of the ’87 Pan American Games, and chairman of the ’91 World Gymnastics Championships. Swarbrick has served as general counsel for numerous national governing bodies of Olympic sports, including USA Gymnastics and USRowing.

Born March 19, 1954, Swarbrick and his wife Kimberly are the parents of four children: Kate, a senior at Saint Louis University; Connor, a junior at Wake Forest University; Cal, a senior in high school; and Christopher, a high school junior.

9

ATHLETIC FACILITIES

Homes of the Fighting Irish In the midst of a master plan that will touch nearly every varsity team, Notre Dame has shown its commitment to providing athletes with the best possible facilities to help them compete on a national level. From new facilities to the extensive renovation of existing ones, Notre Dame is committed to giving Irish athletes every edge imaginable. The plan will result in a drastically altered footprint on the southeast corner of campus, creating an athletics quad that will give every Irish athlete a place they will be proud to call home.

3

New athletics facilities which will open on campus during the 2009-10 year. Alumni Stadium will be the new home for men’s and women’s soccer; Purcell Pavilion renovation and expansion of the Joyce Center arena will be completed; and Arlotta Family Stadium will open as the new home for the men’s and women’s lacrosse teams.

3

New facilities which have opened their doors in the past five years, including the Guglielmino Athletics Complex (housing football offices and locker room, a new weight room and new sports medicine facilities), the LaBar Practice Complex (featuring two Field Turf fields and one natural grass field) and Melissa Cook Stadium (home of the Irish softball team).

26.3

Million dollars being spent on Purcell Pavilion for additions and renovations to the Joyce Center arena. Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center will feature a three-story addition with club seating, a hospitality area, additional area for restrooms and concessions, as well as new space for the Varsity Shop and the Notre Dame ticket office.

4

Facilities which are still on the master plan to create a comprehensive athletic quad. The track and field teams, the hockey program, the tennis squads and the rowing team all will receive new facilities in the near future.

10

11

EXCELLENCE ON THE FIELD

Championship Teams Notre Dame prides itself on competing with the best in every sport it fields. Eight different programs have won national championships since Notre Dame began its first varsity team, football in 1887. With more consensus national championships in football than any other school, other programs have begun to emerge on the national scene in the 14 years since Notre Dame joined the BIG EAST Conference.

25 101 10 13 11

12

National championships (11 in football, seven in fencing, two in women’s soccer, two in men’s tennis, one in men’s golf, men’s cross country and women’s basketball) won by Notre Dame.

BIG EAST Conference championships won by Notre Dame in 14 seasons of league play.

Conference championships won by Irish teams during the 200809 year (eight BIG EAST, plus Central Collegiate Hockey Association and Great Western Lacrosse League).

Irish programs which finished their 2008-09 season nationally ranked.

Consecutive years in which Notre Dame has finished in the top 25 of the United States Sports Academy Division I Directors’ Cup, sponsored by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletcs. With a 21st-place finish in 2009, Notre Dame matched its finish from the previous year.

EXCELLENCE OFF THE FIELD

Championship People To measure the success of Notre Dame’s determination to have both academic and athletic success, one needs only to look at the numbers.

From Academic All-Americans to BIG EAST Conference Academic AllStars, Notre Dame continues to set the bar nationally.

210 84 2 8 48

All-time Academic All-Americans produced by Notre Dame, second most of any university.

Academic All-Americans since 2000, more than any other school.

Irish teams which have produced more Academic All-Americans than any other school in their respective sports – baseball and women’s soccer.

Notre Dame Academic All-Americans in 2008-09.

Notre Dame NCAA postgraduate scholarship recipients since 1964, including four in 2008-09: Matt Besler (men’s soccer), Brittany Bock (women’s soccer), Lauren Buck (rowing) and Patrick Smyth (men’s cross country).

13

STUDENT WELFARE & DEVELOPMENT

Irish in the Community In addition to academic success, Notre Dame emphasizes giving back to the community as well. Notre Dame athletes have participated in countless service projects through the years, benefiting the Notre Dame and South Bend communities and beyond. Team and individual projects have allowed Irish athletes to see the positive impact they have in the lives of others and learn how to use their talents to benefit those in their communities.

5,500 686 82.5

14

Hours of community service completed by Notre Dame studentathletes during the 2008-09 school year.

Community service hours completed by the women’s swimming team, tops among Irish programs in 2008-09. The team assisted with programs including the Domer Run, Irish Aquatics, Relay for Life and Fit for Fun, among others.

Hours of community service completed by the women’s soccer All-American Carrie Dew, more than any other Irish athlete. Dew volunteered at Healthwin Specialized Care with the elderly, Lifeworks children’s program and Take 10, which emphasizes nonviolent ways for children to resolve disputes, among other service projects.

NOTRE DAME MONOGRAM CLUB

An Exclusive Club The Notre Dame Monogram Club was founded by athletics director Jesse Harper in 1916 to bring together varsity letterwinners to promote spirit, unity, leadership and sportsmanship. Today’s active members help keep past athletes connected to Notre Dame and the current student-athletes. In addition to helping contribute to scholarships, the Monogram Club has helped contribute to new facilities, especially the renovation of Heritage Hall and the Monogram Room, located in the Joyce Center.

2

Postgraduate scholarships awarded by the Monogram Club in 2009. Football’s Thomas Bemenderfer and volleyball’s Mallorie Croal earned the first annual grants. Croal will be working towards a masters of nursing at San Diego while Bemenderfer will be enrolling in medical school at Indiana University.

3,628

Active members in the Monogram Club through the 2008-09 year. The contributions of active members entitle them to Inside Irish, a magazine for members; the annual Riehle Open golf outing; football tickets and makes their children eligible for the Brennan-Boland-Riehle Scholarship.

2.5

Million dollars which have been contributed to the BrennanBoland-Riehle Scholarship fund, which benefits the children of former Notre Dame athletes who attend the University.

15

CITY OF SOUTH BEND

Notre Dame’s Neighbor Located adjacent to South Bend, Ind., the University of Notre Dame has always acknowledged its place in a greater community. Sitting between South Bend and Mishawaka in northern Indiana, Notre Dame has benefited the area in ways unimaginable, especially when it comes to Notre Dame football weekends. It is estimated that the average football weekend brings approximately $6.2 million dollars to the surrounding community. In addition to the financial aspect, Notre Dame feels truly invested in the surrounding community, with students participating in countless service projects to benefit the greater South Bend area.

266,678

Population of the South Bend-Mishawaka area.

5.5

Millions of dollars in voluntary contributions over the next 10 years from the University of Notre Dame to the cities of South Bend and Mishawaka, the town of Roseland and to St. Joseph County.

21

Football legends enshrined in South Bend’s College Football Hall of Fame in the summer of 2009, including former Irish head coach Lou Holtz. The College Football Hall of Fame was constructed in downtown South Bend in 1995 and features what is regarded as one of the most interactive museums in the world.

1,900

Feet runs the East Race Waterway, the first and only manmade whitewater rapids facility in North America. The East Race hosted the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials for kayak.

16

GIVE A GIFT and LEAVE A LEGACY

/

VER STUDENT ATHLETES ON VARSITY TEAMS EXCELLING IN ACADEMICS

SPIRITUALITY COMMUNITY SERVICE AND ATHLETICS ALL MADE POSSIBLE COURTESY of the generous alumni, parents and friends who support Notre Dame’s first athletics annual fund – the Rockne Heritage Fund.

4HE CULMINATION OF THESE GIFTS ASSISTS THE 5NIVERSITY IN UNDERWRITING ATHLETICS SCHOLARSHIPS THAT ARE THE LIFEBLOOD OF EVERY PROGRAM THAT WANTS TO RECRUIT THE best and the brightest and compete for national championships. /UR WORK HAS JUST BEGUN 3CHOLARSHIPS ARE ONE OF THE LARGEST LINE ITEMS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS OPERATING BUDGET ACCOUNTING FOR ROUGHLY MILLION ANNUALLY

Director’s Circle Members donating to the Rockne Heritage Fund at the $1,500, $5,000, $10,000 and $25,000 levels, receive a corresponding benefits package.

For more information on the attractive football ticket benefit, visit our website: und.com/rockneheritagefund.

Make a Gift Today s 3END A CHECK PAYABLE TO THE 2OCKNE (ERITAGE &UND 0 / "OX Notre Dame, IN 46556. s 6ISIT ONLINE SUPPORTING ND EDU AND INCLUDE h2OCKNE (ERITAGE &UNDv IN the comments section. s 3PECIFY IF YOUR EMPLOYER HAS A MATCHING GIFT PROGRAM s .OTRE $AME EMPLOYEES MAY REQUEST A PAYROLL DEDUCTION FORM s !LL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 2OCKNE (ERITAGE &UND ARE CREDITED TOWARD ELIGIBILITY IN THE FOOTBALL TICKET LOTTERY

Contact Information -AUREEN , -C.AMARA q %XECUTIVE $IRECTOR %XTERNAL !FFAIRS q rocknedc@nd.edu · und.com/rockneheritagefund

SPIRIT OF NOTRE DAME

SUPPORTING THE SPIRIT OF NOTRE DAME CAMPAIGN 2004 – 2011

Media Information/ Quick Facts Print Media

Print Media

South Bend Tribune (Bill Bilinski/Tom Noie) 225 West Colfax Avenue South Bend, IN 46626 (574) 235-6316/235-6331 Fax (574) 235-6091

Notre Dame Scholastic LaFortune Student Center Notre Dame, IN 46556 (574) 631-7569 Fax (574) 631-9648

Associated Press (Tom Coyne) South Bend Tribune Building 225 West Colfax Avenue South Bend, IN 46626 (574) 288-1649 Fax (574) 236-1765 Irish Sports Report (Bob Wieneke) 225 West Colfax Avenue South Bend, IN 46626 (574) 235-6161 Fax (574) 239-2646

Television WNDU-TV – NBC (Jeff Jeffers/Angelo DiCarlo) P.O. Box 1616 South Bend, IN 46634 (574) 631-1616/1240/1246 Fax (574) 631-2916

WSJV-TV – FOX (Dean Huppert/Allison Hayes) 59096 County Road 7 South Elkhart, IN 46514 (574) 679-4545 or 293-9227 Fax (574) 294-1324

Radio WHME TV/Radio (Bob Nagle/Chuck Freeby) 61300 Ironwood Road South Bend, IN 46625 (574) 291-8200 Fax (574) 291-9043

WSBT-TV/Radio – CBS (Pete Byrne/Chad Damp) 300 West Jefferson South Bend, IN 46601 (574) 472-8124 Fax (574) 288-6630

University Notre Dame Sports Information (Dan Colleran) dcollera@nd.edu www.und.com 112 Joyce Center – 2nd Floor Notre Dame, IN 46556-5678 (574) 631-4780 Fax (574) 631-7941 ND Sports Properties (Alan Wasielewski/Jack Nolan) jack@ndsportsproperties.com Notre Dame Stadium Notre Dame, IN 46556 (574) 631-2235 und.com – (760) 431-8221 (Carlsbad, Calif.)

Blue & Gold Illustrated (Lou Somogyi) 1605 North Home Mishawaka, IN 46545 (574) 255-9800 Fax (574) 255-9700 Notre Dame Observer B024 South Dining Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 (574) 631-7471 Fax (574) 631-9927

The Notre Dame fencing teams have exclusive use of the Walter Langford Gymnasium (right) – located on the second floor of the Joyce Center. Equipped with the latest in fencing training techniques and electronic scoring, the fencing gym includes 16 strips for team training, with the offices of head coach Janusz Bednarski, assistant coaches Gia Kvaratskhelia and Marek Stepien, and coach emeritus Mike DeCicco located adjacent to the fencing gym.

University Information

Fencing Quick Facts

Sports Information

Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Notre Dame, IN 46556 Founded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842 Undergraduate Enrollment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,371 Nickname . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fighting Irish Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gold and Blue President . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C Provost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thomas Burish Athletics Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack Swarbrick Asst. AD/Fencing . . . . . . . . . . . Maureen McNamara Athletic Department Web Page . . . . . . www.und.com Athletic Department Phone . . . . . . . . (574) 631-6107 University Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . (574) 631-5000

Head Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Janusz Bednarski Bednarski’s Alma Mater . . . . . . . . SGPiS College ’70 Bednarski’s Office Phone . . . . . . . . . (574) 631-3599 Career Record (Years) . . . . . . 361-27 (eighth season) Assistant Coaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gia Kvaratskhelia, Marek Stepien Home Facility . . . . . . . . . . . Joyce Center Fieldhouse Men’s All-Americans Returning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2008 NCAA Men’s Qualifiers Returning . . . . . . . . 5 Men’s Starters Returning/Lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5/1 Men’s Monogram Winners Returning/Lost . . . . .17/6 Women’s All-Americans Returning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2008 NCAA Women’s Qualifiers Returning . . . . . . . .5 Women’s Starters Returning/Lost . . . . . . . . . . . 5/1 Women’s Monogram Winners Ret./Lost . . . . . .13/4 2008 Men’s Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33-0 2008 Women’s Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30-2 2008 NCAA Championship Finish . . . . . . . . . . . 2nd

Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Joyce Center Notre Dame, IN 46556-5678 Sports Information Fax . . . . . . . . . . . (574) 631-7941 Notre Dame Sports Hotline . . . . . . . (574) 631-3000 SID Intern/Fencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dan Colleran Sports Information Office . . . . . . . . .(574) 631-7516 Colleran’s Office Phone . . . . . . . . . . .(574) 631-4780 Colleran’s Cell Phone . . . . . . . . . . . .(574) 532-4151 Colleran’s E-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .dcollera@nd.edu

18

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Season Preview

Sarah Borrmann (pictured above left fencing in the 2009 NCAA Championships at Penn State University) is one of two returning NCAA Champions (along with senior Kelley Hurley) on the Notre Dame roster, having secured the women’s sabre gold in 2008. After finishing second the past two seasons, Borrmann and the Fighting Irish have their sights set on bringing home the 2010 NCAA Championship.

Fencing A-Z

“A TEAM” – That nickname first was placed on the dynamic foil duo of Alicja Kryczalo and Andrea Ament (above) in 2002, after the pair completed their stellar freshman seasons by posting the maximum 48 combined wins in NCAA competition. Kryczalo went undefeated (25-0) in claiming the NCAA title, while Ament’s only loss in 23 round-robin bouts came 5-3 versus Kryczalo (who beat Ament again in the title bout, 15-6). The A Team returned to the top at the 2003 NCAAs, with both fencers going 194 to help the Irish win the team title before Kryczalo repeated as NCAA champion and Ament took third. The 2004 NCAAs saw a repeat of the 2002 final, with Kryczalo besting Ament 15-7. Kryczalo came one win shy of her fourth NCAA title in 2005 while Ament added her own fourth All-America finish (seventh), helping the Irish win another NCAA team title. The duo combined to win nearly 92 percent of their regular-season bouts (325-27; 161-12 for Kryczalo, 164-15 by Ament) while owning an .864 combined winning percentage in the NCAAs (159-25; 84-8 by Kryczalo, 75-17 by Ament), with one-fourth of their NCAA losses (six) coming in bouts versus each other.

ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE – The fencing program boasts a long-standing tradition of great achievement in the classroom in addition to on the strip. Adrienne Nott was selected to the 2008 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District V at-large team in voting done by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) for the 2007-08 school year. After the 2008-09 school year, Nott joined Mark Kubik (chemical engineering) and Bill Thanhouser (Program of Liberal Studies) as one of three fencers to complete Notre Dame’s Academic Honors Program.

The 2009-10 Irish fencing roster includes 11 veteran fencers who entered the 2009 fall semester with cumulative GPAs of 3.2 or higher, including seniors Vanessa Rosa (Accounting) and Diego Silva (Management and Psychology) as well as juniors Alex Buell (Marketing), Conor Gettings (Financee and Political Science), Steve Kubik (Accounting), Barron Nydam (Accounting), Avery Zuck (Finance) and John Plunkett (Electrical Engineering). In addition, sophomores Christina LaBarge, Diane Zielinski, Stephanie Myers, Reggie

20

Bentley, Nicholas Crebs, Gerek Meinhardt and Christopher Pinkowski all finished their freshmen years with GPAs above 3.2.

Notre Dame’s 2003 NCAA championship run featured top contributions from a graduating class that was full of academic all-stars. Four-time All-Americans Ozren Debic (3.14) and Jan Viviani (3.09) wrapped up impressive careers as both students and athletes, while their ’03 classmate Anna Carnick was a three-time AllAmerican and graduated with a 3.13 final GPA, including a 4.0 in the 2002 spring semester. Two other All-Americans, epeeist Meagan Call (3.16; three-time All-American) and sabre Matt Fabricant (3.17), rounded out the impressive all-around accomplishments of the 2003 graduating class.

The 2005 NCAA championship season included a 3.10 team semester GPA and marked the end of the standout foil careers for Alicja Kryczalo (graduated with 3.49 GPA; psychology/political science major) and Andrea Ament (3.21 final cumulative GPA; preprofessional studies). The 2007 senior class also featured a pair of impressive students in fourtime All-America sabreist Valerie Providenza (3.46; psychology/Spanish) and two-time AllAmerica epeeist Amy Orlando (3.54; psychology).

BROTHERS IN ARMS - Notre Dame fencing has included several noteworthy brother combinations, led by four All-America duos: epeeists Brian (’52, 12th) and Rod (’54, 12th)

Duff of Peabody, Mass.; epeeists John (’61, 5th) and Steve (’67, 4th) Donlon of Farmingdale, N.Y.; sabreists Mike (’68, 5th) and Doug (’71, 8th) Daher of Grosse Pointe, Mich. and, most recently, foilists Mark (’07, 7th) and Steve (’08, 8th) Kubik of San Antonio, Texas. Sabre fencers Chris (129-17; ’89-’92) and Ed (110-10; ’88-’92) Baguer of North Newark, N.J., remain the program’s only brothers with 100-plus wins (Chris was a three-time NCAA competitor, Ed a 1992 All-American).

The Lyons brothers, of Berwyn, Pa., include foilist John III (’69-’71) and sabreists Michael (’71-’73) and Chris (’78-’80). They are the only set of three brothers to each earn a letter with the Notre Dame fencing program. Chris also earned sabre All-America honors in 1980.

Former foilist Mark (a two-time NCAA participant and 2007 All-American) Kubik concluded his Irish career with 154 victories, while brother and current junior Steve posted a 30-6 sophomore campaign to move his career wins total to 72. With 28 more bout victories in his career, Steve will make the Kubik brothers the second-ever family duo to each reach 100 career wins.

COACH OF THE YEAR – Former Notre Dame head coach Yves Auriol was honored by the U.S. Fencing Coaches Association (USFCA) as the 2001 and 2002 national college Coach of the Year. Legendary Irish coach Mike DeCicco was a four-time recipient of that award (1966, ’75, ’77, ’92), while current seventh-year head

ALL IN THE FAMILY – Former foilist Forest Walton (9th at the 2001 NCAAs, fenced final season with Irish in ’04) and epee standout Kerry Walton (’02 NCAA champ, 5th in ’03, ’04 runner-up) remain Notre Dame’s only brother-sister duo ever to earn All-America honors (in any sports).That family excellence extends to their mother Yvonne, who placed third in foil at the 2002 Veterans World Championships – matching Kerry’s finish months earlier at the World Junior Championships. That marked the first time that a parent and child had medaled concurrently for U.S. teams in World Championship competition, with both Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd” and USA Today recognizing the rare feat.

Both Walton parents dabbled in fencing while attending Lowell State (now part of UMass-Lowell) but Michael Walton’s fencing career was cut short due to injury (he remains active in the sport as armorer at various bouts). The family then lived in Alaska before returning to New England and settling into their current hometown of Londonderry, N.H., in the early 1980s.

The key training for the Walton children came at Seacoast Fencing Club in nearby Manchester. It was there that four future NCAA fencing stars – the Waltons and their cousins Scott and Kevin Eriksen (All-Americans at Penn and Columbia, respectively) – developed a competitive bond that holds to this day. The cousins trained together for 11 years and became known as “The Four Amigos,” with the Waltons even picking up a pair of telling nicknames. Forest – from the “Top Gun” movie generation – was known as “Iceman” while his sister was tabbed “Valkyre” (the Norse god of war).

Forest Walton was halfway around the globe when his sister completed the family’s historic All-America double. He spent 2001-02 studying in Rome, as part of the challenging five-year architecture curriculum that involved navigating his way though possibly the most challenging class demands of any Notre Dame student-athlete.

For more on the Walton family’s fencing story, see the following und.com website link: http://und.ocsn.com/sports/c-fenc/spec-rel/030503aab.html

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

All-Americans Forest and Kerry Walton

D’ALONZO SCHOLARSHIP – Rev Alfred D’Alonzo, C.S.C., a senior counselor in the Office of Academic Services for Student-Athletes, was honored in 2003 with the creation of a grant-in-aid in his name. The $100,000 commitment to endow the Father Al D’Alonzo Grant-In-Aid benefits members of the women’s fencing and softball teams. It was established with a gift from the family of his brother Frank and nephew Frank, Jr., in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Father D’Alonzo’s ordination as a Holy Cross priest.

A native of Orange, N.J., D’Alonzo enrolled at Notre Dame on a football scholarship and played two years, also attending officers training school as a member of the Navy’s V-12 program. In his sophomore year, he gave up football and turned down his commission to enter the priesthood. He later earned his master’s degree in educational administration and sociology and added a doctorate in administration. Rev. D’Alonzo returned to Notre Dame in 1981, serving eight years on the Moreau Seminary staff. Two years later, he was appointed a counselor in Academic Services for Student-Athletes, working with various teams over the years (including fencing).

Fr. Al D’Alonzo, C.S.C. (center), presents the formal declaration of The D’Alonzo Grant-In-Aid that benefits women’s fencing scholarships.

coach Janusz Bednarski – who spent eight seasons as an assistant with the Irish – was honored by the USFCA in 1997 and ’99 as the Midwest Region Coach of the Year.

DeCICCO, MIKE – One of Notre Dame’s great coaching legends in any sport, DeCicco led Notre Dame to five NCAA titles while becoming highly respected in international fencing circles (see p. 94). DeCicco – who also founded Notre Dame’s Academic Advising Program for Athletics – was a 2002 inductee into the prestigious Italian-American Athletic Hall of Fame and remains in regular contact with hundreds of former Notre Dame fencers who have gone on to widespread postgraduate success.

DOMINATION – How else can one describe the career of former Notre Dame foil standout Alicja Kryczalo? In four seasons with the Irish, the native of Gdansk, Poland, won nearly 94 percent of her overall bouts (350-266) while going 161-12 in the regular season; 47-1 as a two-time Midwest Fencing Conference champ; 51-4 as a four-time Midwest Regional champ; and 91-9 en route to claiming three NCAA foil titles and ’05 runner-up honors – in addition to being a three-time winner at the Penn State Open. She joined former PSU star Olga Kalinovskaya (‘93-’96 foil champ) as the only DI women’s fencers to win three-plus NCAA titles (Wayne State epeeist Anna Garina then won her third title in 2007). Nine men’s fencers have claimed three-plus NCAA titles: four-time sabre champ Michael Lofton (NYU, ’84-’87), Wayne State foilists Greg Benko (’74-’76) and Ernest Simon (’78-’81), NYU epeeist Risto Hurme (’73-’75), Columbia sabreist Bruce Soriano (’70’72), Stanford foilist Nick Bravin (’90, ’92-’93), PSU sabreist Tom Strzalkowski (’92-’94) and the Ohio State duo of foilist Boaz Ellis (’04-’06) and sabreist Adam Crompton (’03-’04, ’06).

Kryczalo’s 23-0 record in the 2002 NCAA round robin included an unheard-of +100 in total-touch indicators (14 shutouts in the fivetouch bouts) and she compiled a 94-3 overall record in ’02. Her only losses came to Irina

NCAAs) and All-America sabre Chris Hajnik (’93-’95); Chris, from Santa Maria, Pa., compiled a 141-53 career record and placed 10th at the 1994 NCAAs to help the Irish win the national title … foilist John Lyons III (’69-’71) – whose brother Chris (’78-’81) later was an All-America sabreist with the Irish – and epeeist John Lyons IV (’95) were the next to join the group (John was from Marietta, Ga.) … Mike McQuade (’63’65) – whose twin Joe also fenced foil – had a brother and son who all earned monograms with Notre Dame fencing; Mike’s sons, sabreist Chris (’92-’96) and epee/sabre fencer Steve (’96-’99) of Clifton, N.J., completed the family connection … recently, George Viamontes followed his namesake and fellow sabreist (’71-’73) in earning his monogram with the Irish fencing program (’01).

FOUR-TIME ALL-AMERICANS – Two captains on the 2003 Notre Dame men’s fencing team – epeeist Jan Viviani and foilist Ozren Debic – became rare four-year All-Americans (see pp.

88-89), with three members of the 2005 senior class then earning that four-year All-America status: epeeist Michal Sobieraj and foilists Khouade (St. John’s) at the Andrea Ament and Alicja NYU Duals, vs. ’01 NCAA Kryczalo, followed by sabreists champ Iris Zimmermann at the Patrick Ghattas and Valerie Air Force Duals, and vs. Ohio Providenza in 2007 (10 all-time State’s Hanna Thompson at the ND men’s fencers and seven regional. Kryczalo’s sophomore women’s fencers now have encore included a 40-3 regular earned that distinction). season, repeats of her three Former Irish foilist Adrienne postseason titles and an 87-8 Nott is the most recent name to overall record in ’03 bouts with join the exclusive club, the Irish. A loss to PSU’s Anna accomplishing the feat in 2009 Donath at the 2003 Notre with third team All-America Dame Duals ended a stretch in honors. which Kryczalo had won 48 Viviani became the first Notre straight bouts (and 93 of 94) Dame epeeist to be a four-year with the Irish. Her .928 career Ozren Debic – four-time NCAA foil All-American while Debic winning percentage in regular- All-American. joined Jeremy Siek (’97), season bouts trails only foilist Charles Higgs-Coulthard Sara Walsh (.970, 231-7; ’96-’99) and seven men’s (’87) and Yehuda Kovacs (’89) as men’s foil fencers in Notre Dame’s storied history (min. four-timers. Others on the list include sabremen three seasons). The only Notre Dame men’s Mike Sullivan (’79), Leszek Nowosielski (’91) foilists with better career records are four-time and Luke La Valle (’99), women’s foilists Molly All-Americans Ozren Debic (.952, 157-8; ’00- Sullivan (’88), Myriah Brown (’99) and Sara ’03) and Yehuda Kovacs (.930, 146-11; ’86- Walsh (’99) and women’s epeeist/foilist Magda ’89).

Krol (’00). La Valle, Brown and Walsh were the first classmates on the list.

FATHER-SON COMBINATIONS – Former Ten other Notre Dame student-athletes (for epeeist North J. Carey in 2003 joined his 28 total) have been four-year All-Americans in namesake as the eighth father-son combination to the same sport: basketball great Kevin O’Shea earn monograms with the Notre Dame fencing (’50), women’s soccer players Holly Manthei program. North E. Carey earned four monograms (’98 graduate), Jen Grubb (’00), Anne as an epeeist (1970-73) and made the drive from Makinen (’01) and Kerri Hanks (’09), distance Los Alamos, N.M., to Colorado Springs for the runners Oliver Hunter (’43), Mike 2003 NCAAs, cheering his alma mater to the McWilliams (’93), Ryan Shay (’01) and Molly national title (his son was an alternate for the Huddle (’07), and baseball pitcher Aaron 2003 and ’04 NCAAs).

Heilman (’00).

Notre Dame’s other father-son fencing monogram-winners are as follows: foilists Jerome FIVE-YEAR FOCUS – Notre Dame’s first (’52-’54) and James (’77-’79) Brainerd, natives five seasons in the head coaching tenure of of Amarillo, Texas, were the first father-son duo; Janusz Bednarski (a former Irish assistant Chicago-area natives, epeeists David (’51-’53) and coach) produced an impressive 242-19 regularJohn McBride (’80-81), joined the list in the season record (.927; 119-10 men, 123-9 women) 1980s, as did all-weapon specialist Mike DeCicco from 2003-07. Those five seasons also included (’47-’49) – who went on to become the NCAA team championships in 2003 and ’05, five legendary Irish coach – and his son Mike, Jr. (’84) NCAA individual champs and eight individual … the only combination to each compete in the runner-up finishes.

NCAAs is epeeist Frank (’63-’65; 27th at ’65

2009-10 FENCING

21

Fencing A-Z

Bjorn Vaggo

Gerek Meinhardt

Kelley Hurley

22

OLYMPIANS – Eleven fencers with ties to Notre Dame have been part of their respective Olympic teams over the years. In addition to playing a key role in Notre Dame’s dominating first-place showing at the 1978 NCAAs, Bjorn Vaggo (pictured at left, alongside Notre Dame coaching legend Mike DeCicco) went on to capture the epee silver medal at the 1984 Olympics in Los Molly Sullivan Angeles. Epeeist Tim Glass was selected for the 1980 Olympic team that did not compete due to the U.S. boycott, while foilist Mike McCahey helped the United Sate men’s foil team finish fifth at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.

Molly Sullivan fenced with the U.S. women’s foil Olympic team in 1988 (Seoul) and ’92 (Barcelona). Epeeist Mike Gostigian also competed for the U.S. in modern pentathlon (which includes fencing) at the Seoul (’88), Barcelona (’92) and Atlanta (’96) Games.

Men’s sabre standout Leszek Nowosielski fenced for his native Canada in Barcelona while Sara Walsh attended the 1996 Games in Atlanta, as a U.S. women’s foil alternate.

Men’s epee alum Jan Viviani competed as an alternate with the U.S. at the 2004 Olympics in Athens – where he was able to watch future Notre Dame fencer Mariel Zagunis win the women’s sabre gold medal in stunning fashion. Zagunis became the first U.S. fencer to win an Olympic medal since 1984 and was the first American gold medalist in 100 years (no previous U.S. women’s fencer ever had claimed an Olympic medal).

At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Zagunis went on to win her second gold medal in women’s sabre, becoming the first U.S. fencer to win multiple sabre gold medals. The sixth seed at the event, Zagunis defeated U.S. teammate Sada Jacobsen to win the gold and help the U.S. to a medal sweep in women’s sabre.

She also took home a bronze as the U.S. finished third in the team sabre event. Her gold marked the first of 36 gold medals won by the U.S. at the 2008 Games. Zagunis also became the first former Notre Dame student-athlete to earn multiple gold medals, a feat that was later equaled in the Games when Kate (Sobrero) Markgraf and Shannon Boxx won their second gold medals with the women’s soccer team.

Joining Zagunis in Bejing were Kelley Hurley (women’s epee) and Gerek Meinhardt (men’s foil). Meinhardt became the youngest U.S. Olympic fencer of all-time (18 years, 17 days). The 2009 campaign marked the first time in program history that two fencers with Olympic experience will compete for the Irish (for more information on their Olympic performances, please refer to their bio pages: Hurley- pg. 38; Meinhardt-pg. 61).

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Mariel Zagunis

Jan Viviani

FRESHMAN PHENOMS – Since 1974, some 41 Notre Dame fencers have earned AllAmerica honors as freshmen, including at least one in 14 of the past 17 years (all except ’97, ’01, ’03). The current roster boasts a pair of sophomores who earned 2009 All-America honors as freshmen including, Gerek Meinhardt and Courtney Hurley. Both of the Irish fencers earned first-team distinctions for their strong finishes at the 2009 NCAA championships at Penn State. Each fencer was able to secure a medalist finish, with Meinhardt earning a runner-up finish in the foil and Hurley finishing tied for third overall in women’s epee (she tied for 3rd with teammate Ewa Nelip).

The Notre Dame record for freshmen AllAmericans in a season stands at six, as both the 2008 class (Sarah Borrmann, Eileen Hassett, Nelip, Steve Kubik, Barron Nydam, Zach Schirtz) and the 2002 team (Meagan Call, Anna Carnick, Liza Boutsikaris, Natalia Mazur, Jan Viviani, Ozren Debic) placed six members on the heralded list.

The 2002 Irish featured four freshman AllAmericans (second in ND history): women’s foil champ Alicja Kryczalo and runner-up Andrea Ament, foilist Derek Snyder (7th) and epeeist Michal Sobieraj (10th). The 2004 NCAAs saw three Notre Dame freshmen – sabre champ Valerie Providenza, epeeist Amy Orlando and sabreist Patrick Ghattas – claim All-America honors while Mariel Zagunis reached the sabre final as a freshman in 2005 and her classmate Jakub Jedrkowiak earned foil All-America honors (7th), followed by foilist Adi Nott (6th) in ’06 and Kelley Hurley’s runner-up finish in the 2007 NCAA women’s epee.

wins in multiple weapons (83 in foil, 85 in sabre).

Claudette deBruin totaled 152 epee wins and 81 in foil, from 1993-96. Jordan and deBruin are two of four Notre Dame fencers ever to compete in multiple weapons at the NCAAs. The first to do so was Rian Girard, who fenced in NCAA foil bouts from 1991-93 before competing in the 1994 NCAA epee bouts (he had one of the key wins that helped the Irish rally to win the ’94 NCAA title).

Magda Krol is the only Notre Dame fencer to earn All-American honors in multiple weapons, after three top-12 finishes in NCAA epee (’97 champ, 7th in ’98, 8th in ’99) and a fifth-place foil finish in 2000. DeBruin fenced foil at the 1993 and ’94 NCAAs before claiming third-place All-America epee finishes in ’95 and ’96. Jordan fenced foil at the 2001 NCAAs and was a sabre entry in ’03, when she helped secure the NCAA team title.

Notre Dame coaching legend Mike DeCicco fenced all three weapons for the Irish in the late 1940s (1948 NCAA foil field entrant) and joins 1930s competitor Kevin Kehoe as ND’s only fencers to compete in all three. Nicole Mustilli started her Notre Dame career as a foilist and was an epee All-American in 1998 (4th) and ’99 (5th) before going on to excel in sabre during her postgraduate career (she and recent ND fencer Mariel Zagunis helped the U.S. women’s sabre team win the 2000 World Championship).

A total of 21 fencers on the Notre Dame all-time fencing roster are listed for multiple weapons. Of the 14 men’s fencers on that list, only seven have competed since DeCicco’s senior season in 1949: Jerome Isaacs (epee/sabre, 195456), Terry Laughlin (epee/foil, ’56-’60), William Kica (foil/epee, ’75-’78), Carl Aumen (epee/sabre, HOME STATES – Notre Courtney Hurley ’79-’80), Girard, Greg Bannon Dame’s list of all-time (foil/sabre, ’93-’96) and Steve competitors includes nearly 1,000 McQuade (epee/sabre, ’96-’99). fencers from 48 states (all but Alaska and West Girard, Bannon and McQuade are the only Virginia), Washington, D.C., and 25 foreign multi-weapon men’s fencers during the past 28 countries: Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bolivia, years.

Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, England, France, Germany, Guatemala, NATIONAL CHAMPIONS – Notre Dame Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, has won seven NCAA fencing team Panama, Poland, Puerto Rico, South Africa, championships (see p. 86), including men’s titles Sweden and Venezuela. The most common states: in 1977, ’78 and ’86, the 1987 women’s Illinois (93), New York (90), New Jersey (90), championship, and men’s and women’s combined Indiana (69), Ohio (49), Pennsylvania (47), titles in ’94, ’03 and ’05. The Irish have been Michigan (42), Texas (39), California (39) and NCAA runners-up 12 times (every year from Massachusetts (33).

1996-2000, 2008) and have finished third at 10 The 2009-10 Irish roster includes fencers from other NCAA meets (most recently in ’01, ’02 and 19 different states –Texas (9), New Jersey (7), ’04) – for 29 total top-three finishes. Notre Dame California (6), New York (4), Oregon (4), fencers have combined to win 24 individual Colorado (3), Connecticut (2), Illinois (2), NCAA titles (see pp. 107 and 109): men’s epeeists Wisconsin (1), Arkansas (1), Indiana (1), Kansas Don Tadrowski (’55), Bjorn Vaggo (’78) Ola (1), Kentucky (1), Massachusetts (1), Michigan Harstrom (’83), Jubba Beshin (’90) and (1), Minnesota (1), Pennsylvania (1), Virginia (1), Michal Sobieraj (’05); foilists Pat Gerard Washington (1) – plus one each from (’77), Andy Bonk (’79) and Charles HiggsWashington D.C. and Brazil.

Coulthard (’84); sabreists Mike Sullivan (’77, ’78), Luke La Valle (’98) and Gabor Szelle MULTIPLE THREATS – Recent Notre (’00); women’s foilists Molly Sullivan (’86, ’88), Dame fencer Maggie Jordan (’04) became the Heidi Piper (’91) and Alicja Kryczalo (’02program’s second fencer ever to post 80-plus ’04), epeeists Magda Krol (’97), Kerry Walton

(’02) and Kelley Hurley (’08), and sabreists Valerie Providenza (’04), Mariel Zagunis (’06) and Sarah Borrmann (’08).

POLAND PIPELINE – Notre Dame’s fencing tradition has included a mix of U.S.trained athletes and international standouts. Two recent four-time All-Americans (’02-’05) – foilist Alicja Kryczalo (Gdansk) and epeeist Michal Sobieraj (Krakow) – are products of Poland’s stellar fencing heritage. Kryczalo was a threetime NCAA champion (’05 runner-up) while Sobieraj won gold (’05), silver (’03) and bronze (’04) in his career at the NCAAs. 2008 graduate Jakub Jedrkowiak (Leszno) placed seventh at the 2005 NCAA in foil, eighth in ’06 and ninth in ’07 for his third All-America honor. Karol Kostka (Krakow), a 2009 graduate, left as a fourtime NCAA participant and three-time AllAmerican and was 20th in the world under-20 rankings for men’s epeeists (’05). Junior Ewa Nelip (Katowice) will miss the 2010 season due to Polish National team duty. She came to Notre Dame ranked seventh in the world u-20 women’s epee rankings and placed third in epee in 2008 and 2009 to earn All-American status. The connection to Notre Dame is head coach Janusz Bednarski, a former standout fencer and coach for the Polish national team. Notre Dame thirdyear assistant coach Marek Stepien was a member of Poland’s 1992 Olympic team (in epee) and, like Bednarski, is a Warsaw native.

PORTLAND PIPELINE – The Notre Dame fencing program’s ties to Poland also are connected with the recent flow of top-level

The latest installment of the Notre Dame fencing program’s Portland Pipeline included (from left) Eileen Hassett, Bill Thanhouser, Avery Zuck, Sarah Borrmann, and former intern assistant coach Patrick Ghattas.

2009-10 FENCING

23

Fencing A-Z WEAPON HISTORY Here’s a breakdown of the Notre Dame fencing program’s success at each of the six weapons, with the program’s longest All-America weapon streaks coming from: the 1994-2009 men’s sabre squads (17 years), the ’95-’09 women’s epeeists (15), the ’81-’91 men’s epeeists (11), the ’84-’92 men’s sabreists (9), the ’83-’91 men’s foilists (9) and the ’74-’81 sabremen (8; with men’s sabre All-Americans in 33 of 36 years from ’74-’09): Men’s Foil: 52 All-America awards (20 since 1990; 17 since ’96) … three NCAA individual titles, plus six runner-ups … four four-time All-Americans, including Charles Higgs-Coulthard (’87) – who joins sabreist Mike Sullivan as ND’s only men’s fencers to earn first team All-America four times … since ’85, squad has finished first at NCAAs four times (’86, ’94, ’97, ’03), second five times (’85, ’91, ’00, ’02, ‘09) and third three times (’87, ’88, ’01) … All-Americans by decade: six in the 1950s, seven in ’60s, five in ’70s, 12 in ’80s, seven in ’90s and 15 (of 20 possible) since 2000.

Women’s Foil: 40 All-America awards (28 since 1990; two every season from ’96-’00, plus ’02-’05 and ’08-’09) … six NCAA titles, seven NCAA runnerups and six four-year All-Americans … NCAA champ Heidi Piper also was a two-time Academic All-American … since 1982, squad has finished first at NCAAs nine times (’87, ’94, ’96, ’98, ’02-’05, ’08), second seven times (’86, ’88, ’90, ’91, ’95, ’97, ‘09) and third in both ’89 and ’07.

Men’s Epee: 57 All-America awards (23 since 1990, 15 since ’96) … five NCAA individual titles, plus four runner-ups … Jan Viviani (’03) became first ND epeeist to be a four-time All-American … since 1985, squad has finished first at NCAAs once (’86) and second seven times (’88, ’94, ’98, ’00-’03) … AllAmericans by decade: eight in 1950s, seven in ’60s, seven in ’70s, 10 in ’80s, 11 in ’90s and 14 (of 20 possible) since 2000.

Women’s Epee: 24 All-America awards (since 1995), three NCAA individual titles, two runner-ups … squad has finished first at NCAAs four times (’97, ’04, ’08, ‘09), second three times (’98, ’01, ’03) and third five times (’96, ’99, ’02, ’05, ’06).

Men’s Sabre: 63 All-America awards (30 since 1990; two every year from ’96-’01, plus ’03 and ’05’07, ‘09) … four NCAA individual titles, plus seven runner-ups and four four-year All-Americans … since 1985, squad has finished first at NCAAs five times (’96, ’99, ’00, ’03, ’07), second seven times (’85, ’90, ’91, ’97, ’01, ’04, ’06), and third six times (’88, ’92, ’94, ’95, ’98, ‘09) … All-Americans by decade: six in 1950s, eight in ’60s, eight in ’70s, nine in ’80s, 15 in ’90s and 17 (of 20 possible) since 2000.

Women’s Sabre: NCAA debut in 2000, with Irish fencers earning All-America honors in 2000, ’02, ’03, ’04 (NCAA champ), ’05 (runner-up), ’06 (NCAA champ), ’07, ’08 (NCAA champ) and ‘09 … squad finished first at the 2005 NCAAs, third in 2006 and second in 2008.

24

talent from the northwest United States. Former Notre Dame assistant coaches Ed Korfanty (a Poland native) and Michael Marx both are highly respected instructors in the Portland, Ore., area. Korfanty’s elite sabre-only academy, the Oregon Fencing Alliance, has produced recent Notre Dame four-time All-Americans Patrick Ghattas (’05- ’07 NCAA runner-up) and Valerie Providenza (’04 NCAA champ), plus Mariel Zagunis (’04 & ’08 Olympic champ; ’05 NCAA runner-up, ’06 NCAA champ), senior Bill Thanhouser (6th at ’07 NCAAs), and the junior All-American trio of Avery Zuck, Sarah Borrmann (’08 NCAA champ) and Eileen Hassett. Two recent epeeists – two-time AllAmerican Amy Orlando (’05 NCAA runnerup) and Aaron Adjemian (two-time NCAA participant) – trained with Marx at the Northwest Fencing Center while recent Notre Dame sabreist Angela Vincent (a 2004 NCAA participant) also was a product of the OFA. RALLY TIME – Notre Dame’s historic comeback to win the 2005 NCAAs saw the Irish overcome a 24-point deficit versus Ohio State, with the Buckeyes building that lead during two days of men’s bouts. The Notre Dame women then set an NCAA record with 103 wins over the next two days, as the Irish edged the Buckeyes for the title (173-171). Notre Dame, with 11 of the maximum 12 fencers, became the first team ever to win the NCAA fencing title without the benefit of the full allotment of NCAA fencers.

SABRE SUCCESS – Notre Dame women’s sabreists Mariel Zagunis (21-2) and Valerie Providenza (19-4) combined for 40 wins to help the Irish win the 2005 NCAA title. It marked the fourth-most NCAA round-robin wins by any pair of teammates in any weapon (men’s or women’s), since the 23-bout format was adopted in 1996. Former Notre Dame foilists Alicja Kryczalo (23-0) and Andrea Ament (22-1) set the record for most wins by teammates at the NCAAs, with the maximum 45 wins as freshmen at the 2002 NCAAs. Two seasons ago, freshmen Sarah Borrmann and Eileen Hassett combined for 36 wins at the NCAAs. SUPER CLASS – Notre Dame’s 2003 national-title fencing team was led by the most decorated senior class in program history, as the 15-member class included nine All-Americans and 12 among the team’s top-four at their weapons. The senior class finished 2003 with nearly 1,500 career wins in regular-season bouts and an .833 combined winning pct. (1,463-294).

Nine of the ’03 seniors combined for 21 AllAmerica finishes, led by men’s sabreist Gabor Szelle (182-13 regular-season record), foilist Ozren Debic (157-8) and epeeist Jan Viviani (162-20; see Terrific Trios notes). Debic and Viviani were rare four-time All-Americans, while Szelle joined epeeists Meagan Call (168-52) and Anna Carnick (179-43) as three-time AllAmericans. Other All-Americans from the 2003 senior class included foilists Liza Boutsikaris (’00; 168-37) and Forest Walton (’01) and sabreists Natalia Mazur (’00) and Matt Fabricant (’03). Walton (115-28, ended 158-35) and Mazur (88-13, ended 111-15) each had one year of eligibility remaining and returned to fence in 2003-04.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

SUPER SIBLINGS – In addition to Forest and Kerry Walton (see p. 20), Notre Dame fencing has featured several other noteworthy brother-sister combinations: sabreist Michael (’84-’86; 42-6) and foilist Liz (’78-’81) Bathon of Hanover, Pa.; epee captain Michael (’77-’79; 44-21 record) and foil captain Dorothy Carney (’79-’80; 68-15), of Sanford, N.C.; NCAA foil champ Pat (’75-’79; 146-19) and sister Carole Gerard (’82-’84; 27-24), of Norridge, Ill. (their sister Terri fenced in ’80); epeeist John (’84-’87; 81-25) and twin foilists Kelly (’89-’92; 63-14) and Rachel Haugh (’89-’92; 61-23) of Portland, Ore.; South Bend’s Charles (’97-’99; foil, 119-35) and Anne Hayes (’96-’97; epee, 90-26); threetime All-American/NCAA foil champ Heidi (’89-’92; 152-15) and foilist Jeff Piper (’90-’93; 116-18) of Gold Coast/Brisbane, Australia; twotime All-America epeeist Andy (’82-’85; 133-23) and foil captain Vittoria Quaroni (’84-’87; 11943), from San Antonio, Texas; two-time NCAA sabre champ/four-time All-American Mike (’76’79, Peabody, Mass.; 183-4) and foilist Janet Sullivan (’83-’86, Conway, N.H.; 106-55); epeeist Paul (’89-’90; 37-33) and foilist Kathleen Vogt (’92-’94; 75-31) of Gretna, La.; and the four children of former sports information director Roger Valdiserri: foilists Kathy (’73’78; 157-29) and All-American Susan (’80-’83; 145-55) and sabreists Rick (’75, ’77; 14-19) and Tom (’78-’80; 24-12).

TEAM USA – Former Notre Dame AllAmerica epeeist Nicole Mustilli helped the United States women’s sabre team win the firstever U.S. fencing team gold medal in any weapon, at the 2000 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Mustilli teamed with Chris Becker, Sada Jacobson and recent Notre Dame fencer Mariel Zagunis to defeat heavily-favored Italy, 45-43. The 10th-seeded U.S. bested Azerbaijan and World Cup sabre champ Elena Jemaeva in the quarterfinals while Mustilli – the second-highest U.S. finisher in the individual competition (24th) – defeated France’s top fencer in the 45-42 semifinal. Mustilli later completed her tour of duty as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force and was one of 32 in the Air Force’s World Class Athlete Program. She was a member of the U.S. Military Fencing Team, a two-time winner of the Air Force ROTC Warrior Spirit Award and was a member of the U.S. women’s sabre team that reached the quarterfinals at the 2001 World Championships in Nimes, France.

TEAM USA, PART II – Three Notre Dame fencers – epeeist Kerry Walton and foilists Andrea Ament and Derek Snyder – were among the 18-fencer United States squad that competed at the 2002 World Junior Championships in Antalya, Turkey. That U.S. contingent included just four other collegiate fencers, two from Ohio State and one each from Stanford and Yale. Walton won the bronze medal, as the second U.S. fencer ever to medal in any level of women’s epee World Championship competition. She also helped the three-member U.S. women’s epee team finish ninth while Snyder (45th) and Ament (44th) helped their foil squads place 19th and 16th, respectively.

Three with ND connections – two 2009 graduates (sabreist Bill Thanhouser and foilist Adi Nott) and current senior epeeist Kelley Hurley – were part of the U.S. contingent at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Taepek City, South Korea. Thanhouser’s 14th-place finish was among the best by any U.S. fencer at that event (the men’s sabre team placed 10th) while Nott helped the U.S. women’s foil team post an impressive fourth-place finish. Hurley was 46th in her 2006 World Championship competition, with the women’s epee team placing 17th. She then was 38th at the 2007 World Championships in St. Petersburg, Russia, and helped the U.S. women’s epee team place ninth.

TEAM USA, PART III – Recent Notre Dame fencer Mariel Zagunis won individual and team sabre titles while fencing for the U.S. at the 2005 World Junior Championships in Linz, Austria (she defeated Russia’s Sophia Velikaia in the 15-9 title bout). Recent sabreist Patrick Ghattas (’07) also fenced at the 2005 World Juniors, as one of four members of the U.S. men’s sabre team. His classmate Amy Orlando opted not to compete with the U.S. epee team at the 2005 World Juniors but she was the top U.S. finisher later in 2005 at the World University Games in Izmir, Turkey, placing 25th among that tough field. Her former Notre Dame teammate Kerry Walton also was among the U.S. epee team at the Universiade (Ghattas would have competed as well but the U.S. did not send a men’s sabre team to the event).

Zagunis added to her elite status at the 2006 World Championships in Torino, Italy, finishing second after reaching the title bout (she lost to U.S. teammate Becca Ward). Zagunis and Ward became the first U.S. fencers – men or women – ever to reach a World Championship individual final and joined former Stanford foilist Iris Zimmermann (1999 bronze medalist) as the only U.S. fencers ever to medal in a World Championship individual event. Zagunis, Ward and their women’s sabre teammates nearly repeated as the world champions, losing the title matchup versus France by a narrow 42-45 margin. Zagunis then placed fifth at the 2007 World Championship in St. Petersburg, Russia, with the U.S. women’s sabre team placing seventh.

TERRIFIC TRIO – Notre Dame’s 2003 seniors included three of the program’s all-time leaders. Ozren Debic’s .977 career win percentage in regular-season bouts (157-8) ranks first all-time among Notre Dame men’s foilists (third for all ND men’s weapons). Gabor Szelle’s .933 win percentage (182-13) ranks sixth all-time and fourth among men’s sabreists – while Jan Viviani’s .890 career win percentage (162-20) was tops among men’s epeeists before Michal Sobieraj’s .936 from 2002-05. The 2003 senior trio departed with 501 combined regularseason wins and only 41 losses (.924).

TERRIFIC TRIO, PART II – The above combined for one of four times that Notre Dame men have placed in the NCAA top-three of all weapons (2000; Szelle first, Debic second, Viviani third). The first were 1978 sabreman Mike

Sullivan (first), epeeist Bjorn Vaggo (first) and foilist Pat Gerard (second). The 1990 season saw Jubba Beshin win the epee title, with foilist Noel Young, sabreman Leszek Nowosielski and epeeist David Calderhead placing third.

That group repeated the feat in ’91 (Young, Nowosielski and Beshin all in second, Calderhead third).

TERRIFIC TRIO, PART III – Notre Dame foilists Alicja Kryczalo and Andrea Ament, joined epeeist Kerry Walton and sabreist Valerie Providenza in reaching their weapon finals at the ’04 NCAAs, the first time one women’s team had placed a fencer in all three finals. The Irish women duplicated that feat at the ’05 NCAAs, as Kryczalo, epeeist Amy Orlando and sabre standout Mariel Zagunis reached the final in their weapons. Notre Dame women’s fencers also reached the 2007 NCAA semifinals in all three weapons in 2007 and 2008. In 2007 it was epee runner-up Kelley Hurley, foilist Adi Nott (third) and sabreist Providenza (fourth) comprising the three; while 2008 saw Hurley (epee runner up), foilist Nott (fourth) and Sarah Borrmann (sabre champion) make it at least to their weapons’ semifinal bout.

TITLE CONTENDERS – Several Notre Dame fencers are among the favorites for 2010 NCAA titles. Senior Kelley Hurley returns after winning the 2008 NCAA women’s epee final, as does 2008 NCAA sabre champion Sarah Borrmann. Junior Eileen Hasset also returns after finishing fifth in sabre in 2008 and sixth in 2009. Foilist Hayley Reese will also be in contention after finishing second a season ago.

Juniors Steve Kubik (8th in ‘08), Barron Nydam (6th in ‘08, 10th in ‘09) and Zach Schirtz (11th in ‘09) comprise a talented trio that look to be contenders on the men’s side at the 2010 NCAA’s. Sophomore Gerek Meinhardt, fresh off of his 2009 runner-up showing in the foil, will look to capture NCAA gold this season. Two talented freshmen, Lian Osier (women’s sabre) and James Kaull (men’s epee), will also look to qualify for the Championships for their respective weapons.

TOUCHÉ TITLES – The 2004-05 academic year saw Notre Dame win NCAA titles in women’s soccer and combined men’s and women’s fencing – the third time that multiple Notre Dame teams have won national titles in the same academic year. The Notre Dame men’s tennis and men’s golf teams won national titles in the spring of 1944 while the football team won a national title in the fall of 1977 and men’s fencing followed with an NCAA title in the spring of ’78. Notre Dame also was the first fencing team to win multiple NCAA titles (in 2003 and 2005) during the current decade.

TRIPLE CROWN – Former Notre Dame epee standout Kerry Walton (’01-’05) pulled off a rare trifecta in 2002, when she won the NCAA championship, claimed the bronze medal at the World Junior Championship (in Antalya, Turkey), and then won the U.S. Open National title in Salt Lake City – all in a whirlwind, fiveweek stretch.

Junior Eileen Hassett has reached the All-American podium at the NCAA Championships in both of her seasons with the Irish.

WORLD CUP CHAMP – Recent Notre Dame sabreist Mariel Zagunis received the FIE’s prestigious World Cup trophy, after finishing atop the point standings for the 2006 World Cup circuit. She became the second U.S. fencer – male or female – ever to win a World Cup overall title, to go along with her three earlier Junior World Cup points titles. Zagunis was runner-up at two 2006 World Cups (Orleans, France; Budapest), also placing third in both Klagenfurt, Germany, and Vancouver to go along with 10th-place finishes in Lamezia Terme, Italy, and Hanoi, Vietnam.

WONDER WOMEN – Notre Dame’s sixfencer women’s lineup for the 2005 NCAAs proved to be the most dominant in NCAA Tournament history, combining for the most round-robin wins (103-35) ever by a women’s team. Each of the six reached at least one NCAA final in her respective weapon during her career.

Foilist Alicja Kryczalo ended her career with three NCAA titles (also ’05 runner-up) while Valerie Providenza was the 2004 NCAA sabre champion (plus 4th in ’05 and ’07) and Kerry Walton began her stellar college career by winning the ’02 NCAA epee title (also 5th in ’03, 2nd in ’04). Andrea Ament (’02 and ’04 NCAA runner-up; 4th in ’03, 7th in ’05) joined Kryczalo as a four-time foil All-American.

Epeeist Amy Orlando was 10th at the 2004 NCAAs and then reached the 2005 NCAA epee title bout. Finally, Mariel Zagunis won the 2004 Olympic gold medal before advancing to the 2005 NCAA sabre final (runner-up) and winning the title in 2006.

2009-10 FENCING

25

Fencing Rosters

2009-10 Notre Dame Men’s Fencing Team Front Row (from left): James Kaull, Andrew Seroff, Christopher Pinkowski, Gerek Meinhardt, Jacob Osborne, Avery Zuck, Jason Choy, Jack Piasio Middle Row (from left): team manager Andy Hermansen, assistant coach Marek Stepien, Rich Molina, Conor Gettings, Steve Kubik, Grant Hodges,William McGough, Keith Feldman, Chris Pfarr, John Plunkett, assistant coach Gia Kvaratskhelia, armorer Robert Baldwin and head coach Janusz Bednarski Back Row (from left): Barron Nydam, Anthony Schlehuber, Alex Buell, Nicholas Crebs, Zach Schirtz, Diego Silva, Enzo Castellani, Greg Schoolcraft, Xavier Lebec, Marcel Frenkel (not pictured: Reggie Bentley).

2009-10 Notre Dame Men’s Fencing Roster Name Reggie Bentley* Alex Buell** Enzo Castellani* Jason Choy Nicholas Crebs*

Ht. Class Weapon 5-11 So. Foil 5-11 Jr. Sabre 6-4 So. Foil 5-10 Fr. Sabre 5-11 So. Epee

Hometown/High School Little Rock, AR/DuPont Manual (Ky.) Waterford, WI/Waterford Union Keller, TX/Keller Basking Ridge, NJ/Ridge HS Portland, OR/Beaverton

Keith Feldman* Marcel Frenkel* Conor Gettings* Grant Hodges James Kaull

6-0 5-11 6-2 6-0 5-11

So. So. Jr. Fr. Fr.

Sabre Sabre Epee Foil Epee

Stony Brook, NY/Ward Melville San Paulo, Brazil/St. Paul’s Lake Forest, IL/Adlai Stevenson Salina, KS/Salina Central Washington, DC/Woodrow Wilson

Brent Kelly* Steve Kubik* Xavier Lebec William McGough Gerek Meinhardt*

6-4 6-3 6-2 6-0 6-0

Sr. Jr. Sr. Fr. So.

Epee Foil Foil Sabre Foil

Grapevine, TX/Grapevine HS San Antonio, TX/Reagan Kanza Fencing Center Greenwich, CT/Brunswick School Bronxville, NY/Bronxville HS San Francisco, CA/Lick-Wilmerding HS Massialas Foundation

Rich Molina Barron Nydam** Jacob Osborne* Chris Pfarr* Jack Piasio

5-9 6-0 5-11 6-0 6-0

Sr. Jr. Jr. Jr. Fr.

Epee Sabre Epee Epee Epee

Newark, NJ/St. Benedict’s Prep Rancho Santa Fe, CA/Santa Fe Christian Colleyville, TX/Faith Christian Gold Blade Highlands Ranch, CO/Mountain Vista Cheyenne DuBois, PA/Georgetown Prep

Chris Pinkowski John Plunkett Zach Schirtz** (C) Anthony Schlehuber Greg Schoolcraft**

5-9 6-0 6-5 6-3 6-2

So. Jr. Jr. So. Jr.

Epee Sabre Foil Sabre Epee

Simi Valley, CA/Chaminade College Prep Masque de Fer Wyckoff, NJ/Ramapo Regional New York Fencer’s Club Rochester, NY/Greece Athena Rochester Carmel, IN/Univ. H.S. of Indiana San Jose, CA/Archbishop Mitty

Andrew Seroff** (C) Diego Silva Avery Zuck** (C)

6-3 6-0 6-2

Jr. Sr. So.

Epee Foil Sabre

Boulder, CO/Boulder Greenwich, CT/Greenwich H.S. Beaverton, OR/Jesuit

* – indicates monograms won Head Coach: Janusz Bednarski (eighth season) Volunteer Assistant Coach: Alicja Kryczalo

26

Fencing Club Caliburn

Academia Paulista Esgrima Kanza Fencing Center

Northern Colorado Oregon Fencing Alliance

(C) – indicates captain Assistant Coaches: Gia Kvaratskhelia, Marek Stepien Senior Manager: Andy Hermansen

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Men’s Pronunciation Guide Janusz Bednarski ..................Yah-NOOSH Bed-NARR-ski Steve Kubik......................................................... KOO-bick Gia Kvaratskhelia ...Gee (as in bee)-uh Claw-duh-SKELL-ee-uh Xavier Lebec...................................................... Luh-BECK Gerek Meinhardt .......Gerek (rhymes w/ Derek) MINE-hart Barron Nydam ....................................................... NY-dum Anthony Schlehuber .................................. SHLAY-who-ber Andrew Seroff........................................................ SAIR-off Marek Stepien .............................. MARR-ick STEP-ee-un

Men’s Fencing – by Weapon Epee (11) Nicholas Crebs Conor Gettings James Kaull Brent Kelly Rich Molina Jacob Osborne Chris Pfarr Jack Piasio Chris Pinkowski Greg Schoolcraft Andrew Seroff Foil (8) Reggie Bentley Enzo Castellani Grant Hodges Steve Kubik Xavier Lebec Gerek Meinhardt Zach Schirtz Diego Silva

Sabre (9) Alex Buell Jason Choy Keith Feldman Marcel Frenkel William McGough Barron Nydam John Plunkett Anthony Schlehuber Avery Zuck

2009-10 Notre Dame Women’s Fencing Team Front Row (from left):Darsie Malynn, Lian Osier, Marta Stepien, Phenix Messersmith, Kathryn Palazzoto, Beatriz Almeida, Kelley Hurley Middle Row (from left): Colleen Dawes, Marta Stepien, Grace Hartman, Radmila Sarkisova, Diane Zielinski,Vanessa Rosa, Courtney Hurley Back Row (from left): assistant coach Marek Stepien, team manager Andy Hermansen, armorer Robert Baldwin, Julia Kohn, Eileen Hassett, Caroline Dikibo, Abigail Nichols, Stephanie Myers, Sarah Borrmann, Hayley Reese, Christina LaBarge, Katie Heinzen, head coach Janusz Bednarski and assistant coach Gia Kvaratskhelia.

2009-10 Notre Dame Women’s Fencing Roster Name Beatriz Almeida* Sarah Borrmann** (C) Colleen Dawes Caroline Dikibo Danielle Guilfoyle

Ht. 5-5 5-5 5-3 5-9 5-5

Class So. Jr. So. Fr. Fr.

Weapon Sabre Sabre Sabre Epee Sabre

Hometown/High School Chappagua, NY/Horace Greeley Beaverton, OR/Beaverton Golden, CO/The Woodlands HS (TX) Houston, TX/Cypress Falls Pittstown, NJ/Villa Walsh Academy

Fencing Club Fencing Acad. of Westchester Oregon Fencing Alliance

Grace Hartman Eileen Hassett** Katie Heinzen* Courtney Hurley* Kelley Hurley*** (C)

5-8 5-9 5-4 5-9 5-10

Fr. Jr. Jr. So. Sr.

Foil Sabre Foil Epee Epee

St. Paul, MN/St. Paul Academy and Summit School Beaverton, OR/Aloha Oregon Fencing Alliance Fairfax, VA/Robinson Secondary San Antonio, TX/Earl Warren San Antonio, TX/Earl Warren

Julia Kohn Christina LaBarge* Darsie Malynn* Phenix Messersmith Stephanie Myers

5-5 5-6 5-5 5-3.5 5-6

Fr. So. So. Fr. So.

Sabre Foil Sabre Foil Epee

Wilmette, IL/New Trier Pasadena, CA/Flintridge Prep.

Grapevine, TX/Colleyville Heritage HS El Cerrito, CA/Albany El Paso, TX/JM Hanks HS

Abigail Nichols Lian Osier Kathryn Palazzoto Hayley Reese** (C) Vanessa Rosa*

5-7.5 5-3 5-0 5-5 5-4

Fr. Fr. Fr. Jr. Sr.

Sabre Sabre Sabre Foil Epee

Concord, MA/Concord-Carlisle Battle Ground, WA/CAM High School Nutley, NJ/Academy of the Holy Angels Crestwood, KY/Oldham Country El Paso, TX/Eastwood

Radmila Sarkisova* Marta Stepien Diane Zielinski*

5-3 5-6 5-7

So. Fr. So.

Foil Sabre Epee

Grand Rapids, MI/Forest Hills South Amboy, NJ/Old Bridge Bernardsville, NJ/Bernards

Cypress Falls

LA International FC

Oregon Fencing Alliance Louisville FC

Medeo FC

(C) – indicates captain Head Coach: Janusz Bednarski (eighth season) Volunteer Assistant Coach: Alicja Kryczalo

Assistant Coaches: Gia Kvaratskhelia, Marek Stepien Senior Manager: Andy Hermansen

Women’s Fencing – By Weapon Epee (7) Caroline Dikibo Courtney Hurley Kelley Hurley Stephanie Myers Ewa Nelip Vanessa Rosa Diane Zielinski

Foil (6) Grace Hartman Katie Heinzen Christina LaBarge Phenix Messersmith Hayley Reese Radmila Sarkisova

Sabre (11) Beatriz Almeida Sarah Borrmann Colleen Dawes Danielle Guilfoyle Eileen Hassett Julia Kohn Darsie Malynn Abigail Nichols Lian Osier Kathryn Palazzoto Marta Stepien

Women’s Pronunciation Guide Janusz Bednarski ..........................................Yah-NOOSH Bed-NARR-ski Sarah Borrman .................................................................... BORE-mun Gia Kvaratskhelia .......... ... Gee (as in bee)-uh Claw-duh-SKELL-ee-uh Darsie Malynn ..............................................................................Mal-lin Lian Osier....................................................................Lee-Ann O-see-ur Marek Stepien.................................................. MARR-ick STEP-ee-un

2009-10 FENCING

27

Season Preview Irish Poised for Run at Third National Title of the Decade Notre Dame boasts 11 former All-Americans including two NCAA champions finishers in a field of 105 entrants. Meinhardt also took home the men’s foil gold medal at the second event of the 2009-10 North American Cup fencing series (NAC B) in Kansas City, Mo. Another aspect that Bednarksi and his staff focus on throughout the fall season is integrating the freshmen class and based on the performance of Notre Dame’s newest additions, the Irish have even more reason to be excited about the upcoming season. For example, James Kaull (Washington DC/Woodrow Wilson) finished 33rd out of 211 men’s epee entrants at the NAC C event. Abigail Nichols (Concord, Mass./Concord-Carlisle) made it to the championship sabre bout of the 30th annual Temple University Open and ultimately won the silver. Additionally, sabreist Lian Osier (Battle Ground, Wash./CAM High School) captured the gold at the NAC B. “Individual fencers won medals and showed improvement in early season tournaments such as the Temple Open, the Penn State Open and at various NAC/USFA events,” Bednarski said. “It looks like all our fall season goals were, in most cases, realized and the whole team is showing Fighting Irish spirit.”

Women’s Fencing Capsule Returning All-Americans (2009 record) Foil: Hayley Reese, Jr. (51-6) ** (c) Epee: Kelley Hurley, Sr. (36-9) ** (c) Courtney Hurley, So. (50-5) * Sabre: Sarah Borrmann, Jr. (40-8) #* (c) Eileen Hassett, Jr. (43-10) ** Eileen Hassett After finishing in second place for the second consecutive season at the 2009 NCAA Championship in University Park, Pa., the Fighting Irish have their sights set on the ultimate prize in 2010 – the program’s eighth national championship and first since 2005.

Notre Dame is confident on playing a key role in deciding where the 2010 National Championship trophy ends up for several reasons including its deep roster of veteran returnees, some highly touted newcomers and an expert coaching staff led by eighth year head coach Janusz Bednarski, who has already won two national championships with the Irish. Notre Dame’s returning roster for the 2010 title drive includes 11 former all-Americans, who have combined for a total of 15 all-American honors and two individual NCAA Championships. Seven of the 15 all-America honors were earned at the 2009 NCAA Championships, highlighted by two foil runner-up performances by Hayley Reese (Crestwood, Ky./Oldham County) and Gerek Meinhardt (San Francisco, Calif.).

2009 Fall Season During the fall season, the squad focused on building endurance and partaking in individual

28

sessions to prepare for the 2010 title campaign.

Several members of the Irish team had top finishes at national and international events as well, showing glimpses of what eighth year head coach Janusz Bednarski hopes the spring season will have in store.

Sophomore epeeist Courtney Hurley (San Antonio, Texas/Earl Warren HS) turned in a dominating performance as she captured Junior World Cup Gold medals in Tauberischofsheim, Germany; Montreal, Canada; and Helsinki, Finland.

Not to be outdone, Courtney’s older sister Kelley Hurley (San Antonio, Texas/Earl Warren HS), a senior epeeist with the Irish, also claimed a gold medal in the fall of 2009 as she out-dueled an impressive field of 128 fencers to finish first at the North American Cup C event in Pittsburgh, Pa. At the NAC C, Notre Dame also had a strong showing in men’s sabre, where the junior men’s sabre allAmerican duo of Barron Nydam (Rancho Sante Fe, Calif./Sante Fe Christian) and Avery Zuck (Beaverton, Ore./Jesuit) tied for fifth. Also in men’s sabre, sophomore Marcel Frenkel (Sao Paulo, Brazil/St. Paul’s) finished 30th and his classmate Keith Feldman (Stony Brook, N.Y./Ward Melville) placed 40th, giving the Irish four top-40

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Other Top Returners (2009 record) Foil: Darsie Malynn, So. (39-7) Radmila Sarkisova, So. (42-14) Epee: Vanessa Rosa, Sr. (30-7) Diane Zielinski, So. (46-4) Sabre: Beatriz Almeida, So. (41-14) Top Letterwinners Lost (2009 record) Foil: Adi Nott, Sr. (53-13) **** Epee: Ewa Nelip, So. (37-2) **^ Kim Montoya, Sr. (42-8) Sabre: Ashley Serrette, Sr. (50-11) Top Newcomers Foil: Grace Hartman, Fr. (St. Paul, Minn.)

Phenix Messersmith, Fr. (El Cerrito, Calif) Epee: Caroline Dikibo, Fr. (Houston, Texas) Sabre: Abigail Nichols, Fr. (Concord, Mass.)

Lian Osier, Fr. (Battle Ground, Wash.) * – All-America honors c – indicates team captains #– NCAA participant (non-All-American) ^- Competing with Polish National Team for 2009-10 Season

The 2010 NCAA Season With a successful fall season in the books, the Irish will turn their focus to making a run at their third NCAA Championship of the decade.

Such lofty goals begin with strong regular season play in order to qualify the maximum number of fencers for the NCAA Midwest regional competition, which will be hosted by Northwestern University on March 13 and 14.

“We need to qualify four fencers in each weapon to be competitive during the Midwest Regional,” stated Bednarski. “Since Regional seeding is related to individual records from the team events during the regular season, we will try to get the best seeding position for our top athletes by winning as many bouts as we can.”

The attitude Bednaraski and his staff carry concerning winning every bout certainly carries over to the team. Last season, the men’s and women’s squads combined for a 63-2 record including a 33-0 mark by the men’s team. It was the program’s 20th undefeated season and their highest win total during an undefeated season to date.

The 2010 season begins in New York City as the Irish participate in the New York University Duals and the St. John’s Challenge on January 23 and 24.

Notre Dame stays on the road to take part in the Northwestern Duals on January 30 and 31 before returning home to play host to the Notre Dame Duals on February 6 and 7. Postseason play then begins on March 6 and 7 as the Irish also play host to the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships. With such a busy and competitive slate, aside from building up wins and individual records of the top fencers, the Irish coaches will have to get some of the younger fencers experience on the strip.

Avery Zuck

Men’s Fencing Capsule Returning All-Americans (2009 record) Foil: Steve Kubik, Jr. (30-6) * Zach Schirtz, Jr. (28-9) * (c) Gerek Meinhardt, So. (31-2) * Enzo Castellani, So. (29-9) * Epee: Greg Schoolcraft, Jr. (24-16) # Sabre: Barron Nydam, Jr. (22-10) ** Avery Zuck, Jr. (28-8) * (c) Other Top Returners (2009 record) Foil: Reggie Bentley, So. (24-6) Nicholas Crebs, So. (26-3) Epee: Jacob Osborne, Jr. (36-17) Chris Pinkowski, So. (18-5) Andy Seroff, Jr. (20-15) (c) Sabre: Keith Feldman, So. (35-12) Marcel Frenkel, So. (18-5) Top Letterwinners Lost (2009 record) Foil: Mark Kubik, Sr. (27-9) #* Teddy Hodges, Jr. (25-7) Epee: Karol Kostka, Sr. (36-12) #*** Sabre: Bill Thanhouser, Sr. (35-10) #* Top Newcomers Foil: Grant Hodges, Fr. (Salina, Kan.) Epee: James Kaull, Fr. (Washington, D.C.) Sabre: Jason Choy, Fr. (Basking Ridge, N.J.) * – All-America honors c – indicates team captains #– NCAA participant (non-All-American)

“We would like to give our back up or younger fencers necessary experience but it will not be easy since we would also like to win all the matches,” analyzed Bednarksi. “The coaches will need to calculate risk on the strip to prepare our freshmen for the future since that is also an important goal of ours for the regular season.”

Developing freshmen has been a central tenet of the current Irish coaching staff and has helped create the depth necessary to challenge for the NCAA Championship year in and year out. Over the past two seasons, Bednarski’s all-American honorees have included 10 freshman, headlined by 2008 NCAA women’s sabre champion Sarah Borrmann (Beaverton, Ore./Beaverton).

As the 2010 season gets underway, here’s a look at the Irish by weapon:

Women’s Epee The women’s epee team is led by the Hurley sisters, both of whom could challenge for the NCAA individual title. Kelley, the 2008 Champion and 2007 runner-up, will be looking to close out her Irish career the way it started: as an all-American. A 2008 U.S. Olympian, Kelley missed out on a chance to earn the elite status last season partly due to the dominance of Courtney, who turned in a 50-5 regular season record with the Irish. Courtney proceeded to claim the 2008 Midwest Fencing Conference and the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships before finishing tied for third at the NCAA Championship with teammate Ewa Nelip (Katowice, Poland/I L.O. Kopernika). Nelip will miss out on NCAA action in 2010 due to Polish National team duties.

With Nelip’s absence, greater opportunities will be available for senior Vanessa Rosa (El Paso, Texas/Eastwood) and sophomore Diane Zielinski (Bernardsville, N.J./Bernards). Rosa has two years of experience to call upon, including an appearance in the 2008 NCAA Midwest Regional (where she finished 14th), while Zielinski posted an impressive 46-4 regular season record as a freshman.

Women’s Foil The women’s foil team is anchored by Reese, a two-time all-American and the 2009 NCAA runner-up. In just two seasons with the Irish, she has already amassed 120 regular season victories. Joining Reese in the foil lineup will be sophomores Radmila Sarkisova (Grand Rapids, Mich.) and Darsie Malynn (Grapevine, Texas/Colleyville), who combined for an 81-21 record last season and finished sixth and seventh, respectively, at the NCAA Midwest Regional. The freshman duo of Grace Hartman (Saint Paul, Minn./St. Paul Academy) and Phenix Messersmith (Santa Monica, Calif.) are also expected to challenge for important starts and provide depth in a promising but young foil lineup.

Women’s Sabre The women’s sabre squad could prove to be the deepest part of the Irish women’s lineup in 2010.

“On the women’s side epee is the strongest part of our lineup due to the Hurley sisters,” said Bednarski. “But with Borrmann, Eileen Hassett and Osier, who do not want to be overshadowed by the Hurley sisters, we have another strength so it

2009-10 FENCING

29

will be interesting to see how they fence during the season.”

As Bednarski points out, Borrmann and Hasssett (Beaverton, Ore./Aloha HS) will be leading the women’s sabre charge. Borrmann, an NCAA champion, enters her second season of captaining the side and will be helped in her leadership role by fellow Beaverton native Hassett, who is a two-time all-American in her own right. In just two seasons, each member of the junior tandem has eclipsed the century mark in terms of wins with Borrmann boasting a 113-15 mark and Hassett a 110-22 record. After a fifth place showing in 2008 and following with a sixth place finish in 2009, Hassett is poised to make a run at the championship.

Borrmann will be looking to return to the top of the NCAA sabre world – where she was in 2008 – after finishing 13th in 2009.

Borrmann and Hassett will be pushed by the highly touted freshman pairing of Abigail Nichols (Concord, Mass./Concord-Carlisle) and Osier.

Nichols was the 2008 Massachusetts state champion and finished seventh at a recent junior World Cup event in Montreal, Canada. Osier is Notre Dame’s latest prospect to come from the Oregon Fencing Alliance (where Borrmann and Hassett also trained) and will be looking to build on her successful fall season.

Men’s Epee The men’s epee team will be led by junior Andy Seroff (Boulder, Colo./Boulder HS), who will serve as the team’s captian. Through two seasons, Seroff carries a 54-20 record. Senior Brent Kelly (Grapevine, Texas/Grapevine) will also be looking to make his first NCAA Championship appearance with the Irish, having reached the finals with Columbia in 2008.

Juniors Conor Gettings (Lake Forest, Ill./Adlai Stevenson) and Jacob Osborne (Colleyville, Texas/Faith Christian School) will be relied on to add depth and grit to the epee lineup along with sophomore Chris Pinkowski (Simi Valley, Calif./Chaminade College Prep). Kaull, another one of Bednarski’s prized recruits for the class of 2013, is expected to compete for a place at the NCAA Regional and beyond.

Men’s Foil The men’s foil squad is one of the deepest in the nation and competition for starts, NCAA Regional and NCAA Championship places should prove fierce as the lineup features four former allAmericans. The squad is captained by 2008 third team all-American Zach Schirtz (Rochester, N.Y./Greece Athena), who has posted a 75-20 record and proven to be one of the team’s motivational leaders around the strip.

After an NCAA Championship runner-up performance in 2009, Meinhardt returns to lead by

example on the strip. Widely considered one of the best fencers in the country, he will be looking to claim an NCAA individual title in 2010 and help the team reach its goal of bringing home the national championship. Meinhardt’s classmate Enzo Castellani (Keller, Texas/Keller) will also look to repeat as an all-American in 2010, having earned second team honors in 2009 with an eighth-place finish.

Bolstering an already impressive foil lineup will be junior Steve Kubik (San Antonio, Texas/Reagan) and sophomore Reggie Bentley (Little Rock, Ark./DuPont Manual). Kubik was a 2008 all-American, while Bentley posted a 24-6 record as a freshman.

Men’s Sabre Any discussion of Notre Dame’s most talented weapon group would also have to include the men’s sabre squad, which is led by the junior all-American duo of Nydam and Zuck. Nydam has earned allAmerican status in his first two seasons with the Irish, while Zuck has propelled himself onto the national stage with his performances of late.

“The men’s sabre team has started to grow with the improvement of Avery Zuck, who in the last year has become a candidate for the US National Team,” Bednarki said. “Barron is also on the move and there is a young group within the squad of Keith Feldman, Marcel Frenkel, James Choy and others who are pressing them strongly.”

Irish Fencing Supports Teddy Hodges The 2009-10 Notre Dame fencing program would like to acknowledge Teddy Hodges, who will be missing in action during this season, but not far from the fencing teams’ thoughts and hearts.

The Salina, Kan. native is fighting to make a full recovery after contracting a rare virus that attacked his heart in the summer of 2009. The condition forced Hodges to receive a heart transplant on Sept. 16 at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City. He had been hospitalized since June 5 at the Mid America Heart Institute at St. Luke's, suffering from viral myocarditis, an infection that targeted his heart.

“Through Teddy's courageous fight for his life, he has truly taught us what it means to be one of the Fighting Irish,” says teammate and junior All-America sabreist Barron Nydam. “Whether on the strip or in life, with the odds being great or small, we must fight until we have no more to give because if we do, miracles might just happen.”

On the strip, Hodges is known as a tough-minded competitor who provides depth and athleticism for the Notre Dame foil squad. The one-time walk-on defensive back with the University of Kansas football team (in 2006) transferred to Notre Dame prior to his sophomore year and was subsequently reunited with his Kanza Fencing Center club coach, Gia Kvaratskhelia, now an assistant at Notre Dame.

Off the strip, Hodges is seen as a great teammate with a contagious sense of humor and the ability to keep his teammates loose but focused, an especially important

30

quality in the tension-ridden sport of fencing.

“There is literally no one else on the team who comes to practice every day with as positive and humorous an attitude and infects everyone around him,” says junior foilist Steve Kubik.

Through two years with the Irish, Hodges has posted an impressive 62-17 (.785) record including a 25-7 (.781) mark a season ago.

He has developed into a very sound technical fencer who rises to the challenge in marquee bouts. As a junior, he went 6-2 at the NYU Invitational and finished with a perfect 8-0 record at the Northwestern Duals, including a 3-0 mark against Northwestern and 2-0 marks against both Wayne State and Lawrence. Hodges also posted a 10-4 record at the Notre Dame Duals. In the postseason, he finished 17th at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

"Teddy is one of our most intelligent, coachable and friendly athletes. He is a fighter on the strip but a brother to the opponent after a fierce bout,” says head coach Janusz Bednarski. “He is a true Notre Dame student-athlete with great Fighting Irish character."

The Irish routinely travel to the Grotto to light candles for their teammate and Bednarski begins each practice with updates on Hodges’ health. In an added show of support for one of its most supportive members, the 2009-10 fencing team has decided to wear specially made wristbands during all their bouts that read, “Ted’s Team: We Stand Beside You.” “Over the past few seasons, Teddy Hodges has been, simply put, an amazing athlete, teammate and friend for everyone on the team,” Kubik concludes.

The son of Merle and Melissa Hodges, Teddy is enrolled at Notre Dame in the College of Arts & Letters as an English major. He has responded well to the transplant and is now working through the rehabilitation process in hopes of returning to Notre Dame in the fall of 2010.

Coaching Staff

In two full seasons together as a coaching staff, head coach Janusz Bednarksi and assistant coaches Gia Kvaratskhelia and Marek Stepien (pictured left to right) have led the Fighting Irish to two consecutive NCAA Championship runner-up finishes.

Head Coach

Janusz Bednarski

Head Coach Sabre Specialist Eighth Season SGPiS College ’70

The University of Notre Dame's athletic heritage has featured many legendary coaches, but only one - current eighth-year fencing coach Janusz Bednarski - directed his Irish squad to the national title in his first year as the program's head coach. Such was Bednarski’s accomplishment in the spring of 2003, when a veteran Notre Dame squad edged rival Penn State to return to the pinnacle of the collegiate fencing world.

Success was not just a first-year feat for Bednarski, as he helped guide the Irish to an historic comeback to win the 2005 NCAA Championship, as he became the first Notre Dame head coach in any sport to see his teams win multiple national titles in fewer than five seasons.

Bednarski’s 2009 squad put together a dominant regular season before falling just short at the NCAA Championships, as the Fighting Irish finished second for the second consecutive season. The men put together an undefeadted regular season (33-0), while the women were almost as equally impressive, going 30-2 before the postseason. Both squads were ranked atop the AFCA poll for most of the season. After another successful performance at the NCAA regionals that included nine medalist finishes, Notre Dame once again sent 12 fencers to the NCAA Championship.

After falling behind early, the Irish rallied to make a run at the championship by catching and surpassing rival Ohio State over the last two days of the contest to secure second place, but in the end they could not replicate their historic comback of 2005.

Eleven fencers earned all-American status in 2009, including sabreists Eileen Hassett, Barron Nydam and Avery Zuck as well as women’s foilist Hayley Reese, who finished second to claim the silver. Bednarski’s prized recruits of Gerek Meinhardt, who represented the U.S. in men’s foil at the 2008 Olympic Games, and women’s epeeist Courtney Hurley finished second and tied for third, respectively, in their first trips to the NCAA Championships. Hurley and Meinhardt represent the restocking of world-class talent Bednarski has engineered as of late, and he now controls a 2010 roster complete with 11 All-Americans and two NCAA Champions.

His sabre fencers now have earned 38 All-America honors (out of a possible 52; with women's sabre making its debut in 2000) and have won five NCAA individual titles, plus six runner-up finishes.

In 2008, Bednarski also led the Irish to a second-place finish at the NCAA Championship after sending the

32

maximum 12 fencers to the event, marking Notre Dame’s best finish since winning the national title in 2005. Additionally, he had 11 fencers garner All-America honors, including four first-team selections on the women’s side. Kelley Hurley (epee) and Sarah Borrmann (sabre) both captured individual gold medals at the 2008 NCAA Championships. Hurley went on to win two more gold medals at the 2008 Junior World Championships (individual and team epee), before representing the U.S. in Beijing at the 2008 Olympic Games.

Bednarski was named the sixth head coach in the program's storied history in May of 2002, after serving eight seasons as an assistant on the Notre Dame staff. Currently an elected member of the NCAA National Fencing Committee and chair of the NCAA Midwest Regional Committee, the sabre specialist saw his first seven seasons as the Notre Dame head coach yield a .946 combined winning percentage (361-27) with nearly identical marks during that span by the Irish men (179-14) and women (182-13).

Bednarski has a rich history of coaching some of the best all-around collections of sabre talent in all of college fencing, and his current set of sabreists may be able to measure up to some of his more famed sabreists of the past. Current juniors Zuck, Nydam, Hassett and Borrmann have combined for six all-America honors and a national championship (Borrmann) in just two seasons under his tutelage.

One of Bednarski’s most impressive sabre duos included Mariel Zagunis (the 2004 and 2008 Olympic gold medalist in sabre), who dominated her college bouts with the Irish as a freshman, going 29-1 in the regular season and advancing to the 2005 NCAA title match before returning to win the NCAA title in 2006. Valerie Providenza impressively won the 2004 NCAA sabre title and then battled through illness to post the second-most round-robin wins at the 2005 NCAAs (behind Zagunis), helping Notre Dame stage its historic rally to edge Ohio State for the NCAA title. Zagunis (21-2) and Providenza (19-4) blitzed the 2005 NCAA field for a 40-6 combined record.

On the men's side, Patrick Ghattas and Matt Stearns combined with 2009 graduate Bill Thanhouser to give the Irish another talented sabre group. Ghattas was one of the nation's top-ranked junior fencers, competing with Team USA at the 2005 World Junior Championships while earning All-America honors at the 2004 NCAAs and again in '05 (when he reached the title bout, followed by two more NCAA runner-up finishes in 2006 and '07). Stearns turned in a 10th-place finish for his own All-America honor at the 2005 NCAAs, combining with Ghattas for the second-most men's sabre wins (32) in the NCAA field. Thanhouser then placed sixth at the '06 NCAAs for his own All-America honor. Providenza and Ghattas ultimately became rare four-year sabre AllAmericans, while Stearns and Zagunis both posted two All-America finishes with the Irish.

A former Olympic-level coach with Poland's national team program, Bednarski's leadership and training strategy positioned the 2003 Irish for a run at the program's sixth all-time NCAA title and first since '94.

Bednarski served as head coach of Poland's Olympic Team from 1978-88, with members of those teams winning 11 medals at the Olympics and World Championships. Formerly a member of Poland's national

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

The Bednarski File Head Coaching Record at Notre Dame (since 2003) • Men: 179-14 (.927) • Women: 182-13 (.938) • Combined: 361-27 (.946) Previous Coaching Experience Assistant Coach ...................... Notre Dame (1995-2002) Head Coach Indiana Fencing Academy (1994-2002) Head Coach ............ Poland National Team (1978-88) Head Coach U.S. Junior World Championship Team (1993) Epee Coach U.S. Junior World Championship Team (1994) Coach............ U.S. Jr. Pan Am Games Team (1992) Head Coach.................. CFS Fencing Club (Denver, Colo.; 1989-94) Coaching Honors • Polish Silver Cross of Merit – 1987 • USFCA Midwest Regional Coach of the Year – 1997, 1999 • Current member of NCAA National Fencing Committee • Has tutored 38 sabre All-Americans at Notre Dame, including five NCAA champions, six NCAA runner-ups and one NCAA bronze medalist Education • Master’s in Economics – SGPiS College (Warsaw, Poland; 1970) • Coaching Diploma – Academy of Physical Education (Warsaw, Poland; 1978)

Notre Dame’s All-Time National Championship Coaches Knute Rockne (football) – 1924, 1929, 1930 Walt Langford (men’s tennis) – 1944 Rev. George Holderith, (men’s golf) – 1944 Frank Leahy (football) – 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949 Alex Wilson (cross country) – 1957 Tom Fallon (men’s tennis) – 1959 Ara Parseghian (football) – 1966, 1973 Mike DeCicco (m. fencing) – 1977, 1978, 1986, 1994 Dan Devine (football) – 1977 Yves Auriol (women’s fencing) – 1987, 1994 Lou Holtz (football) – 1988 Chris Petrucelli (women’s soccer) – 1995 Muffet McGraw (w. basketball) – 2001 Janusz Bednarski (fencing) – 2003, 2005 Randy Waldrum (women’s soccer) – 2004

Fighting Irish head coach Janusz Bednarski is pictured with his all-American sabre duo of Barron Nydam (left) and Avery Zuck (right) at the 2009 Junior World Championships in Belfast, Northern Ireland. sabre team, the Warsaw native received the prestigious Polish Silver Cross of Merit for his coaching accomplishments as head coach of the Polish National Team.

Prior to assuming his duties as the Irish head coach, Bednarski had been a vital member of the Notre Dame program as it remained among the nation's best - with the Irish finishing as the NCAA runner-up every year from 1996-2000, in addition to third-place finishes in 1995, 2001, '02 and '04.

Bednarski's days as an assistant included helping coordinate the recruiting effort that fortified the Irish for their pursuit of the national title. The 2003 seniors finished as the most accomplished class in the history of Notre Dame fencing, combining for nearly 1,300 career victories and 20 All-America performances. The senior leaders in 2003 included a pair of four-time AllAmericans in men's epeeist Jan Viviani and men's foilist Ozren Debic, with senior men's sabreist Gabor Szelle and senior women's epeeists Meagan Call and Anna Carnick each posting three All-America performances during their careers. Debic (157-8, .952) and Viviani (162-20, .890) finished with the top career winning percentages in Notre Dame history for their respective weapons while Szelle (182-13, .933) ranks fourth alltime on the sabre win percentage list and sixth among all men's weapons.

The 2005 senior class included a pair of top fencers from Bednarski's native Poland - three-time women's foil NCAA champion ('05 runner-up) Alicja Kryczalo and 2005 men's epee NCAA champ Michal Sobieraj ('03 NCAA runner-up), in addition to two-time NCAA foil runner-up Andrea Ament. Each of those three became rare four-year All-Americans, with Kryczalo going undefeated (23-0) in the 2002 NCAA round robin before beating Ament in the gold-medal bout (Ament's only losses in the '02 NCAAs came versus her teammate, followed by a third-place finish in '03).

Bednarski's first season as the Notre Dame head coach included a 46-2 combined record in regular-season dual meets, with the Irish men going 24-0 to extend the program's third-longest winning streak to 83 matches (that streak ultimately ended at 90 matches in 2004). The Irish men claimed the number-one ranking in the middle of the 2003 season, after knocking off Penn State in a fiercely contested 15-12 decision at Notre Dame's Joyce Center.

Bednarski’s 2004 Notre Dame squads combined for a 50-1 record, with both the Irish men (24-1) and women (26-0) holding the number-one ranking. The 2005 teams followed with a 43-5 combined record (22-2 by the women; 21-3 for the men) and the Notre Dame women held the nation's top ranking for most of that '05 season.

Both Irish teams then suffered only one loss in 2006 (each 29-1), with the women again rising to the top spot in the AFCA poll.

During Bednarski's eight seasons as an assistant, the Irish won 93.6 percent of their dual matches (382-26) and the Irish men's team held the nation's number-one ranking in both the 2001 and 2002 final coaches' polls.

Bednarski's work with Notre Dame has made a significant impact in sabre and epee - with Bill Lester, Luke La Valle and Gabor Szelle combining over a six-year stretch ('95-'00) to win two gold, two silver and one bronze medal in NCAA sabre.

The men's sabre squad posted the maximum two AllAmericans in each of Bednarski's first six full seasons ('96-'01), with that level of success unmatched by any other Notre Dame weapon in that six-year stretch. He tutored two-time sabre All-American Andre Crompton ('02), who stood as high as sixth in the U.S. rankings, while Szelle and fellow senior sabreman Matt Fabricant earned All-America honors in 2003 to help pace the national title-winning effort.

Bednarski also oversaw the career of women's sabre captain Carianne McCullough, who progressed from being a walk-on to a nationally-ranked competitor and 2002 All-American. He then developed Destanie Milo into an All-American in her own right, with Milo's sixthplace finish at the 2003 NCAAs providing a final push to the team title.

Bednarski helped mold Providenza and Ghattas into top-level collegiate fencers. Providenza turned in a strong rookie season and won the 2004 NCAA title - becoming the first Notre Dame sabre fencer (men's or women's) ever to win the NCAAs as a freshman (followed by Borrmann in 2008). Ghattas turned in his own All-America showing at the 2004 NCAAs (placing 10th) and surged to number two in the USFA under-20 men's sabre rankings, before going on to his NCAA runner-up finishes in 2005 and '06.

Notes: Bednarski’s team won the NCAAs in his first year as the Irish head coach, Auriol’s in his second and five others (Leahy, Fallon, Parseghian, Devine and Holtz) in their third season … the others: Langford (national title in 5th season), Rockne, Petrucelli and Waldrum (6th), Wilson (8th), Holderith (12th), McGraw (14th) and DeCicco (16th) … in 1994, DeCicco coached the men and Auriol the women (the Irish won the NCAA combined title) … Bednarski is the only ND head coach ever to lead his teams to multiple NCAA titles in fewer than five seasons.

After moving to the United States in 1988, Bednarski served as head coach at Denver's CFS Fencing Club the largest fencing club in the Rocky Mountain region from 1989-94. Many of his CFS products went on to achieve great success on the national and international level. While in Colorado, Bednarski served on the U.S. coaching staff at the 1993 (head coach) and 1994 Junior World Championships and was a U.S. coach for the 1992 Junior Pan-Am Games. His fencers have competed in Olympics, World Championships and World Cups in all age categories.

Bednarski served from 1994-2002 as head coach of the Escrime du Lac Fencing Club in Mishawaka (also known as the Indiana Fencing Academy) and has been a member of many advisory panels for the U.S. Fencing Association, the U.S. Olympic Committee and the U.S. Fencing Coaches Association. He is licensed by Federation International D'Escrime as an "A" category Fencing Director and is one of just a handful of fencing specialists in North America who are ranked by the International Fencing Federation.

His wide-reaching experience includes participating in the organizational efforts for World Championships held in Denver (1989 and '91) and South Bend (2000).

In 1997 and '99, he was selected as the Midwest Region Coach of the Year by the U.S. Fencing Coaches Association.

Fluent in several languages, Bednarski received his master's degree in business in 1970 from Warsaw's prestigious SGPiS Business College, where he worked as a lecturer in economics. He obtained his coaching diploma from the Academy of Physical Education in 1978 and has published several articles on coaching, effective club management and the counseling of athletes.

A resident of Granger, Ind., Bednarski and his wife, Izabella, have two sons: Michael (35) and Andrzej (29), a three-time sabre All-American and 2002 graduate of Notre Dame who also served as an intern assistant coach on his father's staff during the 2005 and '06 seasons.

2009-10 FENCING

33

Assistant Coaches

Assistant Coach Gia Foil Specialist Kvaratskhelia Fourth Season Georgian State Physical Training Institute ’93

The 2007 season marked a new era for the Notre Dame fencing program, as highly respected assistant coach Gia Kvaratskhelia came on board to work alongside head coach Janusz Bednarski.

Regarded as one of the top young foil coaches in the nation, Kvaratskhelia’s background includes a successful competitive career in the former Soviet Union as a member of the Georgian National Team.

Guiorgie “Gia” Kvaratskhelia (GEE-uh Clawduh-SKELL-ee-uh) spent the 10 years prior to his appointment at Notre Dame as coach of the Kanza Fencing Club in Salina, Kansas.

The 38-year-old Kvaratskhelia has made a tremendous impact in his short time at Notre Dame – through both his instruction of the Irish foilists and his tireless efforts on the recruiting trail.

In Kvaratskhelia’s first three seasons with Notre Dame (2007-09), the Irish have qualified the maximum 12 foilists for NCAA Championship play, with 11 of those 12 appearances resulting in AllAmerica honors.

In 2009, Kvararskhelia saw four of his foilists earn all-American status at the 2009 NCAA Championships, including Gerek Meinhardt and Hayley Reese, who earned silver medal honors on the men’s and women’s sides, respectively.

Meinhardt, a 2008 U.S. Olympian, made a run to the finals after ammassing 19 wins in pool play and he came up on the wrong end of a narrow 15-14 decision in the gold medal bout. But, under Kvaratskhelia’s watchful eye, Meinhardt became Notre Dame's first men's foil finalist since Ozren Debic in 2000. Reese also totaled 19 pool play wins on her way to the silver and her second AllAmerica honor in as many seasons.

Enzo Castellani (8th) and Adrienne Nott (9th) also achieved All-American status in 2009, with Nott closing out her career as the program’s 18th fencer to earn four all-America honors.

In 2008, Kvaratskhelia led freshmen Steve Kubik (8th), Zach Schirtz (11th) and Reese (11th) to AllAmerican honors along with Nott (4th); meaning

34

all four participants garnered All-American honors. In 2007, Nott led the squad with a third-place finish at NCAA’s, while junior foilist Mark Kubik sparkled at the 2007 NCAAs with a seventh-place finish to earn second team All-America status. The team’s other 2007 NCAA entrant in men’s foil, Jakub Jedrkowiak, placed ninth to secure the third All-America honor of his college fencing career.

Kvaratskhelia has also had a great impact on the recruiting trail. He helped secure one of the top freshman classes in all of college fencing for the 2007-08 season that was led by elite foilists. Hayley Reese, Zach Schirtz and Steve Kubik – all went on to earn All-American honors in 2008. For the 2009 season, Kvaratskhelia helped bring in 2008 U.S. Olympian Gerek Meinhardt and Radmilla Sarkisova, ranked as high as 90th within the past year in the FIE World Junior Rankings, to bolster an already deep and talented foil squad that now includes five returning all-Americans (six honors) for the 2010 season.

Prior to arriving at Notre Dame, Kvaratskhelia transformed Kanza from a small recreational club into one of the nation’s top foil centers. His fencers at Kanza – which included the Kubik brothers and their former Notre Dame teammate Teddy Hodges – combined to win three USFA national men’s open foil team championships, with six of his Kanza fencers going on to compete at the Division I level as scholarship athletes.

Named the 2002 USFA national development coach of the year, Kvaratskhelia molded his fencers at Kanza into top competitors on the national and international levels. His Kanza fencers combined to be national finalists 15 times, while receiving nearly 50 national medals. Former Kanza fencers Ryan Dunn and Chris Miller were members of the U.S. Junior National Team before going on to successful collegiate careers (Miller as an All-American at Penn State and Dunn at Air Force.) Kanza product Christina Tillman also went on to fence at Air Force while Eric McConkey joined her as a Division I competitor at Cleveland State.

Known previously as the Coyote Fencing Club, the Kanza foil center had a roster of only five active fencers when Kvaratskhelia arrived in 1996 but that number of active competitors grew to a bustling gym full of 30 fencers by 2005.

During his time at Kanza, Kvaratskhelia worked cooperatively with many coaches throughout the United States and from overseas. Kanza has hosted an impressive list of nationally-ranked fencers during recent years, with those elite foilists including the likes of Kurt Getz, the Kubik brothers, Andras Horanyi, Meinhardt and Tamara Najm. Kanza also welcomed more than 60 out-of-state fencers for its 2005 summer training camps and worked an “exchange” program with clubs in Russia and Ukraine, allowing fencers from his homeland and Kansas to train in an overseas setting. Kanza likewise has sponsored community outreach programs while helping grow the sport of fencing throughout the state.

Kvaratskhelia – who became a U.S. citizen in 2004 – developed an elite four-fencer team of youth men’s foilists at Kanza, with that group winning USFA national titles in the open category dur-

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

ing 2001, ’02 and ’04. The Kanza foilists brought home the bronze from the 2006 USFA Summer Nationals, led by current Notre Dame fencer Steve Kubik and his brother, Mark - a 2009 graduate of Notre Dame.

After immigrating to the United States in 1994, Kvaratskhelia stayed active in his own fencing career by competing in domestic and international events. He placed fifth in the open competition at a 1996 North American Cup and fenced at World Cup events in 1998 and ’99. Kvaratskhelia first ventured into coaching in 1994, assisting Vladimir Nazlymov (now head coach at Ohio State) at Central Fencing Club in Kansas City and at the satellite Lawrence Fencing Club. Two years later, he accepted the challenge in Salina and spent 10 years building Kanza into a nationally-recognized club.

Kvaratskhelia grew up in the Soviet republic of Georgia and began fencing in 1988 at the age of 13. He progressed quickly and was a member of the Georgian National Foil Team from 1990-94, during which time he fenced alongside the likes of Vladimir Aptiaouri (a member of the U.S.S.R. foil team that won the gold at the 1988 Olympics).

Kvaratskhelia took home the bronze medal at the 1990 Soviet Junior National Championship – shortly before Georgia declared its independence – and he later had an impressive 11th-place finish at the 1992 European Championship.

Noted for his tremendous communication skills, Kvaratskhelia is fluent in Russian, Georgian and English. He received his bachelor’s degree in physical education and sport in 1993, from the Georgian State Physical Training Institute in his hometown of Tbilisi. He also received a sports journalism certificate from that institution (’92) and pursued graduate studies in journalism at Tbilisi State University in 1993, prior to coming to the United States.

Kvaratskhelia and his wife, Dani Edson, have a seven-year-old daughter Maya.

Assistant Coach Epee Specialist Third Season Warsaw Academy of Physical Education and Rehabilitation ’92

Marek Stepien

The Notre Dame fencing program received a significant boost to its coaching ranks in the fall of 2007, when epee master Marek Stepien officially came on board as a full-time assistant coach. Stepien – a former Olympic fencer with Poland’s national team who served as a volunteer assistant with the Irish in 2006 – joins head coach Janusz Bednarski and assistant Gia Kvaratskhelia in giving Notre Dame three full-time coaches to lead the Irish in their quest for another NCAA title.

The addition of a second full-time assistant showed immediate dividends in several aspects, as Stepien combines with Bednarski (sabre) and Kvaratskhelia (foil) to provide each weapon with expert one-on-one instruction. Stepien helped the Irish finish as national runnersup at the 2008 and 2009 NCAA Championships, their best finishes since 2005.

At the championships, Notre Dame boasted a combined 21 All-Americans, including seven in epee. Last season, Stepien guided sophomore Ewa Nelip and freshman Courtney Hurley to first-team all-American honors, as the duo tied for third. They combined for 38 roundrobin victories, the most wins by teammates at the 2009 Championship. On the men’s side, fellow native of Poland Karol Kostka capped off his Irish career with a third all-American honor, as he finished 10th.

Stepien has also proved adept at helping his epeeists achieve success on the international stage as well. Kelley Hurley, who has been at Notre Dame in all of Stepien’s seasons with the Irish, made the 2008 U.S. Olympic team, while her sister Courtney has won three junior world cup events in 2009 alone. Most recently, Ewa Nelip has returned to Poland to train with the national team for the 2009-10 season, but she plans to return to Notre Dame to complete her degree.

In 2008, K. Hurley became the program’s 12th national champion while, as a freshman, Nelip joined Hurley on the All-American first team with a third-place finish. On the men’s side, senior Greg Howard closed out his Irish career with an eighth-place finish at NCAAs for second team All-American honors, while Kostka finished in ninth for third-team honors.

Stepien led the same group to success at the 2007 NCAAs as a volunteer assistant. K. Hurley capped that season by finishing as the women’s epee runner-up at the NCAAs. Greg Howard (8th) and Kostka (11th) were also 2007 All-Americans in men’s epee, guided by Stepien throughout the NCAAs.

Before Notre Dame, the 45-year old Stepien spent 10 years as a highly-regarded coach in the London area.

He became reacquainted with Bednarski at the 2006 USFA Summer Nationals and served as a volunteer with Notre Dame late in its 2007 spring season.

Stepien captained Poland’s national team and was part of the four-man epee team that placed eighth at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. An accomplished allaround athlete, he also competed in the modern pentathlon (swimming, running, shooting, fencing, horseback riding) at the 1984 World Championships in Romania, and he qualified for the 1988 Olympic pentathlon (in Seoul) but was unable to compete due to injury. The three-time European Fencing Championship participant twice won Poland’s national championship (’89, ’90) and was Poland’s top-ranked epee fencer in 1990 and ’92. He competed at the World Fencing Championships four times from 1989-94.

Stepien posted 1992 Olympic wins over Italy’s Angelo Mazzone, Manizio Randazzo and Stefano Cuomo (all were ranked top-10 in the world). He won 1988 World Cups at Innsbruck, Austria, and Darmstadt, Germany, and defeated Germany’s Arndt Schmitt (the 1988 Olympic champ) at a 1989 World Cup in Heindenheim, Germany.

One of Stepien’s more noteworthy endeavors is the training camp he founded and oversaw, bringing together elite fencers from several countries. These training sessions – dubbed by participants as “Camp Marek” – were held from 2001-06 at the prestigious Olympic Sport Center in Drzonkow, Poland. Stepien’s training camps were considered the best in all of Europe, due to the combination of hard work and a spirited and energizing atmosphere.

Stepien moved to Great Britain in 1997 and quickly made an impact on the London fencing community. He served six years as fencing coach at Cambridge University, overseeing the team’s all-around development while helping mold Cambridge fencing into a winning program. The 1998-99 academic year saw Stepien guide Cambridge to an historic win over rival Oxford, followed by similar wins in 1999-2000 and 2000-01. The men’s fencers later won the 2001 British University Students Association (BUSA) title – Cambridge’s first BUSA fencing title since 1947 – with the men and women going on to win BUSA titles in 2002. Cambridge fencers reached BUSA individual title bouts in 2000 and 2004.

Stepien’s time in England also included overseeing the fencing program at City of London School for Boys (CLSB; 1998-2007) and nine years as an instructor with Haverstock Fencing Club (1998-2006), the top epee club in Great Britain. He was responsible for fitness and flexibility training at Haverstock while coaching all three weapons. Stepien also coached at the University of London (1999-2000) and the Reading Fencing Club (1998-2000), where he helped prepare two elite athletes – Stephanie Cook (gold) and Kate Allenby (bronze) – who posted medalist finishes in the pentathlon at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

His Haverstock fencer Greg Allen twice won England’s Commonwealth Games, was a seven-time World Championship qualifier (from 1998-2005), reached a top-50 world ranking and placed third at the 2001 Innsbruck World Cup. Jonathan May – who trained five years with Stepien, at Haverstock and CLSB – is one of England’s top-ranked epee fencers, having fenced in the 2006 and ’07 European and World Championships.

Andrea Wraith, another of his Haverstock epeeists, won the bronze while representing England in Malaysia at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.

Stepien coached fencing at Dulworth College in London (2004-05) and also taught advanced fencing at the American School in London (2004-06). He founded the Brixton Fencing Club in 2004 and developed two upstart qualifiers for the 2007 British Youth Championships.

Stepien previously worked in the U.S. as an athletics instructor. He served summer stints from 1999-2001 as an Olympic Development Clinic director in Roswell, N.M., helping develop fencers with Olympic potential.

Stepien also worked as a tennis instructor during the summers of 1997-2000 at Camp America in Center Harbor, N.H. Stepien earlier worked six years (1991-97) at Warsaw’s Academy of Physical Education and Rehabilitation (APER) as an instructor in the Integrated Sport Club for the Disabled. He oversaw rehabilitation classes while preparing the academy’s club team to compete in Poland’s first fencing championship for the disabled. Stepien specialized in coaching adults with quadriplegia, tetraplegia and amputations.

Stepien coached several disabled wheelchair fencers in preparation for the 1996 Paralympics, with his star pupil Jadwiga Polasik going on to win the women’s epee gold.

Stepien – who introduced Polasik to fencing – was on the organizing committee for a Poland-USA-France disabled fencing tournament and served as a full-time APER lecturer on the theory of disability in sport (199597). He also was a full-time physical education teacher at primary school 247 in Warsaw (1994-97) and a full-time faculty member at the Janusz Kusocinski School of Sport Champions in Warsaw (1992-94), where he lectured and mentored elite young athletes in modern pentathlon.

Stepien also ran two London Marathons (’03, ’04) and competed in fencing marathons (’99, ’02) to support Royal Marsden Hospital and St. Christopher’s Hospice.

Stepien received a masters in physical education from the Academy of Physical Education and Rehabilitation in 1992, also receiving his fencing master diploma from the same institution in ’92. He added a postgraduate diploma from the University of Warsaw Faculty of Pedagogy (in politics and management education; ’06) and a postgraduate certificate in aspects of European development, from the Warsaw Center of European Integration (’07).

Stepien earlier spent four years in PhD studies at APER (1993-97) and received numerous coaching/fitness certificates.

Stepien was born in Krasnik, Poland, where he began his fencing career at the Stal Krasnik sport club under coach Czeslaw Wichtorowski. He then moved to Warsaw and began fencing under coach Marek Maky at the age of 10. He later was coached by 1964 epee world champion Bogdan Andrzejewski and Zbigniew Konczalski, during Olympic preparation. Throughout his first 15 years as a fencer, Stepien was guided by Zbigniew Kuciewicz – who acted as a second father for the future Olympian.

2009-10 FENCING

35

Support Staff

Alicja Kryczalo

M.D. McNally Volunteer Admin.

Assistant

Volunteer Assistant Coach Third Season Notre Dame ’05

Robert Baldwin Armorer

Alicja Kryczalo – one of the most elite student-athletes in Notre Dame history and one of a handful of competitors in college fencing history ever to win three or more NCAA titles – returns for her third season as a volunteer assistant coach with the Irish. Kryczalo, who also coaches the fencing teams at nearby Culver Academy, will combine with assistant coach Gia Kvaratskhelia to provide the Notre Dame foilists with tremendous instruction throughout the upcoming season. In her first two seasons with the Irish as an assistant coach, Kryczalo has helped develop the maximum eight AllAmerican foilists, including four freshmen.

As a student-athlete, Kryczalo won three NCAA foil titles (’02-’04; ’05 runner-up) to join former Penn State foilist Olga Kalinovskaya (’93’96 champ) as the only women’s fencers ever to win three-plus NCAA titles. She also followed distance runner Greg Rice (the 1940 Sullivan Award winner) as the only Notre Dame studentathletes ever to win more than two NCAA individual titles. She was the first Notre Dame fencer ever to win the NCAA title as both a freshman and sophomore and likewise was the program’s first fencer to advance to four NCAA title bouts.

Originally from Gdansk, Poland, Kryczalo combined with her classmate and men’s epeeist

Andy Hermansen Senior Student Manager

Maureen McNamara Assistant A.D./ Fencing Administrator

Michal Sobieraj as the first Poland natives ever to earn monograms with any Notre Dame varsity team. Her top international events have included reaching the quarterfinals of the 2004 European Championship.

Known for her fast hand, sabre-like footwork, a unique floating style, and a 5’11” frame that provided great reach, Kryczalo won nearly 93 percent of the bouts in her Notre Dame career (355-27). Her 355 wins include a 161-12 (.941) mark in the regular season, two titles and a runner-up finish in the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships (52-2), four Midwest Regional titles (51-4) and her 91-9 wizardry at the NCAAs. She won the 2002 NCAA title without losing a bout, compiling an impressive +100 mark in point differential during the 23 five-point round-robin bouts before adding two more wins in the medal round.

Kryczalo – who combines a warm, modest and team-focused personality with a warrior-type persona on the strip – helped Notre Dame win NCAA combined men’s/women’s team titles in 2003 and ’05. She was nominated for Academic All-America honors and graduated with a 3.49 cumulative grade point average as a psychology and political science major.

Chad Grotegut Academic Services

Additional Fencing Support Staff Jeremy Kramer Junior Student Manager Dr. Mick Franco Sports Psychologist Dan Colleran Sports Information Assistant Craig Cheek Strength and Conditioning

36

Erika Whitman Sports Nutritionist

Charmelle Green Student Welfare and Development

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Rev. Larry Calhoun Team Chaplain

Nicole Alexander Athletic Trainer Dave Stabrawa Team Statistician

Student-Athletes

Hayley Reese (left) and Gerek Meinhardt (right) return to anchor the Irish lineup in 2010. Both foilists finished second overall at the 2009 NCAA Championships, earning first team All-American honors.

Women’s Epee

Senior San Antonio, Texas Earl Warren H.S.

Kelley Hurley

HONORS & AWARDS NCAA Champion (2008) NCAA Runner-Up (2007) First Team All-American (2007, 2008) Women’s Epee Team Co-Captain U.S. Olympian (2008) U.S. National Team Member Under-17 World Champion (2005)

World-class lefthander who represented the U.S at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, following a dominating 2008 college season that saw her go 47-1 in the regular season and win the NCAA title bout … due to a rotating configuration, there was no team competition in women’s epee at the 2008 Olympics, meaning that each national contingent could send only two fencers in that weapon (as opposed to four entrants when there is a team event) … listed second in the USFA national rankings, one place behind her sister/Irish teammate Courtney (as of Nov. 30, 2009) … also holds an FIE world ranking of 64 (as of Dec. 3, 2009) … a highlypassionate fencer whose love for the sport was developed by her parents and youth fencing coach Paul Pesthy … has developed strong technique to go along with a strong 5’9” frame, quick acceleration and confidence in her parry actions … a fighter on the strip who is eager to HURLEY’S CAREER RECORD Year 2007 2008 2009 Career

38

W 51 47 36 134

L 4 1 9 14

Pct. .927 .979 .800 .905

NCAA Finish 2nd 1st ---

take on many challenges in all aspects of her life … able to gather information quickly during bouts and read her opponent’s actions, giving her a key advantage in the defensive-minded, slower-moving epee bouts … an excellent student who comes from a highly ambitious and competitive family … introduced into the sport by her parents Robert and Tracy Hurley, who both have experience in fencing as competitors and coaches.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL AND USFA NATIONAL RESULTS: Entered the 2008 Olympic Games as the 18th seed in the individual women’s epee competition … fell to 15th seed Hyo Jung of Korea in the Round of 32, 15-6 … had several top finishes during 2007 Senior World Cup circuit – placing 11th in Havana, Cuba (June; field of 121), and 24th in Sydney, Australia (May; 108) – plus three Grand Prix events: 29th in Nankin, China (May; 137), 106th in Montreal (June; 149) and 120th in Rome (Feb.; 136) … also placed 46th at the 2007 Junior World Championships in Belek, Turkey (April; 102) … fenced in three team events at Sr. World Cups/Grand Prix, helping her U.S contingent place 10th in Nankin, 11th in Rome and 15th in Montreal … member of seventh-place team at the 2007 Jr.World Championships in Belek … member of the U.S.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

women’s epee team at the 2006 World Fencing Championships (Oct.) in Torino/Turin, Italy (she placed 59th while the U.S. women were 17th) … fenced with U.S. Junior National Team (U-20) at Jr. World Championships in Taebek City, South Korea … her future Notre Dame teammates Adi Nott (foil) and Bill Thanhouser (sabre) also were in Korea as members of their U.S. Junior National teams … her 2006-07 USFA events included winning the North American Cup in Albuquerque, N.M., and losing the title bout to Lawrence runner-up at N.A.C. in Richmond, Va. (also sixth-place finisher at N.A.C. in Columbus, Ohio) … earlier won the 2006 Summer Nationals … other career highlights include: becoming the youngest fencer (16) ever to win the U.S. women’s epee national championship (in ’04); winning the 2005 U-17 world championship.

AS A JUNIOR: Went 36-9 during the regular season … opened her season with a 4-1 showing at the St. John’s Duals … earned her 100th career win at the St. John’s Duals against Columbia’s Martyna Urbanowicz (5-3) … went 8-4 at the NYU Invitational … posted a 14-4 record at the Northwestern Duals, including 30 against Johns Hopkins and 2-0 vs. both North Carolina and Northwestern … went undefeated at the Notre Dame Duals, finishing 10-0 …

took ninth place at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships to earn honorable-mention All-Conference honors … in the first round of the championships, knocked off Notre Dame teammate Stephanie Myers, 15-4 … beat Michigan State’s Erin vonKronenberger, 15-12, in the round of 32 before falling 1-0 in sudden-death overtime to Ohio State’s Julia Tihonova … took home the bronze medal at the NCAA Midwest Regional … in the final eight, defeated Northwestern’s Kayley French, 15-9, before falling to sister and Notre Dame teammate Courtney Hurley, 15-9, in the semifinals … beat Ohio State’s Tikonova, 15-8, in the bronze medal bout at the regional.

AS A SOPHOMORE: Returned to dominant form as a sophomore, capturing the NCAA epee title on her way to garnering First Team All-American honors … the epee team captain became the 11th national champion in the history of the women’s fencing program (Sarah Borrmann then became the 12th) … posted an overall record of 47-1 (.979) on the year … her .979 winning-percentage ranks tied for the fifth highest in program history and the best single-season mark in epee … finished third at the NCAA Midwest Regional … posted a 15-0 record at the Western Invite, leading ND to a 5-0 record at the event including wins over Stanford and Air Force … won all 15 of her bouts at the Western Invite by a 75-15 margin … five of her wins came by 5-0 scores, plus six at 5-1 and three at 5-2 … Stanford's Katherine Lynch (5-3) was the only opponent to manage more than two points versus Hurley at the

Western Invite … at the Northwestern Duals, went 32-1 … helped ND to a 5-0 record at the event … in her bronze medal performace at the Midwest Regional, went 5-0 in first-round pool play … earned the top seed in the direct elimination play … advanced to finals with wins over Lawrence’s Elize Pfaltzgraff (15-5) and Wayne State’s Justyna Konczalska (15-10) … defeated Ohio State’s Leslie Lampman (15-8) in the quarterfinals … lost a close semifinal bout (10-9) to eventual champion Alexandra Obrazcova of Ohio State … to claim the gold at NCAAs, Hurley advanced to direct elimination as the fourth seed … in the semifinals, she defeated top-seeded Alexandra Obrazcova of Ohio Sate … won the gold with an 11-10 defeat of Reka Szele.

AS A FRESHMAN: Turned in an impressive debut on the college fencing scene that included a 51-4 record in the regular season and winning both the Midwest Fencing Conference and NCAA Midwest Regional title, before losing the NCAA final to three-time champion Anna Garina of Wayne State … her .927 win percentage in the 2007 regular season is third-best ever by a Notre Dame women’s epeeist … she and sophomore foilist Adi Nott were named coMVPs of the 2007 Notre Dame women’s fencing team (she also was named the women’s epee team MVP) … opened her college career by going 17-2 at the ND Duals, with her sweep of Ohio State (5-2 vs. Alexandra Obrazcova and Elyse Gurnowski; 5-4 vs. Leslie Lampman) leading the Irish women to a thrilling 14-13 win … also had top wins over WSU’s Garina (5-3) and

HURLEY IN THE NCAAS (34-12; +77 IN TOUCHES) 2007: 18-5 round robin (+47 in touches) Kayley French (Northwestern) 5-4 Christa French (Northwestern) L, 4-5 Alexie Rubin (Columbia/Barnard) 5-3 Rebecca Moss (Yale) 5-2 Tess Finkel (Columbia/Barnard) 5-3 Alexandra Obrazcova (Ohio State) 5-2 Leslie Lampman (Ohio State) 5-1 Eliza Enyart (Air Force) 5-3 Jasmine McGlade (Harvard) 5-2 Maria Larsson (Harvard) 5-2 Caitlin Kozel (Brandeis) 5-2 Justyna Konczalska (Wayne State) L, 4-5 Anna Garina (Wayne State) L, 4-5 Dorothy Hubbard (Duke) 5-2 Anastasia Ferdman (Penn State) L, 4-5 Case Szarwark (Penn State) 5-1 Danielle Henderson (Rutgers) L, 3-5 Reka Szele (St. John’s) 5-0 Tanya Novakovska (St. John’s) 5-0 Brittany Leader (Stanford) 5-4 Erin McGarry (Princeton) 5-3 Jasjit Bhinder (Princeton) 5-0 Courtney Krolikowski (North Carolina) 5-3

2008: 16-7 round robin (+30 in touches) Ewa Nelip (Notre Dame) L, 0-5 Justyna Konczalska (Wayne State) L, 3-5 Christa French (Northwestern) L, 2-5 Jasjit Bhinder (Princeton) 5-3 Joanna Niklinska (Northwestern) 5-2 Anastasia Ferdman (Penn State) L, 4-5 Alexandra Obrazcova (Ohio State) L, 2-5 Kaela Brendler (Ohio State) 5-2 Stephanie Shin (Ohio State) 5-3 Heather Stephenson (UC San Diego) 5-3 Chelsea Ambort (UC San Diego) 5-0 Emma Buckingham (Harvard) 5-2 Reka Szele (St. John’s) L, 1-5 Tanya Novakovska (St. John’s) 4-3 Caitlin Kozel (Brandeis) 5-0 Orianna Isaacson (Columbia) 5-2 Tess Finkel (Columbia) 5-1 Keri Byerts (Penn State) 5-4 Kristin Howell (Temple) L, 4-5 Grace Wu (Temple) 5-2 Maria Larsson (Harvard) 5-2 Tasha Hall (Cornell) 5-0 Sallie Dietrich (Cornell) 5-1

• Beat Szele in semifinals (15-10) • Lost to Garina in final (13-15)

• Beat Obrazcova in semifinal (7-7, double passivity) • Beat Szele in finals (11-10)

UC San Diego’s Chelsea Ambort (5-2) at that home meet … had an even more impressive day at the NYU Duals (17-1), with another sweep helping deliver a 14-13 win over Northwestern (5-3 vs. Christa French; 5-4 Kayley French; 5-2 vs. Courtney DuBois) … her other key wins at the NCAAs came against St. John’s All-American Joanna Guy (5-4), Columbia’s Rachel Rowe (5-1) and NYU’s Lauren Willock (5-2), plus another sweep of OSU (5-2 vs. Obrazcova and Elyse Gurnowski; 5-1 vs. Lampman; OSU won 14-13) … won all five of her bouts at the Midwest Duals (at ND) and did not fence at the Duke Duals (due to a World Cup in Rome) before closing regular season 12-1 at the Northwestern Duals … had top wins at that tournament versus Penn State’s Anastasia Ferdman and Keri Byerts (both 5-2), and NU’s Christa French (5-1) … became seventh ND freshman ever to win a conference title, after topping her teammate Amy Orlando in the MFC final (1511) … held the #1 seed after the MFC pool bouts, with a later 15-11 win over NU’s Kayley French in the quarterfinal before edging WSU’s Garina in the semifinal … returned the next day to lead women’s epee squad that won MFC team title, with her key win over Obrazcova giving Irish 4-3 lead (ND won that title matchup, 5-3) … also maintained her top seed at the Regional (held at ND), followed by wins over NU’s Christa French in the round-of-8 (15-7), WSU’s Garina in another semifinal (1514) and OSU’s Lampman in a dominating 155 final … joined Nott as two of five Notre Dame fencers (two men, three women) during the current decade who have won an MFC and Regional title in the same season … had a chance to pull off the postseason trifecta at the NCAAs (in Madison, N.J.), after finishing second in the round robin (18-5; four 1-touch losses) and then reaching the title bout … nearly went unbeaten (9-1) versus fencers from the other top contending teams … opened NCAAs 11-3, with sweeps of Columbia (5-3 vs. both Tess Finkel and Alexie Rubin), Harvard (5-2 vs. both Maria Larsson and Jasmine McGlade) and Ohio State (5-1 vs. both Lampman and Obrazcova) … each of her day-one losses came in 45 bouts (vs. NU’s Christa French and the WSU duo of Garina and Justyna Konczalska) … closed on day two with a 7-2 mark that included a sweep of St. John’s (5-0 vs. both Reka Szele and Tanya Novakovska), a 5-1 victory over PSU’s Case Szarwark and 5-3 wins over Princeton’s Erin McGarry and UNC’s Courtney Krolokowski … her other losses were to PSU’s Ferdman (4-5) and Danielle Henderson of Rutgers (3-5) … opened medal round with 15-10 semifinal victory over SJU’s Szele (trailed 3-6, scored final six touches) before dropping 13-15 final to the 6’1” Ukranian standout Garina … her +42 in total-point indicators was fifth-best among the entire women’s field (72

2009-10 FENCING

39

Women’s Epee fencers) … became 12th Notre Dame freshman fencer ever to reach an NCAA title bout … the six previous ND women’s freshman fencers to reach an NCAA final include epeeist Magda Krol (’97 champion), foilists Sara Walsh (’96 runner-up), Alicja Kryczalo (’02 champ) and Andrea Ament (’02 runner-up), and sabreists Valerie Providenza (204 champ) and Zagunis (’05 runner-up) … placed second at Penn State Open (fall ’06), her first college fencing event … was top seed going into PSU Open, with key early wins over Yale’s Rebecca Moss (5-0), Temple’s Brianna Ferrara (5-3) and PSU’s Szarwark (5-0), later beating OSU’s Obrazcova in round of 16 (5-4), NU’s Kayley French in quarters and WSU’s Justyna Konczalska in semi’s (15-8) before losing 13-15 final to Garina.

PREP & PERSONAL: Graduated from Earl Warren High School while being coached in fencing by her mother, Tracy Hurley, and coach Paul Pesthy at the family’s Team Hurley Fencing Club in San Antonio … her events during the 2006 spring semester included placing 15th at both the Sr. World Cup in Prague and the Jr. World Cup in Osnabruck while also fencing at the Sr. World Cup in Saint-Maur, France … her 2005-06 N.A.C. events included placing 11th in Houston (overall women’s epee) and third in both Pittsburgh (overall) and Albuquerque (for u-20), with her sister Courtney winning both of those events … her top 2005 events included: winning the cadet/u-17 world title in Linz, Austria; winning junior/u-19 national championship (in Sacramento) and the u-16 title (none of her opponents had double-digit points in the 15touch bouts); taking third at senior nationals; representing the U.S. at the Sr. World Championships in Germany; and winning a Jr. World Cup in Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe … her 2004 included: winning all three U.S. titles (overall, u19 and u-16); helping the U.S. win silver at the Pan-Am Games in the Dominican Republic; fencing with the U.S. at the Sr. World Championships (in Cuba); posting top-16 finishes at Sr. World Cups in London and Saint-Maur, France; and posting top Jr. World Cup finishes in Bratislava, Slovakia (5th) and Pont de Sor, Portugal (9th) … first became member of Senior World Championship team at age 14 (in ’03), also winning u-16 national title (Austin, Texas) and fencing on silver-medal team at 2003 PanAm Games … won 2002 junior national title (Greenville, S.C.) and was youth-14 national champ, after winning 2001 youth-12 national epee and foil titles … entered 2007 already having fenced with 10 different U.S. national teams (senior teams in ’03, ’05, ’06; cadet and junior

40

teams from ’03-’05; ’06 junior team) … daughter of Robert and Tracy Hurley … full name is Kelley Anne Hurley … born April 4, 1988, in Houston … enrolled in the College of Arts and Letters as a design major.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Vanessa Rosa

Senior El Paso, Texas Eastwood H.S.

Walk-on addition to the epee squad who has quickly learned and executed bouting techniques … a prep basketball player with good quickness on the strip … member of the First Year Studies Academic Committee and University Affairs Academic Committee at Notre Dame.

AS A JUNIOR: Ended the season with a 30-7 regular season record … went 11-2 at the Northwestern Duals, including 3-0 marks against both Fairleigh Dickinson and Lawrence … finished 18-4 at the Notre Dame Duals, including a 3-0 record versus Detroit … registered her 50th career win at the Notre Dame Duals … finished in 20th place at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships … her lone win in the direct elimination round of the tournament came against Purdue’s Brittany Melton, 15-10, in the round of 64.

AS A SOPHOMORE: Posted a 23-44 record in her first year of collegiate competition … her 23 wins were the fourth-most on the women’s epee squad … finished in 14th at the NCAA Midwest Regional … entered the Regional as the 19th seed … posted a 1-4 record in pool play to advance to the elimination rounds as the 14th seed … eliminated by Ohio State’s Elyse Gurnowski (15-7) … went 13-14 at the Notre Dame Duals.

ROSA’S CAREER RECORD Year 2008 2009 Career

W 23 30 53

L 44 7 51

Pct. .343 .811 .510

NCAA Finish ----

PREP & PERSONAL: Lettered three seasons as a point guard on the Eastwood High School basketball team … two-year team captain who earned all-city and all-district honors as a junior, when she averaged 12.1 points and 3.0 steals per game … helped team earn #4 ranking in state of Texas (also district and bidistrict champs) during her sophomore season … slowed by ACL knee injury as a senior… also played some volleyball in her prep career and competed in several other sports (soccer, softball and track) as a youth … has participated in widespread volunteer work while receiving the prestigious Girl Scout Gold Award (equivalent of the Eagle Scout) … her cousin Ricky Amezaga was a starting receiver for the Air Force football team in the late 1990s … born June 9, 1988, in El Paso, Texas … daughter of Hisa and Irma Rosa … full name is Vanessa Annette Rosa … enrolled in the Mendoza College of Business as an accounting major.

2009-10 FENCING

41

Women’s Epee

Courtney Hurley

Sophomore San Antonio, Texas Earl Warren H.S.

HONORS & AWARDS NCAA Third-Place Finisher (2009) First Team All-American (2009) RECENT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESULTS: Captured 2009 Junior World Cup gold medals at Montreal, Helsinki and Tauberbischofsheim … Won the 2008 Carl Schwende Junior World Cup event held in Montreal … teamed with her sister, Kelley, and two other fencers to win the 2008 Junior Team World Championships in Italy … placed first at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil … in 2007, also finished third at the Senior Pan American Championships in Montreal, fifth at a Senior World Cup event held in Germany and 11th at a Senior World Cup event in Luxembourg … won the gold medal at the 2006 Cadet World Championships in Korea … also won the Pittsburgh and Albuquerque N.A.C. events in 2006.

AS A FRESHMAN: Finished the regular season with a 50-5 record before earning first team All-American honors at the NCAA Championship … began her college career with a 6-0 record at the St. John’s Duals … recorded her first career win against Columbia’s Martyna Urbanowicz (5-2) … went 8-3 at the NYU Invitational, including 3-0 against St. John’s … had an impressive day (17-2) at the Northwestern Duals, including going 3-0 against both John Hopkins and Temple … also went 2-0 against North Carolina, Northwestern and Detroit at the Northwestern Duals … went undefeated at the Notre Dame Duals, finishing 19-0 … went 3-0 against Stanford and Cal Tech at the Notre Dame Duals … registered her 50th career win at the Notre

HURLEY’S CAREER RECORD Year 2009

42

W 50

L 5

Pct. .909

NCAA Finish t 3rd

Dame Duals … beat Northwestern’s Joanna Niklinska, 15-8, to win the women’s epee title at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships and earn first-team All-Conference honors … beat Lawrence’s Meghan Bonham, 15-0, and Wayne State’s Emanuela Bercera, 15-7, in the early rounds of the championships to advance to the round of 16 … in the round of 16, knocked off Ohio State’s Mary Pozydaev, 15-11 … beat Notre Dame teammate Ewa Nelip, 15-10, in the quarterfinals … disposed of Northwestern’s Christa French, 15-10, in the semifinals to advance to take on Niklinska … won the NCAA Midwest Regional title … her run to the title began with a perfect 5-0 record in pool play, which earned her the top seed in the final eight … beat her sister and Notre Dame teammate Kelley Hurley, 15-9, in the semifinals … won the title bout against teammate Ewa Nelip, 15-9 … her run to the title was so dominant that no non-Irish opponent landed more than seven touches against her all day, while teammates K. Hurley and Nelip could only land nine … went 21-2 during pool play at the NCAA Championship to advance to the semifinals … lost to Penn State’s Anastasia Ferdman, 15-13, in the semifinal … went 2-0 against Penn State, Ohio State, Columbia and St. John’s during round-robin play at the championship.

PREP & PERSONAL: Graduated from Earl Warren High School in San Antonio, Texas … coached by her father, Robert Hurley and the late Paul Pesthy at the family’s Team Hurley Fencing Club in San Antonio ... currently ranked 160th in the world senior rankings and third in the world junior rankings (as of 10/27/08) … ranked as high

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

as 14th in the world senior rankings and second in the world junior rankings … sister, Kelley, also fences for Notre Dame … daughter of Robert and Tracy Hurley … full name is Courtney Lyn Hurley … born September, 30 1990 in Houston, TX … enrolled in the College of Arts and Letters.

HURLEY IN THE NCAAS 2009: 21-2 round robin (+36 in touches) Ewa Nelip (Notre Dame) 5-2 Rebecca Moss (Yale) 5-3 Miriam Baranov (Ohio State) 5-2 Julia Tikhonova (Ohio State) 2-1 Kersten Schnurle (Stanford) 5-2 Tess Finkel (Cornell) 5-1 Sallie Dietrich (Cornell) 5-4 Tasha Hall (Cornell) 5-2 Simone Barrette (Air Force) 5-1 Kayley French (Northwestern) 5-3 Christa French (Northwestern) L, 3-5 Maria Larsson (Harvard) 5-3 Grace Wu (Temple) 5-2 Kristen Howell (Temple) 5-4 Neely Brandfield-Harvey (Columbia) 5-3 Nina Westman (Penn State) 4-3 Anastasia Ferdman (Penn State) 5-4 Noam Mills (Harvard) L, 1-5 Joanna Guy (St. John’s) 5-3 Tanya Novakovska (St. John’s) 4-3 Stephanie Wheeler (Penn) 5-3 Susannah Scanlan (Princeton) 4-3 Jasjit Bhinder (Princeton) 5-4 • Lost to Ferdman in semifinals (13-15)

Diane Zielinski

Sophomore Bernardsville, N.J. Bernards H.S.

ZIELINSKI’S CAREER RECORD Year 2009

W 46

L 4

Pct. .920

NCAA Finish --

AS A FRESHMAN: Ended the season with a regular season record of 46-4 … opened her season by going 0-1 at the St. John’s Duals … had a perfect showing at the NYU Invitational, finishing 6-0 with three wins apiece against Yale and NYU … recorded her first career win against Yale’s Tasha Garcia (5-1) … had an impressive day at the Northwestern Duals (15-1) … went 3-0 against Fairleigh Dickinson, Lawrence and Wayne State at the Northwestern Duals … tied for the Irish women’s epee team lead with 25 wins at the Notre Dame Duals (finished 252) … went 3-0 against Oberlin, Cal Tech, Lawrence, and Cleveland State at the Notre Dame Duals … finished in seventh place at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships to earn second-team All-Conference honors … began the direct elimination portion of the tournament as the seventh seed … after a first round bye, beat Carolyn Grindon of Case Western, 155, in the round of 64 and Wisconsin’s Lara Szpak, 15-8, in the round of 32 … in the round of 16, knocked off Northwestern’s Sara Peck, 15-6 … lost to Ohio State’s Julia Tikonova, 1510, in the quarterfinals to finish seventh … beat Ohio State’s Miriam Baranov in the seventhplace bout, 15-12.

PREP & PERSONAL: Four-year letter winner in fencing at Bernards High School … coached by Glen Blekicki and Yakov Danilenko … finished all four years in the national rankings … was the conference and regional champion her sophomore, junior and senior seasons … currently ranked 118th in the world junior rankings (as of 11/5/08) … placed first at the 2006 Div. II Summer Nationals … finished sixth in the 2008 Junior Olympic Championships and fifth in the 2007 Div. IA Summer Nationals … trained at the Medeo Fencing Club … youngest of three children … her oldest brother, David, played hockey at Wagner College while her other brother, Daniel, currently fences at John Hopkins University … daughter of Thomas and Jane Zielinski … born March 23, 1990 in Livingston, NJ … enrolled in the Mendoza College of Business.

Women’s Epee Team (left to right): Stephanie Myers, Courtney Hurley, Kelley Hurley, Assistant coach/epee specialist Marek Stepien, Diane Zielinski,Vanessa Rosa and Caroline Dikibo.

2009-10 FENCING

43

Women’s Foil

Hayley Reese

Junior Crestwood, Kentucky Oldham County HS

HONORS & AWARDS NCAA Runner-Up (2009) NCAA Participant (2008) First Team All-American (2009) Third Team All-American (2008) Rapidly-developing foilist who did not begin fencing until age 12 but has risen to national ranking of eighth among nation’s junior-level (U-20) women’s foilists … combines tremendous speed and great technique with a unique style and unmatched analytical skills … a resilient and mentally strong competitor who has made quick transition to collegiate fencing … excels at making key mid-bout adjustments … owns FIE world ranking of 198 among women’s foilists (as of 11/29/09).

AS A SOPHOMORE: Finished in second place at the NCAA Championship to earn first team All-American honors … went 51-6 during the regular season … opened her season at the St. John’s Duals, finishing 4-0 … went 6-4 at the NYU Invitational … finished 24-1 at the Northwestern Duals … her 24 wins led the Irish women’s foil team and included 3-0 marks against Johns Hopkins, Penn State, Cleveland State, North Carolina and Detroit … also beat 2007 National Foil Champion Doris Willette in Notre Dame’s victory over top-ranked Penn State at the Northwestern Duals … went over the 100 win mark for her career at the Northwestern Duals … turned in an impressive 17-1 record at the Notre Dame Duals, including going 3-0 against Michigan State … advanced to the finals of the Midwest Fencing Conference REESE’S CAREER RECORD Year 2008 2009 Career

44

W 69 51 120

L 12 6 18

Pct. .852 .895 .870

NCAA Finish 11th 2nd --

Championships to finish second and claim firstteam All-Conference honors … her lone loss at the championships came in the final versus Northwestern’s Samantha Nemecek, 15-12 … began the direct-elimination round of the tournament as the 11th seed … after a first round bye, beat Xavier’s Kate Nelson in the round of 64 and Chicago’s Annie Considine in the round of 32 … knocked off Northwestern’s Camille Provencal-Dayle, 15-5 … downed Ohio State’s Oksana Dmytruk, 10-9 … in the semifinals, defeated Northwestern’s Devynn Patterson, 15-2, to advance to the finals … was Notre Dame's top foil finisher at the NCAA Midwest Regional as she placed third to take home the bronze … finished with a 5-0 mark in pool play … in the final eight, posted a 15-8 win over Irish teammate Radmila Sarkisova to advance to the semifinals … fell to eventual champion Oksana Dmytruk of Ohio State, 15-9, in the semifinals … rebounded in the bronze medal bout to record a win over Ohio State's Lindsay Knauer, 15-8 … her win marked the second consecutive year in which Reese has taken home the bronze at the NCAA Regional … went 19-5 in round-robin of the NCAA Championship to advance to the semifinals … in the semifinal, beat Ohio State’s Oksana Dmytruk, 13-11 … lost to Penn State’s Doris Willette, 155, in the final … this came after beating Willette 5-0 in pool play.

AS A FRESHMAN: Finished in 11th place at the NCAAs to earn Third Team All-American honors … one of a record seven Notre Dame freshmen to appear in the NCAAs … earned first team all-Midwest Fencing Conference honors with a third place finish at the con-

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

ference championships … recorded a 69-12 record (.852) on the season … her 69 wins tied Adi Nott for the most wins on the women’s foil squad … she opened her collegiate dual season with a perfect 15-0 record at Air Force’s Western Invite, allowing only 19 touches and recording five shutouts … also notched a 5-3 win over Stanford’s Jessica Wacker … went 11-6 at the New York University Duals … went 10-1 at the Northwestern Duals on day one and 12-5 on day two for a combined 22-6 mark at the event … posted an impressive 21-0 mark at the Notre Dame Duals … opened collegiate career with a 14th place finish at the Penn State Open.

RECENT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESULTS: Her recent results include a 62nd-place finish at her first senior event of the year in Budapest … placed 42nd out of 116 women’s foilists at the Jr. World Cup in Bratislava, Slovakia (Oct. ’07) before reaching semifinals of North American Cup in Dallas (Nov. ’07) … was listed seventh on USFA’s Junior/Under-20 women’s foil rankings (as of Nov. 15, 2007) … has impressive overall USFA ranking of 14th (among all women’s foilists) … in 2006-07 compiled impressive season that included winning the cadet/Under-17 title at the Junior Olympics in Denver, Colo. (Feb. ’07; also 9th in the U-20 bouts) while earning top-eight finishes at the Junior World Cup in Montreal (7th; Jan.) and the Cadet World Cup in Jena, Germany (8th; Feb.) … also qualified for U.S. National Team that competed in the women’s foil bouts at the Cadet World Championships (Belek, Turkey; April ’07) … placed 47th at that elite world event … her results at USFA North

American Cups in the fall of 2006 included taking the cadet/U-17 silver in Memphis (Oct.) and the cadet gold in Albuquerque (Nov.; also 20th in U-20 bouting) before an impressive 14th-place finish among all women’s foilists at the event in Richmond (Dec.)) … went on to compete at the N.A.C. in Columbus, Ohio (Jan. ’07; 26th overall; 8th in U-20s), before placing 57th the next month at Junior World Cup in Lyon, France … also was 34th among all women’s foilists at USFA Nationals (April ’07) and 13th at Summer Nationals in Miami (10th in U-20s) … won three medals at Notre Dame’s Culver Open (Dec. ’06): gold in women’s foil, silver in mixed foil (men’s/women’s) and silver in women’s epee … similarly won the mixed foil and women’s epee events at the 2006 Mike DeCicco Invitational (also held at ND).

PREP & PERSONAL: Lettered with the cross country team as a freshman and sophomore at Oldham County High School while training under Les Stawicki at the Louisville Fencing Center (where she started fencing at the age of 12) … Stawicki is a former head coach of Poland’s Olympic Fencing team and now serves as head coach of the U.S. Paralympic Team … made fast progress under the direction of Stawicki, despite being only female foilist at the LFC club … a state and regional fencing champ throughout her high school years (also nationally ranked each year) … a National Merit finalist and scholarship winner who graduated first in her class … also member of the National

REESE IN THE NCAAS (30-17; +38 IN TOUCHES) 2008: 11-12 round robin (-10 in touches) Adrienne Nott (Notre Dame) L, 0-5 Jessica Tranquada (Cornell) 4-2 Arielle Pensler (Harvard) 5-2 Lidia Gocheva (Yale) 5-2 Anna Podolsky (Harvard) L, 2-5 Melissa Parker (Temple) L, 4-5 Ilana Sinkin (Pennsylvania) 5-4 Zoya Abdikulova (Pennsylvania) 5-3 Sophie Ciaravino (New York) L, 3-5 Oksana Dmytruk (Ohio State) L, 0-5 Lindsay Knauer (Ohio State) L, 1-5 Allison Putterman (Duke) 5-0 Anne Jackson (Penn State) L, 0-5 Allison Glasser (Penn State) L, 0-5 Monika Golebiewski (St. John’s) L, 2-5 Florence Lee (UC San Diego) 5-1 Emily Lipoma (UC San Diego) L, 1-5 May-Lynn Chen-Contino (North Carolina) 5-3 Natalie Wang (Northwestern) 5-1 Samantha Nemecek (Northwestern) L, 1-5 Katia Larchanka (St. John’s) 5-1 Nicole Ross (Columbia) L, 4-5 Abby Capparros-Janto (Columbia) 5-3 • Finished 11th

Honor Society … her twin sisters Caitlin and Sarah Reese ran cross country at Auburn from 2001-04 … born Feb. 8, 1990, in Okinawa, Japan … daughter of Bill and Michelle Reese

2009: 19-5 round robin (+48 in touches) Adrienne Nott (Notre Dame) 5-2 Melissa Parker (Temple) 5-2 Sam Nemecek (Northwestern) 5-3 Jessica Wacker (Stanford) 5-0 Devynn Patterson (Northwestern) 5-1 Valeria Makeeva (Yale) 5-0 Katharine Pitt (Yale) L, 4-5 Nora Szita (St. John’s) 5-1 Doris Willette (Penn State) 5-0 Allison Glasser (Penn State) 5-2 Alyssa Lomuscio (Fairleigh Dickinson) L, 3-5 Lucile Jarry (Princeton) 5-4 Andrea Oliva (Princeton) 5-2 Laura Paragano (Penn) 5-3 Oksana Dmytruk (Ohio State) L, 3-4 Lindsay Knauer (Ohio State) 5-4 Pilar Alicea (San Diego) 5-1 Nicole Ross (Columbia) L. 2-5 Abby Caparros-Janto (Columbia) 5-2 Amanda Rysling (NYU) 5-3 Sophie Ciaravino (NYU) 5-3 Emily Cross (Harvard) 5-4 Shelby MacLeod (Harvard) 5-2 Jessica Tranquada (Cornell) L, 3-4 •Beat Dmytruk in semifinals (13-11) •Lost to Willette in finals (5-15)

… full name is Hayley Bevin Reese … a mechanical engineering major in the College of Engineering.

2009-10 FENCING

45

Women’s Foil

Darsie Malynn

Sophomore Grapevine, Texas Colleyville Heritage HS

AS A FRESHMAN: Went 39-7 during the regular season … began her college career with a 4-0 record at the St. John’s Duals … earned her first career win against Columbia’s Abby Capparos-Janto (3-2 in OT) … went 10-4 at the NYU Invitational, including 3-0 performances against Yale and NYU … her 10 wins at the NYU Invitational led all Irish women foilists … led the Irish women’s foil team with 25 wins at the Notre Dame Duals (finished 25-3) … went 3-0 against Stanford, Michigan State, Cleveland State, and Cal Tech at the Notre Dame Duals … finished 14th at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships … at the championships, beat Purdue’s Ashley Gross, 15-7, in the round of 64 and Notre Dame teammate Christina LaBarge, 15-6, in the round of 32 before losing to Ohio State’s Oksana Dmytruk, 15-9, in the round of 16 … captured seventh place at the NCAA Midwest Regional … earned seventh with a win over Northwestern’s Meredith Baskies, 15-5, in the seventh-place bout.

PREP & PERSONAL: Graduated from Colleyville Heritage High School in Colleyville, Texas … trained at the Fencing Institute of Texas under the direction of Volodymyr YefiMALYNN’S CAREER RECORD Year 2009

Radmila Sarkisova

Sophomore Grand Rapids, Mich.

Forest Hills

W 39

L 7

Pct. .848

NCAA Finish --

AS A FRESHMAN: Went 42-14 during the regular season … began her college career with a 2-1 showing at the St. John’s Duals … earned her first career win against Columbia’s Lucia Mattox (5-1) … went 6-4 at the NYU Invitational … finished 18-8 at the Northwestern Duals, including a perfect 3-0 mark against Fairleigh Dickinson, North Carolina and Lawrence … turned in an impressive 16-1 performance at the Notre Dame Duals, including a 3-0 record vs. Cleveland State at the Notre Dame Duals … finished in 13th place at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships … at the championships, beat Purdue’s Kendra McPheeters, 150, in the round of 64 and Case Western’s Phoebe Stierhoff, 15-9, in the round of 32 before losing to Notre Dame teammate Emilie Prot … finished in sixth place at the NCAA Midwest Regional … in the quarterfinals of the regional, fell to Notre Dame teammate Hayley Reese, 15-8, before bouncing back with a win over Northwestern’s Meredith Baskies, 15-11 … lost the fifth-place bout to Notre Dame teammate Adi Nott, 15-7.

SARKISOVA’S CAREER RECORD Year 2009

46

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

W 42

L 14

Pct. .750

NCAA Finish --

mov … currently the 230th ranked senior and 166th ranked junior in the world (as of 11/10/08) … ranked as high as 141st in the world senior rankings and 121st in the world junior rankings … finished ninth at the 2006 Division 1 N.A.C. event held in Sacramento, Calif. … member of National Honor Society and French Honor Society in high school … also an AP Scholar while in high school … daughter of Edward Malynn and Jacqueline Ballard … has two brothers … born February 1, 1990 in San Diego, CA … enrolled in the College of Arts and Letters.

PREP & PERSONAL: Four-year letter winner in fencing at Forest Hills Central High School in Grand Rapids, Mich. … finished in the national rankings all four years of high school … trained at the Grand Rapids Fencing Academy … member of the National Honor Society while in high school … born June 20, 1990 in Obninsk, Russia … daughter of Arkady Sarisova and Yuliana Shepeleva … enrolled in the College of Science and majoring in PreProfessional Studies.

S

S

Grace Hartman

Freshman Saint Paul, Minn.

St. Paul Academy and Summit School

PREP & PERSONAL: Attended St. Paul Academy and Summit School in St. Paul, Minn. … saw her national ranking climb to as high as 39th on the junior circuit according to the FIE rankings … has earned two third-place results at JWC tournaments in Montreal, Canada in 2005 and 2006 … also finished in the top 25 at the Coupe du Monde from Louisville, Ky., finishing in 24th place … has taken on the senior circuit as well, ranking as high as 216 in the standings … earned one top-50 performance on the senior circuit, grabbing 47th place at the World Cup tournament in Dallas, Texas … born in St. Paul, Minn. on November 16, 1990 … daughter of Jay and Margaret Hartman … father played rugby at the University of Minnesota … full name is Grace Tingley Hartman … enrolled in the First Year of Studies.

Phenix Messersmith

Freshman El Cerrito, Calif.

Albany HS

PREP & PERSONAL: Attended Albany High School in Albany, Calif., where she participated in track and field and cross country … lettered in each during both her freshman and sophomore years … born in Santa Monica, Calif. on April 28, 1991 … daughter of Greg and Elizabeth Messersmith … father played varsity football and rugby at the University of Washburn … has one sibling, Alexis … full name is Phenix Nicole Messersmith … enrolled in the First Year of Studies.

The fencing team was honored on the field at Notre Dame stadium between quarters during a home game this past season for their national runner-up finish in 2009.

2009-10 FENCING

47

Women’s Team Photos

Women’s Foil Team (left to right): Darsie Malynn, volunteer assistant coach Alicja Kryczalo, Grace Hartman, Phenix Messersmith, assistant coach/foil specialist Gia Kvaratskhelia, Radmila Sarkisova, Christina LaBarge, Katie Heinzen and Hayley Reese.

Women’s Sabre Team (left to right, kneeling): Lian Osier, Marta Stepien, Colleen Dawes, Beatriz Almeida, (standing) Julia Kohn, Danielle Guilfoyle, Sarah Borrmann, head coach/sabre specialist Janusz Bednarksi, Eileen Hassett, Abigail Nichols, Kathryn Palazzoto.

48

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Women’s Sabre

Junior Beaverton, Ore. Beaverton H.S. Oregon Fencing Alliance

Sarah Borrmann

HONORS & AWARDS NCAA Sabre Champion (2008) First Team All-American (2008) Women’s Sabre Team Co-Captain NCAA Champion who came to Notre Dame as a product of the Oregon Fencing Alliance, an elite fencing academy that is coached by former Notre Dame assistant Ed Korfanty … others from OFA who have gone on to fence for the Irish include four-time All-Americans Patrick Ghattas and Valerie Providenza (both from ’03’07), plus 2004 and 2008 Olympic gold medalist Mariel Zagunis, as well as Borrman’s classmates Eileen Hassett and Avery Zuck (a member of the Irish men’s team) … fourth on USFA U-20 women’s sabre rankings (as of 11/15/07) and 11th among all U.S. women’s sabreists … excellent use of a modern style that reminds the Notre Dame coaches of a righthanded version of Zagunis … an athletic fencer whose newer style includes minimizing of movements, different positioning of the blade, and a focus on the strategic use of distance (versus the traditional static approach often practiced in sabre) … opts for quick escapes, rather than parries, with the blade.

AS A SOPHOMORE: Placed 13th at the NCAA Championship … went 40-8 during the regular season … opened her year with a 2-4 BORRMANN’S CAREER RECORD Year 2008 2009 Career

W 73 40 113

L 7 8 15

Pct. .913 .833 .883

NCAA Finish 1st 13th --

record at the St. John’s Duals before bouncing back with a 10-2 showing at the NYU Invitational, including a 3-0 record against St. John’s … had an impressive showing at the Northwestern Duals, finishing 19-2, including 3-0 marks against Lawrence, Detroit and Ohio State … also topped the 100 career win mark at the Northwestern Duals … went undefeated at the Notre Dame Duals, finishing 9-0 overall, including 3-0 marks against Air Force and UC San Diego … beat Ohio State’s Margarita Tschomakova, 15-8, to win the women’s sabre title at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships and earn first-team All-Conference honors … in the championships, took down Samantha Kuykendahl of Indiana, 15-2, in the round of 32 and Northwestern’s Annelise Eeman, 15-13, in the round of 16 … knocked off Emily Cheng of Ohio State, 15-12, to advance to the semifinals … beat Notre Dame teammate Ashley Serrette, 15-11, in the semifinals … in the championship bout against Tschomakova, led 8-6 at the break before rattling off six consecutive touches en route to the

victory … edged teammate Eileen Hassett in the championship bout, 15-13, to earn the gold medal at the NCAA Midwest Regional … entered the final eight as the second seed … beat Northwestern's Whitney White, 15-4, and teammate Beatriz Almeida, 15-9, to advance to the finals … went 12-11 during pool play at the NCAA Championship to earn 13th place …went 2-0 against competitors from St. John’s at the championship.

AS A FRESHMAN: Became the 12th national champion in the history of the women’s fencing program as she won the 2008 NCAA Sabre title … as the third seed at the NCAA Championships, defeated Karolina Budna of Wayne State in the semifinals … knocked off top-seeded Siobhan Bryne of Ohio State in the championship bout to win the gold … for the season, posted a regular season 73-7 record (.913) … her 73 wins were the most on the team … her .913 mark ranks as the third-highest single-season winning-percentage in program history.

2009-10 FENCING

49

Women’s Sabre PREP & PERSONAL: Attended Beaverton High School while training at the Oregon Fencing Alliance … placed ninth at the Junior World Cup in Odessa, Ukraine (Sept. ’06) and then was seventh at the Jr. World Cup in Sosnowiec, Poland (Oct. ’06), and adding a bronze-medal finish at the Junior World Cup in Frascati, Italy (Nov. ’06) – behind Wozniak and Italy’s Irene Vecchi … fenced in several top international events in 2007, including the Jr. World Cup in Budapest (38th; Jan.), the Las Vegas Grand Prix (52nd; June) and five Senior World Cups: London (42nd; Feb.), Orleans, France (38th; Feb.), Havana, Cuba (24th; June), Klagenfurt, Austria (69th; May) and Gand, Belgium (26th; May) … won USFA North American Cup event in Albuquerque, N.M. (Nov. ’06) and was 11th the next month at N.A.C. in Richmond,Va. … had impressive week at the USFA’s 2006 Summer Nationals in Atlanta, finishing as runner-up in the senior-level bouts and placing third in the junior (U-19) … finished 12th at the 2006 Jr. World Cup in Dormagen, Germany (Nov.) … signed up for fencing at the age of 10 … she combined with Hassett, Caity Thompson and Rebecca Ward to win the women's sabre gold medal at 2006 Summer Nationals (she also was a member of the U-19 gold-medal team) … her results at 2005 Summer Nationals (Sacramento, Calif.) included placing eighth in the senior-level bouts, plus taking gold medal in the team event (also silver in the U-19 team) … placed eighth at the 2004 Jr. World Cup in Louisville, Ky. … born Nov. 6, 1988, in Cooper City, Fla. (has lived in Oregon most of her life) … daughter of Bernie and Tina Borrmann … full name is Sarah Victoria Borrmann … enrolled in the College of Arts and Letters as a political sciences major.

50

BORRMANN IN THE NCAAS (30-16; +45 IN TOUCHES) 2008: 18-5 round robin (+43 in touches) Eileen Hassett (Notre Dame) 5-1 Lyuba Docheva (Princeton) 5-1 Danielle Kamis (Pennsylvania) 5-3 Jennifer Sawicki (North Carolina) 5-2 Alexis Baran (Pennsylvania) 5-1 Martyna Wieczorek (St. John’s) 5-4 Randy Alevi (Brown 5-3 Tanya Danioski (St. John’s) 5-1 Eva Jellison (Stanford) 5-0 Alyxandra Mattison (New York) 5-2 Sarah Parker (Stanford) 5-4 Jackie Jacobson (Columbia) 5-4 Krista Bacci (Seton Hall 5-2 Emily Jacobson (Columbia) L, 4-5 Anna Bartoscewicz (Wayne State) 5-4 Jessica-Kim Danh (Penn State) 5-1 Karolina Budna (Wayne State) L, 4-5 Allison Sneider (Harvard) 5-3 Alexandra Heiss (Cornell) 5-3 Alexa Weingarden (Harvard) L, 4-5 Siobhan Byrne (Ohio State) L, 3-5 Christine Griffith (Temple) 5-2 Eileen Grench (Ohio State) L, 4-5 • Beat Budna in semifinal (15-10) • Beat Byrne in finals (15-11)

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

2009: 12-11 round robin (+2 in touches) Eileen Hassett (Notre Dame) 5-1 Whitney White (New York) 5-0 Alyxandra Mattison (NYU) 5-4 Lisa Verzino (NYU) L, 1-5 Alexandra Heiss (Cornell) 5-2 Caitlin Thompson (Penn State) L, 2-5 Eva Jellison (Stanford) L, 4-5 Monica Askamit (Penn State) 5-2 Daria Schneider (Columbia) L, 2-5 Caroline Vloka (Harvard) L, 1-5 Jackie Jacobson (Columbia) L, 2-5 Danielle Kamis (Penn) L, 2-5 Rebecca Ward (Duke) L, 2-5 D. Franciskowicz (Penn) L, 3-5 Margarita Tschomakova (Ohio State) 5-4 Robin Shin (MIT) 5-1 Falencia Miller (Ohio State) L, 0-5 Audrey Barroso (Temple) L, 3-5 Alicia Trigeiro (San Diego) 5-1 Kamali Thompson (Temple) 5-4 Dagmara Wozniak (St. John’s) 5-3 Anna Hanley (Brandeis) 5-1 Dora Varga (St. John’s) 5-2 • Finished 13th

Eileen Hassett

Junior Beaverton, Ore. Aloha H.S. Oregon Fencing Alliance

HONORS & AWARDS Second Team All-American (2009) Second Team All-American (2008) Began fencing in August of 2004, at the Oregon Fencing Alliance, which has produced several elite Notre Dame fencers in recent years … one of team’s taller women’s fencers (5-foot-9) who has developed very modern and effective style while training alongside classmate Sarah Borrmann at OFA, where they are coached by former Notre Dame assistant Ed Korfanty … very athletic bouter whose newer style includes different positioning of the blade, minimizing movements and focus on strategic use of distance on the strip (all running counter to static bouting of the past) … typically uses quick escapes rather than parries, in order to avoid touches … combined with Becca Ward, Dagmara Wozniak and Caroline Vloka for bronze-medal team finish at Junior World Championships in Belek, Turkey (April ’07).

AS A SOPHOMORE: Placed sixth at the NCAA Championship to earn second team All-American honors … went 43-10 during the regular season … began her year with a 3-3 record at the St. John’s Duals before going 13-4 at the NYU Invitational … her 13 wins at the NYU Invitational led all Notre Dame sabreists and included perfect 3-0 records against Yale, NYU and St. Johns … went 17-2 at the Northwestern Duals, including 3-0 marks against Johns Hopkins, Penn State, Temple and Northwestern … won her 100th career bout at the Northwestern Duals … went 9-1 at the Notre Dame Duals … placed ninth at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships to earn honorable-mention AllConference honors … entered the direct elimination round of the tournament as the fourth seed … after a first round bye, beat Michigan State’s Meg Holt, 15-5, in the round of 32 … in the round of 16, lost to teammate Beatriz Almeida, 15-14 … took second at the NCAA Midwest Regional … entered the round of eight as the first seed … beat Ohio State’s Emily Cheng, 15-10, in the round of eight and Ohio State’s Margarita Tschomakova, 15-5, in the semifinals to advance to the finals … in the final, lost to teammate Sarah Borrmann,

HASSETT’S CAREER RECORD Year 2008 2009 Career

W 67 43 110

L 12 10 22

Pct. .848 .811 .833

NCAA Finish 5th 6th --

15-13 … went 15-8 during the NCAA Championship … went 2-0 against competitors from St. John’s at the championship.

AS A FRESHMAN: Earned Second Team All-America honors with a fifth-place finish at NCAAs … had 18 wins at NCAAs and a +42 touch margin … finished fourth at NCAA Midwest Regional and made it to the Midwest Fencing Conference semifinals … at the Regional had a 5-2 record in pool play to earn the sixth seed in direct elimination … knocked out in the quarter-

finals by teammate Sarah Borrmann, 15-9 … defeated Wayne State’s Ann Bartowicz (15-7) and Falencia Miller of Ohio State (15-13) to finish fifth … posted a 67-12 (.848) regular season record … her 67 wins were the second most on the women’s sabre squad … posted a 13-5 record at the NYU Duals … went 14-3 at the Notre Dame Duals … helped the Irish to a perfect 11-0 record on the second day of the Northwestern Duals with a 10-1 record … went 16-2 on the first day of the Northwestern Duals for a combined 26-3 mark at the event … finished in third at the annual Penn State Open in her first collegiate action, including a 1512 quarterfinal win with Harvard’s Alexa Weingarden, a semifinal loss to Grench (11-15) and a win over OSU’s Felicia Miller for the bronze medal.

PREP & PERSONAL: Attended Aloha High School while training at Oregon Fencing Alliance … placed 12th at Senior World Cup in Vancouver (June ’06), with round-of-32 win over France’s Anne-Lise Touya (2005 world champ) … finished 16th later that month at Sr. Grand Prix in Las Vegas and matched that finish at Jr. World Cups in Sosnowiec, Poland (Oct. ’06), and Odessa, Ukraine (Sept. ’06) … placed 14th at Sr. World Cup in Orleans, France (Feb. ’07), also fencing at four other 2007 Sr. World Cups: London (54th; Feb.), Gand, Belgium (40th; May), Havana, Cuba (34th; June), and Klagenfurt, Austria (68th; May) … her 2006-07 results also included the 16th-place finishes in Sosnowiec and Odessa, plus Jr. World Cups in Dormagen, Germany (66th; Nov. ’06) and Budapest (30th; Jan. ’07), and Grand Prix events in Budapest (88th; Feb. ’07), Foggia, Italy (69th; March ’07), and Las Vegas (26th; June ’07) … her strong showing at Jr. Olympics in Hartford, Conn. (Feb. ‘06), included placing second in junior/U-20 bouts and third in cadet/U-17 … placed 10th at 2006 USFA North American Cup in Sacramento, Calif. and 11th at Houston N.A.C. (Jan. ’06) … lettered in basketball as a freshman center at Aloha HS, where she was a member of National Honor Society and student government … her sister Maria Hassett is a member of the basketball team at Gonzaga … born April 19, 1989, in Portland, Ore. … daughter of Kevin and Ann Hassett … full name is Eileen Marie Hassett … enrolled in the College of Arts and Letters as a Design major … carries an impressive 3.359 GPA.

HASSETT IN THE NCAAS (33-13; +64 IN TOUCHES) 2008: 18-5 round robin (+42 in touches) Sarah Borrmann (Notre Dame) L, 1-5 Lyuba Docheva (Princeton) 5-4 Alexis Baran (Pennsylvania) 5-0 Danielle Kamis (Pennsylvania) 5-1 Jennifer Sawicki (North Carolina) 5-1 Randy Alevi (Brown) L, 4-5 Tanya Danioski (St. John’s) 5-1 Martyna Wieczorek (St. John’s) 5-3 Alyxandra Mattison (New York) 5-2 Sarah Parker (Stanford) 5-1 Eva Jellison (Stanford) 5-4 Krista Bacci (Sacred Heart) 5-2 Emily Jacobson (Columbia) L, 2-5 Jackie Jacobson (Columbia) L. 3-5 Jessica-Kim Danh (Penn State) 5-1 Karolina Budna (Wayne State) 5-2 Anna Bartoszewicz (Wayne State) 5-1 Alexandra Heiss (Cornell) 5-2 Alexa Weingarden (Harvard) 5-3 Allison Sneider (Harvard) 5-2 Christine Griffith (Temple) 5-2 Eileen Grench (Ohio State) 5-4 Siobhan Byrne (Ohio State) L, 3-5 • Finished 5th

2009: 15-8 round robin (+22 in touches) Sarah Borrmann (Notre Dame) L, 1-5 Whitney White (Northwestern) 5-2 Lisa Verzino (NYU) 5-3 Alexandra Heiss (Cornell) 5-1 Alyxandra Mattison (NYU) 5-1 Eva Jellison (Stanford) 5-2 Monica Askamit (Penn State) L, 1-5 Caitlin Thompson (Penn State) 5-3 Caroline Vloka (Harvard) L, 3-5 Jackie Jacobson (Columbia) L, 4-5 Daria Schneider (Columbia) L, 3-5 Rebecca Ward (Duke) L, 1-5 D. Franciskowicz (Penn) L, 3-5 Danielle Kamis (Penn) 5-4 Robin Shin (MIT) 5-2 Falencia Miller (Ohio State) L, 4-5 Margarita Tschomokova (Ohio State) 5-4 Alicia Trigeiro (San Diego) 5-2 Kamali Thompson (Temple) 5-1 Audrey Barroso (Temple) 5-1 Anna Hanley (Brandeis) 5-3 Dora Varga (St. John’s) 5-0 Dagmara Wozniak (St. John’s) 5-4 • Finished 6th

2009-10 FENCING

51

Women’s Sabre

S

Abigail Nichols

Freshman Concord, Mass.

Concord-Carlisle

S

Lian Osier

52

Freshman Battle Grand, Wash.

CAM H.S.

PREP & PERSONAL: Attended ConcordCarlisle High School in Concord, Mass., while fencing for the Zeta Fencing Studio as a sabreist ... has fenced at the studio for the better part of seven years, climbing up the junior circuit rankings according the the FIE standings … captured the Massachusetts state fencing title in 2008, while serving as her team’s captain … climbed to as high as 61st in the FIE rankings, aided by a seventh-place finish at the World Cup from Montreal, Canada … also competed on the senior circuit, earning a top-50 result (42nd) at the Coupe du Monde in Havana, Cuba … born in Boston, Mass. on May 19, 1991 … daughter of William and Brenda Nichols … full name is Abigail Saint John Nichols … enrolled in the First Year of Studies.

PREP & PERSONAL: Attended CAM High School, while training at the Oregon Fencing Alliance in Portland, Ore. … secured first place in the Cadet Division at the 2007 North American Cup in Dallas, Texas … later earned a top-25 finish (22nd) at the Cadet World Cup in Konin, Poland … in 2008, secured three top-10 finishes, including earning a runner-up result in Division 1 Team Sabre at the North American Cup in Portland, Ore. … other two top-10 finishes came at the North American Cup in St. Louis, Mo. (sixth) and the Junior World Cup in Montreal, Canada (eighth) … has been ranked in the top 50 of the junior rankings over the span of the last five months according to the FIE rankings … climbed to 210th in the senior rankings as of March 24, 2009 … was the recipient of the Oregon Fencing Alliance Sportsmanship Award in 2007 along with serving as an Athlete Representative to the Board of Directors (2007-present) … current Irish fencers Avery Zuck, Sarah Borrmann and Eileen Hassett also trained with the Oregon Fencing Allianc, as well as former Irish fencers Mariel Zagunis and Patrick Ghattas … born in Wonju, South Korea on August 22, 1991 … daughter of David and Chong-il Osier … full name is Lian Bianca Osier … enrolled in the First Year of Studies.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Men’s Epee

Senior Grapevine, Texas Grapevine H.S.

Brent Kelly

KELLY’S CAREER RECORD WITH NOTRE DAME Year 2009

W 27

Conor Gettings

L 14

Pct. .659

NCAA Finish __

Junior Lake Forest, Ill. Adlai Stevenson

AS A JUNIOR: Went 27-14 in the regular season before finishing sixth at the Midwest Regional … began his Irish career by going 2-4 at the St. John’s Duals … went 1-2 at the NYU Invitational … earned an important win against third-ranked Ohio State in the NYU Invitational, beating Jason Pryor to tie the bout at 77 … finished 6-4 at the Northwestern Duals, including a 2-0 record versus North Carolina … posted a 3-3 mark at the Duke Duals … had an impressive performance at the Notre Dame Duals, finishing 15-1 on the weekend … went 3-0 against both UC San Diego and Oberlin … finished 14th at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships … in the direct elimination portion of the tournament, took out Lawrence’s Jordan Severson by a 15-4 margin and proceeded to knock out teammate Andrew Seroff, 15-9, before falling to top-seeded Jason Pryor of Ohio State in the round of 16 by a score of 15-10 … finished in sixth place at the NCAA Midwest Regional after losing to Notre Dame teammate Greg Schoolcraft, 15-14, in the fifth place bout … his lone win in the direct-elimination portion of the regional came against Cleveland State’s John Marshall, 15-6.

BEFORE NOTRE DAME: Transfer from Columbia University … finished sixth in epee at the 2008 NCAA Regionals to qualify for the NCAA Championships.

AS A SOPHOMORE: Went 15-6 during the regular season … began his season by posting an 8-1 record at the Northwestern Duals … went 3-0 versus both Lawrence and Detroit at the Northwestern Duals … went 15-6 at the Notre Dame Duals, including 3-0 against Florida … earned honorable-mention All-Conference accolades at the Midwest Fencing Championships by advancing to the round of 16 … advanced to the final 16 with wins over Purdue’s Justin Leoni, 15-7, and Northwestern’s Dan Reed 15-8, before being knocked out by teammate Jacob Osborne, 15-9.

AS A FRESHMAN: Finished the year 122, including an 8-1 performance at the Notre Dame duals.

GETTING’S CAREER RECORD Year 2008 2009 Career

W 12 15 27

L 2 6 8

Pct. .857 .714 .771

NCAA Finish ----

PREP & PERSONAL: Trained at the Gold Blade Fencing Club while in high school … member of the National Honor Society and a National Merit Finalist while at Grapevine … son of Lawrence and Joan Kelly … has two sisters and a brother … uncle, Allen Jones, played football at the University of Florida … born May, 2 1988 in Keflavik, Iceland … an Aerospace Engineer major enrolled in the College of Engineering.

PREP & PERSONAL: Four-year fencing letter winner at Adlai Stevenson … coached by Boris Lukomski … finished his sophomore and junior year in the national rankings … also a member of the National Honor Society and the band while in high school … has two older brothers … brother, Patrick, also fenced at Notre Dame … son of Thomas and Maureen Gettings … both parents also attended Notre Dame … full name is Conor Thomas Gettings … born Jan. 24, 1989 in Lake Forest, IL … enrolled in the Mendoza College of Business, double-majoring in finance and political sciences.

2009-10 FENCING

53

Men’s Epee

Junior Colleyville, Texas Faith Christian School Golden Blade Fencing Center

Jacob Osborne

Epeeist who did not begin fencing until the age of 15 but began his college career listed ninth on the USFA rankings for Under-20 men’s epeeists … employs a German style of fencing, due to his training under 1986 U.S. Olympian Jim Carpenter (who lived in Germany for several years and now is Director of High Performance for U.S. Fencing Association) … an offensive-oriented epeeist who relies on blade speed and strong parries … has a short attack but able to quickly close distance … fenced at Junior World Cup in Bratislava, Slovakia (127th out of 159; Oct. ’07).

AS A SOPHOMORE: Finished the year with a 36-17 regular season record … opened his season with an 8-7 record at the NYU Invitational … went 8-2 at the Northwestern Duals, including going undefeated against Wayne State (3-0) and Johns Hopkins (2-0) … clinched Notre Dame’s victory over co-number one ranked Penn State at the Northwestern Duals with a 5-4 win over James Moody … led the Irish men’s epee team with a 20-8 record at the Notre Dame Duals … went 3-0 against both Northwestern and Michigan State at the Notre Dame Duals … made a run to the semifinals of the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships to earn first-team All-Conference honors … entered the direct elimination portion of the conference championships tied for the tenth seed, which gave him a bye in the round of 128 … in the round of 64, downed Brian Flick of Xavier, 15-4, before taking out Northwestern’s Michael Nussbaum, 15-6, in the round of 32 …

OSBORNE’S CAREER RECORD Year 2009

54

W 36

L 17

Pct. .679

NCAA Finish __

knocked out Irish teammate Conor Gettings, 15-9, in the round of 16 before upsetting topseeded Jason Pryor of rival Ohio State, 15-12, to advance to the semifinals … lost to Ohio State’s Igor Tolkachev, 15-12, in the semis … finished 10th at the NCAA Midwest Regional.

AS A FRESHMAN: Did not compete in NCAA play for the Irish … competed in a Junior World Cup event in Budapest on Jan. 1, 2008 … finished 124th of 208 competitors.

PREP & PERSONAL: Attended three years at Faith Christian School before opting to be home-schooled in 2006-07 (he was only one class shy of the graduation requirements) … the home-schooling schedule allowed him more flexibility in his training and competition during 2006-07 … was able to compete in various 2006-07 World Cup events throughout Europe, in addition to training in Switzerland at the home club of Max Heinzer (the world’s #1ranked junior-level epeeist) and Marcel Fischer (2004 Olympic gold medalist in epee) … also spent time during 2006-07 training at the New York Athletic Club and the Olympic Training Center (in Colorado Springs) … competed in five different countries in five-month span, including Junior World Cups in: Bratislava, Slovakia (73rd of 171; Oct. ’06); Laupheim, Germany

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

(87th of 131; Nov.); Tourcoing, France (96th of 106; Dec.); Goteborg, Sweden (56th of 133; Feb. ’07); and Bale, Switzerland (79th of 147; Feb.) … won the 2006 Junior Pan-Am Games (in San Antonio) while finishing as runner-up at the 2006 Junior Olympics (in Hartford, Conn.) and placing fifth at 2007 Summer Nationals (Miami) … combined with his coach Carpenter (who fenced in the event) and Shackleford to finish second in the overall men’s epee competition at the 2005 USFA Summer Nationals (Sacramento, Calif.) … also finished in top-16 of the U-20 men’s epee competition at ’05 Summer Nationals … placed 45th at 2006 Cadet World Cup in Montreal (Jan.), matching his finish the previous year in Budapest CWC … second at 2005 Longhorn State Open … played several years of roller hockey as a right wing prior to taking up fencing … helped win five straight hockey league titles (1999-2003) … played as a 13- and 14-year old on 18-and-under hockey teams … also an excellent swimmer, certified life guard, scuba diver and avid wake-boarder … born March 27, 1989, in Dallas … son of Kerry and Jill Osborne … full name is Jacob Mikhail Osborne … enrolled in the College of Arts and Letters as a psychology major.

Andy Seroff

Junior Boulder, Colorado Boulder HS / Northern Colorado Fencers

AS A SOPHOMORE: Finished the regular season with a 20-15 record … opened his season at the NYU Invitational, finishing 8-7 … posted perfect 3-0 records against Yale and Stevens Tech at the NYU Invitational … went 5-5 at the Northwestern Duals … finished 1-2 at the Duke Duals … posted a 6-1 record at the Notre Dame Duals … earned his 50th career victory at the Notre Dame Duals … advanced to the round of 32 at the Midwest Conference Championships with a win over Iowa’s Nicholas Beatty, 15-4, in the round of 64.

AS A FRESHMAN: NCAA Midwest Regional

Chris Pinkowski

Sophomore Simi Valley, Calif.

Chaminade Coll. Prep Masque du Fer

PINKOWSKI’S CAREER RECORD Year 2009

W 18

L 5

Pct. .783

seventh-place finisher … posted a 34-5 (.872) record in regular season bouts ... had the fourthhighest win total on the men’s epee team (thirdhighest among 2008-09 returnees) … posted a 15-2 record at the Notre Dame Duals, helping the Irish to a dominating 75-15 record in epee at the event … at NCAA Regionals, posted a 1-5 record in pool play, with his one win coming over Ohio State’s Jason Pryor to get the 11th seed in direct elimination … fell to Irish teammate Greg Schoolcraft in first elimination bout, 15-9 … came back in the repechage with a 15-4 win over Wayne State’s Joe Fresard and a 15-14 win over fourthseeded Mykhalyo Mazur of Ohio State … defeated

by Irish teammate Greg Howard in the quarterfinal bout, 15-8 … ended his run at regionals with a win over Ohio State’s Bishara Korkor to finish in seventh.

PREP & PERSONAL: Trained with Northern Colorado Fencers (coached by Gary Copeland) while in high school … placed 58th in 171-fencer field at Jr. World Cup in Bratislava, Slovakia (Oct. ’06)… fenced at Jr. World Cup in Louisville, Ky., in 2004 … competed at international juniorlevel/U-20 event in Catania, Italy (44th; Dec. ’05), also fencing at cadet/U-17 tournaments in Montreal (27th; Jan. ’06) and Budapest (103rd; Oct. ’05) … fenced at Canadian circuit event in Montreal (Oct. ’04), placing 57th overall (20th U-20; 7th U17) … his 2006-07 USFA events included North American Cups in Richmond,Va. (44th overall, of 211; Dec.) and Columbus, Ohio (66th/250; Jan.), plus the annual Jr. Olympics (40th/228; Feb.) and Summer Nationals (Miami) – where he was member of third-place U-20 team and part of 10thplace team overall (also 59th in U-20 individual bouts) … his 2005-06 results: 25th overall (23rd U-20) at Albuquerque N.A.C. (Nov.); 103rd of 199 at Pittsburgh N.A.C. (Dec.); 59th/215 (19th U-20) at Houston N.A.C. (Jan.); 24th/234 in U20s at Jr. Olympics (Hartford, Conn.; Feb.; also

68th in U-17s); and 19th in U-20s at ’06 Summer Nationals (Atlanta), where he also was member of winning team in overall men’s epee (6th for U20 team) … his 2004-05 bouts: 20th in U-20s at N.A.C. in Overland Park, Kan.; 15th in U-17s (58th U-20s) at Jr. Olympics (Arlington, Texas); sixth in d-2 event at Denver N.A.C.; and another overall team title at Summer Nationals (Sacramento, Calif.; third in U-17 individual) … fenced at three 2003-04 events: N.A.C. in Overland Park, Kan. (third in Y-14 event), Atlanta N.A.C. (fifth Y14) and ’04 Summer Nationals (Charlotte, N.C.), where he placed 10th in U-16, 11th in Y-14, 11th in d-3 and 23rd in d-2 … had pair of matching fifth-place finishes at 2002-03 N.A.C.’s in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and Overland Park … runner-up at 2005 Colorado Youth Tournament (sixth at ’05 Colorado Cup) … won U-16 event at 2004 Colorado J.O.’s qualifier (fifth in U-20s) … placed 15th in open competition at 2004 Rocky Mountain Sectional (5th U-19s) … won Y-12 event at 2002 Pacific Coast Championship and was seasonpoint champion for 2002 Bay City Circuit in California (Y-12) … accomplished jazz-band saxophonist whose musical talents include playing piano, drums and guitar … performed with Boulder Jazz in Norway and Germany (during 2007) … award-winning photographer and member of student radio/TV production at Boulder High School … born July 10, 1989, in San Jose, CA … son of Nicholas and Karen Seroff … enrolled in the College of Arts and Letters as a music major.

SEROFF’S CAREER RECORD Year 2008 2009 Career

W 34 20 54

L 5 15 20

Pct. .872 .840 .730

NCAA Finish __ ---

AS A FRESHMAN: Ended the season with a final record of 18-5 … went 7-2 at the Northwestern Duals, including a 3-0 record against Lawrence and a 2-0 mark against Northwestern… earned his first career win against Northwestern’s Phil Szalwinski (5-3) … finished with an 11-3 record at the Notre Dame Duals … earned second-team AllConference honors at the Midwest Fencing Championships by making a run to the quarterfinals ... after a first-round bye at the championships, took out Illinois’ Charith Jayasinghe, 15-9, in the round of 64 and OSU’s Bishara Korkor, 15-13, in the round of 32 … beat Andy Snell of Cleveland State, 15-14, in the round of 32 before falling to teammate and eventual champion Karol Kostka, 15-10.

PREP & PERSONAL: Attended Chaminade College Preparatory in West Hills, Calif. … fenced for seven years with the Masque de Fer club under coaches Fr. Lawrence Calhoun and Derek Snyder before attending Notre Dame … Fr. Calhoun is now the Notre Dame fencing team Chaplain … son of Stanley and Patricia Pinkowski … enrolled in the College of Science as a science pre-professional major.

NCAA Finish __

2009-10 FENCING

55

Men’s Epee

James Kaull

Freshman Washington, D.C. Woodrow Wilson

PREP & PERSONAL: Attended Woodrow Wilson Senior High School where he played on the freshman baseball team … sat as high as 27th in the national junior rankings according to the FIE rankings … since 2007 has recorded six top25 finishes on the international circuit, including winning at the 2007 Junior World Circuit in Montreal, Canada … earned back-to-back top20 results in JWC action at events from Laupheim, Germany (19th) and Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy (18th) … earned his highest mark of 2009 at the JWC tournament from Budapest, Hungary as he finished in fifth place … also was a member of the DCFC team that placed first at the 2008 Summer Nationals … born in Washington, D.C. on July 7, 1991 … son of Jim and Nina Kaull … uncle, Donald Kaull, played basketball for the University of Rhode Island … full name is James Turner Kaull … enrolled in the First Year of Studies.

Men’s Epee Team (left to right, kneeling): Jack Piasio, Greg Schoolcraft, Andy Seroff, Jacob Osborne, Conor Gettings, (standing) James Kaull, Chris Pfarr, Assistant coach/epee specialist Marek Stepien, Christopher Pinkowski and Rich Molina.

56

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Men’s Foil

Junior San Antonio, Texas Reagan H.S. San Antonio Sports Foundation Alamo Fencing Academy

Steve Kubik

HONORS & AWARDS Second Team All-American (2008) Resilient foilist whose battling style meshes well with the NCAA five-touch bout format … boasts extremely quick hands and reflexes … a clever tactician on the strip who makes effective use of inbout calculations, allowing him to properly judge distance and complete proper actions for the situation … has exciting combination of speed, size (63), strength and an aggressive approach to his offense … looking to capitalize on his past fencing experience with his brother, assistant coach Gia Kvaratskhelia (his former club coach at the Kanza Fencing Club in Salina, Kansas) … his father Wendell Kubik competed and coached at Air Force while his youngest brother Nick also is a top foilist … joined his brother Mark as part of three-fencer Kanza foil team that finished fifth of 33 teams at 2007 Summer Nationals in Miami (that same Kanza team won the bronze in 2006) … placed 17th individually in U-20 field at ’06 Summer Nationals (20th among all men’s foilists) … placed 14th at the annual Penn State Open (fall of 2007), after losing a 13-15 bout to Ohio State’s Andras Horanyi (the 2007 NCAA champ).

AS A SOPHOMORE: Finished the year with a 30-6 record … began his season by going 14-1 at the Northwestern Duals … at the Northwestern Duals, had perfect performances against Johns Hopkins (2-0), Northwestern (3-0), Cleveland State (2-0), North Carolina (2-0), Wayne State (20) and Detroit (2-0) … went 6-3 at the Duke Duals … finished 11-1 at the Notre Dame Duals, including 3-0 against Lawrence … clinched Notre Dame’s 15-12 victory over seventh-ranked Stanford at the Notre Dame Duals with a 5-3 win over

STEVE KUBIK’S CAREER RECORD Year 2008 2009 Career

W 42 30 72

L 9 6 15

Pct. .824 .833 .828

NCAA Finish 8th ---

Julian Jennings-White … made a run to the semifinals of the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships to earn first-team All Conference honors … in the direct elimination portion of the championships, had a first round bye before beating Zak Stromquist of Minnesota, 15-1, in the round of 64 and Justin Schaudt of Michigan State, 15-0, in the round of 32 … then beat Wisconsin’s Ryan Petty, 15-4, and teammate Nicholas Crebs, 15-8, to advance to the semifinals … fell to eventual champion Andras Horanyi of Ohio State in the finals (15-8).

AS A FRESHMAN: Competed in 22 meets on the fencing season in the foil, earning a final regular season record of 42-9 (.823) … opened the season by registering an individual 9-3 record at the 2008 NCAA Western Invitational, an event which saw the Irish, as a team, earn a 4-1 mark as well … went 7-2 at the New York University Dual, posting a perfect slate in four of the five matches at the event and helped the team go 5-1 on the day … earned a 16-3 record at the Northwestern Duals, including going a perfect 3-0 against both Cal State Fullerton and The Citadel at the event … Irish team posted an overall 8-2 mark at the event as well … helped the foil team post an overall 70-20 mark at the Notre Dame Duals by posting an individual mark of 10-1 at the event … also helped the team to a perfect showing, going 10-0 versus the competition … reached the Midwest Fencing Conference (MFC) Championships semifinals as the #5 seed before losing to his brother, Mark, 15-14 in their dual … notched a 5-1 record in pool matches with his only defeat coming to Ohio State’s Colin Sutter (5-4) at the Midwest Regionals … earned the bronze medal after falling to teammate Zach Schirtz in the semifinals but rebounded to defeat Ohio State’s Ben Parkins (15-13) in the consolation match … helped his team to a second-place finish, behind Ohio State, at the NCAA championships with a team score of 176 … posted a record of 1310 at the NCAAs individually and earned an eighth place finish … rewarded for his efforts in being named as a first team all-Midwest Conference member as well as a second team All-American.

PREP & PERSONAL: Started fencing at age five, when his family lived in southern Germany for three years at the Fechter Ring of Albstadt-Ebingen … played youth soccer in Schwenningen-Baden … continued to compete in soccer, baseball and fencing after moving to San Antonio before specializing in fencing in middle school … coached by his father Wendall Kubik while training with Palo Alto Fencers club (part of San Antonio Sports Foundation’s Community Olympic Development Program) … that club became Dreams for Youth Fencing Center in 2002 … SASF is supported by the USOC and provides opportunities in Olympic sports to youth in economically disadvantaged communities … participated at SASF’s “Inner City Games,” sponsored by Arnold Schwarzenegger … trained with Andrei Samorodov at Alamo Fencing Academy … attended summer fencing camps at Kanza Fencing Club in Salina, Kansas (’04-’07), coached by current ND assistant Kvaratskhelia … worked with former members of Soviet junior national team such as Kvaratskhelia, Soviet champion Slava Grigoriev, and Andrei Samorodov … graduated from Ronald Reagan High School … top results in 2006-07 included: seventh at Junior World Cup in Madrid, Spain (Nov. ’06); 23rd in overall men’s foil field at North American Cup (N.A.C.) in Richmond, Va. (Dec. ’06); and 91st at Junior World Cup in Bratislava (Oct. ’06) … his ’05-’06

season (ranked #14 among U.S. U-17s) included: sixth in U-20 men’s foil and 14th among U-17s at 2006 Junior Olympics in Hartford, Conn.; 73rd at U-17 World Cup in Koblenz, Germany; 141st at Junior World Cup in Budapest (Jan ’06); 11th in U-19 men’s foil (also third among all men’s foil teams) at the 2006 Summer Nationals (Atlanta); 23rd in overall men’s foil bouts at the N.A.C. in Sacramento, Calif. (April ’06) … fenced foil and epee in early years … his ’04-’05 results included: fifth overall, 21st in U-19 and 11th in U-16 men’s foil at Summer Nationals (Sacramento) … in ’03’04, he won D-2 men’s epee at N.A.C. in Arlington while placing 25th in U-14 Atlanta N.A.C. …

U-14 runner-up in men’s epee and 14th in U-14 men’s foil at N.A.C. in Overland Park, Kan. (Oct. ’03) … his earliest results included: 22nd in U-14 foil at 2003 Summer Nationals; ninth in U-12 foil at 2002 Summer Nationals (Greenville, S.C.); runner-up in U-12 foil at Louisville N.A.C. (April ’02); 5th in U-12 foil at N.A.C. in Saratoga Springs, Calif. (Jan. ’02); seventh in U-10 foil at N.A.C. in Orlando (May 2000); U-10 runner-up in foil and third in U-10 epee at N.A.C. in St. Paul, Minn. (Oct ’99); eighth in U-10 epee and 28th in U-10 foil at ’99 Summer Nationals (Charlotte, N.C.) … his father Wendell Kubik was 1981 Air Force fencing captain and placed 10th in NCAA foil … his younger brother Nick was fifth in U-17 foil at ’07 Junior Olympics (Denver) and 16th at U-17 World Cup in Koblenz, Germany (Jan. ’07) … a USFA-certified referee who has volunteered at various fencing camps … member of National Honor Society … graduated first in his class … placed second at Texas State German Competition (for extemporary speech) … grandfather Harold Yount was All-America rifleman at Penn State (’41), a career Colonel and project manager for U.S. Army’s M-16 rifle … son of Wendell and Jeana Kubik … full name is Steven John Kubik … born Oct. 2, 1989, in Colorado Springs … enrolled in the Mendoza College of Business an an accounting major.

KUBIK IN THE NCAAS 2008: 13-10 round robin (+1 in touches) Zach Schirtz (Notre Dame) L, 3-5 Kurt Getz (Columbia) 5-4 Andras Horanyi (Ohio State) L, 1-5 Ben Parkins (Ohio State) 5-0 Sherif Farrag (Columbia) 5-2 Benjamin Dorn (UC San Diego) 5-3 Phil Arredondo (Stanford) 5-3 Richard Fulton (Stanford) 5-3 Lowden Charles (Stevens Tech) 5-4 John Gurrieri (Yale) L, 3-5 Nate Botwinick (Yale) 5-2 Henry Kennard (St. John’s) L, 2-5 Will Friedman (Brandeis) L, 4-5 Eugene Vortsman (Brandeis) 5-2 Adam Pantel (Brown) L, 3-5 Long Ouyang (Harvard) 5-4 Kai Itameri-Kinter (Harvard) 5-4 Clayton Flanders (Princeton) 5-2 Nick Chinman (Penn State) L, 0-5 Samuel Perkins (Penn State) L, 4-5 Ron Berkowsky (Pennsylvania) L, 0-5 Dorian Cohen (Duke) 5-4 Benjamin Hendricks (Duke) L, 3-5 • Finished 8th

2009-10 FENCING

57

Men’s Foil

Zach Schirtz

Junior Rochester, New York Greece Athena H.S. Rochester Fencing Club

HONORS & AWARDS Third Team All-American (2008) AS A SOPHOMORE: Finished the regular season with a 28-9 record … opened the year with a 3-0 record at the NYU Invitational … also earned his 50th career win at the St. John’s Duals … led the Irish men’s foil team with a 10-4 record at the NYU Invitational … in Notre Dame’s come-from-behind win over Ohio State at the NYU Invitational, gave the Irish the lead for good with a 5-4 win over Colin Sutter … went 9-2 at the Northwestern Duals, including a 3-0 mark versus Northwestern and a 2-0 record versus Wayne State … finished 5-4 at the Duke Duals … his run to the semifinals in the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships earned him first-team All-Conference honors … entered the direct elimination round of the championships seeded first overall, which earned him a first round bye … then defeated Eduard Chavez of Case Western, 15-1, in the round of 64 and Wayne State’s Michael Ramlow, 15-4, in the round of 32 … knocked off Ohio State’s Colin Sutter, 15-7 in the round of 16 and teammate, Mark Kubik ,15-11, in the quarterfinals to advance to the semifinals, where he fell to teammate Enzo Castellani, 15-8.

AS A FRESHMAN: An 11th-place finisher at the NCAA Championship, earning third-team All-America honors … posted 12 wins at the NCAAs, including wins over Columbia’s Sheriff Farrag and Ben Parkins of Ohio State … finished as the runner-up at NCAA Midwest Regional … went 5-1 in pool play at regionals, including SCHIRTZ’S CAREER RECORD Year 2008 2009 Career

58

W 47 28 75

L 11 9 20

Pct. .810 .757 .789

NCAA Finish 11th ---

a 5-2 win over Irish teammate Jakub Jedrkowiak … earned the third seed in direct elimination … advanced to final with wins over Detroit’s Jamie Gawecki (15-5) and Jedrkowiak (15-11) … then beat Jedrkowiak, 15-13, and teammate Steve Kubik, 15-12, in the semifinals … downed in the final by Ohio State’s Andras Horanyi, 15-14 … posted an overall record of 47-11 (.810) in regular season bouts … his 47 wins were the most on the foil squad … went 14-0 at the Notre Dame Duals, helping the men’s foilists to a 70-20 mark at the event … posted an 8-4 record at the Northwestern Duals … went 10-2 at the NYU Duals … opened his collegiate dual-season career with a 8-3 mark at Air Force’s Western Invite … had impressive runner-up finish at Penn State Open in fall of 2007, with dramatic quarterfinal win over PSU’s Alex Salsman (15-14) and 15-13 semifinal with Yale’s Nate Botwinick before losing 6-15 final to Ohio State’s Andras Horanyi (’07 NCAA champ).

PREP & PERSONAL: Started fencing at age five, at the Rochester Fencing Center (which remains his training club) … has been coached by Dr. Nat Goodhartz (a 2007 inductee into the USFA Fencing Hall of Fame) … entered first national competition as nine year-old, placing 14th at U-10 North American Cup in South Bend, Ind. … finished sixth overall in USFA’s 2006-07 point standings for U.S. Junior National Team … competed in several 2006-07 international tournaments: 28th in Madrid, Spain; 25th in Aix-En-Provence, France; and 55th in Come, Italy (also fenced at event in Modling, Austria) … placed 14th at 2006 U-20 Summer Nationals (also 29th in overall men’s foil bouts at that event) … his other 2006-07 national events included third-place finish at Jr. Olympics (Columbus, Ohio), 10th in overall foil standings at North American Cup (N.A.C.) in Richmond Va., and 13th in U-20 bouting at

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

N.A.C. in Albuquerque N.M. … placed seventh overall at 2005-06 USFA Nationals (Atlanta), also finishing 19th overall at 2006 Summer Nationals, third at 2006 Jr. Olympics (Hartford, Conn.) and 16th overall at N.A.C. in Houston … his 2004-05 results included taking third at D-1A Nationals (Sacramento, Calif.) and being member of third-place foil team at 2005 Summer Nationals (also in Sacramento) … placed 14th at the 2005 Cadet (U17) World Cup in Samaria, Slovakia … was runner-up in D-2 bouting at 2004 N.A.C. in Overland Park, Kan. … attended fencing camps at Westchester Fencing Club and the Northwest Fencing Center … competed in youth soccer, baseball and basketball before concentrating on fencing … graduated from Greece Athena High School, where his classmates included current Notre Dame baseball player Brian Dupra (one of the nation’s top-rated pitching prospects in 2007) … received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Academic Excellence … member of National Honor Society … served as treasurer of Future Business Leaders of America at GAHS … graduated with 3.92 cumulative GPA … has volunteered as youth counselor at sports Bible camp in Penfield, N.Y. … his sister, Alli Marie Schirtz, was a five-time national epee champion, Jr. Olympic champ and member of 2002 U.S. Junior (U-20) and Cadet (U-17) National Teams … his cousin, Chris Trick (’06), was recent hockey defenseman at Notre Dame while another cousin, James Russell, was All-America baseball pitcher at Villanova … son of Charles and Jodi Schirtz … full name is Zachary William Schirtz … born Nov. 2, 1988, in Rochester, N.Y. … enrolled in the Mendoza College of Business as a marketing major.

SCHIRTZ IN THE NCAAS 2008: 12-11 round-robin (+9 in touches) Steve Kubik (Notre Dame) 5-3 Sherif Farrag (Columbia) 5-1 Ben Parkins (Ohio State) 5-0 Kurt Getz (Columbia) L, 0-5 Andras Horanyi (Ohio State) L, 1-5 Richard Fulton (Stanford) 5-1 Benjamin Dorn (US San Diego) 5-1 Phil Arredondo (Stanford) L, 4-5 Nate Botwinick (Yale) 5-2 Lowden Charles (Stevens Tech) 5-4 John Gurrieri (Yale) L, 4-5 Eugene Vortsman (Brandeis) L, 4-5 Henry Kennard (St. John’s) L, 3-5 Will Friedman (Brandeis) L, 3-5 Kai Itameri-Kitner (Harvard) 5-2 Adam Pantel (Brown) 5-4 Long Onyang (Harvard) 5-1 Samuel Perkins (Penn State) 5-3 Clayton Flanders (Princeton) L, 4-5 Nick Chinman (Penn State) L, 2-5 Benjamin Hendricks (Duke) 5-0 Ron Berkowsky (Pennsylvania) L, 0-5 Dorian Cohen (Duke) L, 1-5 • Finished 11th

Enzo Castellani

Sophomore Keller, Texas Keller H.S.

HONORS & AWARDS Second Team All-American (2009) AS A FRESHMAN: Placed eighth at the NCAA Championship to earn second-team AllAmerican honor … posted a 29-9 regular season record … led all Irish men’s foilists at the St. John’s Duals with a 5-1 record … earned his first career victory against Columbia’s Isaac Kim (5-1) … went 9-2 at the NYU Invitational … in Notre Dame’s come-from-behind win over Columbia at the NYU Duals, gave Irish the lead for good with a 5-2 win over Sherif Farrag … finished 6-4 at the Northwestern Duals, including a 2-0 mark against Johns Hopkins … led the Irish men’s foil team at the Duke Duals with an 8-1 record … went 9-2 at the Notre Dame Duals … made a run to the finals of the Midwest Conference Championships to earn firstteam All-Conference honors … in the championships, was seeded fifth after pool play, earning a first-round bye … in the round of 64, knocked off Azim Ghandi of Illinois, 15-3, before beating Zach Newman of Ohio State, 153, in the round of 32 … then beat Purdue’s Pavel Pruksakov, 15-3, to advance to the quarterfinals, where he knocked off Philip Chan of Illinois, 15-2 … defeated Notre Dame teammate Zach Schirtz in the quarterfinals,15-8, to ad-

vance to the finals .... fell 15-5 to Ohio State’s Andras Horanyi in the finals to claim second place … led the Irish men’s foil team at the NCAA Midwest Regional with a bronze medal finish … in final eight table, outlasted Irish teammate Gerek Meinhardt,15-13, to advance to the semifinals … in the semifinals, lost to top-seeded and eventual champion Andras Horanyi of Ohio State, 15-8 … beat teammate Reggie Bentley, 15-8, in the third-place bout to claim the bronze … went 13-9 at the NCAA Championship to place eighth … beat eventual champion Nicholas Chinman of Penn State, 5-0, in pool play.

PREP & PERSONAL: Coached by Volodymyr Yefimov and trained at the Fencing Institute in Texas while in high school … qualified for 2008 U.S. National Foil Team … won the NAC Junior Tournament in Atlanta (2008) … finished second at same event at senior level … gold medalist at the 2007 Cadet World Cup

CASTELLANI’S CAREER RECORD Year 2009

W 29

L 9

Pct. .763

NCAA Finish 8th

event held in Koblenz, Germany … finished in third place at the 2007 Cadet World Championships in Belek,Turkey … son of Fernando and Terry Castellani … oldest of three siblings … born on May 22, 1990 in Torrance, Calif. … enrolled in the College of Arts and Letters as a design major.

CASTELLANI IN THE NCAAS 2009: 13-9 round-robin (+25 in touches) Gerek Meinhardt (Notre Dame) L, 3-5 Alexander Kao (New York) 5-0 Vidur Kapur (Penn) 5-1 Kai Itameri-Kinter (Harvard) 5-1 Zane Grodman (Penn) 5-1 Adam Pantel (Brown) L, 3-5 Kurt Getz (Columbia) L, 3-5 Sherif Farrag (Columbia) 5-3 Jonathan Yu (Brown) 5-3 John Guerrieri (Yale) 5-2 Shiv Kachru (Yale) L, 1-5 Will Friedman (Brandeis) L, 1-5 Colin Sutter (Ohio State) L, 3-5 Andras Horanyi (Ohio State) L, 2-5 Alexis Landreville (St. John’s) 5-1 Daniel Cohen (Duke) 5-2 Alex Khoshnevissian (Stanford) L, 4-5 Benjamin Dorn (San Diego) 5-0 Michael Fong (San Diego) 5-1 Alexander Mills (Princeton) 4-3 Miles Chamley-Watson (Penn State) L, 4-5 Nicolas Chinman (Penn State) 5-0 • Finished 8th

2009-10 FENCING

59

StudentAthletes

Frederick Bentley

Sophomore Little Rock, Arkansas DuPont Manual

AS A FRESHMAN: Went 24-6 during the regular season before placing fourth at the NCAA Midwest Regional… began his year at the St. John’s Duals, finishing 3-1 … earned his first career victory against Columbia’s Asher Grodman (5-1) … had a 5-2 showing at the NYU Invitational … went 6-2 at the Northwestern Duals, including 2-0 versus Lawrence … had an impressive performance at the Notre Dame Duals (9-1) … earned second-team AllConference honors at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships with a sixth place finish … entered the direct elimination round of the tournament tied for the sixth seed … following a first round bye, beat Bowling Green’s Brent Ritchie, 15-0, in the round of 64 and Michigan’s David Hughes, 15-3, in the round BENTLEY’S CAREER RECORD Year 2009

W 24

L 6

Pct. .800

NCAA Finish __

of 32 ... in the round of 16, faced Cleveland State’s Liran Gross, whom he defeated 15-10 … then lost to eventual champion Andres Horanyi of Ohio State, 15-5 … made a run to the semifinals of the NCAA Midwest Regional to place fourth … in the round of eight at the Regional, beat Ben Parkins of Ohio State, 15-11, to advance to the semifinals … fell to Colin Sutter of Ohio State, 15-13, in the semifinals … lost to teammate Enzo Castellani, 15-8, in the third place bout.

PREP & PERSONAL: Ranked 23rd in the world junior rankings (11/10/08) … winner of two NAC tournaments in 2008 (one cadet and one junior) … coached in high school by Les Stawicki … a member of the BETA Club while in high school … son of Rick and Shawne Bentley … youngest of three children … born April 10, 1990 in Louisville, KY … enrolled in the College of Arts and Letters as part of the Program of Liberal Studies.

Men’s Foil Team (left to right): Nicholas Crebs, Grant Hodges, Steve Kubik, Gerek Meinhardt, Zach Schirtz, assistant coach/foil specialist Gia Kvaratskhelia, Enzo Castellani, Diego Silva, Xavier Lebec and Reggie Bentley.

60

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Sophomore San Francisco, California Lick-Wilmerding H.S.

Gerek Meinhardt

HONORS & AWARDS 2008 U.S. Olympian NCAA Foil Runner-Up (2009) First Team All-American (2009) Notre Dame Monogram Club MVP (2009) RECENT NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL RESULTS: Member of 2008 U.S. Olympic Team in men’s foil … at the Olympics, beat Mostafa Nagaty of Egypt (15-3) in the Round of 32 before falling to Jun Zhu of China (9-15) in the Round of 16 … 2008 Junior Team World Champion … gold medalist at the 2007 Madrid Junior World Cup and the 2007 N.A.C. Senior Nationals in Tucson, Ariz. … won the 2007 U.S. Fencing National Championships in Miami, Fla. and the 2007 Senior Pan American Zonal Championship held in Mont-Tremblant, Canada … silver medalist at both the Burgsteinfurt Junior World Cup and the Bratislava Junior World Cup in 2007 … finished 28th at the 2007 World Championships held in St. Petersburg, Russia and fifth at the 2007 Cuba Senior Grand Prix … gold medalist at the 2006 Junior Pan America Zonal Championships held in San Antonio, Texas, the 2006 U.S. Fencing Junior Nationals held in Atlanta, Ga. and the N.A.C. Junior Nationals held in Houston, Texas … in 2006, finished third at the Madrid Junior Championship, fifth at the Montreal Junior World Cup MEINHARDT’S CAREER RECORD Year 2009

W 31

L 2

Pct. .939

NCAA Finish 2nd

and fifth at the Bratislava Junior World Cup. AS A FRESHMAN: Placed second at the NCAA Championship to earn first-team AllAmerican honors … went 31-2 during the regular season … began his college career at the Northwestern Duals, finishing 16-2 … earned his first career win against Johns Hopkins’ James Einseidler (5-0) … his 16 wins led all Irish men’s foilists and included a 3-0 record against Cleveland State and 2-0 marks versus Johns Hopkins, North Carolina, Detroit and Lawrence … turned in an impressive 15-0 performance at the Notre Dame Duals (including 3-0 records against both Lawrence and Cal Tech) … did not compete in the individual portion of the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships … placed fifth at the NCAA Midwest Regional … after dropping his first final-eight bout in the regional to teammate Enzo Castellani, 15-13, won two straight to finish fifth … out-touched his final two opponents by a 30-3 margin, including a 15-3 win over Ohio State’s Ben Parkins in the fifth-place bout … went 19-3 in pool play at the NCAA Championship to advance to the men’s foil semifinals … in the semifinal, came back from an early 7-5 deficit against Columbia’s Kurt Getz to win 15-9 … met Penn State’s Nicholas Chinman in the gold medal bout ... led Chiman 11-7 at the first break before falling in a closely contested bout, 15-14.

PREP & PERSONAL: Graduated from Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco, Calif. and UMOHS Online Distance Learning in 2008 … ranked 11th in the world senior rankings and fifth in the world junior rankings (11/10/2008) … became the youngest men's foil national champion in U.S. fencing history after outdueling Kurt Getz at the 2007

Summer Nationals … also was the first male fencer (in any of the three disciplines: foil, epee, sabre) to earn a roster spot on the U.S. senior, junior (U-20) and cadet (U-17) national teams during the same season (06-07) … trained at the Massialas Foundation under the direction of Greg Massialas (the 1980 U.S. National Champion) … son of Kurt and Jane Meinhardt … born July 27, 1990 in San Francisco … has one sister, Katie, who played basketball at Boston University … enrolled in the Mendoza College of Business.

MEINHARDT IN THE NCAAS 2009: 19-3 round-robin (+50 in touches) Enzo Castellani (Notre Dame) 5-3 Alexander Kao (New York) 5-0 Zane Grodman (Penn) 5-2 Vidur Kapur (Penn) 5-3 Kai Itameri-Kinter (Harvard) 5-3 Sherif Farrang (Columbia) 5-3 Adam Pantel (Brown) 5-4 Kurt Getz (Columbia) 5-3 Shiv Kachru (Yale) 5-1 Jonathan Yu (Brown) 5-1 John Gurrieri (Yale) 5-0 Andras Horanyi (Ohio State) 5-4 Will Friedman (Brandeis) 5-3 Colin Sutter (Ohio State) L, 2-5 Alexis Landreville (St. John’s) 5-3 Daniel Cohen (Duke) 5-2 Michael Fong (San Diego) 5-1 Alex Khoshnevissian (Stanford) 5-2 Benjamin Dorn (San Diego) 5-0 Nicholas Chinman (Penn State) L, 4-5 Alexander Mills (Princeton) 5-1 Miles Chamley-Watson (Penn State) L, 3-5 • Beat Getz (15-9) in semifinals • Lost to Chinman (14-15) in finals

2009-10 FENCING

61

Men’s Sabre

Barron Nydam

Junior Rancho Santa Fe, California Santa Fe Christian School Spartak Fencing Club

HONORS & AWARDS Second Team All-American (2008) Third Team All-American (2009) Talented junior who combines with classmate Avery Zuck for yet another strong sabre duo … has tremendous natural speed and sturdy 6-1 frame … emotional competitor who should benefit as he gains experience on college level … served as alternate with U.S. team at 2005 Cadet/Under-17 World Championship … owns an FIE U-20 world ranking of 23 (as of Dec. 4, 2008), after ranking as high as 10th in the past year.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL RESULTS: Finished second at the October 2008 Junior World Cup Event held in Montreal … placed 46th out of 139 competitors at the Junior World Cup Event held in Dormagen, Germany in November of the same year… also finished 10th at the Goppingen, Germany Junior World Cup event held in January 2008 … competed in four Senior World Cup events during the 2008 season, topping out with a 24th-place finish at the Fencing World Cup event held in Venezuela in June … had a strong 12th-place finish (field of 56) in first Junior World Cup of season (in Odessa, Ukraine; Sept. ’06) … competed the next month at Junior World Cup in Sosnowiec, Poland (96th of 105) and then was 68th out of 133 fencers at the Junior World Cup in Dormagen, Germany (Nov.) … competed at a pair of

NYDAM’S CAREER RECORD Year 2008 2009 Career

62

W 36 22 58

L 12 10 22

Pct. .750 .689 .725

NCAA Finish 6th 10th --

World Cups to open 2007 (both in Jan.), placing 52nd out of 136 in Budapest and 13th in a field of 33 in Montreal … also fenced in the Las Vegas Senior Grand Prix (June ’07) and placed 74th among sabre fencers from all age groups (field of 99) … opened USFA competition in the 2006-07 season by placing 16th in large U20 field (155) at the North American Cup in Albuquerque, N.M. (Nov. ’06) … fenced the next month at the N.A.C. in Richmond, Va., versus a talented overall men’s sabre field of 103 that included four current/future ND fencers among the top-30 finishers (Thanhouser eighth, Ghattas 22nd, Zuck 27th, Nydam 30th; no U20 bouting) … went on to place 55th out of 141 total men’s sabreists at another elite-level N.A.C., in Columbus, Ohio (Jan. ’07; also 22nd out of 133 in U-20 bouts) and then was 18th out of 97 total men’s sabre entrants at N.A.C. in Tucson, Ariz. … added impressive fifth-place showing at Junior Olympics, in Denver (field of 179; Feb.) and then placed 18th in an overall field of 43 at 2007 Summer Nationals, in Miami (ninth among 107 in the U-19s).

AS A SOPHOMORE: Earned third-team All-American honors with a tenth place finish at the NCAA Championship … went 22-10 during the regular season … opened the year with a 3-3 showing at the St. John’s Duals … went 10-4 at the NYU Invitational … finished 8-3 at the Northwestern Duals, including 2-0 marks against both Wayne State and Johns Hopkins … led the Irish men’s sabre team with an 8-1 record at the Duke Duals … went 1-0 at the Notre Dame Duals … finished in sixth place at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships, which earned him secondteam All-Conference honors … after a first round bye in the Championships, beat Greg Solow of Oberlin, 15-1 … defeated Wisconsin's Tyler Spriggs, 15-4, in the round of 32 and Ohio State's Trent Lindquist, 15-5, in the round of 16 … lost to Irish teammate Avery Zuck, 1510, in the quarterfinals … placed fifth at the NCAA Midwest Regional … at the regional, lost to Ohio State’s Max Sterns, 15-7, in the round of eight … then won two in a row to place fifth, including a 15-7 win over teammate Bill Thanhouser in the fifth place bout … went 13-10 during pool play at the NCAA Championship to earn tenth place.

AS A FRESHMAN: Finished the regular season with a 36-12 record before having a strong postseason that included third-place showings at both the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships and the NCAA Midwest Regional and a sixth-place finish at the NCAA Championships (good for second team AllAmerican honors) … turned in an impressive result during 2007 fall semester by winning junior-level (Under-20) men’s sabre competition at North American Cup in Dallas … followed up that performance with fourth-place finish at

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

annual Penn State Open (fall ’07), with 15-9 quarterfinal win over North Carolina’s Bob Ziechmann before losing in semifinal to Ohio State’s Mike Momtselidze (9-15) and in thirdplace bout versus PSU’s Franz Boghicev (1215) … started the spring season with a 13-5 showing at the NYU Duals … finished with a 17-7 record at the Northwestern Duals … finished the regular season with a 6-0 showing at the Notre Dame Duals … opened the postseason with a third-place finish at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships … entered the direct-elimination portion of the conference championships seeded second but was beaten

by Ohio State’s Mike Momtselidze 15-13 in the semifinals … went undefeated in first-round pool play at the NCAA Midwest Regional to earn the top seed entering direct elimination … received a first round bye and earned a bid into the quarterfinals by beating Wayne State’s Jakub Gibczynski 15-4 … beat Lawrence’s Nils Schaede 15-8 in the quarterfinal before losing to Ohio State’s Sergey Smirnov in the semifinal … then beat Gibczynski 15-11 to take bronze and advance to the NCAA Championships … earned 2nd team All-America honors by placing 6th at the NCAA Championships with a 16-7 record.

PREP & PERSONAL: Attended Santa Fe Christian High School while training for seven years under coach Dmitriy Guy (a former fencing standout in the U.S.S.R.) at the Spartak Fencing Club, in San Diego … first cracked the USFA U-20 men’s sabre rankings in 2004-05 (24th) before rising to 12th in ’05-’06 and 10th in ’06-’07 (his top U-17 ranking was sixth) … competed in two Cadet World Cups (U-17) during 2005-06 season, placing 17th at the event in Konin, Poland (Sept.) – where he also was a member of the winning U-17 team(with his fellow U.S. sabreists) – and then finishing 18th the next month in Godollo, Hungary … had a busy domestic schedule in 2005-06, when he competed at three North American Cup events – in Albuquerque (third in the cadet/U17; Nov.), Pittsburgh (27th among all men’s sabreists; Dec.) and Sacramento (13th, again in open age group; April) – in addition to placing 21st at the Junior Olympics (in a U-20 field of 173; also eighth out of 181 in the U-17 bouts; Feb. ’06) … also won the 2006 Senior Pacific Coast Championships (in both the individual and team events) and was runner-up at the Duel in the Desert … earlier placed 13th at the Junior World Cup in Louisville, Ky., and was an alternate with the U.S. team at the 2005 Cadet (U-17) World Championships … his results at the 2005 Junior Olympics included 13th in the U-20 bouts (also seventh in the U-17s) and he went on to post a third-place finish in the U-16 bouting at the USFA 2005 National Championships (held in Sacramento) … won San Diego junior- and senior-level championships in 2005

while placing second at ’05 Senior Pacific Coast Championships (also team champion) … his first noteworthy national finish came in April of 2004 (seventh at the N.A.C. held in Atlanta) … won cadet/U-17 points title for 2004 Southern California/Nevada Junior Circuit … his sister, Alexa, also is a sabre fencer … born March 17, 1989, in San Diego … son of Bill and Dorothy Nydam … full name is Barron William Nydam … enrolled in the Mendoza College of Business as an accounting major.

NYDAM IN THE NCAAS (29-17; +28 IN TOUCHES) 2008: 16-7 round robin (+22 touches) Bill Thanhouser (Notre Dame) 5-2 Jakub Gibczynksi (Wayne State) 5-0 Mike Momtselidze (Ohio State) L, 3-5 Sergey Smirnov (Ohio State) 5-1 Andrew Fischl (Vassar) 5-2 Luther Clement (St. John’s) L, 2-5 Alex Diacou (Columbia) 5-4 Charles Worsham (St. John’s) 5-4 Daniel Bak (Penn State) L, 1-5 Peter Truszkowski (Duke) 5-2 Franz Boghicev (Penn State) L, 3-5 Lucas Janson (Stanford) 5-3 Bryan Kim (UC San Diego) 5-4 Max Murphy (Stanford) 5-4 Kevin Zeichmann (North Carolina) 5-1 John Stogin (Princeton) 5-1 Robert Zeichmann (North Carolina) 5-3 Sam Roukas (NYU) L, 1-5 Jeff Spear (Columbia) 5-3 Jared Hammond (NYU) 5-1 Matthew Kolasa (Pennsylvania) L, 3-5 Steve Ahn (Harvard) 5-3 Jon Berkowsky (Pennsylvania) L, 1-5

2009: 13-10 round robin (+6 in touches) Avery Zuck (Notre Dame) L, 3-5 Jakub Gibczynski (Wayne State) 5-2 Daniel Bak (Penn State) 5-3 Aleksander Ochocki (Penn State) L, 1-5 Peter Truszkowski (Duke) 5-2 Valentin Staller (Harvard) 5-4 Jeff Spear (Columbia) L, 0-5 Andrew Fischl (Vassar) 5-3 Daryl Homer (St. John’s) L, 2-5 Peter Souders (Boston College) L, 2-5 Alejandro Rojas (St. John’s) L, 2-5 Bobby Ziechmann (North Carolina) 5-3 Max Murphy (Stanford) 5-1 Jonahan Ott (San Diego) 5-1 Lucas Janson (Stanford) 5-0 Jon Berkowsky (Penn) L, 2-5 John Stogin (Princeton) 5-2 Andrew Bielen (Penn) 5-1 Max Stearns (Ohio State) 5-4 Sam Roukas (New York) L, 3-5 Mike Momtselidze (Ohio State) L, 4-5 • Finished 10th

• Finished 6th

Notre Dame’s All-American men’s sabre duo of Barron Nydam (left) and Avery Zuck (right) are pictured in action at the 2009 NCAA Championships.

2009-10 FENCING

63

Men’s Sabre

Avery Zuck

Sophomore Beaverton, Oregon Jesuit Oregon Fencing Alliance

HONORS & AWARDS NCAA Sabre 5th-Place Finisher (2009) Second Team All-American (2009) One of Notre Dame’s latest additions to its “Portland Pipeline,” as an elite fencer from the Oregon Fencing Alliance sabre academy, where he has trained under former Notre Dame assistant coach Ed Korfanty … joins classmates Sarah Borrmann and Eileen Hassett – plus senior Bill Thanhouser – as OFA fencers on Notre Dame’s current team … two other OFA products, Patrick Ghattas and Valerie Providenza, were four-year All-Americans with the Irish from 2004-07 … combines a tall frame with long arms, innate speed and quick thinking on the strip … a very talented competitor, both technically and tactically … had impressive result at the Junior World Cup in Sosnowiec, Poland (Oct. ’07), placing 15th among a top field of 115 U-20 fencers … was knocked out of that tournament by the eventual champion (Massimiliano Murolo of Italy) … placed 26th in the U-20 bouting at the North American Cup held in Dallas (Nov. ’07) … formerly a nationallyranked youth racquetball player who was able to transition skills from that sport (such as handeye coordination and mental toughness) into his fencing approach … could emerge as one of the NCAA’s top contenders for the men’s sabre title, as he gains experience on the 2008 Junior World Cup circuit entering the dual season … also owns an FIE U-20 world ranking of 12th (as of 12/4/08) … finished fifth at the Junior ZUCK’S CAREER RECORD Year 2008 2009 Career

64

W 39 28 67

L 8 8 16

Pct. .830 .778 .807

NCAA Finish -5th --

World Cup event held in Dormagen, Germany in November of 2008 … also finished sixth at the October 2008 Junior World Cup event held in Montréal, Canada … had an impressive 11thplace finish (field of 56) in his first Junior World Cup of the season (in Odessa, Ukraine; Sept. ’06) … competed in November of 2006 at Junior World Cups in Ariccia, Italy (23rd; field of 98), and Dormagen, Germany (65th of 133) … opened 2007 with impressive sixth-place showing among 136 fencers at the Junior World Cup in Budapest … competed in the Las Vegas Senior Grand Prix (June ’07) and placed 67th among sabre fencers from all age groups (field of 99) … also competed at several USFA events in the 2006-07 season, starting with the North American Cup in Albuquerque, N.M. (19th in the U-20 bouts; field of 155; Nov. ’06) … competed the next month at the N.A.C. in Richmond,Va., versus a talented overall men’s sabre field of 103 that included four current/future ND fencers among the top-30 finishers (Thanhouser 8th, Ghattas 22nd, Zuck 27th, Nydam 30th; no U-20 bouting) … went on to place 40th out of 141 total men’s sabreists at another elite-level N.A.C., in Columbus, Ohio (Jan. ’07; also 33rd out of 133 in U-20 competition) and then was 18th out of 97 total men’s sabre entrants at the N.A.C. in Tucson, Ariz.

AS A SOPHOMORE: Finished fifth at the NCAA Championship to earn second-team AllAmerican honors … finished the regular-season with a 28-8 record … started the year by going 2-3 at the St. John’s Duals … rebounded at the NYU Invitational, finishing 11-2, including a perfect 3-0 record against third-ranked Ohio State … his 11 wins at the NYU Invitational led the Irish men’s sabre squad and included his 50th career win … in Notre Dame’s 15-12 come-from-behind win against Columbia at the NYU Invitational, Zuck ignited the comeback by beating Alex Rudnicki (5-0) to tie the match at 11-11 … finished 10-2 at the Northwestern Duals, with perfect records against Johns Hopkins (2-0), tenth-ranked North Carolina (2-0), Wayne State (2-0) and third-ranked Ohio State (3-0) … went 5-1 at the Notre Dame Duals … made a run to the semifinals of the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships to earn first-team All-Conference honors … beat Andrew Kirchhman of Minnesota, 15-2, in the first round of the conference championships … in the round of 32 beat Lawrence's Alex Chee, 158 … dominated Alex Gottschalk of Wisconsin, 15-6, in the round of 16 … knocked off Notre Dame teammate Barron Nydam, 15-10 in the quarterfinals … won a close contest against Ohio State’s Mikhail Momtselidze, 15-14, before losing in the finals to OSU's John Friend,15-8 … made a run to the championship bout in the NCAA Midwest Regional … downed teammate Keith Feldman, 15-5, in the first round of the final eight table to advance to the semifinals … in the semifinals, overcame Ohio State's Dexter Wilde, 15-9 … lost to topseeded Mikhail Momtselidze of Ohio State, 159, in the final … went 17-6 during pool play at the NCAA Championship … his 17 wins placed

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

him just outside the top four, which would have earned him first-team All-American honors.

AS A FRESHMAN: Had an impressive regular season (39-8) before finishing seventh at the NCAA Midwest Regional … started his year with a 15-3 showing at the NYU duals … finished 15-5 at the Northwestern Duals … went undefeated at the Notre Dame Duals, compiling a 9-0 record … entered the Midwest Conference Champion-ships as a #4 seed before going on to earn second team all-conference honors … went 3-2 in the pool-play portion of the NCAA Midwest Regional to earn a fifth seed heading into the direct-elimination portion of the tournament … advanced to the finals of the direct elimination portion with a 15-2 win over Detroit’s Doug Sollman and a 15-13 win over Ohio State’s Dexter Wilde … then lost to Wilde in the quarterfinal (15-14) and Ohio State’s Mike Momtselidze in the consolation bracket before beating Lawrence’s Nils Schaede in the seventh place match (15-8).

PREP & PERSONAL: Attended Jesuit High School while training for six years at the Oregon Fencing Alliance … had been a nationally-ranked racquetball player before transitioning to fencing as a seventh grader … has been nationally ranked in fencing since the 10th grade … took a stab at the senior-level competition during a North American Cup held in Sacramento (April '06) and had a solid placing of 27th at that event … also placed 15th in the U-19 sabre bouts at 2006 Summer Nationals … born Feb. 22, 1989, in Portland, Ore. … son of Jeremy Zuck and Anita Wentworth … full name is Avery John Zuck … enrolled in the Mendoza College of Business.

ZUCK IN THE NCAAS 2009: 17-6 round-robin (+30 in touches) Barron Nydam (Notre Dame) 5-3 Jakub Gibczynski (Wayne State) 5-3 Aleksander Ochocki (Duke) L, 3-5 Peter Truszkowski (Duke) 5-3 Daniel Bak (Penn State) L, 4-5 Jeff Spear (Columbia) L, 4-5 Andrew Fischl (Vassar) 5-1 Valentin Staller (Harvard) 5-4 Peter Souders (Boston College) 5-0 Alejandro Rojas (St. John’s) 5-2 Daryl Homer (St. John’s) L, 3-5 Adam Austin (Brandeis) 5-4 Kevin Ziechmann (North Carolina) 5-3 Bobby Ziechmann (North Carolina) 5-3 Jonathan Ott (San Diego) 5-0 Lucas Janson (Stanford) 5-3 Max Murphy (Stanford) 5-2 John Stogin (Princeton) 5-2 Andrew Bielen (Penn) 5-3 Jon Berkowsky (Penn) L, 3-5 Sam Roukas (New York) 5-4 Mike Momtselidze (Ohio State) 5-4 Max Stearns (Ohio State) L, 1-5 • Finished 5th

Keith Feldman

Marcel Frenkel

Sophomore Stony Brook, New York Ward Melville

Sophomore Sao Paulo, Brazil St. Paul’s Academia Paulista de Esgrima

AS A FRESHMAN: Completed his freshman year with a 35-12 regular season record and a eighth place finish at the NCAA Midwest Regional … began his Irish career with a loss at the St. John’s Duals (finished 0-1) … earned his first career win at the NYU Invitational versus Yale’s Stephen Watty (5-2) … finished with a perfect 4-0 record at the NYU Invitational … led the Irish men’s sabre team with 14 wins at the Northwestern Duals (finished14-2) … went 3-0 against Northwestern and Lawrence at the Northwestern Duals … posted a 4-5 record at the Duke Duals … went 13-4 at the Notre Dame Duals … finished the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships in ninth place to earn honorable-mention All-Conference honors … at the championships, beat Indiana’s Makenzie Johnson, 15-5, in the round of 64 and Michigan State’s Ryan Majewski, 15-7, in the round of 32 … fell to eventual champion John Friend of Ohio State, 15-11, in the round of 16 … placed eighth at the NCAA Midwest Regional.

PREP & PERSONAL: Four-year letter winner in fencing at Ward Melville High School in East Setauket, NY … finished in the national rankings his last three years of high school … regional champion as a freshman, junior and senior … named a team captain his senior year … coached by Jeff and Jennifer Salmon … a two-year letter winner in tennis … a member of the Spanish Honor Society … son of Ken Feldman and Carol LiVolis … born June 3, 1990 in Stony Brook, NY … enrolled in the College of Science as a physics major.

AS A FRESHMAN: Completed his freshman year with a 18-5 regular season record … opened his Irish career by going 0-1 at the St. Johns’ Duals … earned his first career win at the NYU Invitational versus Yale’s Seb Cano-Besquet (5-0) … finished 2-1 at the NYU Invitational … led the Irish men’s sabre team at the Notre Dame Duals with 16 wins against only three losses … went 3-0 versus Detroit at the Notre Dame Duals … finished in a tie for tenth place to earn honorablemention All-Conference honors at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships … entered

the direct elimination round as the tenth seed … knocked off Ben Shapiro of Chicago, 15-3, in the round of 64 and Case Western’s Garret Singer, 15-13, in the round of 32 … lost to teammate Bill Thanhouser, 159, in the round of 16.

PREP & PERSONAL: Graduated from St. Paul’s High School in Sao Paulo, Brazil … currently ranked 131st in the world junior rankings … fenced for club team Academia Paulista De Esgrima while in high school … two-year captain for the club … has represented Brazil in three Junior World Championships … son of Jorge and Gilda Frenkel … born June 20, 1989 in Sao Paulo, Brazil … has one sister, Michele … enrolled in the College of Science as a biochemistry major.

FRENKEL’S CAREER RECORD Year 2009

W 35

L 12

Pct. .745

NCAA Finish __

FELDMAN’S CAREER RECORD Year 2009

W 35

L 12

Pct. .745

NCAA Finish __

2009-10 FENCING

65

Men’s Sabre

Jason Choy

Freshman Basking Ridge, N.J. Ridge H.S.

PREP & PERSONAL: Attended Ridge High School in Basking Ridge, N.J. while fencing with the Morris Fencing Club as a sabreist under the direction of Slava Danilov … earned a runner-up result at the North American Cup A in the Under-16 division in 2007 … also earned top-10 finishes at th 2007 Junior Olympics Under-17 division (eighth) and the 2007 Summer Nationals Under-16 flight (sixth) … has been ranked as high as 134th in the junior circuit rankings according the FIE standings … has earned two top-25 results in international competition, placing 22nd at the Ciudad de Logrono in Logrono, Spain in 2008 and then finishing 23rd at the World Cup from Sosnowiec, Poland in 2009 … born in Basking Ridge, N.J. on May 2, 1991 … son of David and Lillian Choy … brother, Phil Choy, is a fencer for the U.S. Air Force Academy … full name is Jason Choy … enrolled in the First Year of Studies.

Men’s Sabre Team (left to right, kneeling): Alex Buell, Barron Nydam, (standing) William McGough, John Plunkett, Marcel Frenkel, head coach/sabre specialist Janusz Bednarksi, Avery Zuck, Keith Feldman and Jason Choy.

66

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Season in Review

Adrienne Nott’s illustrious career came to an end after the 2009 season.

She became the 18th Irish fencer to earn All-American honors in all four years of her Notre Dame career while also posting the fourth-most foil wins in program history. Nott was named a 2008 CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic AllAmerican selection.

2009 Review The 2009 season was one of history for the Irish.

Records fell at both an individual and team level as Notre Dame marched through the regular season towards the NCAA Championships. Individual victory records fell, the 100-victory plateau was reached by several fencers and the team flirted with perfection en route to the NCAA Championships.

The Irish opened their campaign in New York City at the SJU Duals and the NYU Invitational. Both teams opened up with victories in Jamacia, defeating fourthranked Columbia and ninth-ranked St. John’s.

Against Columbia, the men’s team was led by the foil, as Zach Schirtz, Enzo Castellani, Reggie Bentley, Mark Kubik and Teddy Hodges combined to go 7-2 against the Lions and give the Irish a 17-10 win. The men’s squad followed up the performance with a dramatic 14-13 victory over the Red Storm.

The women also scored impressive victories, defeating Columbia-Barnard 18-9 and St. John’s 18-9. The wins saw two different groups go perfect in each bout, as epee went 9-0 against Columbia-Barnard and the foilists went 9-0 against the Red Storm. The epee crew saw Courtney Hurley, Kelley Hurley and Ewa Nelip all go 3-0 against the Lions, while the foil was led by Darise Malynn, who went 3-0.

Action in the Big Apple moved to NYU the next day, as the men’s team posted a 6-0 mark at the NYU Invitational while the women went 4-2. The men defeated #9 St. John’s (19-8), NYU (21-6), #3 Ohio State (15-12), Stevens Tech (22-5), #4 Columbia (1512) and Yale (19-8). The women secured victories over NYU (25-2), St. John’s (23-4), #6 Northwestern (189) and Yale (12-4) while dropping a pair of hard-fought 14-13 decisions to #3 Ohio State and #4 Columbia.

The men were led at NYU by Avery Zuck, who went 11-2 for the sabre squad, Schirtz keyed the foil with 10 victories, and the epee squad was led by Karol Kostka who picked up 9 wins.

The women were led at NYU by Eileen Hassett, Malynn and Ewa Nelip. Hassett posted 13 sabre wins, Malynn picked up 10 foil wins and Nelip scored 14 epee wins. The epee squad went 42-12 overall, securing eight victories apiece from the sisters Hurley (Courtney and Kelley) in addition to Nelip’s 14 wins.

The Irish then moved on to the Northwestern Duals.

The visit to Chicago paid off, as the men went 9-0 to improve to 17-0 overall, while the women went 11-0, improving to 17-2. All told, the squads combined to knock-off seven ranked opponents while each squad also recorded a shutout.

The men posted wins over Johns Hopkins (23-4), #1 Penn State (14-13), Northwestern (20-7), Cleveland State (24-3), #10 North Carolina (21-6), Wayne State (24-3), Detroit (24-3), Lawrence (27-0) and #3 Ohio State (15-12). The Irish were led by Kostka, who went 15-1 at epee, including 3-0 against the Buckeyes. At foil, the Irish got a team-high 16 wins from 2008 U.S. Olympian Gerek Meinhardt, who was making his NCAA debut.

The women’s squad matched the men by going undefeated at Northwestern as well. The women picked up wins over Johns Hopkins (25-2), #1 Penn State (198), #8 Temple (19-8), Fairleigh Dickinson (24-3), Lawrence (25-2), Wayne State (23-4), Cleveland State (26-1), North Carolina (23-4), #6 Northwestern (1611), Detroit (27-0) and #3 Ohio State (17-10). The squad was led by the epee group, which went 87-12 on the weekend. Nelip went 18-0, improving her record on the season to 37-2 through three events. The foilists were led by Hayley Reese, who went 24-1 overall while also scoring the match-clinching win over rival Ohio State.

68

Men’s Foil (237-60/.798) Reggie Bentley 24-6/.779 Enzo Castellani 29-9/.763 Nicholas Crebs 26-3/.897 Teddy Hodges 25-7/.781 Mark Kubik 27-9/.750 Steve Kubik 30-6/.833 Xavier Lebec 7-6/.538 Gerek Meinhardt 31-2/.939 Zach Schirtz 28-9/.757 Diego Silva 10-3/.769 Men’s Epee (161-97/.624) Nicholas Crebs 2-1/.667 Bill Ehrlich 10-10/.500 Conor Gettings 15-6/.714 Brent Kelly 27-14/.659 Karol Kostka 36-12/.750 Rich Molina 2-1/.667 Jacob Osborne 36-17/.679 Chris Pfarr 1-0/1.000 Chris Pinkowski 18-5/.782 Greg Schoolcraft 24-16/.600 Andrew Seroff 20-15/.571

Men’s Sabre (220-77/.741) Alex Buell 15-8/.652 Keith Feldman 35-12/.745 Marcel Frenkel 18-5/.783 Tom Horton 30-10/.750 Barron Nydam 22-10/.689 Matt Pentz 18-7/.720 John Plunkett 8-4/.667 Tony Schlehuber 11-3/.786 Bill Thanhouser 35-10/.778 Avery Zuck 28-2/.778 Women’s Foil (232-56/.806) Christina LaBarge 17-9/.654 Katie Heinzen 22-4/.846 Darsie Malynn 39-7/.848 Adrienne Nott 53-13/.803 Emilie Prot 8-3/.727 Hayley Reese 51-6/.895 Radmilla Sarkisova 42-14/.750

The Irish men’s team then went to Tobacco Road to participate in the Duke Duals. The Irish ran their record to 20-0, scoring a 16-11 win over #10 North Carolina, a dramatic 14-13 win over #10 Duke and a 21-6 win over Johns Hopkins. In the bout with Duke, the Irish and Blue Devils were tied at 13 and Greg Schoolcraft was trailing 4-3 in the final bout before he landed two straight touches to help the Irish stay perfect.

The regular season concluded as the Irish hosted the Notre Dame Duals.

The Irish secured wins over Cal Tech (22-5), Florida (21-6), Cleveland State (23-4), Detroit (21-6), Northwestern (20-7), Air Force (18-9) and Michigan State (23-4) on day one to go 7-0. The women’s squad picked up day one wins over Stanford (21-6), Michigan State (21-6), Air Force (23-4), UC San Diego (21-6), Detroit (25-2), Cleveland State (26-1), Florida (24-3) and Cal Tech (24-3) to go 8-0.

On day two, the men picked up wins over Lawrence (25-2), Cat Tech (22-5), UC San Diego (18-9) Wayne State (19-8), Oberlin (25-2) and, in the weekend’s most anticipated matchup, seventh-ranked Stanford (14-8).

Kubik punctuated the 14th win, as the Irish clinched the program’s 20 undefeated regular season.

The Irish women also wrapped up an impressive campaign by scoring wins over Wayne State (22-5), Oberlin (26-1), UC San Diego (21-6), Cal Tech (25-2) and Lawrence (25-2) to finish the season 32-2. The total of 32 wins tied for the most in program history After turning in another impressive regular season, the Irish hosted the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships at the Joyce Center Fieldhouse.

The first day saw individual events take place, as the Irish won conference championships in three of the six weapons. Borrmann took home the women’s sabre championship. The second gold medal finish was turned in by Kostka who won the men’s epee title for the second-straight year. The third title of the day came in women’s epee, by Courtney Hurley.

On day two, team competition began and Notre Dame saw all six weapons advance to the finals.

Unfortunately, Ohio State edged the Irish by 20 total points (1,310-1,290) to take home the overall team title.

Notre Dame’s men’s sabre squad rolled to the title, losing only one bout along the way. Men’s foil and epee both fell to Ohio State in the finals On the women’s side, Notre Dame and Ohio State met in the sabre and foil finals, with Ohio State taking both titles. The one women’s championship of the day for the Irish came at epee, as the Irish bested Northwestern 5-2.

The postseason continued as the Irish moved on to the NCAA Midwest Regional at Ohio State. On the first day, the women’s team claimed six medalists while

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Women’s Epee (213-41/.839) Courtney Hurley 50-5/.909 Kelley Hurley 36-9/.800 Kimberlee Montoya 42-8/.840 Ewa Nelip 37-2/.949 Vanessa Rosa 30-7/.811 Diane Zielinski 46-4/.920 Women’s Sabre (221-67/.767) Beatriz Almeida 41-14/.745 Sarah Borrmann 40-8/.833 Colleen Dawes 15-17/.469 Eileen Hassett 43-10/.811 Ashley Serrette 50-11/.820 Christina Zoccoli 32-7/.821 Italics – non-returners for 2009-10

all 12 entrants made their weapon’s final eight direct elimination table. On day two, the men’s team picked up three medals and saw 10 of their 12 entrants make their weapon’s final eight direct elimination tables.

The women’s epee squad swept the medals, with Courtney Hurley picking up gold, Ewa Nelip securing the silver and Kelley Hurley taking home bronze. Foil saw Reese take home the bronze after going 5-0 in pool play. The Irish continued their strong day at sabre, taking home two medals as Borrmann edged Hassett in the championship bout, 15-13.

The Irish men combined to take home three medals on day two of the regional. In epee, Kostka took home a bronze medal. The Irish had three of the top-ten finishers in foil, as Castellani took home the bronze medal and Meinhardt placed fifth after falling to Castellani.

Kubik also placed ninth. At sabre, the Irish placed four in the final eight table and saw Zuck advance to the championship bout. Barron Nydam came in fifth, Thanhouser placed sixth and Feldman placed eighth.

After regionals, the Irish went on to the NCAA Championships, hosted by Penn State, looking to rebound after finishing runner-up in 2008.

Sabre action saw Zuck and Nydam compete for the Irish, placing fifth and 10th, respectively. At foil, Castellani and Meinhardt both placed in the top-10.

Castellani placed eighth while Meinhardt moved on to the medal round, keyed by a 13-1 early round mark that included a win over the defending champion before dropping a heart-breaker in the gold medal bout. Epee action saw Kostka place 10th and Schoolcraft finish 18th in the nation.

On the women’s side, the Irish moved into second as a team after the early rounds. In sabre, the Irish saw Hassett place sixth after picking up eight wins on day two and Borrmann place 13th. The Irish continued to stay in the national title hunt, as Reese made the medal round at foil to finish second and Nott placed ninth.

Nott picked up 14 wins on the weekend and earned second team All-America honors, becoming just the 18th fencer in Irish history to be named All-American all four years. Notre Dame’s strongest performance came at epee, where both Courtney Hurley and Ewa Nelip made the medal round. While both would earn first-team AllAmerica honors, both fell in the semifinals.

The overall result gave Penn State the national title, as they picked up 195 total points to Notre Dame’s 182.

The Irish placed second, 16 points better than rival Ohio State who placed third.

Despite not bringing a national title back to South Bend, the Irish still delivered a solid campaign that included an undefeated regular season for the men, 10 All-Americans and a final regular season ranking of first in the nation.

NCAA Women’s Sabre 1. Rebecca Ward, Duke 2. Caroline Vloka, Harvard 3. Daria Schneider, Columbian/Barnard 3. Dagmara Wozniak, St. John’s 5. Monica Aksamit, Penn State 6. Eileen Hasset, Notre Dame 7. Jackie Jacobson, Columbia/Barnard 8. Dora Varga, St. John’s 9. Margarita Tschomakova, Ohio State 10. Falencia Miller, Ohio State 11. Caitlin Thompson, Penn State 12. Dominika Franciszkowicz, Pennsylvannia 13. Sarah Borrman, Notre Dame 14. Danielle Kamis, Pennsylvannia 15. Eva Jellison, Stanford 16. Kamali Thompson, Temple 17. Anna Hanley, Brandeis 18. Audrey Barroso, Temple 19. Whitney White, Northwestern 20. Alexandra Heiss, Cornell 21. Lisa Verzino, N.Y.U. 22. Robin Shin, M.I.T. 23. Alyxandra Mattison, N.Y.U. 24. Alicia Trigeiro, U.C. San Diego

2009 Results Results (rank) Columbia St. John’s Yale Columbia Northwestern Stevens Tech St. John’s NYU Ohio State Johns Hopkins Penn State Temple Fairleigh Dickinson Northwestern Cleveland State North Carolina Wayne State Detroit

Men (33-0) W 17-10 W 14-13 W 19-8 W 15-12 -W 22-5 W 19-8 W 21-6 W 15-12 W 23-4 W 14-13 --W 20-7 W 24-3 W 21-6 W 24-3 W 24-3

Women (30-2) W 18-9 W 18-9 W 23-4 L 14-13 W 18-9 -W 23-4 W 25-2 L 13-14 W 25-2 W 19-8 W 19-8 W 25-2 W 16-11 W 26-1 W 23-4 W 23-4 W 27-0

Results (rank) Lawrence Ohio State North Carolina Duke Johns Hopkins Cal Tech Florida Cleveland State Detroit Northwestern Air Force Michigan State Lawrence Cal Tech Stanford UC San Diego Wayne State Oberlin UC San Diego

Men (33-0) W 27-0 W 15-12 W 16-11 W 14-13 W 21-6 W 22-5 W 21-6 W 23-4 W 21-6 W 20-7 W 18-9 W 23-4 W 25-2 W 22-5 W 15-12 W 18-9 W 19-8 W 25-2 --

2009 NCAA Championship Team Standings Team 1. Penn State 2. Notre Dame 3. Ohio State 4. Columbia/Barnard 5. Harvard 6. St. John’s 7. Pennsylvania 8. Princeton 9. Stanford 10. Yale 11. Duke 12. Northwestern 13. Temple 14. Wayne State 15. New York 16. Air Force 17. U.C. San Diego 18. Brandeis 19. Cornell t-20. Brown t-20. North Carolina

MS 37 30 35 17 9 30 26 7 25 8

7 8

MF 36 32 30 29 6 8 18 12 9 18 19

ME 25 22 28 19 21 15 13 29 20 17 8

(at Penn State University)

WS 33 27 28 34 20 34 22

WF 36 27 31 29 31 2 10 16 6 22

WE 28 33 14 23 29 26 14 30 5 11

22 6 15

28 12

22 22

7

17

1 8 6

11

8

31 4 28

2 6

Women (30-2) W 25-2 W 17-10 ---W 24-3 W 24-3 W 26-1 W 25-2 -W 23-4 W 21-6 W 25-2 W 25-2 W 21-6 W 21-6 W 22-5 W 26-1 W 21-6

16 10

4

7

16 16

10

Total 195 182 166 151 116 115 103 94 73 68 57 56 49 38 36 32 30 24 23 16 16

Others: Fairleigh Dickinson (W 9), Boston College (M 8), M.I.T. (W 5), Vassar College (M 5)

NCAA Men’s Sabre 1. Aleksander Ochocki, Penn State 2. Daryl Homer, St. John’s 3. Daniel Bak, Penn State 3. Mike Momtselidze, Ohio State 5. Avery Zuck, Notre Dame 6. Jonathan Berkowsky, Pennsylvania 7. Jeff Speaer, Columbia 8. Max Stearns, Ohio State 9. Lucas Janson, Stanford 10. Barron Nydam, Notre Dame 11. Alejandron Rojas, St. John’s 12. Max Murphy, Stanford 13. Bobby Ziechmann, North Carolina 14. Andrew Bielen, Pennsylvannia 15. Valentin Staller, Harvard 16. Peter Truszkowski, Duke 17. Sam Roukas, N.Y.U. 18. Peter Souders, Boston College 19. John Stogin, Princeton 20. Jakub Gibczynski, Wayne State 21. Kevin Ziechmann, North Carolina 22. Adam Austin, Brandeis 23. Andrew Fischl, Vassar College 24. John Ott, U.C. San Diego

NCAA Men’s Foil 1. Nicholas Chinman, Penn State 2. Gerek Meinhardt, Notre Dame 3. Miles Chamley-Watson, Penn State 3. Kurt Getz, Columbia 5. Collin Sutter, Ohio State 6. Daniel Cohen, Duke 7. Andras Horanyi, Ohio State 8. Enzo Castellani, Notre Dame 9. Benjamin Dorn, U.C. San Diego 10. Shiv Kachru, Yale 11. Adam Pantel, Brown 12. Alexander Mills, Princeton 13. Sherif Farrag, Columbia 14. Will Friedman, Brandeis 15. Vidur Kapur, Pennsylvannia 16. Alex Khoshnevissan, Stanford 17. Zand Grodman, Pennsylvannia Alexis Landreville, St. John’s 19. John Gurrieri, Yale 20. Kai Itameri-Kinter, Harvard 21. Dorian Cohen, Duke 22. Alexander Kao, N.Y.U. 23. Jonathan Yu, Brown 24. Michael Fong, U.C. San Diego

NCAA Men’s Epee 1. Slava Zingerman, Wayne State 2. Graham Wicas, Princeton 3. Benji Ungar, Harvard 3. Jason Pryor, Ohio State 5. Daniel Trapani, Air Force 6. James Moody, Penn State 7. Peter French, Air Force 8. Michael Pearce, Yale 9. Mykhaylo Mazur, Wayne State 10. Karol Kostka, Notre Dame 11. Igor Tolkachev, Ohio State 12. Benjamin Wieder, Pennsylvannia 13. Mike Elfassy, Princeton 14. Lorenzo Casertano, Columbia 15. Maxwell Dettlinger, Penn State 16. Clayton Keeney, Stanford 17. Kevin Mo, Stanford 18. Greg Schoolcraft, Notre Dame 19. Stanley Vaksman, St. John’s 20. Jonathan Parker, Duke 21. Nicholas Vomero, St. John’s 22. Dwight Smith, Columbia 23. Karl Harmenberg, Harvard 24. Alexander Cohen, Yale

NCAA Women’s Foil 1. Doris Willete, Penn State 2. Hayley Reese, Notre Dame 3. Oksana Dmytruk, Ohio State 3. Emily Cross, Harvard 5. Nicole Ross, Columbia/Barnard 6. Samantha Nemecek, Northwestern 7. Allison Glasser, Penn State 8. Katharine Pitt, Yale 9. Adrienne Nott, Notre Dame 10. Melissa Parker, Temple 11. Sophie Ciaravino, N.Y.U. 12. Pilar Alicea, U.C. San Diego 13. Devynn Patterson, Northwestern 14. Lucile Jarry, Princeton 15. Laura Paragano, Pennsylvannia 16. Abigail Caparros-Janto, Columbia/Barnard 17. Shelby MacLeod, Harvard 18. Lindsay Knauer, Ohio State 19. Alyssa Lomuscio, Fairleigh Dickinson 20. Jessica Tranquada, Cornell 21. Valeria Makeeva, Yale 22. Jessica Wacker, Stanford 23. Andrea Oliva, Princeton 24. Amanda Rysling, N.Y.U. 25. Nora Szita, St. John’s NCAA Women’s Epee 1. Anastasia Ferdman, Penn State 2. Noam Mills, Harvard 3. Courtney Hurley, Notre Dame 3. Ewa Nelip, Notre Dame 5. Susannah Scanlan, Princeton 6. Neely Brandfield-Harvey, Columbia/Barnard 7. Christa French, Northwestern 8. Tanya Novakovska, St. John’s 9. Stephanie Wheeler, Pennsylvannia 10. Kristin Howell, Temple 11. Jasjit Bhinder, Princeton 12. Joanna Guy, St. John’s 13. Nina Westman, Penn State 14. Rebecca Moss, Yale 15. Grace Wu, Temple 16. Julia Tikhonova, Ohio State 17. Maria Larsson, Harvard 18. Tess Finkel, Columbia/Barnard 19. Tasha Hall, Cornell 20. Kayley French, Northwestern 21. Miriam Baranov, Ohio State 22. Kersten Schnurle, Stanford 23. Simone Barrette, Air Force 24. Sallie Dietrich, Cornell

2009-10 FENCING

69

Top Graduates

Kimberlee Montoya

Las Vegas, Nevada Cheyenne H.S. Fencing Academy of Nevada

HONORS & AWARDS Women’s Epee Team Co-Captain Veteran epeeist who was one of the Notre Dame’s most consistent performers over the past four seasons … became more confident on the strip while making noticeable improvements in her timing, actions, speed and coordination … made up for small frame with patience and an excellent reaction time … a smart fencer who was capable of upsetting top opponents … had pre-existing connection to Notre Dame fencing, as product of the Fencing Academy of Nevada, coached by former ND fencing coach Yves Auriol (’86’02) … utilized style that is blend of epee and foil … a quiet, defensive fencer who made good use of technique.

AS A SENIOR: Went 42-8 during the regular season … started her season at the NYU Invitational, finishing with a 5-3 record … finished 123 at the Northwestern Duals … went 3-0 vs.

Fairleigh Dickinson and Lawrence at the Northwestern Duals … tied for the Irish women’s epee team lead with 25 wins at the Notre Dame Duals (finished 25-3) … finished in eighth place at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championship to earn second-team All-Conference honors … after a first round bye in the direct elimination round of the championships, beat Violet Pena of Oberlin, 15-3, in the round of 64 and Erin MacCourtney of Michigan State, 15-11, in the round of 32 … in the round of 16, beat Elle Brennan of Case Western, 15-4 … lost to Christa French of Northwestern, 15-8, in the quarterfinals to finish eighth.

AS A JUNIOR: Posted a 71-15 record for the Irish in the regular season … her 71 wins were the

MONTOYA’S CAREER RECORD Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 Career

70

W 36 43 71 42 192

L 7 24 15 8 54

Pct. .837 .642 .826 .840 .780

NCAA Finish ------

most of any Notre Dame fencer (men or women) … her 86 bouts participated in were the secondmost on the women’s team, as Ashley Serette led the Irish with 91 appearances … recorded an .826 winning percentage … went 13-2 at the Western Invite … recorded a 5-2 win over Stanford’s Brittany Leader at the event and an overtime win over Air Force’s Eliza Enyart … registered an 11-7 mark at the NYU Duals, helping Notre Dame to a 4-2 record … had a perfect 8-0 record on day-two of the Northwestern Duals … went 12-6 on the competition’s first day … posted a team-best 27-0 record at the Notre Dame duals … among her 27 victories was her 150th collegiate win … at the Midwest Regionals she finished in seventh place … to begin her run at the Regionals, posted a 4-1 record in her first round pool … earned the fourth seed in the direct elimination rounds … advanced to the final round by beating Cleveland State’s Courtney Zemkosky (15-3) and Ohio State’s Alexandra Obrazcova (15-11) … dropped a 14-13 decision in the final round when pitted aginst Obrazcova again … then beat Northwestern’s Joanna Niklinska (15-13) to take seventh … placed seventh at the annual Penn State Open, in the fall of 2007.

AS A SOPHOMORE: Competed in nearly 70 regular-season bouts (43-24) before helping Irish women’s epee team win conference title … posted eighth-place individual finish at NCAA Midwest Regional … had pair of wins to help Irish women edge Ohio State at ND Duals (14-13), with early 5-2 bout vs. Elyse Gurnowski before shutting out Alexandra Obrazcova (leaving OSU with 11-10 lead) … went 13-7 at ND Duals and 11-6 at NYU Duals … at NYU Duals had timely mid-match win (5-4) over Northwestern’s Courtney DuBois, as

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

the Irish women won another 14-13 thriller … posted other top wins at NYU vs. Columbia’s Rachel Rowe (5-2) and St. John’s All-American Joanna Guy (5-4) … added 4-0 record at Midwest Duals (at ND) and a 5-6 mark at Duke Duals where her 2-1 win over Brynne Thoreson helped ND rally past Air Force … closed regular season with 12-1 mark at Northwestern Duals … amongst her 12 wins were a 5-3 win over Penn State’s Katherine Cook and two wins over fencers from the home team (5-3 vs. Kayley French; 4-3 vs. Joanna Niklinska) … her 3-2 bout with Leslie Lampman helped Irish women’s epeeists top Ohio State for Midwest Fencing Conference title (5-3) … earlier had 5-2 win over Wayne State’s Alice Schneider in team semifinals (5-4) … entered Midwest Regional (at ND) as #10 seed but improved to #4 after pool bouts … used 15-9 win over OSU’s Elyse Gurnowski to earn spot in Regional final eight … followed up with losses to Lampman (11-15) and Northwestern twins Kayley (12-15) and Christa (9-15) French … placed 25th at Penn State Open (#14 seed) in fall of ’06, with 5-4 win over #6 seed Kristin Howell of Temple … finished 13th at North American Cup in Albuquerque, N.M. (Nov. ’06), and 40th at N.A.C. in Richmond, Va. (Dec.).

AS A FRESHMAN: Went 36-7 in regular season before placing ninth at MFCs and Regional … her 7-1 record at Northwestern Duals included win over NU’s Sharon Sullivan (5-4/OT) … beat several top fencers in 5-2 day at NYU Duals (5-3 vs. Columbia’s Rowe and NYU’s Lauren Willock; 5-1 vs. OSU’s Kaela Brendler) … topped NU’s Sullivan (5-1) and Duke All-American Anne Kercsmar (5-4) at ND Duals (12-2) … closed 12-2 at UCSD Duals, with 5-1 win over Air Force’s Eliza Enyart (an NCAA Tournament veteran) … finished ninth at MFCs (11-13 loss to Lampman in roundof-16) … avenged loss with 4-1 win over Lampman in MFC epee team final (OSU won, 5-2) … had impressive runner-up finish at Penn State Open in fall of ’05, besting ND teammates Becca Chimahusky (quarterfinals) and Amy Orlando (semifinals) before losing 10-15 final vs. NCAA champ Anna Garina of Wayne State (she took Garina to OT in earlier bout) … her USFA competitions in ’05-’06 included: 18th at ’05 Summer Nationals (Sacramento), 16th at Albuquerque N.A.C. (Nov.), 37th at N.A.C.’s in Pittsburgh (Dec.) and Houston (Jan.; 15th in Houston U-20 bouts), 33rd at Jr. Olympics in Hartford, Conn.

(Feb.), 53rd at Sacramento N.A.C. (April) and 17th at ’06 Summer Nationals (Atlanta).

PREP & PERSONAL: Earned three letters as varsity swimmer at Cheyenne High School while training with Auriol at the Fencing Academy of Nevada … first female fencer from Nevada ever to attain “A” rating … four-time fencing state champion in prep career (team captain as a senior) …

Nevada division epee champion for 2004-05 … placed third in ’03 junior epee competition … helped CHS swimming team post undefeated season … won 2004 Pacific Coast Championship … daughter of Ben and Amy Montoya … full name is Kimberlee Carmen Montoya … born July 1, 1987, in Las Vegas … graduated from the Program of Liberal Studies major, in the College of Arts and Letters.

New York Adrienne Pittsford, Mendon H.S. Nott Rochester Fencing Club

HONORS & AWARDS NCAA Fourth Place Finisher (2008) First Team All-American (2007, 2008) Second Team All-American (2006) Third Team All-American (2009) CoSIDA Academic All-America (2008) U.S. Junior National Team Member (2006) Women’s Foil Team Captain Notre Dame Mongram Club MVP Award (2009) Four-year standout emerged as one of nation’s top women’s foilists, after earning All-America honors in all four years with the Irish … became more patient with picking her spots and deciding when to force the action … an intelligent fencer who did extensive film study of her previous bouts … had mental toughness to overcome any challenge during a competition … overcame smaller frame with significant physical preparation and extensive bouting practice that simulates tough situations … steadily moved up national rankings while making her technical actions more complex and effective … owned a solid overall ranking of 13th among all U.S. women’s foilists … earlier completed the 200506 USFA circuit with fifth-place standing in junior rankings … quick fighter on the strip with good actions on her touches and a strong workrate … nicknamed “Adi” … invited member of Notre Dame athletics’ Academic Honors faculty mentoring program.

NOTT’S CAREER RECORD Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 Career

W 44 57 69 36 223

L 6 6 10 9 35

Pct. .880 .905 .873 .800 .864

NCAA Finish 6th 3rd 4th 9th --

RECENT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESULTS: Competed in two Junior World Cup events during 2006 fall semester, placing 64th in Bratislava, Slovakia (Oct.), and 45th in Jesi, Italy (Nov.) … her results on 200506 Jr. World Cup circuit included 39th in Jesi (Nov. ’05), 88th in Budapest (Jan. ’06) and 83rd in Lyon, France (Feb. ’06) … member of U.S. team that competed at 2006 Junior World Championships in South Korea … competed alongside Emily Cross, Doris Willette and Lindsay Knauer on U.S women’s foil team that took fourth at 2006 World Jr. Championships (South Korea; April ’06) … the U.S. beat Hong Kong (45-12) and Hungary (45-43) before semifinal loss to eventual champ Italy (34-45) … opened 2006-07 USFA competition with seventh-place finish at North American Cup in Albuquerque, N.M. (Nov. ’06), followed by 13th at N.A.C. in Richmond,Va. (Dec. ’06), another seventh-place finish at the N.A.C. in Columbus, Ohio, and a runner-up finish at the Junior Olympics in Denver, Colo. … her 2005-06 USFA results included: 14th in overall D-1 standings at Pittsburgh N.A.C. (Dec. ’05); 21st overall and third in junior/U-20 competition (behind Willette and Nemecek) at the Houston N.A.C. (Jan. ’06); runner-up to Cross at Junior Olympics in Hartford, Conn. (Feb. ’06); 12th in overall bouts at the Sacramento N.A.C. (April ’06); and 17th in Atlanta at Summer Nationals (July ’06), among elite field that included Cross, Iris Zimmermann (former NCAA and world champ), Erinn Smart (’04 Olympian), former ND four-year All-American Andrea Ament and recent Ohio State standout Hanna Thompson (Nott also was 19th in U-19 bouts at 2006 Summer Nationals) … earlier placed 33rd at

2005 Summer Nationals in Sacramento and 16th at Albuquerque N.A.C (Nov. ’05).

AS A SENIOR: Placed ninth at the NCAA Championship to earn third team All-American honors … finished the regular season with a 53-13 record … opened the season with a 2-2 record at the St. John’s Duals … went 9-4 at the NYU Invitational … at the Northwestern Duals, went 18-6, including 3-0 marks against Johns Hopkins, North Carolina and Detroit … turned in an impressive performance at the Notre Dame Duals, finishing 24-1 … went 3-0 against Stanford, Air Force, Cleveland State, Cal Tech and UC San Diego at the Notre Dame Duals … registered her 200th career win at the Notre Dame Duals … did not compete at the Midwest Fencing College Championships … placed fifth at the NCAA Midwest Regional … after losing in the round of eight, recorded consecutive wins over Notre Dame teammates Darsie Malynn (15-3) and Radmila Sarkisova (15-7) in the repechage to finish in fifth … went 14-10 during pool play at the NCAA Championship to take ninth.

AS A JUNIOR: Earned First Team AllAmerican honors with a fourth place finish at NCAAs … runner-up at the NCAA Midwest Regional … named Notre Dame Monogram Club MVP and the Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Rockne Student-Athlete Award winner … posted a 69-10 (.873) record in the regular season … at the Western Invite went 150 on day one and allowed only five touches at the event, including 12 shutouts … her most noteworthy win at the event came against Stanford’s Jessica Wacker (5-0), who was a 2007 NCAA entrant … went 10-1 at the Northwestern Duals … posted an impressive 22-0 record at the ND duals … at the Midwest Regionals opened with a 4-1 record in pool play, including wins over Northwestern’s Sam Nemecek (5-0) and Meredith Baskies, also of Northwestern, (5-2) … received the top seed and a first round bye in direct elimination … advanced to the final with a win over Natalie Wang of Northwestern (15-6) … defeated Baskies (154) and Reese (15-7) to advance to the finals … fell to Oksana Dmytruk of Ohio State (15-10) in the championship bout … in the fall season, reached semifinals at annual Penn State Open … had a quarterfinal win over Penn’s Abby Emerson, loss to Ohio State’s Knauer in semifinals (4-15) and win over Northwestern’s Nemecek in 3rd-place bout (15-6).

AS A SOPHOMORE: Turned in a dominating regular season that saw her win more than 90 percent of her bouts (57-6) before an equally impressive postseason that included winning the Midwest Fencing Conference and NCAA Midwest Region titles (plus a 3rd-place

2009-10 FENCING

71

Top Graduates finish for All-America honors at the NCAAs) … she and freshman epeeist Kelley Hurley were named co-MVPs of the 2007 Notre Dame women’s fencing team (she also was named the women’s foil team MVP) … won all but one of her 18 bouts at the ND Duals, with a pair of key wins to help Irish women edge Ohio State, 14-13 (5-0 vs. Courtney Streithorst; 5-2 vs.

Holly McKibben) … kept rolling at the NYU Duals (15-3), where her pair of wins versus Northwestern (5-2 vs. Jessica Florendo; 5-1 vs.

Christina Wang) helped produce another thrilling 14-13 win for the Irish women … had several other top wins at NYU, in bouts versus the Columbia duo of Kelsey Finkel (5-0) and Cassidy Luitjen (5-3), North Carolina’s Diana Schawlowski (5-2),Yale’s Alisa Mendelsohn 5-2) and Katia Larchanka of St. John’s (4-3) … swept all 10 of her bouts at the Duke Duals, including a 5-1 win over Marilyn Tycer and a 5-3 victory over Myramn Ruth that helped the women’s foil team battle back to beat Air Force … closed the regular season with a 17-2 record at the Northwestern Duals that included a 5-2 win over Florendo, two wins over Penn State (5-2 vs. both Tamara Najm and Allison Glasser), and a 5-1 bout with Temple’s Nina Gernes … Doris Willette (a U.S. junior national teammate of Nott’s) edged Nott for a 5-4 win and a 14-13 PSU team victory … maintained her top seed at the MFC by breezing through her pools, followed by 15-2 wins over ND teammate Cota in the round of 16 and OSU’s McKibben in the quarterfinals … rolled on to the MFC title with a 15-10 semifinal victory over Florendo and a comfortable margin in the final (15-6, vs. the other Northwestern standout, Nemecek) … had pair of wins – over Streithorst (5-1) and Julia Tikhonova (5-2) – in MFC epee team semifinal (won 5-4 by OSU) … entered Regional (at ND) as #2 seed but moved up to top spot after pool bouts … followed with big wins over OSU’s Streithorst (15-4) and McKibben (15-2; roundof-8) before again topping the NU duo (15-10 semifinal vs. Florendo; 8-6 final vs. Nemecek) … joined Hurley as two of five Notre Dame fencers (two men, three women) in current decade who have won MFC and Regional titles in same season … had a chance to pull off the postseason trifecta at the NCAAs (in Madison, N.J.), after finishing third in the round robin (18-5) … suffered loss to St. John’s newcomer Monika Golebiewski in the NCAA semifinals (3-15) but won overtime battle with PSU’s Najm in third-place bout (9-8; trailed 2-4) … her 12-2 record on day one of the NCAAs included going 5-2 versus fencers who finished the day in the top-eight: 5-1 vs. both Florendo and Nemecek; 5-3 vs. OSU’s Tikhonova; 5-2 vs.

Najm; and 5-1 vs. Penn’s Emerson … closed on day two with a 6-3 record that included key wins over Columbia’s Kathleen Reckling (5-0) and the Harvard duo of Arielle Pensler (5-1) and Misha Goldfeder (3-2) … was tied for third

72

after the round robin but seized third seed due to strong total-point indicators (+42) … combined with Prot for 29 wins in NCAAs, trailing only PSU’s 40 and SJU’s 30 among the women’s foil field … earlier had been runnerup at the Jr. Olympics in Denver, Colo. … had another impressive finish as runner-up at Penn State Open in fall of ’06, after entering as #11 seed … top wins at PSU Open came vs. Temple’s Gernes (5-2), the fifth seed, Emerson of Penn (4-3), WSU’s Howard (5-0), #7 seed Zoya Abdikulova of Penn (5-0), PSU’s Anne Jackson (15-4, in DE), #8 seed Melissa Parker of Temple (15-7 quarterfinal) and Harvard’s Pensler (15-2 semifinal), before losing 7-15 final to Cross (who fences for Harvard).

AS A FRESHMAN: Won nearly 90 percent of her bouts in regular season (44-6) before reaching MFC semifinals, finishing as runnerup at the Midwest Regional and earning AllAmerica honors with sixth-place finish at NCAAs (in Houston) … named MVP of women’s foil squad … her 15-1 record at Northwestern Duals included 5-2 wins over NU’s Nemecek and Fullerton’s Senta Breden … followed with more impressive wins at NYU Duals (11-3), vs. eventual NCAA champion Erzsebet Garay of St. John’s (5-3), Yale’s Alisa Mendelsohn (5-4), Columbia’s Kathleen Reckling (5-4) and NYU’s Kristen Wentrcek (5-0) … her 14-2 record at ND Duals included wins

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

over Florendo (5-2) and Duke’s Tycer (5-1) … added 4-0 mark at OSU Duals … topped teammate Melanie Bautista in MFC semifinals (15-2) before losing semifinal to Nemecek (3-15) … her wins over Amelia Galliard (5-2) and Kristen Rill (5-0) helped knock off Ohio State in MFC team semifinals … had two wins vs.

Northwestern (3-2 vs. Nemecek, 5-1 vs. Wang) in MFC team title matchup that went to final bout (4-5) … regional runner-up finish (in Cleveland), posting DE wins over OSU’s Marguerite Plekhanov (15-1), Wang (15-11) and Florendo (1513) before losing final bout to Nemecek (7-15) … opened NCAAs 9-5, with her top day-one wins vs. defending champion Cross (54), Harvard’s Chloe Stinetorf, Florendo, PSU’s Najm, Penn’s Emerson and Fullerton’s Breden (all 5-2), plus WSU’s Howard (5-1) … completed her sixth-place All-America showing (15-8) with 6-3 record on day two, including wins over Columbia’s Kelsey Finkel (5-0), eventual runner-up Jacqueline Leahy of Princeton (5-2), Princeton’s Sara Jew-Lim (5-2), Temple’s Gernes (5-1) and NYU’s Wentrcek (5-0) … seven previous ND freshman women’s fencers had posted top-six finishes at the NCAAs: foilists Alicja Kryczalo (’02 champ), Ament (’02 runner-up), Sara Walsh (’96 runner-up) and Molly Sullivan (5th in ’85), epeeist Magda Krol (’97 champ), and Valerie Providenza (’04 champ) and Mariel Zagunis (’05 runner-up) … placed 12th at PSU Open (fall ’05), losing in round of 16 to her club teammate and former OSU standout Metta Thompson.

PREP & PERSONAL: Attended Pittsford Mendon HS while training at the Rochester Fencing Club, under Nat Goodhartz (a U.S. national team coach) … ranked in the top-10 in age group throughout youth fencing … had top-eight finishes in junior and cadet N.A.C.’s from ’01-’05 (top-32 at Jr. World Cups in Slovakia and France) … finished top-eight at cadet and junior nationals from ’01-’05 … member of National Honor Society … full name is Adrienne Marissa Nott … daughter of Ken Nott and Teri Pasadero … born April 30, 1987, in Baltimore … graduated as a double major in Japanese and psychology, in the College of Arts and Letters.

Emilie Prot

Limoges, France Lycee Saint-Jean H.S. Cercle d’Escrime de Limoges

HONORS & AWARDS 2007 NCAA Participant Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Rockne Student-Athlete Award (2009) Veteran foilist who gained valuable experience as a participant in the 2007 NCAAs … uses her intellect to accurately read distances on the strip and anticipate the actions of her opponent … has improved her technical ability while gaining experience in different situations … a battler with good technique … has implemented more movements into her bouting, providing her more options on a regular basis … most effective when she is able to harness her emotions and rise above pressure-packed situations … was ranked among top-10 junior-level fencers in France, with experience competing in various World Championship events … ended 2005-06 season listed 39th in USFA women’s foil rankings for junior-level fencers (Under-20) … first fencer from France to join the Notre Dame fencing program and believed to be the first native of France in nearly 50 years to join a Notre Dame varsity team (Ed Finlay, a Paris native who attended Cranwell Prep, earned a monogram with the 1959 Irish wrestling team).

AS A SENIOR: Finished the year with a 8-3 regular season record … went 3-0 at the St. John’s Duals … finished 4-3 at the NYU Invitational … went 1-0 at the Notre Dame Duals … finished in sixth place at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships to earn second-team All-Conference honors … in the direct elimination portion of the tournament, beat Rachel Plumb of Oberlin, 15-1, in the round of 64 and Lawrence’s Melanie Kathan, 15-2, in the round of 32 … in the round of 16, knocked off Notre Dame teammate Radmila Sarkisova, 15-10 … in the quarterfinals, fell 15-11 to

PROT’S CAREER RECORD Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 Career

W 56 40 42 8 146

L 12 16 20 3 51

Pct. .824 .714 .677 .727 .741

NCAA Finish -14th ----

eventual champion Samantha Nemecek of Northwestern.

AS A JUNIOR: Finished sixth at the NCAA Regionals … a Midwest Fencing Conference Foil quarterfinalist … posted a 42-20 (.677) record on the season … among her 42 wins was her 100th with the fighting Irish (she now has 138 career wins) … missed out on the Air Force Invitational … was a perfect 9-0 on day two of the Northwestern Duals … went 17-1 to pace the foilists at the Notre Dame Duals … at the regionals, posted a 3-3 record in pool play … was the fifth seed in direct elimination … defeated Wayne State’s Samantha Strassburg, 15-6, before falling to Irish teammate Haley Reese, 15-9, in the quarterfinals … edged Northwestern’s Meredith Baskies in her first consolation bout, 1514 … fell in the fifth-place bout to Ohio State’s Lindsay Knauer, 15-4.

AS A SOPHOMORE: Reached 40 wins in the regular season (40-16) for the second straight year before placing 12th in the conference and fifth in the regional, helping secure her a spot in the NCAAs (where she narrowly missed All-America honors) … her 15-2 record at the ND Duals included playing lead role in 14-13 win for the Irish women over Ohio State … scored touch with :02 remaining to force overtime with OSU’s Courtney Streithorst and then won that bout (giving ND its first lead of the match, 12-11) … delivered the clinching win moments later (5-1 vs. Holly McKibben, for 14-12 lead) … registered three wins at ND Duals over fencers with NCAA tournament experience: Wayne State’s Lindsay Howard (4-2), Cleveland State’s Leigh Pendergrass (5-3) and UC San Diego’s Jen Chun 5-2 … her early 5-4 win over Natalie Wang helped Irish women post another 1413 win (over Northwestern), as part of her 12-7 record at the NYU Duals … added three more wins over NCAA veterans during the NYU meet (4-3 vs. Columbia’s Kathleen Reckling; 5-1 vs. Yale’s Alisa Mendelsohn and 5-1 vs. St. John’s All-American Katia Larchanka) … her 8-1 record at the Duke Duals included shutout of Julie Luce (helping Irish women post comeback win over Air Force) and a 54 win over Duke’s Marilyn Tycer, yet another fencer with NCAA tournament experience … closed regular season by going 7-6 at the Northwestern Duals, with a 5-3 win over NU All-American Samantha Nemecek and 5-1 victory over Temple’s Nina Gernes (a 2006 NCAA entrant) … a tough draw in the Midwest Fencing Conference meet placed her vs. NU’s other All-American, Jessica Florendo, in round-of-16 loss (she had a 14-8 lead before Florendo rallied for seven straight points) … had 5-1 wins in the MFC team semifinals vs. OSU’s Streithorst and McKibben … entered Midwest Regional (at ND) as #3 seed and was #5 seed after the pools, followed by 15-4 win over ND teammate Rachel Cota, loss to top seed Julia Tikhonova of OSU (215) and 15-9 win over CSU’s Pendergrass to clinch a top-eight finish … lost again to Tikhonova (8-11) but then topped NU’s Wang (15-9) and OSU’s McKibben (15-12) for fifth-place regional finish … faced plenty of tough opponents of first day of NCAAs (in Madison, N.J.), bouncing back from 06 start to go 5-3 for record of 5-9 on day one … her top early wins at NCAAs included 5-1 bout with NU’s Florendo and 5-4 victory over Penn’s Ilana Sinkin … added 6-3 record on day two to finish 1112, tying five others for 10th but placing 14th on total-point indicators (two places out of All-America honors) … ended six touches shy (she was +5)

of earning 12th place in that tiebreaker … posted top day-2 wins at the NCAAs over Columbia’s Cassidy Luitjen (5-2), Harvard’s Arielle Pensler (5-4) and Princeton’s Jocelyn Svengsouk (5-1) … closed the NCAAs with last-second winning touch vs. Princeton’s Sara Jew-Lim (0:04; 5-4) … she and classmate Adi Nott (18-5) had third-most combined wins (29) in NCAA women’s foil field … placed 14th at Penn State Open (fall ’06), improving on #23 seed with noteworthy 5-4 wins over #4 seed Alison Glasser of PSU,Temple’s Nina Gernes and NU’s Florendo (lost to Penn’s Abby Emerson in DE).

AS A FRESHMAN: Turned in strong regular season (56-12) before winning MFC title and placing seventh at regional (in Cleveland), narrowly missing spot in NCAAs … opened 16-0 at Northwestern Duals, highlighted by wins over NU’s Nemecek (5-4) and Florendo (5-1) … her 7-7 record at NYU Duals included 5-1 win over host team’s Kristen Wentrcek (5-1), plus losses to several top fencers (Columbia’s Kelsey Finkel and Kathleen Reckling and St. John’s duo of Erzsebet Garay and Larchanka) … her 16-2 record at ND Duals included sweep of Northwestern’s top duo (5-3 vs. Nemecek, after trailing 0-3, and 5-2 vs. Florendo), also adding noteworthy wins over CSU’s Pendergrass (5-2) and WSU’s Howard (5-2) … went 5-0 at OSU Duals before closing 12-3 at UCSD Duals, with top win over Fullerton’s Senta Breden (3-2) … her 6-0 pool record earned top seed in MFC direct-elimination, followed by 15-11 quarterfinal with WSU’s Howard, 15-4 semifinal battle with NU’s Florendo and 15-9 title bout vs. Nemecek … had key wins in MFC team bouts, besting OSU’s Kristen Rill in semifinals (5-4; ND won 5-0) before topping two Northwestern fencers in 4-5 title bout (5-3 vs. Wang, 5-4 vs.

Florendo) … entered regional (in Cleveland) as #4 seed but fell to #7 entering DE stage … went on to beat Howard (15-12) but lost to Florendo (12-15) and Nemecek (12-15) before dropping 11-14 decision to OSU’s Amelia Galliard in seventh-place bout … earlier placed ninth at Penn State Open in fall of ’05, with only losses in pools coming versus defending NCAA champ Emily Cross of Harvard (3-5) and Princeton All-American Jacqueline Leahy (4-5), ultimately losing to PSU’s Tam Najm in round of 16 … placed 20th in junior/U-20 bouts at North American Cup in Albuquerque (Nov., ’05), also 15th at Jr. Olympics in Hartford, Conn. (Feb.) and 68th in U19 bouts at ’06 Summer Nationals (Atlanta).

PREP & PERSONAL: Attended Lycee SaintJean High School while training at Cercle d'Escrime de Limoges (C.E.L.) … daughter of Alain and Yvonne Prot … full name is Emilie Yvonne Prot … born June 8, 1987, in Houston, Texas … graduated from the College of Science.

2009-10 FENCING

73

Top Graduates

Orange, New Jersey Oak Knoll School

Ashley Serrette

HONORS & AWARDS 2007 NCAA Participant Women’s Sabre Team Co-Captain A very mature individual and serious student who served as Notre Dame’s women’s sabre captain … boasted great reaction time, accelerated actions and ability to effectively read opponent’s actions … fairly new to fencing but quickly learned sophisticated aspects of the sport … teamoriented fencer who quickly became a fighter on the strip … can integrate new actions into her fencing, despite limited experience and lack of year-round training … has posted three of the highest single-season win totals in Notre Dame women’s sabre history, giving her a 184-72 career record heading into 2009 … her 234 career sabre wins are the most in program history … one of 86 all-time New Jersey natives to compete with Notre Dame fencing.

AS A SENIOR: Finished the year with a 5011 regular season record … began her season with a 0-2 record at the St. John’s Duals … went 8-3 at the NYU Invitational, including 3-0 marks against Yale and NYU … finished 23-6 at the Northwestern Duals, including 3-0 records against Detroit, Cleveland State, Johns Hopkins, Fairleigh Dickinson, Wayne State and Lawrence … her 23 wins led the Irish women’s sabre team … went 19-0 at the Notre Dame Duals, including 3-0 records against Air Force, Cal Tech, Wayne State and Oberlin … finished in a tie for third place at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships to earn first-team All-Conference honors … in the

SERRETTE’S CAREER RECORD Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 Career

74

W 57 61 66 50 234

L 25 22 25 11 83

Pct. .695 .735 ,725 .820 .738

NCAA Finish -16th ----

championships, entered the direct elimination round as the fifth seed … after a first round bye, defeated Indiana’s Rebecca Swanney, 15-3, in the round of 32 and Detroit’s Ashley McLemore, 156, in the round of 16 … knocked off Irish teammate Beatriz Almeida, 15-9, in the quarterfinals … lost to Irish teammate and eventual champion Sarah Borrmann in the semifinals … finished in seventh place at the NCAA Midwest Regional … her lone victory in the round of eight came against Northwestern’s Whitney White, 15-4, in the seventh place bout.

AS A JUNIOR: Posted a 66-25 record (.725) to record the third-most sabre wins on the women’s team … her 66 regular season wins rank third best all-time for single-season sabre wins … went 12-3 at Air Force’s Western Invite … followed up with a 13-2 record at the Northwestern Duals … posted an impressive 23-4 record at the Notre Dame duals to lead the Irish … finished seventh at the Midwest Regionals … went 3-4 in first-round pool play … earned the ninth seed in direct elimination play … fell to Wayne State’s Ann Bartoszewicz (15-10) in her first elimination bout … rebounded to defeat Cleveland State’s Katie Smetana (15-6), and Allison Keller of Northwestern (15-8) to advance to the final round as the eighth seed … fell in the quarterfinals to Ohio State’s Eileen Grench (15-14) … came back to defeat Bartoszewicz (15-9) to take seventh place.

AS A SOPHOMORE: Went 61-22 to break her own Notre Dame record for regular-season wins in women’s sabre … went on to place seventh in the conference tournament, sixth at the Midwest Regional and 16th at the NCAAs … opened 17-7 at ND Duals before going 7-11 at NYU Duals, with key 5-3 win over Adrienne Shon to help Irish women edge #5 Northwest-

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

ern (14-13) … added 9-0 record at Midwest Duals (at ND) and 10-2 at Duke Duals before closing with 18-2 mark at Northwestern Duals, where she topped Northwestern’s Mai Vu (5-4) and posted pair of wins over Penn State (5-1 vs. Laura Hillstrom; 5-3 vs. Stephanie Herbert) … placed seventh at the annual Midwest Fencing Conference Championships, after 8-15 loss to Ohio State’s Eileen Grench … came back the next day to post wins over Grench (5-3) and her OSU teammate Syvenna Siebert (5-1) in MFC team event … won several key bouts for sixth-place finish at NCAA Midwest Regional (at ND), helping earn her a spot in the NCAA field … entered regional as #8 seed and was #7 after pool bouts, followed by 159 win over NU’s Shon, a loss to Grench (9-15), a 15-11 win over Wayne State’s Ann Bartoszewicz, another loss to Grench (5-15; round-of-8), narrow win over NU’s Vu (14-15) and loss to WSU’s Kasia Kuzniak in fifth-place bout (12-15) … went 5-9 on first day at NCAAs (held in Madison, N.J.), with impressive 5-4 win over St. John’s nationally-ranked freshman Dagmara Wozniak while also shutting out Stanford’s Eva Jellison and beating WSU’s Kuzniak (5-2) … her 9-14 final NCAA record (16th) included a day-two sweep of Penn’s Cassandra Partyka (5-3) and Alexis Baran (5-2) … improved on her #32 seed by placing 21st at Penn State Open in fall of ’06 (her wins included 5-4 bout with Partyka, a 2006 NCAA participant).

AS A FRESHMAN: Set Notre Dame record for regular-season women’s sabre wins (57-25) before finishing eighth at MFCs and 11th at regional … received ND fencing team’s Yves Auriol Award (“most improved”) … opened 10-8 at Northwestern Duals, with top wins over NU’s Vu and Emily Pasternak (both 5-2) … all of her losses at NYU Duals (7-4) came against top fencers … her 17-5 record at ND Duals included wins over Ibtihaj Muhammad (5-4) and Annie Massert (5-3), as part of sabre team’s 5-4 win over Duke … closed 14-1 at OSU Duals and 9-7 at UC San Diego Duals … lost to Vu in MFC quarterfinals (11-15) … seeded 13th for regional (in Cleveland) and earned spot in direct elimination (#11 seed) before finishing 11th, after losses to OSU’s Siebert (8-15) and Northwestern’s Gina Annunziato (1015) … placed 16th at Northwestern Open in fall of 2005 … finished 49th in U-19 bouts at 2006 Summer Nationals (in Atlanta).

PREP & PERSONAL: Lettered three years on Oak Knoll School fencing team (coached by John Johnson) … won fencing district title and qualified for Jr. Olympics in junior year … team MVP and all-state as senior (27-4 in dual meets) … claimed state prep title for 2003-04 sabre season … helped Oak Knoll win state titles in ’03 and ’05, also leading sabre squad to district and state titles in ’04 and ’05 … named sabre MVP as a junior … honored as varsity’s most outstanding first-year fencer as a sophomore … JV team MVP as a freshman … four-year letterwinner as soccer midifelder at Oak Knoll, also lettering as a sophomore on track team (200 meters) … involved in student government … full name is Ashley Tanisha Serrette … daughter of Arnold and Genevieve Serrette … born June 13, 1987, in Livingston, N.J. … graduated from the College of Science.

Krakow, Poland First L.O. H.S. AZS-AWF Krakow Fencing Club

Karol Kostka

HONORS & AWARDS 2007, 2008 & 2009 All-American Four-Time NCAA Participant NCAA Midwest Regional Champion Midwest Fencing Conference Champion Men’s Epee Team Captain Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Rocknet Student Athlete Award Showed more confidence and overall improvements on his way to claiming All-America honors in 2007, 2008 and 2009 … had very good footwork and an effective continuation of his lunge, producing valuable points on the fleche attack … had strong all-around attacking techniques and a precise point on his touches … one of five Polish fencers to join the Notre Dame program in recent years … had tremendous physical potential and excellent technical preparation, which help overcome his disadvantage when fencing bigger opponents … an intelligent fencer who knew what was needed to get consistent results on the strip … his top international results included helping Poland’s epee team win bronze at the 2003 World Championships (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) … member of bronze-medal team at Junior European Championships (Porec, Croatia).

AS A SENIOR: Posted a 36-12 regular season record … finished in tenth place at the NCAAs to earn third team All-American honKOSTKA’S CAREER RECORD Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 Career

W 43 48 71 36 198

L 11 18 15 12 56

Pct. .796 .727 .826 .750 .780

NCAA Finish 18th 11th 8th 18th --

ors … opened his senior season with a 3-3 record at the St. John’s Duals … led the Irish men’s epee squad in wins at the NYU Duals, posting a 9-3 record, including perfect 3-0 performances against St. John’s and Yale … went 15-1 at the Northwestern Duals … his 15 wins led all Irish men’s epeeists and included perfect showings against Ohio State (3-0), Johns Hopkins (2-0), Penn State (3-0), Cleveland State (30) and North Carolina (2-0) … posted a 6-3 record at the Duke Duals … went 3-2 at the Notre Dame Duals … won the individual epee championship at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championship with an epic win over Ohio State’s Igor Tolkachev, 15-14 … was down 1412 in the final, but rallied off three straight touches to claim the win over Tolkachev … entered the direct elimination portion of the tournament tied for the first seed overall and earned a bye in the first round … defeated Minnesota’s Brian Hodge, 15-4, in the round of 64 before knocking off Colin McIntrye of Michigan, 156, in the round of 32 … in the round of 16, downed Northwestern’s Davidson Barr, 15-9 to enter the quarterfinals, where he beat teammate Christopher Pinkowski,15-10 … then knocked off Wayne State’s Slava Zingerman, 15-12, to advance to the finals … led the Notre Dame epee contingent at the NCAA Midwest Regional with a top-three performance … advanced to the final eight table as the second seed where he defeated John Marshall of Cleveland State, 15-12, to advance to the semifinals … in the semifinals, was edged by sixth-seeded and

eventual champion Slava Zingerman of Wayne State, 15-14 … in the bronze medal bout, downed Ohio State's top-seeded Tolkachev, 1511 … has now medaled at the NCAA Regionals in each of the past four seasons (first in 2008, third in 2006, 2007 & 2009) … went 13-10 in pool play at the NCAA Championship to place tenth and earn third team All-American honors … went 2-0 vs. Columbia fencers at the Championship … marked the third consecutive year in which he had earned All-American honors.

AS A JUNIOR: Posted a 46-16 record (.742) … finished in ninth place at NCAAs to earn third team All-America honors … Midwest Regional Champion … part of a 1-2-3 Notre Dame finish at the Midwest Regional … a Midwest Fencing Conference third-place finisher … a first team all-Midwest Fencing Conference selection ... finished the campaign by posting a 72 mark at the Notre Dame Duals, helping the team post a perfect ledger of 10-0 at the duals … went 17-7 at the Northwestern Duals, including perfect 3-0 marks against UC San Diego, Johns Hopkins and Stanford … posted a 12-5 record at the New York University Duals and helped the Irish to a 5-1 overall team record at the venue … opened the fencing season by putting together a 10-2 ledger at the 2008 NCAA Western Invitational and helping the Irish team go 4-1 at the competition ... posted a sixth-place finish at the Penn State Open (fall ’07), after topping Ohio State’s Avi Somir (10-5) to reach the round of eight.

2009-10 FENCING

75

Top Graduates AS A SOPHOMORE: Had strong 2007 regular season that saw him win nearly 75 percent of his bouts (48-18; .727) before placing third at both the Midwest Fencing Conference and Midwest Regional, followed by an All-America finish (11th) at the NCAAs … his 18-6 day at the Notre Dame Duals included pair of 5-2 wins in 13-14 battle with Ohio State (vs. Mykhaylo Mazur and Christian Rivera) … beat Phil Andrews (5-2) from the home team, as part of his 10-7 record at the NYU Duals … won all three of his bouts at the Midwest Duals (held at ND) and then went 8-3 at the Duke Duals, highlighted by 5-4 win over North Carolina’s Mike Burkhart and 5-2 victory over 5-2 over Dan Zieleinski (Johns Hopkins) … closed regular season with 10-2 record at Northwestern Duals, including 5-4 wins over Penn State’s Arthur Urman and James Moody … advanced to MFC semifinals (after 15-10 win over ND teammate Patrick Gettings) but lost 10-15 semifinal versus Wayne State’s Slava Zingerman … posted 54 win over OSU’s Rivera in MFC epee team semifinals … entered regional (at ND) as #7 seed but improved to #3 after his pool bouts … went on to post big win over Zingerman in the regional direct elimination, adding another win over the WSU newcomer (15-14; round-of-8) but then losing to OSU’s Mazur in semifinals (10-15) … edged his ND teammate Greg Howard in regional third-place bout (15-14) … opened NCAAs (in Madison, N.J.) with 9-5 record that included key wins over OSU’s Mazur (5-2),Wayne State’s Marez Petraszek (54) Yale’s Michael Pearce (5-4) and Air Force’s Peter French (2-1) … picked up three wins on day two of the NCAAs, after topping Harvard’s Teddy Sherrill (5-4), PSU’s Steffen Launer (5-4) and Columbia’s Max Czapanskiy (5-4) … rallied from 2-4 deficit to beat Czapanskiy in his final bout, securing All-America/top-12 status by the narrowest of margins (11th place; 12-11 record) … he and Howard (14) combined for the fifthmost wins (25) in the NCAA men’s epee field … helped 2007 squad become third Irish team ever to produce the maximum six All-Americans (the 85 wins were the most by an ND men’s team since 2003) … went 7-4 in onetouch bouts at the 2007 NCAAs … placed 14th at Penn State Open in the fall of 2006, improving one spot on his #15 seed … his top wins at the PSU Open included a 5-4 bout with PSU’s Dennis Kraft before ultimately losing in the round of 16 to Yale's Pearce (10-15).

AS A FRESHMAN: Qualified for the NCAAs (placing 18th), after compiling a 43-11 record in the regular season and overcoming a subpar effort at the MFC meet (17th) to place third at the Midwest Regional … his 15-1 opening record at the Northwestern Duals included noteworthy wins over Stanford’s Martin Lee (53) and North Carolina’s Benton Heimsath (5-3)

76

… added series of impressive wins at the NYU Duals (9-5) over OSU’s Denis Tolkachev (5-1) and Jason Pryor (5-3), Columbia’s Bill Verigan (5-3), NYU’s Andrews (5-3) and Benjamin Bratton of St. John’s (5-4) … his pair of wins over OSU helped the Irish men’s epee team post a 5-4 win over the Buckeyes … beat his countryman Petraszek of Wayne State (5-3) as part of 10-1 record at the ND Duals … closed regular season with 9-4 record at the UC San Diego Duals … was top seed for the regional (in Cleveland) but slipped to #7 going into direct elimination … posted another win over OSU All-American Tolkachev in regional quarterfinals (15-13) but lost to Petraszek in a tight semifinal (13-14) before beating his ND teammate Howard in the third-place bout … his 18th-place finish (8-15) at the NCAAs (in Houston) included wins over Petraszek (5-1),

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

OSU’s Pryor (5-2) and PSU’s Moody (5-3) … earlier had posted fourth-place finish at Penn State Open in the fall of 2005, losing his final two bouts versus top Princeton fencers (Tommi Hurme and then Ben Solomon, 11-15, in the third-place bout), after earlier beating Solomon in the pool bouts (5-1).

PREP & PERSONAL: Trained at the same club (AZS-AWF Krakow) and attended the same high school in Poland (First Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace Bartlomieja Nowodworskiego) as his former Notre Dame teammate Michael Sobieraj … son of Antoni and Marta Kostka … full name is Karol Mateusz Kostka … born May 22, 1986, in Krakow, Poland … graduated as a mechanical engineering major, in the College of Engineering.

San Antonio, Texas Reagan H.S. San Antonio Sports Foundation

Mark Kubik

HONORS & AWARDS 2007 All-American Academic All-America Candidate (3.67) Men’s Foil Team Captain Four-year foilist who made big jump from freshman to sophomore season, after improving from a 21st-place showing at the 2006 NCAAs to an All-America finish (7th) in 2007 … made tremendous changes to his fencing while working with assistant coach Gia Kvaratskhelia (who also coached him previously at the Kanza Fencing Center, in Salina, Kan.) … became more effective in his bouting by narrowing his range of actions … developed some epee-like tendencies, as a more calculated and mentally-tough fencer … combined strong work ethic with an intellectual approach to his bouting … gained elite status as member of 2004 U.S. Junior National Team … former youth national champion with plenty of international experience … had 6-2 frame and solid footwork … a good tactician with strong offensive and defensive ability … one of several Notre Dame fencers from a fencing family, as his father Wendell competed and coached at Air Force while his younger brothers Steve (a junior on the Irish team) and Nick are top foilists … a top Academic All-America candidate, as a chemical engineering major who is an invited participant in Notre Dame athletics’ Academic Honors Program (faculty mentoring) … joined his brother Steve as part of four-fencer Kanza foil team that claimed bronze medal at 2006 Summer Nationals in Atlanta (he placed 16th in overall bouting and sixth among the U-20 field while brother Steve was 39th overall).

AS A SENIOR: Went 27-9 during the regular season before placing ninth at the NCAA Midwest Regional … began his senior year by going 3-0 at the St. John’s Duals … went 8-5 at the NYU Invitational … finished 8-3 at the Northwestern Duals, including 2-0 marks against Detroit and Lawrence … earned second-team All-Conference honors at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships by finished seventh overall … at the championships, knocked off Wisconsin’s Aaron Conger, 15-3, in

MARK KUBIK’S CAREER RECORD Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 Career

W 43 39 36 27 145

L 17 21 7 9 54

Pct. .717 .650 .837 .750 .729

NCAA Finish 21st 7th ----

the round of 64 and Namson Pham of Indiana, 15-6, in the round of 32 … then beat Ohio State’s Joe Doherty, 15-11, to advance to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, fell to teammate Zach Schirtz, 15-11 … placed ninth at the NCAA Midwest Regional.

AS A JUNIOR: Won the Rockne Student-Athlete Award for men’s fencing in addition to being name to the all-Midwest Fencing Conference team … finished the year with a 36-7 record before going 4-2 in pool competition at the Midwest regional … went 5-0 at the Notre Dame Duals as the Irish swept the event with a 10-0 record … fell in the championship bout of the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships to Ohio State’s Andras Horanyi, after defeating his younger brother, Steve, 15-14, on the way to the championship … compiled a 61 record at the Duke Duals … compiled a strong 7-2 record at the Northwestern Duals as the Irish went 8-2 as a team, falling only to top-ranked Penn State and #2 Ohio State … went 9-2 at the NYU Duals while helping Notre Dame go 5-1, with the Irish losing only to #2 Ohio State 14-13 … helped the Irish to a first place tie and a sweep in the foil while going 10-1 in the Western Invitational at the Air Force Academy.

AS A SOPHOMORE: Finished regular season with 39-21 record before strong postseason that included thirdplace finish at Midwest Fencing Conference meet, fourth place at NCAA Midwest Regional and second team AllAmerica honors (by virtue of seventh-place finish at NCAAs) … named MVP of Irish men’s foil squad for 2006-07 … his 15-4 record at Notre Dame Duals included pair of wins (5-2 vs. Will Jeter; 5-1 vs. Dmitri Kirk-Gordon) in team’s 13-14 battle with Ohio State, adding other top wins over Stanford’s Richard Fulton (43) and UC San Diego’s John Chung (5-3) … went 10-8 at NYU Duals and 5-6 at Duke Duals before closing regular season with 9-3 mark at the Northwestern Duals, where he topped Columbia’s Calvin Chen (5-4) and pair of Penn State fencers (5-3 vs. Chinman; 5-4 vs. Alexander Louton) … beat OSU’s Jeter (5-2) in MFC team competition … entered regional (at ND) as the six-seed but moved to third after strong showing in pool bout … avenged MFC loss to Streb by beating him in regional direct elimination and again in final eight (both 15-7), helping clinch spot in NCAA field … lost to teammate Jakub Jedrkowiak in regional semifinals (9-15) before dropping third-place bout to Jeter (10-15) … earned second team All-America honors with seventh-place NCAA finish (13-10; in Madison, N.J.), completing major improvement from his 20th-place showing at 2006 NCAA … played part in Notre Dame posting maximum six men’s All-Americans for only the third time (ND’s 85 NCAA men’s wins were its most since 2003) … his solid opening day at NCAAs (9-5) included sweep of Penn State (5-3 vs. both Jeff Chang and Chinman), plus 5-2 win over Stanford’s Fulton … closed with key day-two wins over Harvard’s Kai Itameri-Kinter (5-1), SJU’s Alexis Landreville (5-3) and Columbia’s Kurt Getz (54), the eventual bronze medalist … his strong showing at the Penn State Open in the fall of ’06 (#4 seed) included early wins over Penn’s Michael Galligan (5-3) and OSU’s Kirk-Gordon (5-4), round of 16 win over Princeton’s Alejandro Bras, 15-10 quarterfinal with Harvard’s Itameri-Kinter and a defensive battle in semifinals (6-7 vs.

PSU’s Chang) before losing third-place rematch with Kirk-Gordon (11-15) … competed in two USFA North American Cups during ’06 fall semester, placing 25th in Albuquerque, N.M. (juniors/U-20s) and 11th in Richmond, Va. (overall/d-1) … beat former U.S. teammate Clinton Kershaw in Richmond round of 32, adding wins over Harvard’s Itameri-Kinter (15-4) and Sam Wunderlich of St. John’s before losing to Olympian Jed Dupree.

AS A FRESHMAN: Had impressive regular season (43-17) before placing sixth at MFCs and clinching spot in NCAAs with fourth-place finish at regional … his 144 record at Northwestern Duals included two wins over both Stanford (5-4 vs. Fulton) and UCSD (5-3 vs. Chung and Cameron Sprowles), plus 5-1 victory over Fullerton’s Alex Decker (another NCAA participant) … went 8-7

versus tough NYU Duals field, with 5-3 win over Columbia All-American Scott Sugimoto … his 12-2 mark at ND Duals included 5-4 win over Duke’s Jackson McClam (5-4) before another win over Stanford’s Fulton (53) at UCSD Duals (9-4) … entered regional in Cleveland as top seed, posting quarterfinal win over teammate Frank Bontempo (15-11) but losing to Kirk-Gordon in thirdplace bout (13-15) … had rough first day at NCAAs in Houston (2-12; 5-0 win over Columbia’s Chen) before bouncing back with 5-4 record on Sunday (21st-place finish) that included wins over NYU’s Gabe Sinkin (5-4), Harvard’s Enoch Woodhouse (5-0), Stanford’s Steve Gerberman (5-3) and PSU’s Chang (5-2) … placed 20th at Penn State Open (fall ’05) … competed at Jr.World Cups in Como, Italy (June ’05; 70th/8th among U.S. fencers), and Aix-en-Provence, France (Nov. ’05; 81st/7th) … placed 28th in overall competition and 15th in junior/U20 bouts at N.A.C. in Houston (Jan. ’06), also 14th at Junior Olympics in Hartford, Conn. (Feb. ’06).

PREP & PERSONAL: Started fencing at age five, when his father (stationed at Scott Air Force Base, near St. Louis) and mother founded Falcon Fencers Club … youngest fencer (six years old) at ’93 Junior Olympics in Colorado Springs (U-11 foil) … later lived with his family in southern Germany for three years, fencing at Fechter Ring of Albstadt-Ebingen and winning silver at Baden-Württemberg U-10 state championship … played youth soccer in Schwenningen-Baden … continued to compete in both sports after moving to San Antonio before specializing in fencing in middle school … coached by his father while also training with Palo Alto Fencers club (part of San Antonio Sports Foundation’s Community Olympic Development Program) … that club later became Dreams for Youth Fencing Center … SASF is supported by the USOC and provides opportunities in Olympic sports to youth in economically disadvantaged communities … participated at SASF’s “Inner City Games,” sponsored by Arnold Schwarzenegger … has attended summer fencing camps at Kanza Fencing Club in Salina, Kan., coached by current Notre Dame assistant Kvaratskhelia … has taken private lessons from Olympian and Hall of Famer Vinnie Bradford (at PAFC) and has worked with former members of Soviet junior national team such as Kvaratskhelia, Soviet champion Slava Grigoriev, and Andre Samoradov … graduated from Reagan High School, which also produced recent Notre Dame ace baseball pitcher Jeff Manship … top results in 200405 included: 15th at Junior World Cup in Madrid, Spain (Nov. ’04); 15th in U-20 bouts at N.A.C. in Overland Park, Kan. (Jan. ’05; 61st in open event); 18th at Junior Olympics in Arlington, Texas (Feb. ’05); and 12th at 2005 Summer Nationals (Sacramento, Calif.) … his ’03-’04 season (ranked #3 among U.S. U-17s) included: qualifying for U.S. team and placing 13th at Junior World Championships (Plovdiv, Bulgaria); a bronze medal at the Junior Olympics (Cleveland); 31st at U-20 World Cup in Como, Italy, and 12th in Louisville, Ky.; sixth at U-17 World Cup in St. Petersburg, Russia; and second at U-17 N.A.C. in Overland Park … fenced alongside Kershaw and Brendan Meyers on 2004 U.S. Cadet National Team (his 2004 Junior National teammates included Kershaw, Meyers and current OSU rival Kirk-Gordon) … his father Wendell Kubik fenced at Air Force from ’78-’81 (learning under Air Force fencing master Nick Toth) and later was coach of the Cadets from ’87-’91 (now a volunteer coach for SASF and CODP) … younger brothers Steve and Nick are promising young foil fencers (Steve fenced with U.S. at 2005 U-17 competition in Koblenz, Germany) … a USFA nationally-certified referee who has volunteered at various fencing camps … graduated first in his class … member of National Honor Society and National German Honor Society … fluent in German … his greatgrandfather, Andrew Kowalski, immigrated to the U.S. in early 1900s and was kitchen worker at Notre Dame before settling in Chicago … son of Wendell and Jenna Kubik … full name is Mark Wendell Kubik … born Jan. 19, 1987, in Colorado Springs … graduated as a chemical engineering major, in the College of Engineering.

2009-10 FENCING

77

Top Graduates

Franksville, Wisconsin St. Catherine’s

Tom Horton

Former walk-on was with the Irish for five years … a tremendous all-around athlete who was a standout tennis player during his prep sports career … a hard-working and intelligent fencer who is very quick on the strip and has a good selection of actions … able to shift his tactics to fit the situation … an excellent student who carried a 3.76 cumulative grade point average – including a 4.0 during the 2007 spring semester – as an accounting major.

AS A FIFTH-YEAR: Went 30-10 during the regular season … opened his senior year with a 2-1 showing at the NYU Invitational … went 12-2 at the Northwestern Duals, including 3-0 records against Northwestern, Cleveland State, Detroit and Lawrence … posted a 4-5 record at the Duke Duals … went 12-2 at the Notre Dame Duals … recorded his 100th career win at the Notre Dame Duals … finished 14th at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships … entered the direct elimination round of the championships as the 15th seed … downed Thomas Duvall of Bowling Green, 150, in the round of 64 and Northwestern’s Tom Fox, 15-7, in the round of 32 … lost to Mikhail Momtselidze of Ohio State, 15-1, in the round of 16.

AS A SENIOR: Finished the season with a 28-13 record … started the season with a 5-10 showing at the Western Invite … went 2-0 at the NYU Duals and 5-2 at the Northwestern Duals … finished the regular season with a 3-0 HORTON’S CAREER RECORD Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 Career

78

W 19 25 28 30 102

L 10 11 13 10 44

Pct. .655 .694 .683 .750 .699

NCAA Finish ------

record at the Duke Duals and a 13-1 record at the Notre Dame Duals … made the round of 16 at the Midwest Conference Championships … went 3-2 in the play-in pool to advance to the first round of the NCAA Midwest Regional … went 1-5 in the round-robin portion of the tournament before losing to Notre Dame teammate Bill Thanhouser in the first direct-elimination bout … then lost to Ohio State’s Dexter Wilde (15-10) before finishing his year with a 15-9 loss to Ohio State’s Robert Douville.

AS A JUNIOR: Posted a 25-11 record while serving as one of top reserves on the men’s sabre squad … his 8-7 record at the Notre Dame Duals included wins over Stanford’s Andrew Suciu (5-3), Wayne State’s Patrick Tomlinson (5-0) and the Cal State Fullerton duo of Pham Nguyen (5-4) and Richard Huang (5-1) … fenced in three bouts (2-1) at the NYU

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Duals before winning all nine of his bouts at the Midwest Duals (held at ND) … his 3-3 mark at the Duke Duals included wins over David Eitel from the host team (5-2), plus a pair of 5-3 victories over Johns Hopkins fencers Eitel and Andrew Carney … closed season by winning all three of his bouts at the Northwestern Duals.

AS A SOPHOMORE: Went 19-10 in his first season as a collegiate fencer … placed 37th in the mixed sabre competition at the Northwestern Open in the fall of 2005 … added 5-3 record later that fall at the Northwestern Duals, with 5-1 win over Cal State Fullerton’s Jon Bellone and pair of wins over fencers from Johns Hopkins (5-4 vs. Jake Sand; 5-1 vs. Carney) … his results in the 2006 spring regular season included a 4-2 record at the Notre Dame Duals, 7-1 at the Ohio State Duals and 3-4 at the UC San Diego Duals … placed 16th at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships.

PREP & PERSONAL: Earned six varsity letters as a two-sport standout at St. Catherine’s High School … twice placed fifth in the Wisconsin state high school tennis tournament … a four-time all-conference honoree and regional champion in tennis, also earning all-city honors three times and all-state as both a junior and senior … compiled 97-12 career record in tennis, including an unbeaten conference mark during all four of his seasons … also lettered in soccer as a junior and senior, helping team win conference and regional titles during both seasons … member of state semifinalist soccer team during his junior season before earning all-conference honors as senior team captain … member of the National Honor Society while at St. Catherine’s … brother-in-law to former Notre Dame foil All-American Forest Walton (who married his sister, Rebecca Horton) … born Aug. 30, 1986, in Racine, Wis. … son of Daniel and Susan Horton … full name is Thomas Daniel Horton … graduated as an accounting major, enrolled in the Mendoza College of Business.

Senior Portland, Oregon Oregon Episcopal School Oregon Fencing Alliance

Bill Thanhouser

HONORS & AWARDS 2007 All-American Academic All-America Candidate (3.65) U.S. Junior National Team (2006) Men’s Sabre Team Captain Brought excellent leadership skills and focus on team goals … lefthanded battler who had excellent technique and effective creation of speed to go along with keen reaction skills … an emotional competitor and vocal leader who thrived in big bouts … combined great footwork with strong will to win … hails from Oregon Fencing Alliance elite sabre academy that also has produced three current juniors on the Irish squad (Avery Zuck, Sarah Borrmann and Eileen Hassett), plus recent four-year All-Americans Patrick Ghattas and Valerie Providenza (in addition to 2004 and 2008 Olympic gold medalist Mariel Zagunis) … has strong drive to reach his own Olympic dream in the upcoming years … joined Notre Dame classmate Adi Nott (women’s foilist) and ND teammate Kelley Hurley (epee) as members of U.S. contingent that competed at Junior World Championships in Taebek City, South Korea (April ’06) … had one of the top U.S. individual finishes in Korea (14th) at 2006 Junior World Championships … turned in a sixth-place finish amidst an elite field at the North American Cup held in Tucson, Ariz.

(April ’07) … his other recent international events have included various Junior World Cups: THANHOUSER’S CAREER RECORD Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 Career

W 41 51 47 35 174

L 10 12 19 10 51

Pct. .804 .810 .712 .778 .773

NCAA Finish -6th 13th ---

sixth in Sosnowiec, Poland (summer ’05); 23rd in Dormagen, Germany (Nov. ’05); 67th in Budapest (Jan. ’06); and 126th in Dourdan, France (Feb ’06).

AS A SENIOR: Went 35-10 during the regular season before concluding his postseason with a sixth place finish at the NCAA Midwest Regional … started his senior year off strong, finishing 4-1 at the St. John’s Duals … clinched Notre Dame’s victory over St. John’s in the St. John’s Duals with a 5-2 win over Daryl Homer … went 9-5 at the NYU Invitational … earned his 150th career win at the NYU Invitational … added a 12-2 record at the Northwestern Duals, including 3-0 marks against both #10 North Carolina and Wayne State … finished 51 at the Notre Dame Duals, including a 3-0 mark against Florida … advanced to the quarterfinals of the Midwest Fencing Conference championships to claim eighth place and second-team All-Conference honors … defeated Purdue’s Emerson Correll, 15-3, in the first round of the championships … beat Michigan State’s Ryan Wagoner, 15-10, in the round of 32

and Notre Dame teammate Marcel Frenkel, 15-9, in the round of 16 … lost in the quarterfinals to OSU’s Mikhail Momtselidze,1511 … placed sixth at the NCAA Midwest Regional … lone win in the round of eight came against teammate Keith Feldman, 15-13, to advance to the fifth place bout where he lost to teammate Barron Nydam, 15-7.

AS A JUNIOR: Had impressive regular season (47-19) before placing third at the Midwest Conference Championships, fifth at the NCAA Midwest Regional and 13th at the NCAA Championships ... placed 12th at the annual Penn State Open, in the fall of 2007 … opened the spring season with a 13-2 record at the Western Invite … finished 9-7 at the NYU duals … went 9-5 at the Northwestern Duals and 7-5 at the Duke Duals … finished the regular season by going undefeated at the Notre Dame Duals (9-0) … finished third at the Midwest Conference Championships … went 2-3 in the first round pool at the NCAA Midwest Regional to earn a seventh seed in the directelimination portion of the tournament … advanced to the finals with a 158 win over Notre Dame teammate Tom Horton and a 15-7 win over Ohio State’s Sergey Smirnov … fell to Smirnov (15-11) in the quarterfinals before defeating Lawrence’s Nils Schaede (15-4) and Ohio State’s Mike Momtselidze (15-13) to finish fifth and advance to the NCAA Championships … at the NCAA Championships, went 11-12 in the round robin portion, good for a 13th-place finish.

AS A SOPHOMORE: Finished the 2007 regular season with the 10th-most wins (51-12) ever by a Notre Dame men’s sabre fencer … went on to have a strong postseason, placing fifth at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships, second at the NCAA Midwest Regional and sixth at the NCAAs (good for second team All-America honors) … opened with 24-3 record at the Notre Dame Duals, highlighted by wins over several All-Americans and NCAA Tournament veterans – such as Ohio State’s Jason Paul (5-4), Stanford’s Teddy Levitt (5-3), UC San Diego’s Jason Runyan (51) and Detroit’s Jarek Jelinek (5-3) … his 10-5

2009-10 FENCING

79

Top Graduates record at the NYU Duals included similar noteworthy wins over Columbia’s James Williams (5-4), Luther Clement of St. John’s (5-3), OSU’s Jason Paul (5-2) and Yale’s Christopher Peterson (5-4) … kept rolling at the Duke Duals (102), with more top wins over Air Force’s C.J. Baran (5-0), North Carolina’s Will Randolph (5-4) and Peter Truszkowski from the home team (5-0) … topped his club teammate Ian Farr (from Penn State; 5-2) as part of his 7-2 record at the Northwestern Duals … lost to OSU’s Paul in the MFC quarterfinals (12-15; placed 5th) but avenged that loss the next day in the MFC team final (with a 5-3 win over Paul) … entered Midwest Regional (at ND) as the #4 seed but had to overcome early upset loss to OSU’s Dexter Wilde (9-15) … battled back to reach the regional semifinals, beating Smirnov (15-13) but losing the final to OSU Momtselidze (10-15) … opened NCAAs in Madison, N.J., with 10-4 record on day one – featuring top wins over Columbia’s Alexander Krul (5-4) and Detroit’s Jelinek (5-2) … added 7-2 record on day two of NCAAs, tying for fourth place (17-6; ended up sixth, based on total-point indicators) … that strong finish included his first career wins over OSU’s Momtselidze (5-4) and another All-American, Ben Igoe of Rutgers (53), plus other noteworthy victories over OSU’s Smirnov (5-0), SJU’s Torian Brown (5-3), Stanford’s Levitt (5-1) and PSU’s Farr (5-4) … he and Ghattas (18-5) had the most combined wins in the 2007 NCAA men’s sabre field … their 35 combined wins are third-most ever by an ND men’s sabre duo in NCAA action (since current format started in ’95) – behind the 2000 pair of Gabor Szelle (20) and Andrzej Bednarski (17), and the 1997 duo of Bill Lester (21) and Luke LaValle (15) … combined with Ghattas to win 18 straight bouts at one point during the NCAAs, spanning the two days … went 3-1 in one-touch bouts during the NCAAs … entered Penn State Open in fall of 2006 as #8 seed and placed 12th, with pair of early wins over OSU’s Paul (5-2; 5-3) before losing in round of 16 to Momtselidze (9-15) … placed eighth in his final event of 2006, the North American Cup in Richmond, Va. – finishing behind some top names in U.S. men’s sabre fencing (former NCAA champs Keeth Smart, Crompton and Lee, plus Harvard’s Tim Hagamen, RU’s Igoe, Penn’s Matt Kolasa and national-teamer Tim Morehouse) … gave Smart a battle in the Richmond N.A.C. quarterfinals before falling, 12-15.

AS A FRESHMAN: Turned in a solid first season with the Irish, going 41-10 in regularseason bouts before 12th-place finish at the MFCs and eighth-place showing at Midwest Regional (leaving him just shy of spot in NCAAs) … opened with 13-3 record at North-

80

western Duals that included top wins over Stanford’s Levitt (5-4), UCSD’s Bret Martin (5-2) and the UNC duo of Robert Ziechmann (5-4) and Randolph (5-1) … posted several impressive wins at NYU Duals (8-6), including comeback from 0-4 deficit versus Columbia’s Krul (5-4) and win by same score over two-time NCAA champion Crompton of Ohio State (5-4), plus victories over Columbia’s Alex Diacou (5-2) and SJU’s Nikita Tsukhlo (5-4) … did not compete in ND Duals (Jan. ’06) due to Junior World Cup event in Spain, where he placed third … closed regular season 6-0 at OSU Duals and 14-1 at UCSD Duals, with top wins over Stanford’s Curtis Andrus (5-2), Air Force’s Baran (5-1), and the UCSD duo of Martin (5-1) and Runyan (5-1) … finished 12th at MFCs, after loss in round of 16 to OSU’s Paul (13-15) … headed to Cleveland as #3 seed for regional but dropped to #7 seed for direct elimination (4-2 in pool bouts) before losing to Paul in quarterfinals (10-15), followed by losses to his ND teammate Matt Stearns (14-15) and then Detroit’s Jelinek (12-15) in seventh-place bout … reached round of 16 (10-15 loss to Ghattas) at Penn State Open in fall of ’05 … his 2005-06 USFA events included placing 16th at N.A.C. in Overland Park, Kan. (Jan. ’05), a third-place showing in U-19 bouts at 2005 Summer Nationals (Sacramento, Calif.), a fifth-place finish at the Albuquerque N.A.C. (Nov. ’05), placing 11th in U-20 bouts and 24th overall at the Houston N.A.C. (Jan. ’06), and finishing 15th at 2006 Summer Nationals in Atlanta.

PREP & PERSONAL: Attended Oregon Episcopal School (as did Ghattas) while training

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

at Oregon Fencing Alliance, coached by former ND assistant Ed Korfanty … nationally ranked throughout youth fencing career … undefeated in bouts with OFA as junior and senior (team captain both years) … his 2004-05 national and international results included: 22nd at Junior Olympics, 14th at Summer Nationals, 19th at Louisville (Ky.) Junior World Cup and 63rd at Dormagen (Germany) Junior World Cup … member of U.S. cadet-level (U-17) men’s sabre national team in 2003 … won cadet and junior-level men’s sabre title at 2003 PanAm Championships (in Guadeloupe) … placed 13th at 2003 Junior World Championships (Trapani, Italy) … other top 2003 results included: winning U-17 title, taking 3rd-place in U-20s and helping junior men’s sabre team post 4thplace showing at Summer Nationals (Austin, Texas); and placing 10th in Columbus, Ohio, 12th in Palm Springs, Calif., and 19th in Overland Park, Kan. (all as a D-I competitor in those N.A.C.’s) … selected for Nov. 24, 2003, issue of Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd” … his top 2002 events included winning U-17 title at N.A.C. in Orlando, being runner-up at similar event in Greenville, S.C., and pair of eighthplace cadet finishes at World Cup in Godollo, Hungary, and Junior World Cup in Louisville … lettered as midfielder on OES soccer team during junior year … served as student body vice-president … son of Ned and Anne Thanhouser … full name is William Lloyd Thanhouser … born March 18, 1986, in Portland, Ore. … graduated from the Program of Liberal Studies major, in the College of Arts and Letters.

History & Records

(L-R) Epeeist Tim Glass, foilist Pat Gerard, sabreist Mike Sullivan, head coach Mike DeCicco and athletic director Moose Krause celebrate Notre Dame’s first NCAA fencing title in 1977.

Fencing History The storied history of Notre Dame fencing includes seven national titles, almost 250 AllAmericans and a .900 all-time winning percentage.

The program’s highlights span moments of highpressure performances, displays of pure domination and memorable upsets by Irish fencers who would not be denied.

And to think that one of Notre Dame’s great sport dynasties can trace its genesis to an accident.

Pedro DeLandero grew up at the turn of the 20th century in Guadalajara, Mexico, graduating from Notre Dame in 1911 before returning to his homeland. Some 20 years later, with revolution in Mexico, DeLandero returned to Notre Dame as a Spanish professor – but a 1934 automobile accident left him with a dilemma. Doctors prescribed rehabilitation through swimming while DeLandero suggested fencing. Nearly 70 years later, Notre Dame owes many thanks to his love of fencing – and to his aversion of the water.

DeLandero founded a small fencing club that became Notre Dame’s eighth varsity sport in 1936.

He returned to Mexico and handed the program to language professor Walt Langford, who set Notre Dame on course as a fencing power.

Langford coached two stretches from 1940-61, with former Irish fencer Herb Melton serving as the program’s coach from 1947-50.

The final spark was provided in 1962, when Mike DeCicco began his 34-year run as the leader of Notre Dame fencing. DeCicco had fenced at Notre Dame in the late 1940s, returning in 1954 as an engineering teacher and assistant fencing coach.

Three decades later, he had become one of the great coaching legends in Notre Dame history.

Beginning with a third-place finish in 1975, Notre Dame has claimed seven NCAA titles and 27 other top-five finishes, including 13 runner-up and 10 third-place efforts. All told, the Notre Dame men and women finished 1st-5th at 36 of 42 NCAA events from 1975-2009 (the women held their own NCAAs from ‘82-’89).

Notre Dame made some noise at the 1955 NCAAs, when unknown Don Tadrowski claimed the epee title (22-4). Suddenly, the fencing program – which made its NCAA debut in ‘47 – had gained credibility. Tadrowski repeated as an AllAmerican in 1956, epeeist Dennis Hemmerle was the ’57 NCAA runner-up, and the sixth-place ’58 team was led by epeeist Ron Farrow (3rd) and foilist Jim Russamano (4th).

That remained the top Irish finish until 1964, when one team’s loss was another’s gain. Bill Ferrance had hopes of making the Notre Dame basketball team but he was cut in December of 1963. Ferrance stopped by fencing practice, under the bleachers of the Notre Dame Fieldhouse, where classmate Sam Crimone was the top sabreman.

Just months later, Ferrance parlayed his athleticism and competitive spirit into a stunning fourthplace finish at the 1964 NCAA foil competition – with Crimone and epeeist Dick Marks placing eighth to give the Irish a fifth-place finish (Ferrance also went on to place fifth at the 1965 NCAAs).

82

Notre Dame Fencing Springs from Modest Beginnings to National Prominence Irish fencers have combined for seven NCAA team titles, 24 individual gold medals and 248 All-America honors

Pedro DeLandero (left) founded the Notre Dame fencing team in the mid-1930s, with the program growing to be one of the most successful in Notre Dame and NCAA history.

Notre Dame added women’s fencing in 1974 and the Irish men returned to the national picture by claiming third at the 1975 NCAAs, led by AllAmericans Tim Glass (epee), Mike McCahey (foil) and Sam DiFiglio (sabre).

Talented sabreist Mike Sullivan (3rd place) and Glass (4th) were up to the task in Philadelphia and put the third-place Irish in contention for the 1976 NCAA title.

Plenty of drama was waiting one year later at the Joyce Center (the Irish also hosted in 1970, ’82, ’85, ’87, ’90, ’92, ’95 and ’98). Sullivan (20-2) ran away with the sabre title, while foilist Pat Gerard (18-4) posted his own gold-medal finish.

Unlikely results – Sullivan’s loss to Clemson’s Steve Renshaw and a loss by NYU’s Miklos Benedek to Navy’s Robert Richards – left Notre Dame and NYU tied at 114. Three previous ties had led to

Pat Gerard (left) won a historic foil bout in the 1977 NCAA Championship that gave Notre Dame its first national title in a thrilling fence-off.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

co-champs but a new NCAA format called for a tiebreaker.

Sabre was contested first and Benedek took a 32 lead before Sullivan rallied, 5-3. With an electric atmosphere encircling the strip, Gerard jumped ahead 3-0 versus Tom Valjasic (they split earlier 54 bouts) and closed out the title in a 5-0 bout, before being mobbed by the Irish faithful. Glass (fourth) never had to compete in the fence-off, where he would have faced champion Hans Wieselgren. The day concluded with DeCicco being named coach of the year, an honor he also received in ’66, ’75 and ’92.

The 1978 season saw epeeist Bjorn Vaggo (302) combine with Sullivan (41-0) and Gerard (313) for a record of 102-5. Sullivan then won all 23 bouts to repeat as the NCAA champion,Vaggo also picked up a gold medal and Gerard was second (he lost in the final :02), as Notre Dame ran away with the 1978 title at Wisconsin-Parkside.

Notre Dame – led by NCAA foil champ Andy Bonk – added a runner-up finish in 1979, with Sullivan losing in his final. A six-year, 122-match winning streak ended in 1980 but the Irish were back in the title hunt in 1983, nipped by Wayne State 86-80, with epeeist Ola Harstrom (29-2) becoming the Irish program’s seventh national champ.

Two years later, Wayne State edged Notre Dame (141-140) for the 1985 title but the Irish won their third NCAA title at Princeton in 1986, behind foilists Yehuda Kovacs (runner-up) and Charles Higgs-Coulthard (3rd), epeeists Mike Gostigian (3rd) and Christian Scherpe (4th), and sabreists Don Johnson (6th) and John Edwards.

The 1986 season marked the addition of women’s head coach Yves Auriol to the Notre Dame staff. Sophomore foilist Molly Sullivan claimed the NCAA title to help the Irish women finish second. Sullivan placed third in 1987 but Notre Dame won the team title, with Janice Hynes, Kristin Kralicek and Anne Barreda rounding out the winning effort.

Sullivan returned to Princeton’s Jadwin Gym and won her second NCAA title (equaled by just

four other ND student-athletes), with Barreda finishing third to match the team’s finish. Sullivan lost four previous bouts versus Wayne State’s Loredana Ranza but she won the 9-7 title bout, with the Irish men placing second.

The 1990 season saw the men’s 98-match win streak end while Jubba Beshin won the NCAA epee title, assisted by teammate David Calderhead’s quarterfinal win over top seed Jim Marsh of Penn State. Beshin, foilist Noel Young and sabreist Leszek Nowosielski placed second at the 1991 NCAAs, with a foil title from Heidi Piper (the ’90 runner-up) helping Notre Dame repeat at third place in the combined NCAAs. Following fourth- and sixth-place finishes in ‘92 and ‘93, Notre Dame won the 1994 NCAA title at Brandeis – despite totaling just three AllAmericans (foilist Jeremy Siek, sabreist Chris Hajnik and epeeist Rakesh Patel). The team-scoring format saw Notre Dame finish third in women’s foil, first in men’s foil and fourth in men’s sabre – leaving it up to men’s epee, which rallied from a 4-2 deficit to beat Air Force in pool-play (54 wins from Grzegorz Wozniak, Rian Girard and Patel). A 5-1 semifinal win over Wayne State clinched the title, leaving Penn State stunned at the sudden change.

Notre Dame was third at the 1995 NCAAs, under a format emphasizing individual results, with sabreist Bill Lester and foilist Maria Panyi capturing silver medals. The Irish then were runner-up to Penn State in each of the next five NCAAs, with near-misses in 1997 (1,530-1,470), 1998 (149-147) and 2000 (175-171).

The Irish women pushed their win streak to 75 matches in 1996, when foilist Sara Walsh posted her first of two NCAA runner-up finishes.

Women’s epeeist Magda Krol was crowned the 1997 NCAA champ, as were men’s sabreists Luke La Valle (1998) and Gabor Szelle (2000) – followed by women’s epeeist Kerry Walton and foilist Alicja Kryczalo at the 2002 NCAAs. Kryczalo repeated as NCAA champ in 2003 while the Irish edged Penn State (182-179) for the team title, at Air Force (see pp. 78-79). Kryczalo

Head coach Yves Auriol saw his 2002 women’s squad turn in an impressive performance at the NCAAs, with sophomore Kerry Walton (far left) winning the epee title while Alicja Kryczalo (far right) defeated fellow freshman Andrea Ament (second from left) in the foil title bout.

2009-10 FENCING

With Third Team All-America honors in 2009, Adrienne Nott became the Notre Dame fencing program’s 18th four-time all-American.

then became just the second women’s fencer ever to win three or more NCAA titles (in ‘04) while freshman Valerie Providenza won the ‘04 sabre title and Walton was the epee runner-up.

Notre Dame’s 2004 squad was the first in NCAA history to produce NCAA finalists in all three women’s weapons but the Irish placed third in the combined standings, due in large part to an injury that sidelined two-time All-America foilist Derek Snyder.

The 2005 NCAAs then produced Notre Dame’s seventh national title in dramatic fashion, as the Irish created an historic rally to erase a 24-point deficit versus Ohio State (173-171; see pp. 80-81).

Notre Dame saw its fencers advance to five of the six NCAA weapon finals in 2005, with Michal Sobieraj winning the men’s epee title while Kryczalo, Patrick Ghattas (men’s sabre), Amy Orlando (women’s epee) and Mariel Zagunis (women’s sabre) each finished as runner-up.

Ghattas went on to repeat his second-place finish at the 2006 NCAAs (he also was the 2007 runnerup) while Zagunis won her 2006 title-bout rematch with Columbia’s Emily Jacobson (her teammate from the 2004 U.S. Olympic team).

In 2008, the men and women combined to finish in second place at the NCAAs. Kelley Hurley (Epee) and Sarah Borrmann (Sabre) took gold medals at the event, marking the 11th and 12th times a female Notre Dame fencer has won an individual national championship.

In 2009, the Irish once again fell just shy of the program’s eighth national title as they finished in second place. The men and women combined for 10 All-American honors, led by a pair of foilists in Gerek Meinhardt and Hayley Reese as the duo claimed silver medals. Meinhardt was Notre Dame's first men's foil silver medalist since Ozren Debic in 2000, while Reese was Notre Dame's first women's foil silver medalist since Alicja Kryczalo in 2005.

The Irish also had a strong showing in women’s epee as freshman Courtney Hurley and sophomore teammate Ewa Nelip finished tied for third to earn bronze medals. The duo combined for a 38-6 record in pool play, the highest total among teammates at the four-day championship.

83

otre Dame’s 2003 NCAA fencing title truly was a team effort, with all 12 fencers contributing in a condensed two-day format due to storms in the Colorado Springs area.

The Irish rode an unprecedented 11 All-Americans to edge Penn State (182-179), followed by St. John’s (171) and Ohio State (167). Alicja Kryczalo (19-4 round-robin) repeated as women’s foil champ while Michal Sobieraj – who was 10th in 2002 – nearly won the men’s epee title, posting the top round-robin mark (20-3) and losing an overtime title bout.

Foilist Ozren Debic (18 wins) and epeeist Jan Viviani (12) logged their fourth AllAmerica finishes while sabreist Gabor Szelle (12) and epeeist Meagan Call (13) earned their third. Kerry Walton (15) was short of repeating as women’s epee champ while foilists Andrea Ament (19) and Derek Snyder (17) again were AllAlicja Kryczalo Andrea Ament Americans.

(So.; Gdansk, Poland) (So.; Gates Mills, OH) Senior sabreists Matt NCAA Champion (19-4) 3rd-Place (19-4) Fabricant (15) and Destanie Milo (16) provided clutch Women’s Foil wins in their first All-America finishes, with sabreist Maggie The “A Team” combined for key sweeps of PSU’s Anna Donath Jordan (6) adding key wins and Meredith Chin, and SJU’s Elizabeth Thottham. Kryczalo added a sweep of OSU’s Hanna and Metta Thompson, with for the narrow victory.

Ament posting a win over Hanna. Kryczalo’s clincher over Stanford’s Iris Zimmermann was a preview of the title bout (pictured).

N

NOTRE DAME FENCING (sitting, from left) Tiffany Muller, Natalie Tenner, Jocelyn Landgraf, Beth Emilian, Rebecca Chimahusky, Jill Inghram, Anna Carnick and senior manager Natalie Ortiz ... (second row, from left) Natalie Bustamante, Andrea Ament, Liza Boutsikaris, Colleen Walsh, Destanie Milo, Danielle Davis, Maggie Jordan, Kerry Walton, Meagan Call and Alicja Kryczalo ... (third row, from left) head coach Janusz Bednarski, Alex Schumacher, Sean Donovan, North Carey Derek Snyder, Matt Fabricant, Ozren Debic, Nick Schumacher, Johannes Masserer,

Ozren Debic

Derek Snyder

Meagan Call

Kerry Walton

Michal Sobieraj

(Sr.; Zagreb, Croatia) 4th-Place (18-5)

(So.; Chatsworth, CA) 5th-Place (17-6)

(Sr.; Eugene, OR) 10th-Place (13-10)

(Jr.; Londonderry, NH) 5th-Place (15-8)

(So.; Krakow, Poland) NCAA Runner-Up (20-3)

Men’s Foil

Women’s Epee

The Notre Dame tandem combined for a number of key sweeps, over PSU’s Chris Miller, OSU’s Nathan Weir and Matt Carbone, and Stanford’s Florian Reichling and Steve Gerberman. Snyder added top wins over Yale’s Cory Werk and Penn’s Yale Cohen, with Debic also beating Cohen.

Both Notre Dame fencers bested OSU’s Sherice Gearhart, with Walton adding key wins over OSU’s Alexandra Shklar and Megan Phair of Cornell while Call registered a huge win over PSU’s Jessie Burke and added a quality victory over regional rival Anna Vinnikov of Wayne State.

Men

Sobieraj’s top round-robin m Adam Wiercioch and sweeps o Jones and Princeton’s Soren Th Viviani’s key wins coming ver Force’s Seth Kelsey (pictured,

2003 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM volunteer administrative assistant M.D. McNally and assistant coach Zoltan Dudas ... (back row, from left) Gabor Szelle, Jack Goetz, Jan Viviani, T.J. McNally, Adam Harvey, Michal Sobieraj, Forest Walton, Matt Castellan, Brian Dosal and Mike Macaulay (not pictured: Brendan Prendergast)

Jan Viviani

Maggie Jordan

Destanie Milo

Gabor Szelle

Matt Fabricant

(Sr.; Haworth, NJ) 10th-Place (12-11)

(Jr.; Maplewood, NJ) 21st-Place (7-16)

(Jr.; Knox, IN) 6th-Place (16-7)

(Sr.; Budapest, Hungary) 11th-Place (12-11)

(Sr.; Elizabeth, NJ) 6th-Place (15-8)

n’s Epee

mark included a win over PSU’s of OSU’s Brian Gross and Spencer hompson and Ben Solomon – with rsus SJU’s Arpad Horvath and Air in title bout vs. Sobieraj).

Women’s Sabre

Men’s Sabre

Milo (pictured) had key late sweep of PSU’s Heather Brosnan and Austin O’Neill, with other top wins over SJU’s Julia Gelman, OSU’s Maguerite Plekhanov and NCAA champ Alexis Jemal (Rutgers). Jordan added an early win over Northwestern’s Emily Pasternak and a huge late victory over PSU’s O’Neill.

The veteran duo had a timely sweep of SJU’s Sergey Isayenko, with both adding noteworthy wins over Columbia’s Andrew Sohn and Brown’s Paul Friedman. Fabricant (pictured) combined with women’s sabre istDestanie Milo for major jumps from previous NCAAs.

NCAA Championship Teams 1977 NCAA Men’s Champions (from left) Fourth-place epeeist Tim Glass (16-7), foil champion Pat Gerard (184) and sabre champ Mike Sullivan (20-2) celebrate Notre Dame’s first NCAA fencing title with two legends (head coach Mike DeCicco and athletic director Moose Krause).

1978 NCAA Men’s Champions The Irish finished the round-robin at the Notre Dame Joyce Center tied with NYU for first place (at 114), with the new fenceoff tiebreaker used to decare a winner. Sullivan rallied to beat Miklos Benedek in the first bout (5-3) and an electric atmosphere encircled the strip as Gerard shut out Tom Valjasic (5-0, after splitting earlier 5-4 bouts) before being mobbed by the Notre Dame faithful.

Glass never had to compete in the fenceoff and DeCicco picked up his third of four national coach-of-the-year awards.

(from left) Sabre champ Mike Sullivan (23-0), coach Mike DeCicco, foil runner-up Pat Gerard (19-3) and epee champ Bjorn Vaggo (19-4) remain one of the most dominant teams in NCAA history – delivering the program’s second consecutive title as the Irish ran away from the field at WisconsinParkside (the power trio also was 102-5 in the regular season).

1987 NCAA Women’s Champions (kneeling from left) Anne Barreda and Kristin Kralicek combined with (standing, from left) Janice Hynes and third-place finisher Molly Sullivan (13-2) to help win the 1987 NCAA women’s title, with the competition held at Notre Dame’s Joyce Center.

1986 NCAA Men’s Champions Notre Dame’s contingent that won the 1986 NCAA title – besting Columbia, 151-141, at Princeton – included (from left, on podium steps) sabreist Don Johnson (9th place), foilists Yehuda Kovacs (2nd) and Charles Higgs-Coulthard (3rd), sabreist John Edwards (17th) and epeeists Christian Scherpe (4th) and Mike Gostigan (3rd). They were joined in the celebration by (bottom row, from left) sabre captain Tony Consoli, assistant coach Yves Auriol, foil captain Mike Van der Velden, head coach Mike DeCicco and epee captain Tim Vaughan.

2003 NCAA Combined Champions

1994 NCAA Combined Champions The Irish won the combined NCAA title in 1994 at Brandeis, under the team-scoring format that saw Notre Dame place third in women’s foil, first in men’s foil and fourth in men’s sabre – with men’s epee rallying to beat Air Force in pool-play before besting Wayne State in the semifinals for the clinching points. Top performers included All-Americans Jeremy Siek (5th in foil), Chris Hajnik (10th in sabre) and Rakesh Patel (12th in epee).

2005 NCAA Combined Champions Notre Dame’s historic rally to edge Ohio State for the 2005 title (173-171) included the efforts of: (front row, from left) epeeist Amy Orlando (2nd), foilist Andrea Ament (7th) and epeeist Kerry Walton (14th); (back row, from left) epeeist Aaron Adjemian (24th), sabreists Patrick Ghattas (2nd), Mariel Zagunis (2nd), Valerie Providenza (4th) and Matt Stearns (10th), foilist Jakub Jedrkowiak (7th), epeeist Michal Sobieraj (1st) and foilist Alicja Kryczalo (2nd). See pp. 56-57 for details.

88

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

(seated, from left) Sabreist Destanie Milo (6th), epeeist Meagan Call (10th), foilist Andrea Ament (3rd), sabreist Maggie Jordan (21st), foilist Alicja Kryczalo (1st) and epeeist Kerry Walton (5th); (standing, from left) sabreists Gabor Szelle (11th) and Matt Fabricant (6th), foilist Derek Snyder (5th), epeeist Michal Sobieraj (2nd), foilist Ozren Debic (4th) and epeeist Jan Viviani (10th) combined for 182 points, edging Penn State (179) for the 2003 title at Air Force (see pp. 54-55 for details).

Coaching Legends

Michael DeCicco Legendary coach led Irish to five national championships during his 34 years as head coach Michael DeCicco is the man who built the Notre Dame fencing team into the perennial power that it is today and has been for nearly 50 years. He retired from the school after the 1995 season with 41 years of service to Notre Dame. In four decades at Notre Dame, he served in various avenues, always giving of himself unconditionally out of love for his alma mater.

DeCicco – a 2002 inductee into the ItalianAmerican Athletic Hall of Fame – arrived at Notre Dame from Newark, N.J., in 1945 as a freshman.

Fencing resumed competition in 1947 after a three-year hiatus because of the war and DeCicco starred for the Irish as he compiled a 63-20 career record. He fenced foil, sabre and epee during his career, the last Notre Dame fencer to compete in all three weapons. His 29-1 record in foil as a junior earned him a spot in the NCAA championships. His 45-4 career foil record (.918) still ranks third on Notre Dame’s all-time list for career foil winning percentage.

“When I first came to Notre Dame, I had no idea they even had a fencing team,” DeCicco says.

“Thanks to Walter Langford, who kept fencing at Notre Dame alive after the war, I was given the opportunity to fence for Notre Dame. Coming to Notre Dame as a student and then as a fencer was a happy experience and is something that I’m very proud of.”

Following his graduation in 1949, DeCicco returned to New Jersey to work on his master’s degree and his doctorate. In 1954, he accepted an offer to return to Notre Dame to finish his doctoral studies.

DeCicco took a teaching position in the engineering department and became Langford’s assistant coach.

“I first came here to teach but it was also a special opportunity to work with my mentor as an assistant coach,” says DeCicco.

In 1962, after serving as assistant to Langford, DeCicco became the fourth head coach in the 30year history of the fencing program.

DeCicco began his head coaching career with a modest start, a 7-8 record in 1962. But the best was most definitely to come as the 1962 team marked his only losing season as a head coach. None of his other teams ever finished with more than four

losses. After that 1962 season, DeCicco’s teams won almost 95 percent of their matches and he finished with a staggering 680-45 (.938) career coaching record.

The list of accomplishments by Notre Dame fencing teams under the brilliant guidance of DeCicco is almost endless: five national championship teams, eight NCAA individual champions, a 122-match winning streak spanning six seasons (four consecutive undefeated seasons), 12 undefeated and nine one-loss campaigns, almost 100 All-Americans and four national coach of the year selections. In addition to his collegiate accomplishments, DeCicco also left his mark on the national and international levels, coaching and representing the United States in numerous Olympic and World Championship events.

For DeCicco, more important than his impressive resume of fencing feats were the athletes behind them. He always took great pleasure in getting to know all of his fencers, despite the vast number that came and went through the program in his 34 years as a coach.

“Fencing gave me a unique opportunity to work with some 700 athletes, forming close relationships with them virtually every afternoon at practice.

This always has been very special to me,” says DeCicco.

Among his more proud accomplishments is the development of the women’s team as one of Notre Dame’s first varsity sports for women in 1977.

DeCicco was able to form a solid foundation for the women’s team that he coached until 1986, when Yves Auriol took over and built on that foundation.

Another of his pet projects was the academic advising program that DeCicco founded in 1964 after executive vice president Rev. Edmund Joyce, C.S.C., had asked him to start the program from scratch. The advising program was the first of its kind.

“With the help of a lot of people, we were able to start an academic advising program that has become a model around the country,” says DeCicco. “Father Hesburgh and Father Joyce were 10 years ahead of everyone else when they saw the need for this program.”

DeCicco headed the Office of the Academic Advisor for Athletes until 1990, with the department now known as Academic Services for Student-Athletes. DeCicco rapidly expanded the program to include all student-athletes and initiated the tutorial assistance program, class monitoring program and degree progress reports that remain the foundation of the office.

In his time as coach and advisor, DeCicco truly made a difference for the Notre Dame family. The love and total commitment he showed for Notre Dame were as much as any individual could possibly give an institution.

“All of our accomplishments never would have been possible if I were coaching at some other school,” says DeCicco. “Notre Dame made that possible. For that I will be eternally grateful.”

Notre Dame is equally grateful.

2009-10 FENCING

89

Coaching Legends

Pedro DeLandero

Walt Langford

Herb Melton

Yves Auriol

Head Coach 1934-39 38-12-2 (75.0 percent)

Head Coach 1940-43, 1951-61 155-35 (81.6 percent)

Head Coach 1947-1950 30-5 (85.7 percent)

Head Women’s Coach 1986-2002 364-24 (93.8 percent)

Pedro DeLandero started the fencing program at Notre Dame in 1934 as a club sport. DeLandero, a Spanish professor at the University at the time, began fencing in his younger years while living in Mexico, as a form of rehabilitation for leg injuries suffered in an automobile accident.

DeLandero noted student interest on campus and started a fencing club for students. He coached the 1935 and ‘36 teams to perfect records and witnessed the elevation of fencing to varsity status in 1936.

After coaching the Irish to 7-2 records in both 1938 and ‘39, DeLandero decided to return to his native Mexico and turned the reins over to a colleague in the foreign language department, Walt Langford.

DeLandero’s sons, Carlos and Telmo, both fenced at Notre Dame under their father’s tutelage.

DeLandero was a 1911 graduate of Notre Dame and returned to the University in 1933 to teach Spanish.

He also coached the varsity tennis team to a 16-26-1 record (.386) from 1935-39. DeLandero passed away in 1943, at the age of 55 in Mexico City.

Walt Langford took control of the Notre Dame fencing and tennis programs in 1940, when Pedro DeLandero returned to Mexico. Langford – who also taught Spanish – coached the Irish to a 19-13 record before the fencing program was suspended after the 1943 season due to a lack of weapons created by World War II. Future Irish coach Herb Melton fenced sabre under Langford in 1941-43.

After the war, Langford turned the head coaching position over to Melton.

Langford became head coach again in 1951 (after Melton left the University) and coached the Irish to eight NCAA top-10 finishes while seeing six of his fencers earn All-America honors. Don Tadrowski became Notre Dame’s first individual champion, winning the 1955 epee title.

Langford also coached the Irish to an undefeated (16-0) record in 1958. He left Notre Dame in 1961 to head the Peace Corps in Chile and turned the coaching job over to coach Mike DeCicco. He also coached the Irish tennis squad to a 9530-1 (.758) record between 1940 and 1953, leading the Irish to the 1944 national intercollegiate championship.

The McAllen, Texas, native graduated from Notre Dame in 1930 and began teaching in the language department a year later. He was named department chairman in 1946 and held that position until his departure in 1961.

Langford died in St. Louis on Feb. 28, 2001, at the age of 92.

90

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Herb Melton became Notre Dame’s fencing coach in 1947, when the program was restarted after being suspended due to World War II. Melton fenced sabre for the Irish between 1941 and 1943 and participated in the 1941 NCAA Championships.

The Paducah, Ky., native returned to Notre Dame after the war to attend law school and coached the fencing team for four seasons. Melton led the 1950 Irish to an undefeated 9-0 mark on the way to finishing sixth in the NCAA tournament, with foilist Nick Scalera and epeeist Ralph Dixon becoming Notre Dame’s first All-Americans.

Future Notre Dame head coach Mike DeCicco fenced all three weapons between 1947 and 1950 and also competed in the 1948 NCAA tournament during Melton’s head coaching tenure.

Melton – a 1943 Notre Dame graduate – left the University in 1950 to practice law in Paducah. He maintained a keen interest in fencing until his death in 1996.

Head Men’s Coach 1996-2002 161-9 (94.7 percent) Yves Auriol announced his retirement prior to the 2002 season, his 18th year as head coach of the Irish women’s team and seventh as men’s coach.

During Auriol’s tenure, Notre Dame fencers combined for 69 All-America honors (eight NCAA champions), plus five Academic All- America citations. His 1987 squad claimed the NCAA women’s fencing title while his ‘94 women’s squad helped Notre Dame win the NCAA combined title. In seven other seasons under Auriol, Irish teams finished as the NCAA runner-up – including every year from 1996-2000.

Auriol was named the national coach of the year following the ’01 and ‘02 seasons. The 2001 squad produced six men’s All-Americans while the 2002 team included 10 total All-Americans (both unprecedented in ND history).

Auriol’s teams won 94 percent of their matches (525-33), including 364-24 (.938) by the women and 161-9 (.947) by the men.

A native of France, Auriol graduated in 1955 from Lycee de Toulouse and earned a degree as a fencing master from the Institute National du Sport in Paris.

He moved, in 1972, to Portland, Ore., where he formed the Salle Auriol Fencing Club and spent some time as Portland State’s women’s fencing coach (’75-’85). He served as a U.S. coach at the 1980-88 Olympic Games and coached U.S. fencers at various world championship events in the 1970s.

Auriol – presented with an honorary monogram by the Notre Dame National Monogram Club in 2001 – and his wife, Georgette, are parents of a son, Stephane, a foilist on the Notre Dame fencing team from 1996-99.

Four-Year All-Americans The fencing program has played a lead role in Notre Dame’s storied athletic history, which has produced 29 student-athletes who have been fouryear All-Americans in the same sport (10 men’s fencers, eight women’s fencers, four women’s soccer players, five distance runners, a men’s basketball player and a baseball player). In addition to the fencers listed on these pages, others have included cross country runner Oliver Hunter (’40-’43), basketball’s Kevin O’Shea (’47-’50), soccer players Holly Manthei (’94-’97), Anne Makinen (’97-’00), Jen Grubb (’96-’99) and Kerri Hanks (’05-’08), baseball pitcher Aaron Heilman (’98-’01), and distance runners Ryan Shay (’97-’02) and Molly Huddle (’03-’07). Prior to freshman eligibility, foilist Jim Russamano (’58-’60) was Notre Dame fencing’s only three-year All-American.

Molly Sullivan • Foil NCAAs: 1985 – 5th (11-3) 1986 – 1st (15-0) 1987 – 3rd (13-2) 1988 – 1st (15-0) Career: 54-5 (.915)

Jeremy Siek • Foil

Highly intelligent student-athlete who went on to earn prestigious NCAA post-graduate scholarship … an extra coach on the strip, due to his great fencing knowledge and personal skills … his 5th-place foil finish helped win 1994 NCAA team title …

Newmarket, N.H.

NCAAs: 1976 – 3rd (22-5) 1977 – 1st (20-2) 1978 – 1st (23-0) 1979 – 2nd (30-2) Career: 95-9 (.913)

Driven competitor and classic battler who refused to lose – and rarely did, with 278-13 combined record (.955) in regular-season and NCAA round-robin bouts … repeated as both NCAA sabre champ and member of team champs, in 1978 … Peabody, Mass.

Yehuda Kovacs • Foil NCAAs: 1986 – 2nd (14-6) 1987 – 5th (14-4) 1988 – 4th (13-6) 1989 – 7th (11-6) Career: 52-22 (.703)

Intense everyday competitor whose thorough preparation and drive to make things happen were products of his background in Israeli army … his runner-up foil finish led Irish to 1988 NCAA team title … posted a 146-11 career record (.930) in regular-season bouts … Hod Hosharon, Israel.

Technically and psychologically dominant with few peers, going 160-14 in regular-season and 545 in NCAAs (1986 and 1988 foil champ, plus 1987 team title) … she and Alicja Kryczalo (2002-04) are ND women’s only repeat NCAA champs … North Andover, Mass.

NCAAs: 1994 1995 1996 1997 Career: 59-27

Mike Sullivan • Sabre

– 4th (14-4) – 12th (16-12) – 9th (15-7) – 6th (17-6) (.686)

Myriah Brown • Foil NCAAs: 1996 – 8th (15-8) 1997 – 5th (16-7) 1998 – 8th (17-6) 1999 – 10th (13-10) Career: 61-31 (.663)

Wiry battler who ranks third in Notre Dame record book for career wins and fourth in winning percentage (.912, 29128) … homegrown talent who trained throughout her youth with future Notre Dame classmate and fellow four-time foil All-American performer Sara Walsh … Mishawaka, Ind.

Charles Higgs-Coulthard • Foil NCAAs: 1984 – 1st (13-6) 1985 – 4th (14-4) 1986 – 3rd (14-5) 1987 – 4th (15-5) Career: 56-20 (.737)

Classic and complete foilist who showed technical mastery of all offensive and defensive actions, with versatility and awareness to make needed adjustments and counter any opponent’s strengths …’84 NCAA foil champ, member of 1986 team champs … Boxford, Mass.

Leszek Nowosielski • Sabre NCAAs: 1988 – 4th (14-4) 1989 – 5th (15-3) 1990 – 3rd (14-5) 1991 – 2nd (16-1) Career: 59-13 (.819)

Tactical sabreman with potential to dominate, owning best regular-season win pct. (.980, 97-2) in ND fencing history … joins Mike Sullivan, Molly Sullivan, Charles HiggsCoulthard, Sara Walsh, Ozren Debic and Alicja Kryczalo as only ND fencers to finish in top-five at four NCAAs … Ottawa, Ontario.

Luke La Valle • Sabre NCAAs: 1996 – 4th (18-5) 1997 – 5th (15-8) 1998 – 1st (17-6) 1999 – 11th (12-11) Career: 62-30 (.674)

Clever and talented sabreman who combined with women’s foilists Myriah Brown and Sara Walsh as Notre Dame’s first classmates to be four-year All-Americans (matched by Ozren Debic and Jan Viviani in 2003, plus three in 2005 and two in 2007) … won NCAA sabre title as member of 1998 squad that finished two points shy of team title (147-149 to Penn State) …

New York, N.Y.

2009-10 FENCING

91

Four-Year All-Americans

Magda Krol • Epee/Foil NCAAs: 1997 1998 1999 2000 Career: 64-28

– 1st (18-5) – 6th (16-7) – 8th (14-9) – 5th (16-7, foil) (.696)

Classic sportswoman who was respected – by teammates and opponents alike – for both her athletic dominance (1997 NCAA epee champ) and her warmth of personality … hard worker and smart competitor who remains ND’s only two-weapon AllAmerican (also foil) …

Vancouver, B.C.

NCAAs: 2002 2003 2004 2005 Career: 78-14

NCAAs: 1996 – 2nd (21-2) 1997 – 2nd (19-4) 1998 – 3rd (21-2) 1999 – 5th (19-4) Career: 80-12 (.870)

Tremendous athlete and fiery sparkplug who used small frame for quickness and cat-like elusiveness … two-time NCAA runnerup whose .970 career win pct. (231-7) in regularseason bouts ranks second in ND women’s fencing history (as does her .870 NCAAs mark) …

Mishawaka, Ind.

Jan Viviani • Epee

First ND epeeist to be four-time All-American, also owning top career regular-season win pct. (.890, 162-20) in ND men’s epee history … third at 2000 and 2001 NCAAs and member of 2003 team champs … known for physical, quick-striking style …

Haworth, N.J.

92

– 2nd (22-1) – 3rd (19-4) – 2nd (19-4) – 7th (18-5) (.815)

Battler known for her quickness, mental toughness and timely dodging … finished second to teammate Alicja Kryczalo at NCAAs in 2002 (20-1 round-robin) and 2004 … third in ND women’s fencing history for career NCAA wins (75-15), also fifth with .916 career win percentage in regular-season bouts. … Gates Mills, Ohio

Michal Sobieraj • Epee NCAAs: 2002 – 10th (12-11) 2003 – 2nd (20-3) 2004 – 3rd (18-5) 2005 – 1st (18-5) Career: 68-24 (.739)

NCAAs: 2000 – 3rd (17-6) 2001 – 3rd (17-6) 2002 – 5th (17-6) 2003 – 10th (12-11) Career: 63-29 (.685)

Clever and technical bouter with 6-foot-2 frame … one of five ND men’s fencers ever to reach 3-plus NCAA final bouts … set ND record for career epee win pct. (.936) … set ND epee record for single-season wins (64, in 2005) …

Krakow, Poland.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

NCAAs: 2000 – 2nd (20-3) 2001 – 5th (17-6) 2002 – 4th (18-5) 2003 – 4th (18-5) Career: 73-19 (.794)

Took place among program’s elite all-time fencers, with four top-5 finishes and second-most NCAA wins (73-19) in ND men’s fencing history … also ranks third with .952 regular-season win pct.

(157-8) … matched natural athleticism with a tireless workrate …

Zagreb, Croatia.

Andrea Ament • Foil

Sara Walsh • Foil

Ozren Debic • Foil

Alicja Kryczalo • Foil NCAAs: 2002 – 1st (23-0) 2003 – 1st (19-4) 2004 – 1st (21-2) 2005 – 2nd (21-2) Career: 84-8 (.913)

Fast hand and 5-11 frame … only ND fencer in four NCAA finals (2002-04 champ, 2005 runner-up) … became ninth fencer in NCAA history with 3-plus titles (2nd in ND sports history) … 23-0 (+100) in 2002 NCAAs … 2nd-best career win pct. (.931) ever

by ND women’s fencer …

Gdansk, Poland.

Patrick Ghattas • Sabre NCAAs: 2004 – 10th (13-10) 2005 – 2nd (18-5) 2006 – 2nd (20-3) 2007 – 2nd (18-5) Career: 69-23 (.750)

Quick, compact battler with smooth technique … owns third-most NCAA wins in ND men’s fencing history … third ND fencer to reach 3-plus NCAA title bouts … fifth in ND men’s sabre regular-season wins (158) … helped win 2005 NCAA team title ... Beaverton, Ore.

Four-Year All-Americans Valerie Providenza • Sabre NCAAs: 2004 – 1st (18-4) 2005 – 4th (19-4) 2006 – 9th (15-8) 2007 – 4th (19-3) Career: 71-19 (.789)

Combined tremendous speed with effective modern style … fifth ND fencer to win NCAA individual title as a freshman … totaled fourth-most NCAA career wins (71) in ND women’s fencing history ... member of 2005 NCAA team champs …

Beaverton, Ore.

Notre Dame Fencing All-Americans – by Weapon MEN’S FOIL (30 individuals/52 times) Nick Scalera (’50), Jack Mooney (’53), Dick Hull (’54), Jim Waters (’55), Jim Russomano (’58’60), Bill Ferrence (’64, ’65), John Bishko (‘66), John Crikelair (’67, ’68), Bob Babineau (’69), Mike Cornwall (’73), Mike McCahey (’75), Pat Gerard (’77, ’78), Andy Bonk (’79, ’80), Ray Benson (’81), Marc DeJong (’83), Charles HiggsCoulthard (’84-’87), Mike Van der Velden (’85), Yehuda Kovacs (’86-’89), Noel Yong (’90, ’91), Stanton Brunner (’93), Jeremy Siek (’94-’97), Ozren Debic (’00-’03), Forest Walton (’01), Derek Snyder (’02, ’03), Jakub Jedrkowiak (’05’07), Mark Kubik (’07), Steve Kubik (’08), Zach Schirtz (’08), Enzo Castellani (’09), Gerek Meinhardt (’09).

MEN’S EPEE (35/57)

Adrienne Nott • Foil NCAAs: 2006 – 6th (15-8) 2007 – 3rd (18-5) 2008 – 4th (19-4) 2009 – 9th (14-9) Career: 66-26 (.717)

A cerebral fencer who also earned Academic All-American honors in 2008 … patient on the strip and a mentally tough competitor ... finished her career with the fourth-most foil wins in program history (223) ...

A U.S. Junior National Team member (2006) … … Pittsford, N.Y.

Ralph Dixon (’50), Brian Duff (’52), John McGinn (’53), Rod Duff (’54), Don Tadrowski (’55, ’56), Dennis Hemmerle (’57), Ron Farrow (’58), Pete Giaimo (’60), John Donlon (’61), Dan Kenney (’62), Dick Marks (’63, ’64), Steve Donlon (’67), Jeff Pero (’68), Rick Deladrier (’70, ’71), Ed Fellows (’74), Tim Glass (’75-’77), Bjorn Vaggo (’78), Rich Daly (’81, ’82), Ola Harstrom (’83), Andy Quaroni (’84, ’85), Mike Gostigian (’86), Christian Scherpe (’86), Todd Griffee (’87, ’88), Ted Fay (’89), Jubba Beshin (’90, ’91), David Calderhead (’90, ’91), Geoff Pechinsky (’93), Rakesh Patel (’94, ’95), Carl Jackson (’95, ’98), Brian Stone (’98), Brian Casas (’99, ’01), Jan Viviani (’00-’03), Michal Sobieraj (’02-’05), Greg Howard (’07, ’08), Karol Kostka (’07, ’08, ’09).

MEN’S SABRE (37/63) Bob Schlosser (’50), Charlie Daschle (’51), Gerry Finney (’53, ’54), Tom Dorwin (’55), Tom

Lee (’59), Ted DeBaene (’60), Tom Shipp (’62), Ralph DeMatteis (’63), Sam Crimone (’64), Mike Dwyer (’65), John Klier (’66), Mike Daher (’68), Bob Mendes (’69), Doug Daher (’71), Ron Sollito (’72), Sam DiFiglio (’74, ’75), Mike Sullivan (’76’79), Chris Lyons (’80), Greg Armi (’81), Don Johnson (’84-’86), John Edwards (’85), Kevin Stoutermire (’87), Leszek Nowosielski (’88-’91), James Taliafero (’90, ‘92), Ed Baguer (’92), Chris Hajnik (’94), Bill Lester (’94-’96), Luke La Valle (’96-’99), Andrzej Bednarski (’98, ’00, ’01), Gabor Szelle (‘99, ’00, ’03), Andre Crompton (’01, ’02), Matt Fabricant (’03), Patrick Ghattas (’04-’07), Matt Stearns (’05, ’06), Bill Thanhouser (’07), Barron Nydam (’08, ’09), Avery Zuck (’09).

WOMEN’S FOIL (16/40) Susan Valdiserri (’82), Pia Albertson (’84), Molly Sullivan (’85-’88), Janice Hynes (’86, ’89), Anne Barreda (’88, ’90), Kristin Kralicek (’89, ’90), Heidi Piper (’90-’92), Maria Panyi (’95), Sara Walsh (’96’99), Myriah Brown (’96-’99), Magda Krol (’00), Liza Boutsikaris (’00), Alicja Kryczalo (’02-’05), Andrea Ament (’02-’05), Adrienne Nott (’06, ’07, ’08, ’09), Hayley Reese (’08, ’09).

WOMEN’S EPEE (11/24; since 1995) Claudette de Bruin (’95, ’96), Magda Krol (’97’99), Nicole Mustilli (’98, ’99), Anna Carnick (’00’02), Meagan Call (’00, ’01, ’03), Kerry Walton (’02-’04), Amy Orlando (’04, ’05), Madeleine Stephan (’06), Kelley Hurley (’07, ’08), Ewa Nelip (’08, ’09), Courtney Hurley (’09).

WOMEN’S SABRE (7/12; since 2000) Natalia Mazur (’00), Carianne McCullough (’02), Destanie Milo (’03),Valerie Providenza (’04’07), Mariel Zagunis (’05, ’06), Sarah Borrmann (’08), Eileen Hassett (’08, ’09).

Amy Orlando Jakub Jedrkowiak

Bill Thanhouser

2009-10 FENCING

93

In 1992, the U.S. Fencing Coaches Association retroactively classified as first team All-Americans firstthrough fourth-place finishers in the NCAA Championships, second team All-Americans fifth- through eighth-place finishers, and third-team All-Americans ninth- through 12th-place finishers.

All-Americans Men’s First Team All-Americans Name

Weapon

Men’s Third Team All-Americans Years

Greg Armi Jubba Beshin Andy Bonk

Sabre Epee Foil

1981 (3rd) 1990 (2nd), 1991 (1st) 1979 (1st), 1980 (2nd)

David Calderhead Ozren Debic

Epee Foil

Name

Steve Donlon

Epee

1990 (3rd), 1991 (3rd) 2000 (2nd), 2002 (4th), 2003 (4th) 1967 (3rd)

Ron Farrow Bill Ferrance Gerry Finney

Epee Foil Sabre

1958 (3rd) 1964 (3rd) 1954 (3rd)

Pat Gerard Patrick Ghattas

Foil Sabre

Tim Glass

Epee

1977 (1st), 1978 (2nd) 2005 (2nd), 2006 (2nd), 2007 (2nd) 1975 (3rd), 1977 (3rd)

Mike Gostigian Todd Griffee Ola Harstrom

Epee Epee Epee

1986 (3rd) 1988 (2nd) 1983 (1st)

Denny Hemmerle Charles Higgs-Coulthard Don Johnson

Epee Foil Sabre

1957 (2nd) 1984 (1st), 1985 (4th), 1986 (3rd), 1987 (4th) 1984 (3rd)

Andrzej Bednarski John Bishko Brian Casas Enzo Castellani

Sabre Foil Epee Foil

2000 (5th) 1966 (6th) 1999 (8th), 2001 (7th) 2009 (8th)

Yehuda Kovacs Luke La Valle Bill Lester

Foil Sabre Sabre

1986 (2nd), 1988 (4th) 1996 (4th), 1998 (1st) 1995 (2nd), 1997 (3rd)

John Crikelair Sam Crimone Andre Crompton

Foil Sabre Sabre

1967 (8th) 1964 (8th) 2001 (7th), 2002 (5th)

Gerek Meinhardt Leszek Nowosielski

Foil Sabre

Doug Daher Mike Daher Rich Daly

Sabre Sabre Epee

1971 (8th) 1968 (5th) 1982 (6th)

Andy Quaroni Jim Russomano

Epee Foil

2009 (2nd) 1988 (4th), 1990 (3rd), 1991 (2nd) 1985 (3rd) 1958 (3rd)

Nick Scalera Christian Scherpe Michal Sobieraj

Foil Epee Epee

1950 (3rd) 1986 (3rd) 2003 (2nd), 2004 (3rd) 2005 (1st)

Ted DeBaene Ozren Debic Marc DeJong

Sabre Foil Foil

1960 (7th) 2001 (5th) 1983 (5th)

Rich Deladrier Ralph Dixon John Donlon

Epee Epee Epee

1970 (6th), 1971 (6th) 1950 (5th) 1961 (5th)

Brian Stone Mike Sullivan

Epee Sabre

Tom Dorwin John Edwards Matt Fabricant

Sabre Sabre Sabre

1955 (7th) 1985 (5th) 2003 (6th)

Ed Fellows Bill Ferrance Gerry Finney

Epee Foil Sabre

1974 (6th) 1965 (5th) 1953 (6th)

Pete Giaimo Tim Glass Greg Howard Carl Jackson

Epee Epee Epee Epee

1960 (7th) 1976 (6th) 2007 (8th), 2008 (8th) 1995 (6th)

Jakub Jedrkowiak Don Johnson Yehuda Kovacs

Foil Sabre Foil

2005 (7th), 2006 (8th) 1986 (6th) 1987 (5th), 1989 (7th)

Mark Kubik Steve Kubik Luke La Valle Bill Lester Chris Lyons

Foil Foil Sabre Sabre Sabre

2007 (7th) 2008 (8th) 1997 (5th) 1996 (6th) 1980 (6th)

Dick Marks Mike McCahey John McGinn

Epee Foil Epee

1964 (8th) 1975 (7th) 1953 (8th)

Bob Mendes Leszek Nowosielski Barron Nydam Rakesh Patel

Sabre Sabre Sabre Epee

1969 (8th) 1989 (5th) 2008 (6th) 1995 (8th)

Andy Quaroni Jim Russomano Jeremy Siek

Epee Foil Foil

1984 (6th) 1959 (6th), 1960 (6th) 1994 (5th), 1997 (6th)

Derek Snyder Ron Sollitto Kevin Stoutermire

Foil Sabre Sabre

2002 (7th), 2003 (5th) 1972 (7th) 1987 (6th)

James Taliaferro Bill Thanhouser Mike Van der Velden Jan Viviani Avery Zuck

Sabre Sabre Foil Epee Sabre

1990 (7th) 2007 (6th) 1985 (8th) 2002 (5th) 2009 (5th)

Gabor Szelle

Sabre

1998 (4th) 1976 (3rd), 1977 (1st), 1978 (1st), 1979 (2nd) 1999 (2nd), 2000 (1st)

James Taliaferro Don Tadrowski Bjorn Vaggo

Sabre Epee Epee

1992 (3rd) 1955 (1st) 1978 (1st)

Jan Viviani Noel Young

Epee Foil

2000 (3rd), 2001 (3rd) 1990 (3rd), 1991 (2nd)

Todd Griffee placed 12th in the 1987 NCAA epee competition before surging to first team All-America honors with his runner-up showing at the 1988 NCAAs.

94

Epeeist Ralph Dixon placed fifth at the 1950 NCAAs, combining with foilist Nick Scalera and sabre Bob Schlosser as Notre Dame’s first fencing All-Americans.

Men’s Second Team All-Americans Name

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Weapon

Years

Weapon

Years

Bob Babineau Ed Baguer Andrzej Bednarski

Foil Sabre Sabre

1969 (9th) 1992 (11th) 1998 (11th), 2001 (10th)

Ray Benson Stan Brunner Mike Cornwall

Foil Foil Foil

1981 (12th) 1993 (11th) 1973 (11th)

John Crikelair Rich Daly Charles Daschle

Foil Epee Sabre

1968 (11th) 1981 (12th) 1950, 1951

Ralph DeMatteis Sam DiFiglio Brian Duff

Sabre Sabre Epee

1963 (9th) 1974 (10th), 1975 (11th) 1952 (12th)

Rod Duff Mike Dwyer Ted Fay

Epee Sabre Epee

1954 (12th) 1965 (10th) 1989 (12th)

Patrick Ghattas Todd Griffee Chris Hajnik

Sabre Epee Sabre

2004 (10th) 1987 (12th) 1994 (10th)

Dick Hull Carl Jackson Jakub Jedrkowiak Don Johnson

Foil Epee Foil Sabre

1954 (9th) 1998 (11th) 2007 (9th) 1985 (9th)

Dan Kenney John Klier Karol Kostka Luke La Valle

Epee Sabre Epee Sabre

1962 (10th) 1966 (10th) 2008 (9th), 2009 (10th) 1999 (11th)

Tom Lee Dick Marks Jack Mooney

Sabre Epee Foil

1959 (11th) 1963 (10th) 1953 (12th)

Barron Nydam Rakesh Patel Geoff Pechinsky Jeff Pero

Sabre Epee Epee Epee

2009 (10th) 1994 (12th) 1993 (9th) 1968 (9th)

Zach Schirtz Bob Schlosser Tom Shipp Jeremy Siek

Foil Sabre Sabre Foil

2008 (11th) 1950 (11th) 1962 (12th) 1995 (12th), 1996 (9th)

Michal Sobieraj Matt Stearns Gabor Szelle

Epee Sabre Sabre

2002 (10th) 2005 (10th), 2006 (11th) 2003 (11th)

Don Tadrowski Jan Viviani Forest Walton

Epee Epee Foil

1956 (9th) 2003 (10th) 2001 (9th)

Jim Waters

Foil

1955 (10th)

Karol Kostka earned Third Team All-American honors in 2008 and 2009 while competing in epee for the Irish.

Women’s First Team All-Americans Name Andrea Ament

Weapon Foil

Anne Barreda Sarah Borrmann Claudette de Bruin

Foil Sabre Epee

Courtney Hurley Kelley Hurley Magda Krol Alicja Kryczalo

Epee Epee Epee Foil

Women’s Second Team All-Americans Years

2002 (2nd), 2003 (3rd), 2004 (2nd) 1988 (3rd) 2008 (1st) 1995 (3rd), 1996 (3rd) 2009 (3rd) 2007 (2nd), 2008 (1st) 1997 (1st) 2002 (1st), 2003 (1st), 2004 (1st), 2005 (2nd) 1998 (4th)

Nicole Mustilli

Epee

Ewa Nelip Adrienne Nott Amy Orlando Maria Panyi Heidi Piper

Epee Foil Epee Foil Foil

2008 (3rd), 2009 (3rd) 2007 (3rd), 2008 (4th) 2005 (2nd) 1995 (2nd) 1990 (2nd), 1991 (1st), 1992 (4th)

Valerie Providenza

Sabre

Hayley Reese Molly Sullivan

Foil Foil

Sara Walsh

Foil

2004 (1st), 2005 (4th), 2007 (4th) 2009 (2nd) 1986 (1st), 1987 (3rd), 1988 (1st) 1996 (2nd), 1997 (2nd), 1998 (3rd)

Kerry Walton Mariel Zagunis

Epee Sabre

Name

Weapon

Women’s Third Team All-Americans Years

Andrea Ament Anne Barreda Myriah Brown

Foil Foil Foil

2005 (7th) 1990 (8th) 1996 (6th), 1997 (5th), 1998 (6th)

Meagan Call Eileen Hassett Janice Hynes Kristin Kralicek

Epee Sabre Foil Foil

2001 (5th) 2008 (5th), 2009 (6th) 1989 (6th) 1990 (7th)

Epee/Foil (‘00)

Magda Krol

Name

Weapon

Years

Pia Albertson Liza Boutsikaris Myriah Brown

Foil Foil Foil

1984 (10th) 2000 (12th) 1999 (10th)

Meagan Call Anna Carnick

Epee Epee

Janice Hynes

Foil

2000 (12th), 2003 (10th) 2000 (9th), 2001 (12th), 2002 (10th) 1986 (11th)

Kristin Kralicek Carianne McCullough Natalia Mazur Adrienne Nott

Foil Sabre Sabre Foil

1989 (10th) 2002 (12th) 2000 (10th) 2009 (9th)

Epee Sabre Foil Foil

2004 (10th) 2006 (9th) 2008 (11th) 1982 (10th)

Destanie Milo Nicole Mustilli

Sabre Epee

1998 (6th), 1999 (8th), 2000 (5th) 2003 (6th) 1999 (5th)

Adrienne Nott Madeleine Stephan Molly Sullivan

Foil Epee Foil

2006 (6th) 2006 (6th) 1985 (5th)

Amy Orlando Valerie Providenza Hayley Reese Susan Valdiserri

Sara Walsh Kerry Walton

Foil Epee

1999 (5th) 2003 (5th)

Bold indicates current fencers

2002 (1st), 2004 (2nd) 2005 (2nd), 2006 (1st)

Claudette de Bruin (’93-’96) is one of 15 Notre Dame student-athletes ever to earn each of the following honors: All-America, Academic AllAmerica and Notre Dame’s Byron Kanaley Award (which honors the top student-athlete leaders).

Foilist Kristin Kralicek earned All-America honors in both 1989 and ’90.

2009-10 FENCING

95

Award Winners CoSIDA Academic All-America Winners are selected from voting by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Fencing is included in the fall/winter at-large category, with winners selected from nominees from 12 different sports.

1991............................................ Heidi Piper (2nd Team) 1992 ............................................ Heidi Piper (3rd Team) 1996 ................................ Claudette de Bruin (2nd Team) 1996 ............................................ Bill Lester (2nd Team) 1997 .............................................. Bill Lester (1st Team) 2008........................................ Adrienne Nott (3rd Team)

NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Recipients are selected from a highly-competitive pool of nominees of college senior student-athletes and are awarded scholarships to be used for postgraduate studies.

Byron V. Kanaley Award The most prestigious honor awarded to a Notre Dame student-athlete, the Byron V. Kanaley Award has been presented since 1927 to senior monogram athletes who have been exemplary as students and leaders.

The awards are named in honor of a 1904 graduate who was a member of the Notre Dame baseball team, went on to a successful banking career in Chicago and served as a lay trustee from 1915 until his death in 1960. Ten members of the men’s fencing team and seven women’s fencers have received the award: 1952 ................................................ James Walsh 1967 ................................................ Jack Haynes 1971 ................................................ Doug Daher 1973............................................ Richard Waugh 1974 ............................................ John Hathaway 1975 ................................................ Paul Angelo 1987 ............................................ David Lennert 1992 ................................................ Heidi Piper

1994 ........................................ Maura Gallagher, Grzegorz Woznia 1995 ..........................................Elizabeth Caruso 1996 ...................................... Claudette de Bruin 1997 .................................................... Bill Lester 2005..............................................Alicja Kryczalo 2008 ................................................Greg Howard 2008..................................................Rachel Cota 2009 ..............................................Adrienne Nott

1967 ............................................................ Jack Haynes 1968 ............................................................ Mike Daher 1975 ............................................................ Paul Angelo 1992 ............................................................ Heidi Piper 1997 ............................................................ Jeremy Siek

Bill Lester, Notre Dame’s career leader in men’s fencing wins (231-38), was recognized during a 1996 Notre Dame football game for his status as an Academic All-American (second team in 1996, first team in ’97). Lester is one of 51 all-time Notre Dame student-athletes (achieved a total of 63 times) ever to earn Academic All-America and All-America in the same year (he finished second in the sabre competition at the 1995 NCAAs, plus sixth in ’96, third in ’97).

Of those 51 All-America/Academic All-America double honorees, Lester is one of only 15 who also received Notre Dame’s prestigious Kanaley Award – as are women’s fencers Heidi Piper (’92) and Claudette de Bruin (’96), football players George Kunz (’68), John Krimm (’81) and Tim Ruddy (’93), track-and-field competitors Errol Williams and Mike Brown (both ’98), basketball players Bob Arnzen (’68), Pat Garrity (’98) and Ruth Riley (’01), softball’s Jarrah Myers (’02), soccer’s Jen Renola (’97), tennis player Jen Hall (’99) and distance runner Stephanie Madia (2006).

96

James Walsh

Jack Haynes

Doug Daher

Paul Angelo

David Lennert

Heidi Piper

Maura Gallagher

Grzegorz Wozniak

Bill Lester

Alicja Kryczalo

Greg Howard

Elizabeth Caruso

Claudette de Bruin

Rachel Cota

Adrienne Nott

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Richard Waugh

John Hathaway

Walt Langford Memorial Award Recognizing sportsmanship, leadership and teamwork 1961...................................... John Donlon 1962 ........................................ Tom Shipp 1963................................ Ralph DeMatteis 1964 .................................... Sam Crimone 1965 .................................... Joe McQuade 1966 ...................... John Bishko, John Klier 1967 ...................................... Jack Haynes 1968 .................................... John Crikelair 1969 ................ Lou Emerson, Bob Mendes 1970 .............................. Roger Holzgrave 1971 ................ Rich Deladrier, John Lyons 1972 ................ Matt Fruzynski, Tim Taylor 1973 .................................. Mike Cornwell 1974 .......................................... Roy Seitz 1975 .......................................... Tom Coye 1976...................................... Sam DiFiglio 1977 .......................................... Tim Glass 1978 ............................................ Bill Kica 1979 .......... Steve Salimando, Mike Sullivan 1980........................................ Chris Lyons 1981 ........................................ Greg Armi 1982 ...................................... Sal D’Allura 1983................................ Scott Rutherford 1984 ...................................... Chris Grady 1985 .................. Mike Janis, Andy Quaroni 1986 .... Tony Consoli, Mike Van der Velden 1987.................... Charles Higgs-Coulthard 1988 ................................ Gary Galizewski 1989 .............................................. Ted Fay 1990 ...................................... Mark Gugel 1991 .................................... Anne Barreda 1992 ............ Chris Baguer, David Calderhead 1993 ...................... Per Johnsson, Jeff Piper 1994........................................ Rian Girard 1995...................................... Stan Brunner 1996 .................................. Mindi Kalogera 1997 .......................... Phil Lee, Phil Mages 1998 ........................................ Anne Hoos 1999 ............ Tim Monahan, Nicole Paulina 2000 ...................................... Magda Krol 2001...................................... Kim DeMaio 2002 .............................. Andre Crompton, Carianne McCullough 2003 .................... Ozren Debic, Jan Viviani 2004 .................................... Kerry Walton 2005 .......... Alicja Kryczalo, Andrea Ament 2006........ Valerie Providenza, Amy Orlando 2007 .................................. Patrick Ghattas 2008 ...................................... Mark Kubik 2009.................................. Bill Thanhouser

Men’s Foil MVP 1978.......................................... Pat Gerard 1979 ........................................ Andy Bonk 1980 ........................................ Andy Bonk 1981 ...................................... Ray Benson 1982 .................................... Marc De Jong 1983 .................................... Marc De Jong 1984 .................... Charles Higgs-Coulthard 1985 .................... Charles Higgs-Coulthard 1986.................................... Yehuda Kovacs 1987 ................................ Derek Holeman 1988 .......................................... Phil Leary 1989 ................................ Derek Holeman 1990 .......................................... Joel Clark 1991 ........................................ Noel Young 1992............................................ Jeff Piper 1993...................................... Stan Brunner 1994...................................... Conor Power 1995 ........................................ Jeremy Siek 1996 ........................................ Jeremy Siek 1997 ........................................ Jeremy Siek 1998 ........................................ John Tejada 1999.................................. Stephane Auriol 2000 ...................................... Ozren Debic 2001 ...................................... Ozren Debic 2002 ...................................... Ozren Debic 2003 ...................................... Ozren Debic 2004 .................................... Forest Walton 2005 ................................ Jakub Jedrowiak 2006 ................................ Jakub Jedrowiak 2007 ...................................... Mark Kubik 2008 ...................................... Mark Kubik 2009 ............................ Gerek Meinhardt

Men’s Sabre MVP 1978 .................................... Chris Lyons 1979 .................................... Chris Lyons 1980 ...................................... Greg Armi 1981 ...................................... Sal Muoio 1982 ...................................... Mike Janis 1983 .................................. John Edwards 1984 ...................................... Mike Janis 1985 .................................. John Edwards 1986 .................................. Don Johnson 1987...................................... Tim Collins 1988.......................... Leszek Nowosielski 1989.......................... Leszek Nowosielski 1990 .................................. Chris Baguer 1991.......................... Leszek Nowosielski 1992 ...................................... Ed Baguer 1993.................................... Chris Hajnik 1994.................................... Chris Hajnik 1995........................................ Bill Lester 1996 .................................. Luke La Valle 1997........................................ Bill Lester 1998 .................................. Luke La Valle 1999 .................................. Luke La Valle 2000 .................................... Gabor Szelle 2001 ............................ Andre Crompton 2002 ............................ Andre Crompton 2003 ................................ Matt Fabricant 2004 ................................ Patrick Ghattas 2005 ................................ Patrick Ghattas 2006 ................................ Patrick Ghattas 2007.................................. Patrick Ghatta 2008 .............................. Barron Nydam 2009 .................................. Avery Zuck

Men’s Epee MVP 1978 ......................................Bjorn Vaggo 1979 .............................. Mike Schermoly 1980........................................ Rich Daly 1981 .................................. Kevin Tindell 1982........................................ Rich Daly 1983 .................................. Ola Harstrom 1984.................................. Andy Quaroni 1985 ............................ Christian Scherpe 1986 ............................ Christian Scherpe 1987 .................................... Todd Griffee 1988 .................................... Todd Griffee 1989............................................ Ted Fay 1990.................................... Jubba Beshin 1991 ............................ David Calderhead 1992 ............................ David Calderhead 1993.............................. Geoff Pechinsky 1994 .......................... Grzegorz Wozniak 1995 .................................... Carl Jackson 1996 ...................................... Brice Dille 1997 .................................... Brian Stone 1998 .................................... Brian Stone 1999 .................................... Carl Jackson 2000 ...................................... Jan Viviani 2001 ...................................... Jan Viviani 2002 ...................................... Jan Viviani 2003 ...................................... Jan Viviani 2004................................ Michal Sobieraj 2005 ................................Michal Sobieraj 2006 .................................. Greg Howard 2007 .............................. Patrick Gettings 2008 .................................. Greg Howard 2009 .................................. Karol Kostka

Women’s Foil MVP 1978 .................................... Karen Lacity 1979 ................................ Dodee Carney 1980 ...................................... Liz Bathon 1981 .... Denise Haradem, Kathy McCann 1982 ................................ Susan Valdiserri 1983 ........................ Charlotte Albertson 1984 .................................. Pia Albertson 1985 ................................ Molly Sullivan 1986 ................................ Molly Sullivan 1987 .............................. Kristin Kralicek 1988 .................................. Anne Barreda 1989 .............................. Kristin Kralicek 1990 .............................. Kristin Kralicek 1991...................................... Heidi Piper 1992...................................... Heidi Piper 1993 .......................... Claudette de Bruin 1994 .................................... Maria Panyi 1995 .................................... Maria Panyi 1996 ...................................... Sara Walsh

1997 ................................ Myriah Brown 1998 ...................................... Sara Walsh 1999 ...................................... Sara Walsh 2000 .................................... Magda Krol 2001 .............................. Liza Boutsikaris 2002 ................................ Alicja Kryczalo 2003 ........ Andrea Ament, Alicja Kryczalo 2004 ........ Andrea Ament, Alicja Kryczalo 2005.................................. Andrea Ament 2006 ................................ Adrienne Nott 2007 ................................ Adrienne Nott 2008 ................................ Adrienne Nott 2009 ................................ Adrienne Nott

Women’s Epee MVP 1994.............................. Maura Gallagher 1995 .......................... Claudette de Bruin 1996 .......................... Claudette de Bruin 1997 .................................... Magda Krol 1998 ................................ Nicole Mustilli 1999 ................................ Nicole Mustilli 2000 .................................. Anna Carnick 2001 .................................. Anna Carnick 2002 .................................. Kerry Walton 2003 .................................... Meagan Call 2004 .................................. Kerry Walton 2005 .................................. Kerry Walton 2006 .................................. Amy Orlando 2007................................ Kelley Hurley 2008................................ Kelley Hurley 2009 .......................... Courtney Hurley

Women’s Sabre MVP 1999* ....................Carianne McCullough 2000 ......................Carianne McCullough 2001 ......................Carianne McCullough 2002 ......................Carianne McCullough 2003 ..................................Maggie Jordan 2004 .... Danielle Davis, Valerie Providenza 2005 .. Valerie Providenza, Mariel Zagunis 2006 ................................ Mariel Zagunis 2007............................ Valerie Providenza 2008 .......................... Sarah Borrmann 2009 .............................. Eileen Hassett

National Monogram Club Fencing Team MVP Men 1982 .................................... Sal D’Allura 1983 .................................. Marc de Jong 1984.................................. Andy Quaroni 1985.................................. Andy Quaroni 1986 ................................ Mike Gostigian 1987.................. Charles Higgs-Coulthard 1988 ................................ Yehuda Kovacs 1989............................................ Ted Fay 1990.................................... Jubba Beshin 1991.......................... Leszek Nowosielski 1992 ............................ David Calderhead 1993 ........................................ Jeff Piper 1994 .......................... Grzegorz Wozniak 1995 .................................... Jeremy Siek 1996........................................ Bill Lester 1997 .................................... Jeremy Siek 1998................ Luke LaValle, Brian Stone 1999.................................... Gabor Szelle 2000 .................................... Gabor Szelle 2001 ...................................... Jan Viviani 2002............ Andre Crompton, Jan Viviani 2003.................................... Ozren Debic 2004 .................................. Forest Walton 2005 ................................ Patrick Ghattas 2006 ................................ Patrick Ghattas 2007 ................................ Patrick Ghattas 2008 .................................. Greg Howard 2009 .......................... Gerek Meinhardt

Women 1982 .............................. Susan Valdiserri 1983 .............................. Susan Valdiserri 1984 ................................ Pia Albertson 1985 ................................ Molly Sullivan 1986.................................... Janice Hynes 1987.................................... Janice Hynes 1988 ................................ Molly Sullivan 1989.................................... Janice Hynes 1990 ...................................... Heidi Piper 1991...................................... Heidi Piper 1992...................................... Heidi Piper

1993 .................................. Kathleen Vogt 1994 .................................... Maria Panyi 1995 .................................... Maria Panyi 1996 ...................................... Sara Walsh 1997 .................. Magda Krol, Sara Walsh 1998 .............. Nicole Mustilli, Sara Walsh 1999 ................................ Nicole Mustilli 2000 .................................... Magda Krol 2001 .................................... Meagan Call 2002 ................................ Alicja Kryczalo 2003 ................................ Alicja Kryczalo 2004 ................................ Alicja Kryczalo 2005 .................................. Alicja Kryczalo Valerie Providenza 2006 ................................ Mariel Zagunis 2007 ...... Kelley Hurley, Adrienne Nott 2008 ................................ Adrienne Nott 2009 ................................ Adrienne Nott

Knute Rockne StudentAthlete Award Fencers with highest grade-point average.

Men 1981 ................................ Jim Gunshinan 1982 .......................... Chuck Konzelman 1984...................................... Joe Roveda 1985 ........................................ Ted Dore 1986.................................. Sean Reardon 1987 .................................. Dave Lennert 1988 ................................ Chris Reardon 1989 ................................ Steve Rawlings 1990 ........................................ Joel Clark 1991.......................... Leszek Nowosielski 1992 ...................................... Tom Clare 1993........................................ Brian Ray 1994 .................................... Greg Ripple 1995.................................... Chris Hajnik 1996 .......................................... Phil Lee 1997 .......................................... Phil Lee 1998 .................................... Matt Hysell 1999.................................. Tim Monahan 2000 ...................................... Steve Kane 2001............................ George Viamontes 2002.................................... Neal Salisian 2003 .................................. Adam Harvey 2004 ........................ Brendan Prendergast 2005 .................................... T.J. McNally 2006 ............................ Alex Schumacher 2007 .................................. Greg Howard 2008 .............. Greg Howard, Mark Kubik

Women 1982 ............................ Marcella Lansford 1982 ................................ Mary Marshall 1984 .............................. Kathy Morrison 1985.............................. Celeste Kowalski 1986 ...................................... Linda Gase 1987 .............................. Vittoria Quaroni 1988 .............................. Mary-Jean Sully 1989 .......................... Stephanie McNeill 1990 .................................. Anne Barreda 1991 ............................ Margaret Connor 1992...................................... Heidi Piper 1993 .................................. Kathleen Vogt 1994.............................. Maura Gallagher 1995.............................. Elizabeth Caruso 1996 .......................... Claudette de Bruin 1997 ............................ Maria Thieneman 1998.................................. Stacey Stough 1999 ................................ Nicole Paulina 2000........................................ Kelly Orsi 2001 .......................... Mary Beth Willard 2002 .................... Carianne McCullough 2003 .................................... Jill Inghram 2004.................................... Beth Emilian 2005 .. Rebecca Chimahusky, Natalie Tenner 2006 .... Valerie Providenza, Colleen Walsh 2007............................ Valerie Providenza 2008 ............ Rachel Cota, Adrienne Nott 2009 ................Kim Montoya, Emilie Prot

2009-10 FENCING

97

Award Winners The following six awards – the Donlon, Crikelair, Mulligan, DeCicco/Auriol, Langford and Bednarski Awards – are presented to fencers from specific weapons who best represent the fencing program and the University of Notre Dame ... “both on and off the strip.”

Polly DeCicco/ Georgette Auriol Women’s Epee Leadership Award Named in honor of the wives of former Notre Dame coaches Mike DeCicco and Yves Auriol.

Steve Donlon

John Crikelair

Dan Mulligan

Steve Donlon Men’s Epee Leadership Award

John Crikelair Men’s Foil Leadership Award

Named in honor of All-American and epee captain Steve Donlon ’68, who was killed in a tragic automobile accident during the summer of 1967.

Named in honor of All-American and foil captain John Crikelair ’68, who was killed during a Vietnam War firefight while serving with the U.S. Army.

1978 .................................... John Strass 1979 ................................ Mike Carney 1980 ............................ Thomas Cullum 1981 .................................... Rich Daly 1982 ................................ Kevin Tindell 1983 .................................... Rich Daly 1984................................ Andy Quaroni 1985................................ Andy Quaroni 1986 .............................. Mike Gostigian 1987.................................. Tim Vaughan 1988.............................. Doug Dudinski 1989.......................................... Ted Fay 1990 .................................. Mark Gugel 1991 ................................ Jubba Beshin 1992 ........................ Grzegorz Wozniak 1993 ........................ Grzegorz Wozniak 1994 ........................ Grzegorz Wozniak 1995.................................. Rakesh Patel 1996 .................................. Brian Stone 1997 .................................... Brice Dille 1998 .................................. Carl Jackson 1999 .................................. Brian Casas 2000 .................................. Brian Casas 2001 .................................. Scott Gabler 2002 .................................. Brian Casas 2003 .......................... Nick Schumacher 2004.......................... Michael Macaulay 2005 ............................ Patrick Gettings, Jesse Laeuchli 2006 ................................ Greg Howard 2007 ................................ Greg Howard 2008 ................................ Karol Kostka 2009 ..................................Brent Kelly

1978 .............................. Mike McCahey 1979 ............................ Steve Salimando 1980 .................................... Andy Bonk 1981.................................... Jim Sullivan 1982................................ Jim Thompson 1983 ................................ Marc de Jong 1984 .................................. Chris Grady 1985 ...................... Mike Van der Velden 1986 ................ Charles Higgs-Coulthard 1987 ................................ Yehuda Kovacs 1988 ............................ Gary Galizewski 1989 ................................ Yehuda Kovacs 1990.................................. Colin Gumbs 1991 ...................................... Phil Leary 1992 .................................... Ed LeFevre 1993 ........................................ Jeff Piper 1994 .................................. Stan Brunner 1995.................................. Conor Power 1996 ............................ Paul Capobianco 1997 .................................... Jeremy Siek 1998.............................. Stephane Auriol 1999 ................................ Charles Hayes 2000 ...................................... Jim Harris 2001 ................................ Forest Walton 2002 .............................. Steve Mautone 2003 ................................ Forest Walton 2004 .............................. Matt Castellan 2005............................ Frank Bontempo 2006............................ Frank Bontempo 2007............................ Frank Bontempo 2008 .............................. Zach Schirtz 2009 .................................. Mark Kubik

Dan Mulligan Men’s Sabre Leadership Award Named in honor of sabre captain Dan Mulligan ’73, who was killed in 1976 during a simulated bombing run while training as a fighter pilot for the U.S. Air Force.

1978 ................................ Mike Sullivan 1979 ................................ Mike Sullivan 1980 .................................. Chris Lyons 1981 .................................... Greg Armi 1982 .................................. Sal D’Allura 1983 ...................................... Joel Tietz 1984 ................................ Tony Consoli 1985 .................................... Mike Janis 1986 ................................ John Edwards 1987 .......................... Kevin Stoutemire 1988...................................... Jim Reilly 1989 .................................. Tim Collins 1990 .......................................... Dan Yu 1991 ................................ Chris Baguer 1992 .................................... Ed Baguer 1993 ................................ Bernard Baez 1994.................................... Chris Hajnik

1995.................................... Chris Hajnik 1996........................................ Bill Lester 1997 .................................. Jeff Wartgow 1998............................ Andrzej Bednarski 1999 .............................. Steve McQuade 2000 .......................... Andrzej Bednarski, Andre Crompton 2001............................ Andrzej Bednarski 2002............................ Andrzej Bednarski 2003 .................................... Brian Dosal 2004 .................................... Brian Dosal 2005 .................................... Matt Stearns 2006 .............................. Nicholas Diacou 2007 .................................. Matt Stearns 2008 .............................. Bill Thanhouser 2009 .................................. Tom Horton Bold indicates current fencers.

98

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

1994 .............................. Marit Fischer 1995 ...................... Claudette de Bruin 1996 .......................... Ashley Shannon 1997.................................. Anne Hoos 1998 ................................ Magda Krol 1999 ................................ Magda Krol 2000 .............................. Kim DeMaio 2001 .............................. Meagan Call 2002 ............................ Anna Carnick 2003 ............................ Anna Carnick, Kerry Walton 2004.............................. Kerry Walton 2005.............................. Amy Orlando 2006.................. Rebecca Chimahusky 2007.............................. Amy Orlando 2008 ................................ Ewa Nelip 2009 ................................ Ewa Nelip

Alice Langford Women’s Foil Leadership Award Named in honor of the wife of former Notre Dame head coach Walt Langford.

1977 .......................... Kathy Valdiserri 1978 .......................... Kathy Valdiserri 1979................................ Karen Lacity 1980 ........................ Elizabeth Bathon 1981 ........................ Denise Haradem, Kathy McCann 1982.......................... Sharon DiNicola 1983............................ Susan Valdiserri 1984.................................. Mary Shilts 1985 .............................. Janet Sullivan 1986 .............................. Janet Sullivan 1987 .............................. Cindy Weeks 1988 ............................ Molly Sullivan 1989 .............................. Janice Hynes 1990 .......................... Kristin Kralicek 1991.................................. Lynn Kadri 1992 ............................ Rachel Haugh 1993 ........................ Dinamarie Garcia 1994.................................. Kim Arndt, Corinne Dougherty 1995 ................................ Maria Panyi 1996............................ Mindi Kalogera 1997 .................................. Rose Saari 1998 ................................ Amee Appel 1999 ............................ Myriah Brown 2000 .......................... Aimee Kalogera 2001 ............................ Katie Flanagan 2002 .......................... Liza Boutsikaris 2003 .......................... Liza Boutsikaris 2004 .......................... Alicja Kryczalo 2005 ............................ Andrea Ament 2006 ............................ Colleen Walsh 2007 .............................. Rachel Cota 2008 .......................... Hayley Reese 2009 ........................ Darsie Malynn

Janusz Bednarski Women’s Sabre Leadership Award Named in honor of the current Notre Dame head coach.

2000 ............................ Katie Flanagan 2001 ........................ Donna Mowchan 2002 ............................ Destanie Milo 2003 ............................ Destanie Milo 2004 ............................ Destanie Milo 2005 ............................ Danielle Davis 2006 ...................... Valerie Providenza 2007............................ Ashley Serrette 2008 ........................ Christina Zoccoli 2009...................... Sarah Borrmann

Carianne McCullough (’99-’02) is the only Notre Dame fencer ever to receive the DeCicco/Langford Award (inspiration), the Langford Award (leadership) and the Rockne Student- Athlete Award – in addition to four women’s sabre MVP awards.

DeCicco/ Langford Award Recognizing inspiration and dedication.

1981 .................................. Jim Sullivan 1982 ............................ Mike Mollinelli 1983 ............................ Rowland Francis 1984 .................................... Jim Hickey 1985 .............................. David Stabrawa 1986 .................................... Bob Walsh 1987 ............................ Vittoria Quaroni 1988 .................................... Dan Fabian 1989 .................................... Tim Collins 1990 ............................ Derek Holeman 1991 ...... Phil Leary, Leszek Nowosielski 1992 .. David Calderhead, Mary Westrick 1993 .................................. Tim Quenan 1994 ...... Dinamarie Garcia, Greg Ripple 1995 ............................ Elizabeth Caruso 1996 .................................... John Tejada 1997 .......................... Manolo Galinanes 1998 .................................. Jason Boron 1999 .................................... Gina Couri 2000 .................................. Clay Morton 2001.................... Carianne McCullough 2002.............................. Michelle Sutton 2003 ........ Matt Castellan, Adam Harvey 2004 ................................ Amy Orlando 2005 ............................ Nicholas Diacou 2006........ Melanie Bautista, Rachel Cota 2007 ............ Matt Stearns, Amy Orlando 2008.. Kimberlee Montoya, Avery Zuck 2009 ............................ Darsie Malynn

Yves Auriol Award Recognizing fencers who have shown the most improvement.

1994 ................................ Marit Fischer 1995 ............................ Monica Wagner 1996 ........................................ Phil Lee 1997............................ John Scherpereel 1998 .......... Gina Couri, Steve McQuade 1999 ........................ Michelle Marafino, George Viamontes 2000 ................ Kelly Orsi, Scott Gabler 2001............ Erin Riley, Michelle Sutton 2002 ............................ Mike Macaulay 2003 ...... Danielle Davis, Colleen Walsh 2004 .................... Rebecca Chimahusky John Espinsosa 2005............................ Melanie Bautista 2006 .. Marielle Connor, Ashley Serrette 2007 ................................ Ryan Bradley 2008........Teddy Hodges, Vanessa Rosa 2009 .................................. Ewa Nelip

Men’s Records

Individual Career Win Leaders Pl.

Name, Weapon

Years

Won

Lost

Pct.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Bill Lester, Sabre Luke La Valle, Sabre Karol Kostka Jeremy Siek, Foil Mike Sullivan, Sabre Brian Stone, Epee

1994-97 1996-99 2006-09 1994-97 1976-79 1995-98

213 200 198 191 183 183

38 20 56 21 4 81

.849 .909 .780 .901 .979 .693

7.

8.

9.

Gabor Szelle, Sabre Michal Sobieraj, Epee Carl Jackson, Epee Greg Howard, Epee Bill Thanhouser, Sabre Jan Viviani, Epee Mike Janis, Sabre

1999-2001, ’03 2002-05 1995, ’97-’99 2005-08 2006-09 2000-03 1982-85

182 176 174 174 174 162 161

13 12 58 44 51 20 27

.933 .936 .750 .798 .773 .890 .856

Tim Glass, Epee Frank Bontempo, Foil Patrick Ghattas, Sabre Forest Walton, Foil Ozren Debic, Foil

1974-77 2004-07 2004-07 2000-01, ‘03-04 2000-03

160 160 158 158 157

26 69 19 35 8

.860 .699 .893 .819 .952

Jakub Jedrkowiak, Foil Brian Casas, Epee Grzegorz Wozniak, Epee Stephane Auriol, Foil Andrzej Bednarski, Sabre Matt Fabricant, Sabre

2005-08 1999-2002 1991-94 1996-99 1998, 2000-02 2000-03

157 156 154 154 152 151

45 55 48 53 32 21

.777 .739 .762 .744 .826 .878

Andre Crompton, Sabre Chris Hajnik, Sabre Yehuda Kovacs, Foil Pat Gerard, Foil Charles Higgs-Coulthard, Foil

1999-2002 1993-95 1986-89 1975-78 1984-87

150 147 146 146 145

19 54 11 19 17

.888 .731 .929 .884 .895

Matt Stearns, Sabre Mark Kubik, Foil Terry McConville, Foil Mike McCahey, Foil Mike Van der Velden, Foil Steve Mautone, Foil

2004-07 2006-09 1974-77 1975-78 1983-86 1999-2002

145 145 142 138 137 137

44 54 44 21 41 59

.767 .729 .763 .868 .800 .698

36.

37.

38.

39.

Ed Fellows, Epee Andy Quaroni, Epee David Calderhead, Epee Sam DiFiglio, Sabre

1974-77 1982-85 1989-92 1974-76

136 133 131 130

38 23 32 23

.781 .853 .804 .850

40.

Chris Baguer, Sabre Mike Matranga, Epee Stanton Brunner, Foil Aaron Adjemian, Epee Phil Leary, Foil Don Johnson, Sabre/Foil Rian Girard, Foil-Epee Rich Daly, Epee Jeff Wartgow, Sabre

1988-92 1971-74 1993-95 2004-07 1988-91 1983-86 1991-94 1980-83 1994-97

129 129 129 129 126 126 126 123 123

17 31 37 53 18 34 42 29 62

.884 .806 .777 .709 .889 .787 .750 .809 .665

49.

50.

51.

52.

53.

John Edwards, Sabre/Foil Charles Hayes, Foil Todd Griffee, Epee Andy Bonk, Foil Jeff Piper, Foil

1983-86 1997-99 1986-89 1977-80 1991-93

121 119 118 117 116

20 36 26 14 18

.858 .768 .819 .890 .866

54.

55.

56.

Mike Cornwall, Foil Greg Armi, Sabre Derek Holeman, Foil/Epee John Strass, Epee Jim Mullenix, Foil Tom Coye, Foil

1970-73 1977-81 1987-90 1975-78 1971-74 1972-75

115 114 111 111 111 111

45 31 19 42 44 45

.719 .786 .854 .725 .716 .711

60.

Kevin Stoutermire, Sabre Chris McQuade,Sabre Marc DeJong, Foil Dan Yu, Sabre

1984-87 1992, ’94-’96 1979-83 1987-88, ’90-’91

108 108 107 106

14 53 27 18

.885 .671 .799 .855

Derek Snyder, Foil Chris Lyons, Sabre Tom Horton, Sabre James Taliaferro, Sabre Ed Baguer, Sabre Steve Salimando, Foil Jim Russomano, Foil

2002-04 1978-79 2006-09 1990-93 1989-92 1976-78 1958-60

104 102 102 101 100 100 100

19 22 44 17 9 17 17

.846 .830 .699 .856 .917 .855 .855

12.

13.

14.

16.

18.

20.

21.

23.

24.

25.

26.

27.

29.

Sabreist Mike Janis (’82-’85) ranks 11th all-time in Notre Dame men’s fencing wins (161-27) and was a two-time NCAA participant.

32.

33.

34.

44.

47.

62.

63.

64.

65.

Mike Van der Velden (’83-’86) owns the 31st-most wins in Notre Dame men’s fencing history (137-41; 10th among foilists) and earned All-America honors in 1985.

67.

68.

2009-10 FENCING

99

Men’s Records Individual Career Winning Percentage Pl.

Name, Weapon

Years

Pct.

Won

Lost

Leszek Nowosielski, Sabre Mike Sullivan, Sabre Ozren Debic, Foil David Kirby, Sabre Michal Sobieraj, Epee

1988-91 1976-79 2000-03 1988-92 2002-05

.980 .979 .952 .943 .936

97 183 157 66 176

2 4 8 4 12

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

Gabor Szelle, Sabre Yehuda Kovacs, Foil Ed Baguer, Sabre Luke La Valle, Sabre Jeremy Siek, Foil

1999-2001, ’03 1986-89 1989-92 1996-99 1994-97

.933 .930 .917 .909 .901

182 146 100 200 191

1 11 9 20 21

11.

12.

13.

Gerry Finney, Sabre Charles Higgs-Coulthard, Foil Patrick Ghattas, Sabre Andy Bonk, Foil Jan Viviani, Epee

1952-54 1984-87 2004-07 1977-80 2000-03

.897 .895 .893 .893 .890

61 145 158 117 162

7 17 19 14 20

16.

17.

18.

19.

Joel Clark, Foil Andre Crompton, Sabre Kevin Stoutermire, Sabre Pat Gerard, Foil Chris Baguer, Sabre

1987-90 1999-2002 1984-87 1975-78 1988-92

.889 .888 .885 .884 .884

96 150 108 146 129

12 19 14 19 17

21.

22.

Matt Fabricant, Sabre Phil Leary, Foil Mike Bathon, Sabre Noel Young, Foil Mike McCahey, Foil

2000-03 1988-91 1984-86 1990-91 1975-78

.878 .875 .875 .870 .868

151 126 42 60 138

21 18 6 9 21

26.

27.

28.

29.

30.

Jeff Piper, Foil Ola Harstrom, Epee Tim Glass, Epee James Taliaferro, Sabre Dan Yu, Sabre Steve Salimando, Foil Jim Russomano, Foil

1990-93 1981-83 1974-77 1990-93 1987-91 1976-79 1958-60

.866 .861 .860 .856 .855 .855 .855

116 93 160 101 106 100 100

18 15 26 17 18 17 17

33.

34.

Derek Holeman, Foil/Epee Mike Janis, Sabre Andy Quaroni, Epee

1987-90 1982-85 1982-85

.854 .853 .853

111 157 133

21 27 23

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

15.

24.

25.

Sabreist Kevin Stoutermire (’84-’87) is one of 63 Notre Dame men’s fencers ever to post 100-plus wins (108-14) while his .885 career-winning percentage ranks 18th in the Irish record book (among all weapons).

Minimum 40 career wins and two seasons.

Team Records Single-Season Wins 1. 2009 ..............................................................33-0 2. 2006 ............................................................ 29-1 1996 ............................................................ 29-3 4. 1995 ............................................................ 28-2 5. 2008 ............................................................ 27-4 6. 1986 ............................................................ 26-0 1976 ............................................................ 26-0 8. 2001 ............................................................ 25-0 9. 2003 ............................................................ 24-0 2004 ............................................................ 24-1 1990 ............................................................ 24-1 1988 ............................................................ 24-1 1997 ............................................................ 24-2 Single-Season Winning Percentage 1. 2009 1986 1985 1994 2002 1958 1950

100

(33-0), 2003 (24-0), 2002 (18-0), 2001 (25-0), (26-0), 1976 (26-0), 1991 (23-0), (23-0), 1977 (23-0), 1987 (22-0), (21-0), 1989 (21-0), 1979 (20-0), (18-0), 1978 (18-0), 1967 (18-0), (16-0), 1992 (14-0), 1936 (9-0), (9-0),1935 (7-0) .................................. 1.000

Single-Season Bouts Won 1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

2009................................................................657 2006 .............................................................. 627 2008 .............................................................. 623 1996 .............................................................. 606 1995 .............................................................. 601 1986 .............................................................. 568 1997 .............................................................. 561 1976 .............................................................. 550 1988 .............................................................. 538 1990 .............................................................. 534

1988 Notre Dame captains (from left): foilist Yehuda Kovacs, epeeist Todd Griffee and sabreist Tim Collins.

Single-Season Bout Winning Percentage 1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

1989 1991 1987 2002 1986 1978 1976 1992 1984 2003

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

(481-86) ............................................... .848 (504-100) ............................................. .834 (486-108) ............................................. .818 (395-91) .............................................. .813 (568-134) ............................................. .809 (392-94) ............................................... .807 (550-135) ............................................. .803 (305-75) ............................................... .802 (449-112) ............................................. .800 (492-129).............................................. .799

Notre Dame’s dominant 1978 NCAA championship trio combined for a 102-5 regular-season record, including 41-0 from sabreist Mike Sullivan (far left), 31-3 by foilist Pat Gerard (second from right) and a 30-2 mark from epeeist Bjorn Vaggo (far right).

Single-Season Wins (all weapons) Pl. Name (weapon) Year Won Lost 1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Bill Lester (sabre) Jeremy Siek (foil) Michal Sobieraj (epee) Luke La Valle (sabre) Chris Hajnik (sabre) Brian Stone (epee) 7. Gabor Szelle (sabre) Conor Power (foil) Carl Jackson (epee) 10. Bill Lester (sabre)

1996 1996 2005 1996 1995 1995 1999 1995 1995 1995

67 66 65 64 57 57 56 56 56 55

7 6 4 8 19 19 2 12 17 7

Single-Season Win Pct. (all weapons) Pl. Name (weapon) Year Won Lost 1. Mike Sullivan (sabre) Ed Baguer (sabre) 3. Mike Sullivan (sabre) 4. Mike Sullivan (sabre) 5. Ozren Debic (foil) 6. Yehuda Kovacs (foil) 7. Gerry Finney (sabre) 8. Yehuda Kovacs (foil) 9. Gabor Szelle (sabre) 10. Kevin Stoutermire (sabre) Minimum 30 wins

Foil Career Wins Pl. Name Conor Power was a two-year monogram winner and NCAA competitor for the Irish, compiling an 89-23 (.795) foil record from 1994-95 while helping Notre Dame win the 1994 NCAA title.

1.

2.

3.

4.

1978 1992 1976 1977 2003 1987 1954 1989 1999 1987

Pct. 1.000 1.000 .981 .979 .977 .971 .970 .969 .966 .958

Years Won Lost

Pct.

21 69 35 8 45 53 19 11 17 54 44 21 59 41

.901 .699 .819 .952 .777 .744 .884 .930 .895 .729 .763 .868 .698 .770

Foil Career Winning Percentage Pl. Name Years Won Lost

Pct.

6.

7.

9.

10.

11.

12.

1. Ozren Debic 2000-03 2. Yehuda Kovacs 1986-89 3. Mike DeCicco 1947-49 4. Jeremy Siek 1994-97 5. Charles Higgs-Coulthard 1984-87 6. Andy Bonk 1977-80 7. Joel Clark 1987-90 8. Pat Gerard 1975-78 9. Phil Leary 1988-91 10. Derek Holeman 1987-90 Minimum 40 wins and two seasons

191 160 158 157 157 154 146 146 145 145 142 138 137 137

157 146 45 191 145 117 96 146 126 109

8 11 4 21 17 14 12 19 18 16

Did You Know?

Foilist Stephane Auriol (’96-’99) is tied for the 19th-most career wins (154-53) in Notre Dame men’s fencing history, among all weapons (sixth among foilists).

.905 .917 .942 .889 .750 .750 .966 .824 .767 .887

0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2

Jeremy Siek 1994-97 Frank Bontempo 2004-07 Forest Walton 2000-01, ’03-’04 Ozren Debic 2000-03 Jakub Jedrkowiak 2005-08 Stephane Auriol 1996-99 Pat Gerard 1975-78 Yehuda Kovacs 1986-89 Charles Higgs-Coulthard 1984-87 Mark Kubik 2006-09 Terry McConville 1974-77 Mike McCahey 1975-78 Steve Mautone 1999-2002 Mike Van der Velden 1983-86

41 30 53 47 43 34 32 31 56 46

Pct.

.952 .930 .918 .901 .895 .891 .889 .884 .889 .872

Foilist Paul Capobianco helped Notre Dame win the 1994 NCAA championship while posting an 85-34 career record.

Foil Single-Season Wins Pl. Name Year Won Lost 1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

Jeremy Siek Conor Power Jeremy Siek Rian Girard Paul Capobianco Stanton Brunner Jakub Jedrkowiak Zach Schirtz 9. Jeff Piper Stanton Brunner Steve Mautone

.917 .824 .883 .823 .714 .762 .870 .810 .882 .804 .726

Foil Single-Season Win Percentage Pl. Name Year Won Lost

Pct.

Ozren Debic Yehuda Kovacs Yehuda Kovacs Ozren Debic Jeremy Siek 6. Pat Gerard 7. Gerek Meinhardt 8. Ozren Debic 9. Ozren Debic Charles Higgs-Coulthard 11. Jeremy Siek Derek Holeman Minimum 30 wins

2003 1987 1989 2001 1997 1977 2009 2002 2000 1985 1996 1987

66 56 53 51 50 48 47 47 45 45 45

Pct.

6 12 7 11 20 15 7 11 6 11 17

1.

2.

3.

4.

1996 1995 1995 1993 1996 1995 2005 2008 1993 1993 1999

43 34 31 42 42 36 31 30 42 33 66 33

1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 6 3

.977 .971 .969 .955 .954 .947 .939 .938 .933 .933 .917 .917

Sabreist Mike Sullivan’s career included an undefeated regular season in 1978, plus two one-loss seasons and a 42-2 mark in 1979.

2009-10 FENCING

101

Men’s Records Epee Career Wins Pl. Name 1.

2.

3.

4.

Years Won Lost 2006-09 1995-98 2902-05 1995, ’97-’99 2005-08 2000-03 1974-77 1999-2002 1991-94 1974-77

.780 .693 .936 .750 .798 .890 .860 .739 .762 .871

Epee Career Winning Percentage Pl. Name Years Won Lost

Pct.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Michal Sobieraj 2002-05 Jan Viviani 2000-03 Ola Harstrom 1981-83 Tim Glass 1974-77 Andy Quaroni 1982-85 Jesse Laeuchli 2004-06 Ron Farrow 1957-58 8. Dennis Hemmerle 1955-57 9. Doug Dudinski 1985, ’87-’88 10. Todd Griffee 1986-89 Christian Scherpe 1985-86 Minimum 40 wins and two seasons

198 183 176 174 174 162 160 156 154 136

Pct.

56 81 12 58 44 20 26 55 48 28

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

Karol Kostka Brian Stone Michal Sobieraj Carl Jackson Greg Howard Jan Viviani Tim Glass Brian Casas Grzegorz Wozniak Ed Fellows

176 162 93 160 133 73 52 84 50 118 68

12 20 15 26 23 13 11 18 11 26 15

Epee Single-Season Wins Pl. Name Year Won Lost 1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Michal Sobieraj Brian Stone Carl Jackson Brice Dille Karol Kostka Tim Glass 7. Greg Howard Greg Howard 9. Grzegorz Wozniak Brian Stone Karol Kostka 12. Jan Tivenius Ed Fellows Mike Matranga Grzegorz Wozniak Phil Lee

.942 .750 .767 .581 .727 .889 .734 .825 .836 .582 .742 .938 .849 .849 .750 .542

Epee Single-Season Win Percentage Pl. Name Year Won Lost

Pct.

Ted Fay Michal Sobieraj Jan Tivenius Jan Viviani Michal Sobieraj Tim Glass 7. Andy Quaroni 8. Michal Sobieraj Jan Viviani David Calderhead Minimum 30 wins

1989 2005 1983 2002 2004 1977 1984 2003 2001 1992

65 57 56 50 48 48 47 47 46 46 46 45 45 45 45 45

Pct.

4 19 17 36 18 6 17 10 9 33 16 3 8 8 15 38

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

2005 1995 1995 1996 2007 1976 2007 2008 1994 1996 2008 1983 1976 1974 1993 1996

.936 .890 .861 .860 .853 .849 .825 .824 .820 .819 .819

33 65 45 42 41 41 35 44 44 33

2 4 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 3

1994 NCAA Champions Notre Dame claimed the 1994 NCAA Combined Fencing Championship behind a deep lineup that included just three All-Americans, led by sabre captain and All-American Chris Hajnik. Pictured from left are: foil captain Rian Girard (fenced epee in NCAAs), men’s head coach Mike DeCicco, Hajnik, epee captain Grzegorz Wozniak, Stanton Brunner, foil captain Dinamarie Garcia and women’s head coach Yves Auriol.

Sabre Career Wins Pl. Name 1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

Bill Lester Luke La Valle Mike Sullivan Gabor Szelle Bill Thanhouser Patrick Ghattas Mike Janis Andrzej Bednarski Matt Fabricant Andre Crompton

.943 .942 .938 .933 .932 .932 .921 .917 .917 .917

Bold indicates current fencers.

Did You Know?

Sabreists Mike Sullivan and Ed Baguer and foilist Sara Walsh remain the only Notre Dame fencers ever to post 30-plus wins in a season without a loss.

102

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Years Won Lost

1994-97 1996-99 1976-79 1999-2001, ’03 2006-09 2004-07 1982-85 1998, 2000-02 2000-03 1999-2002

213 200 183 182 174 158 157 152 151 150

38 20 4 13 51 19 27 32 21 19

Pct. .849 .915 .979 .933 .773 .893 .853 .826 .872 .888

Sabre Career Winning Percentage Pl. Name Years Won Lost 1. Leszek Nowosielski 1988-91 2. Mike Sullivan 1976-79 3. Gabor Szelle 1999-2001 4. David Kirby 1988-92 5. Gabor Szelle 1999-2001, ’03 6. Ed Baguer 1989-92 7. Luke La Valle 1996-99 8. Gerry Finney 1952-54 9. Patrick Ghattas 2004-07 10. Andre Crompton 1999-2002 Minimum 40 wins and two seasons

Pct.

2 4 8 4 13 9 20 7 19 19

.980 .979 .944 .943 .933 .917 .915 .897 .893 .888

Sabre Single-Season Wins Pl. Name Years Won Lost

Pct.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Bill Lester Luke La Valle Chris Hajnik Gabor Szelle Bill Lester Mike Sullivan Andrzej Bednarski Jeffrey Wartgow 9. Patrick Ghattas 10. Luke LaValle Bill Lester Chris Hajnik

1996 1996 1995 1999 1995 1976 1998 1996 2006 1999 1997 1993

97 183 134 66 182 100 200 61 158 150

67 64 57 56 55 53 53 53 51 50 50 50

7 8 19 2 7 1 10 25 5 6 8 20

Sabre Single-Season Win Percentage Pl. Name Years Won Lost 1. Mike Sullivan Ed Baguer 3. Mike Sullivan 4. Mike Sullivan 5. Gerry Finney 6. Gabor Szelle 7. Kevin Stoutermire 8. Dan Yu 9. Mike Sullivan 10. Chris Baguer Minimum 30 wins

1978 1992 1976 1977 1954 1999 1987 1990 1979 1990

41 30 53 47 32 56 46 42 42 45

Brian Casas (156-55) ranks eighth on the Notre Dame list for career men’s epee wins and earned All-America honors at the 1999 and 2001 NCAAs.

0 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3

.905 .889 .750 .966 .887 .981 .841 .679 .911 .893 .862 .714

Pct. 1.000 1.000 .981 .979 .970 .966 .958 .956 .955 .938

Individual Career Win Leaders

Women’s Records

Pl.

Name, Weapon

Years

Won

Lost

Anne Hoos, Epee Nicole Mustilli, Epee/Foil Myriah Brown, Foil Mindi Kalogera, Foil Claudette de Bruin, Epee/Foil

1995-98 1996-99 1996-99 1993-96 1993-96

313 304 291 248 235

70 51 28 63 24

.817 .856 .912 .797 .907

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

Ashley Serrette, Sabre Sara Walsh, Foil Magda Krol, Epee/Foil Adrienne Nott, Foil Nicole Paulina, Foil

2006-09 1996-99 1997-2000 2006-09 1996-99

234 231 230 223 216

83 7 30 35 68

.738 .970 .885 .864 .761

11.

12.

13.

14.

15.

Amee Appel, Foil Kimberlee Montoya, Epee Valerie Providenza, Sabre Anna Carnick, Epee Kerry Walton, Epee

1995-98 2006-09 2004-07 2000-03 2002-05

215 192 191 179 175

65 54 30 43 28

.768 .780 .864 .806 .862

16.

17.

Amy Orlando, Epee Liza Boutsikaris, Foil Meagan Call, Epee Maggie Jordan, Foil/Sabre Destanie Milo, Sabre

200407 2000-03 2000-03 2001-04 2001-04

172 168 168 168 166

59 37 52 58 36

.745 .820 .764 .743 .822

21.

22.

23.

24.

Andrea Ament, Foil Alicja Kryczalo, Foil Molly Sullivan, Foil Anne Barreda, Foil Cindy Weeks, Foil

2002-05 2002-05 1985-88 1987-88, ’90-’91 1984-87

164 161 160 159 159

15 12 14 24 57

.916 .931 .919 .868 .736

26.

27.

28.

29.

30.

Kathy Valdiserri, Foil Heidi Piper, Foil Ashley Shannon, Epee Melanie Bautista, Foil Maria Panyi, Foil Emilie Prot, Foil

1973-78 1989-92 1994-96 2005-06 1994-95 2006-09

157 152 149 147 146 146

29 15 68 47 3 51

.844 .910 .687 .762 .980 .741

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

20.

Pct.

Individual Career Winning Percentage Pl.

Anne Hoos

Name, Weapon

Years

Won

Lost

Maria Panyi, Foil Sara Walsh, Foil Mariel Zagunis, Sabre Alicja Kryczalo, Foil Molly Sullivan, Foil

1994-95 1996-99 2005-06 2002-05 1985-88

146 231 75 161 160

3 7 3 12 14

.980 .970 .962 .931 .919

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

Andrea Ament, Foil Myriah Brown, Foil Ewa Nelip, Epee Heidi Piper, Foil Claudette de Bruin, Epee/Foil

2002-05 1996-99 20081989-92 1993-96

164 291 82 152 235

15 28 8 15 24

.916 .912 .911 .910 .907

11.

12.

13.

14.

15.

Kelley Hurley, Epee Magda Krol, Epee/Foil Sarah Borrmann, Sabre Natalia Mazur, Sabre Hayley Reese, Foil

20071997-2000 20082000-01, ’04 2008-

134 230 113 111 120

14 30 15 15 18

.905 .885 .883 .881 .870

16.

17.

18.

20.

Anne Barreda, Foil Mary Westrick, Foil Valerie Providenza, Sabre Adrienne Nott, Foil Kerry Walton, Epee

1987-88, ’90-’91 1989-92 2004-07 2006-09 2002-05

159 96 191 223 175

24 15 30 35 28

.868 .865 .864 .864 .862

21.

22.

23.

24.

25.

Janice Hynes, Foil Nicole Mustilli, Epee/Foil Tara Kelly, Foil Eileen Hassett, Sabre Kim Arndt, Foil

1986-89 1996-99 1989-92 20081992-94

126 304 115 110 72

21 51 21 22 17

.857 .856 .846 .833 .828

26.

27.

28.

29.

Kristin Kralicek, Foil Destanie Milo, Sabre Marielle Connor, Epee Liza Boutsikaris, Foil Mary Jean Sully, Foil

1987-90 2001-04 2003-06 2000-03 1987-88

142 166 55 168 41

30 36 12 28 9

.826 .822 .821 .820 .820

31.

32.

Kelly Haugh, Foil Anne Hoos, Epee

1989-92 1995-98

63 313

14 70

.818 .817

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Janice Hynes

Pct.

Minimum 40 wins and two seasons ... current fencers in bold

Team Records Single-Season Wins 1. 1995 .................................... 32-0 2. 1996 .................................... 31-1 3. 1997 .................................... 30-1 2009 ......................................30-2 5. 2006 .................................... 29-1 2008 .................................... 29-2

Single-Season Winning Pct. 1. 1995 2004 1994 1986 1991 1987

(32-0) (26-0) (23-0) (23-0) (19-0) (19-0)

........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................

Single-Season Bouts Won 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

1996 ...................................... 832 1995 ...................................... 799 1997 ...................................... 792 2009........................................700 2006 ...................................... 659

Single-Season Bout Win Pct. 1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

1987 1986 1991 1988 2005

(257-47) ......................

(309-59) ......................

(254-50) ......................

(253-51) ......................

(536-112) ....................

2009-10 FENCING

.843 .840 .836 .832 .827

103

Women’s Records

Anne Barreda’s stellar Notre Dame career included a 159-24 foil record from 1987-91, plus All-America performances at the 1988 (third place) and 1990 (eighth) NCAAs.

Single-Season Win Pct. (all weapons) Pl. Name (Weapon) Years Won Lost 1.

2.

3.

4.

6.

8.

9.

10.

Sara Walsh (foil) Maria Panyi (foil) Kelley Hurley (Epee) Sara Walsh (foil) Heidi Piper (foil) Sara Walsh (foil) Maria Panyi (foil) Magda Krol (epee) Mariel Zagunis (sabre) Alicja Kryczalo (foil)

Foil Career Wins Pl. Name 1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

Myriah Brown Mindi Kalogera Sara Walsh Adrienne Nott Nicole Paulina Amee Appel Liza Boutsikaris Andrea Ament Alicja Kryczalo Molly Sullivan

1997 1995 2008 1999 1991 1996 1994 1997 2006 2002

0 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 2

1.000 .981 .979 .978 .978 .976 .976 .968 .958 .951

Years Won Lost

Pct.

1996-99 1993-96 1996-99 2006-09 1996-99 1995-98 2000-03 2002-05 2002-05 1985-88

48 105 47 45 44 80 41 61 46 39

Pct.

28 63 7 35 68 65 37 15 12 14

.912 .797 .970 .854 .761 .768 .820 .916 .931 .920

Foil Career Winning Percentage Pl. Name Years Won Lost

Pct.

1. Maria Panyi 1994-95 2. Sara Walsh 1996-99 3. Alicja Kryczalo 2002-05 4. Molly Sullivan 1985-88 5. Andrea Ament 2002-05 6. Myriah Brown 1996-99 7. Heidi Piper 1989-92 8. Magda Krol 1997, ’98, ’00 9. Hayley Reese 200810. Anne Barreda 1987-88, ’90-’91 11. Claudette de Bruin 1993-94 Minimum 35 wins and two seasons

291 248 231 223 216 215 168 164 161 160

3 7 12 14 15 28 15 9 18 24 14

.980 .970 .931 .920 .916 .912 .910 .875 .870 .869 .868

Foil Single-Season Wins Pl. Name Year Won Lost

Pct.

1.

2.

3.

4.

Maria Panyi Mindi Kalogera Myriah Brown Sara Walsh Myriah Brown 6. Rose Saari 7. Myriah Brown Nicole Paulina Mindy Kalogera 10. Amee Appel

1995 1995 1997 1996 1996 1997 1999 1997 1996 1997

146 231 161 160 164 291 152 63 120 159 92

105 97 82 80 80 79 71 71 71 70

2 17 5 2 7 22 10 13 18 17

.981 .851 .942 .976 .920 .782 .877 .845 .798 .804

Foil Single-Season Winning Pct. Pl. Name Year Won Lost 1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Sara Walsh Maria Panyi Sara Walsh Heidi Piper Sara Walsh Maria Panyi 7. Alicja Kryczalo 8. Janet Sullivan Pia Albertson 10. Andrea Ament Minimum 30 wins

Epee Career Wins Pl. Name 1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

Anne Hoos Nicole Mustilli Kimberlee Montoya Anna Carnick Kerry Walton Amy Orlando Colleen Smerek Meagan Call Magda Krol Ashley Shannon

1.000 .981 .978 .978 .976 .976 .951 .949 .949 .946

Years Won Lost

Pct. .817 .855 .780 .806 .862 .745 .780 .764 .888 .695

Epeee Career Winning Percentage Pl. Name Years Won Lost

Pct.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

Kelley Hurley 2007Magda Krol 1997-99 Kerry Walton 2002-05 Nicole Mustilli 1996-99 Marielle Connor 2003-06 Anne Hoos 1995-98 Anna Carnick 2000-03 Colleen Smerek 1995, ’97 Kimberlee Montoya 2006-09 10. Anne Hayes 1996-97 11. Meagan Call 2000-03 Minimum 40 wins and two seasons

313 235 192 179 175 172 170 168 167 157

14 21 28 40 12 70 43 48 54 26 52

.905 .888 .862 .855 .821 .817 .806 .780 .780 .776 .764

Epee Single-Season Wins Pl. Name Year Won Lost

Pct.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Anne Hoos Colleen Smerek Nicole Mustilli Colleen Smerek Anne Hoos Claudette de Bruin Claudette de Bruin Anne Hoos Anne Hayes Ashley Shannon

.783 .767 .848 .794 .840 .950 .916 .809 .768 .717

Epee Single-Season Winning Pct. Pl. Name Year Won Lost

Pct.

Bold indicates current fencers.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

1995 1995 1997 1997 1997 1995 1996 1996 1996 1996

134 167 175 235 55 313 179 170 192 90 168

25 27 15 21 15 4 7 18 23 30

Kelley Hurley Magda Krol Claudette de Bruin Ewa Nelip Kelley Hurley Diane Zielinski Claudette de Bruin Kerry Walton Courtney Hurley 10. Kerry Walton

104

Pct.

0 2 1 1 2 1 2 2 2 3

1995-98 1996-99 2006-09 2000-03 2002-05 2004-07 1995, ’97 2000-03 1997-99 1994-96

48 105 45 44 80 41 39 37 37 53

70 40 54 43 28 59 48 52 21 69

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

Foilist Nicole Paulina posted one of the highest singleseason victory totals (71-13, 1997) in Notre Dame women’s fencing history and ranks eighth on the Irish list for career wins (216-68) among all weapons.

1997 1995 1999 1991 1996 1994 2002 1986 1984 2005

2008 1997 1995 2009 2007 2009 1996 2002 2009 2003

90 89 84 81 79 76 76 76 76 76

41 61 76 37 51 46 76 50 50 43

1 2 4 2 4 4 7 5 5 5

.979 .968 .950 .949 .927 .920 .916 .909 .909 .896

Sabre Career Wins (since 2000) Pl. Name Year Won Lost

Pct.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

.738 .864 .822 .804 .781 .801 .883 .811 .833 .794

Ashley Serreette 2006-09 Valerie Providenza 2004-07 Destanie Milo 2001-04 Angela Vinceont 2004-06 Danielle Davis 2002-05 Carianne McCullough 2000-02 Sarah Borrmann 2008Natalia Mazur 2000-01, ’04 Eileen Hassett 2008Maggie Jordan 2002-04

234 191 166 131 125 117 113 111 110 85

83 30 36 32 35 29 15 15 12 22

Sabre Career Winning Pct. (min. 40 wins) Pl. Name Year Won Lost Pct. 1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

Mariel Zagunis 2005-06 Sarah Borrmann 2008Valerie Providenza 2004-07 Eileen Hassett 2008Destanie Milo 2001-04 Natalia Mazur 2000-01, ’04 Angela Vincent 2004-06 Carianne McCullough 2000-02 Maggie Jordan 2002-04 Danielle Davis 2002-05 Ashley Serreette 2006-09

3 15 30 12 36 15 32 29 22 35 83

.962 .883 .864 .833 .822 .811 .804 .801 .794 .781 .738

Sabre Single-Season Wins Pl. Name Year Won Lost

Pct.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

Sarah Borrmann Eileen Hassett Ashley Serrette Ashley Serrette Ashley Serrette Maggie Jordan Valerie Providenza Valerie Providenza Angela Vincent 10. Ashley Serrette

7 12 25 22 25 6 8 7 12 11

.913 .848 .725 .735 .695 .903 .871 .879 .810 .820

Sabre Single-Season Winning Pct. Pl. Name Year Won Lost

Pct.

1. Mariel Zagunis 2. Natalia Mazur 3. Sarah Borrmann 4. Maggie Jordan 5. Destanie Milo 6. Valerie Providenza 7. Valerie Providenza 8. Valerie Providenza 9. Angela Vincent 10. Destanie Milo 11. Eileen Hassett Minimum 30 wins

2008 2008 2008 2007 2006 2003 2006 2007 2005 2009

75 113 191 110 166 111 131 117 85 125 234

2006 2000 2008 2003 2003 2007 2006 2004 2004 2002 2008

73 67 66 61 57 56 54 51 51 50

46 49 73 56 40 51 54 39 41 45 67

2 4 7 6 5 7 8 6 10 8 12

.958 .935 .913 .903 .889 .879 .871 .867 .863 .849 .848

1954 – 8th place (48 points)

NCAA Championship Results

Name, Weapon Dick Hull, Foil Gerry Finney, Sabre Rod Duff, Epee 1955 – 7th place (48 points) Jim Waters, Foil Tom Dorwin, Sabre Don Tadrowski, Epee

@ Chicago W 16 20 16

@ Michigan St. 13 13 22

1956 – 15th place (33 points) Jack Friel, Foil Dave Frsike, Sabre Don Tadrowski, Epee 1957 – 9th place (52 points) Pierre DuVair, Foil Joe Klein, Sabre Dennis Hemmerle, Epee 1958 – 6th place (35 points) Jim Russomano, Foil Dick Fagon, Sabre Ron Farrow, Epee

Name, Weapon Jack Gaither, Foil, Herb Melton, Sabre Russ Harris, Epee

@ Chicago W L Rk. Missing Data

1948 – 12th place (21 points) Mike DeCicco, Foil Bob Schlosser, Sabre Ralph Dixon, Epee

@ Texas Tech 13 9 13

1950 – 6th place (61 points) Nick Scalera, Foil Bob Schlosser, Sabre Ralph Dixon, Epee

9 3 6

@ Navy 21 13 13

7 5 13

1953 – 7th place (67 points) Jack Mooney, Foil Gerry Finney, Sabre John McGinn, Epee

@ Illinois 20 10 14

1961 – 13th place (47 points)

@ Princeton

Mike Curtin, Foil Rudy Ehrensing, Sabre John Donlon, Epee

11 14 22

Mike Bishko, Foil Tom Shipp, Sabre Dan Kenney, Epee

6 14 9

6 7 7

18 19 13 14 8 5

@ Ohio State 13 14 18

15 14 15 12 14 10

1963 – 10th place (31 points)

@ Air Force

Tom Dwyer, Foil Ralph DeMatteis, Sabre Dick Marks, Epee

8 12 11

4 16 9 9 10 10

5 5 6

— — —

1964 – 5th place (73 points) Bill Ferrence, Foil Sam Crimone, Sabre Dick Marks, Epee

@ Harvard 25 26 22

8 9 12

4 8 8

20 22 5 13 14

1965 – 15th place (58 points) Bill Ferrence, Foil Mike Dwyer, Sabre Frank Hajnik, Epee

@ Detroit 24 19 7

8 5 13 10 12 27

@ Wayne State 24 19 18

8 4 11 11 10 5

1966 – John Bishko, Foil John Klier, Sabre Steve Donlon, Epee

@ Duke 13 12 0

9 6 15 10 6 —

@ Illinois 14 10 11

1952 – 16th place (40 points) Jack Jacobs, Foil Paul Gibbons, Sabre Brian Duff, Epee

5 6 11 11 13 15

@ Army

1951 – 10th place (41 points) Nick Scalera, Foil Charlie Daschle, Sabre Brian Duff, Epee

4 4 12 14 5 3

@ Navy

1949 – 24th place (25 points) Lou Burns, Foil Bob Schlosser, Sabre Ralph Dixon

10 20 12 13 4 2

Jim Russomano, Foil Ted DeBaene, Sabre Pete Giaimo, Epee

1962 – 12th place (45 points)

1947 – 13th place (9 points)

17 18 21 25 13 9

@ Detroit 11 16 25

1960 – 7th place (44 points)

Nick Scalera helped lead the 1950 Irish to the first of their 46 top-10 finishes at the NCAAs.

12 10 9 7 4 1 @ Navy

18 14 21

1959 – 8th place (47 points) Jim Russomano, Foil Tom Lee, Sabre Jim Johnson, Epee

L Rk. 10 9 7 4 14 12

12 13 12 12 16 20

1967 – 6th place (56 pts) John Crikelair, Foil Pat Korth, Sabre Steve Donlon, Epee

@ Cal St. Northridge 21 13 22

10 8 14 15 7 4

@ Yale 10 13 17

19 21 15 13 13 12

1968 – 6th place (73 pts)

@ Wayne State

John Crikelair, Foil Mike Daher, Sabre Jeff Pero, Epee

25 25 23

14 11 8 5 13 9

1969 – 6th place (36 points)

@ N.C. State

Bob Babineau, Foil Bob Mendes, Sabre Joe DePietro, Epee

18 20 9

@ Pennsylvania 21 24 22

13 12 9 6 12 8

Notre Dame’s 1957 captains included foilist John Ryan (left) and All-America epeeist Dennis Hemmerle, whose runner-up finish at the 1957 NCAAs ranked as the secondbest finish by a Notre Dame fencer until the 1977 national championship season.

1970 – 8th place (46 points) Name, Weapon Glenn Kalin, Foil Roger Holzgrafe, Sabre Rich Deladrier, Epee

@ Notre Dame W 9 14 19

L Rk. 25 22 20 13 15 6

1971 – 6th place (64 points)

@ Air Force

John Lyons, Foil Doug Daher, Sabre Rich Deladrier, Epee

18 21 20

1972 – 8th place (49 points) Mike Cornwall, Foil Ron Sollito, Sabre Chuck Harkness, Epee 1973 – 12th place (47 pts) Mike Cornwall, Foil Dan Mulligan, Sabre Mike Matranga, Epee 1974 – 13th place (52 pts) Tom Coye, Foil Sam DiFiglio, Sabre Ed Fellows, Epee 1975 – 3rd place (76 points) Mike McCahey, Foil Sam DiFiglio, Sabre Tim Glass, Epee 1976 – 3rd place (76 points) Mike McCahey, Foil Mike Sullivan, Sabre Tim Glass, Epee

14 14 11 8 12 6

@ Ill. Chicago 17 21 15

15 13 11 7 18 18

@ Johns Hopkins 18 17 16

15 11 16 13 16 18

@ Case Reserve 3 20 24

7 — 13 10 10 6

@ CS Fullerton 18 13 20

4 9 5

7 11 6

@ Pennsylvania 8 22 16

6 5 7

13 3 4

Yearly listings include site of NCAA Championship Bold indicates All-Americans

12 9 10 8 11 —

2009-10 FENCING

105

NCAA Championship Results 1977 – 1st place (116 points) Name, Weapon Pat Gerard, Foil Mike Sullivan, Sabre Tim Glass, Epee 1978 – 1st place (121 points) Pat Gerard, Foil Mike Sullivan, Sabre Bjorn Vaggo, Epee

@ Notre Dame W 18 20 16

L Rk. 4 1 2 1 7 4

@ Wis. Parkside 19 23 19

3 0 4

2 1 1

1979 – 2nd place (92 points)

@ Princeton

Andy Bonk, Foil Mike Sullivan, Sabre Thom Cullom, Epee

30 30 10

1980 – 8th place (90 points) Andy Bonk, Foil Chris Lyons, Sabre Rich Daly, Epee 1981 – 5th place (100 points) Ray Benson, Foil Greg Armi, Sabre Rich Daly, Epee 1982 – 7th place (66 points) Marc DeJong, Foil Mike Janis, Sabre Rich Daly, Epee 1983 – 2nd place (80 points)

2 1 2 2 22 23

@ Penn State 29 22 3

3 2 10 6 6 —

@ Wis. Parkside 12 18 10

11 12 5 3 13 12

@ Notre Dame 21 17 22

11 13 15 18 10 6

@ Wis. Parkside

Marc DeJong, Foil John Edwards, Sabre Ola Harstrom, Epee

21 19 29

10 5 12 13 2 1

1984 – 3rd place (46 points)

@ Princeton

Charles Higgs-Coulthard, Foil Mike Van der Velden,Foil Don Jonson, Sabre Mike Janis, Sabre Andy Quaroni, Epee Brian St. Clair, Epee

13 4 14 4 7 4

6 1 5 14 5 3 5 14 12 6 5 18

1985 – 2nd place (140 points)

W 14 11 12 10 12 7

1986 – 1st place (151 points)

@ Princeton

Yehuda Kovacs, Foil Charles Higgs-Coulthard, Foil Don Johnson, Sabre John Edwards, Sabre Mike Gostigian, Epee Christian Scherpe, Epee

14 14 14 8 16 14

1987 – 4th place (81 points)

L Rk. 4 4 6 8 6 5 6 9 8 3 6 17

6 5 4 5 3 5

2 3 6 17 3 4

@ Notre Dame

Charles Higgs-Coulthard, Foil Yehuda Kovacs, Foil Kevin Stoutermire, Sabre Geoff Rossi, Sabre Todd Griffee, Epee Tim Vaughan, Epee

15 14 15 6 8 1

1988 – 2nd place (83 points)

@ Princeton

Yehuda Kovacs, Foil Phil Leary, Foil Leszek Nowosielski, Sabre Dan Yu, Sabre Todd Griffee, Epee Ted Fay, Epee

13 7 10 8 10 7

1989 – 4th place (69 points) Yehuda Kovacs, Foil Derek Holeman, Foil Leszek Nowesielski, Sabre David Kirby, Sabre Ted Fay, Epee Todd Griffee, Epee Bold indicates All-Americans

Head coach Mike DeCicco poses with the 1984 Notre Dame captains Sharon DiNicola (left) and Mary Shilts, Mike Janis (front left), Chris Grady and Andy Quaroni, along with the 1977 and ’78 NCAA Championship trophies and the 1979 and ’83 NCAA runner-up awards (the Irish went on to win the NCAA title again in 1986).

106

@ ND (SMC)

Name, Weapon Charles Higgs-Coulthard, Foil Mike Van der Velden, Foil John Edwards, Sabre Don Johnson, Sabre Andy Quaroni, Epee Christian Scherpe, Epee

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

5 4 3 7 8 7

6 8 7 4 9 6

4 5 6 22 12 30

3 16 4 13 2 18

@ Northwestern 11 2 15 6 6 6

6 6 3 7 10 7

7 30 5 17 12 18

Susan Valdiserri was Notre Dame’s first women’s fencing All-American.

NCAA Women’s Yearly Results 1982 – 6th place

@ San Jose State

Name (all foil) Susan Valdiserri Marcella Lansford, Sharon DiNicola, Mary Shilts, Ann Burns

W

1983 – 12th place

L Rk. 10

@ Penn State

Susan Valdiserri, Charlotte Albertson, Sharon DiNicola, Mary Shilts, Ann Burns 1984

@ Princeton

Pia Albertson 1985 – 9th place

10 @ Notre Dame (SMC)

Molly Sullivan Janet Sullivan, Vittoria Quaroni, Cindy Weeks, Cecilia Williams

11

1986 – 2nd place

@ Princeton

Molly Sullivan 15 Janice Hynes 5 Vittoria Quaroni, Cindy Weeks, Janice Sullivan 1987 – 1st place

3

0 8

5

1 11

@ Notre Dame

Molly Sullivan 13 Janice Hynes 6 Kristin Kralicek, Anne Barreda, Cindy Weeks

2 4

3 18

1988 – 2nd place

@ Princeton

Molly Sullivan Anne Barreda Kristin Kralicek Brenda Leiser, Lynn Kadri

15 10 5

1989 – 3rd place Janice Hynes Kristin Kralicek Heidi Piper Lynn Kadri, Brenda Leiser

0 6 7

1 3 13

@ Northwestern 9 9 7

5 4 5

6 10 13

1992 – 4th place (3,055 points) @ Notre Dame

1995 – 3rd place (370 pts) @ Notre Dame (SMC)

Name, Weapon W L Rk. MS – 3rd, MF – 5th, WF – 7th, ME – 5th Jeff Piper, Foil 5 4 25 Mike Trisko, Foil 1 8 26 James Taliaferro, Sabre 10 8 4 Ed Baguer, Sabre 9 7 12 Chris Baguer, Sabre 2 7 24 Per Johnsson, Epee 6 10 16 Grzegorz Wozniak, Epee 4 5 22 Heidi Piper, Foil 14 5 4 Mary Westrick, Foil 2 11 20 Rachel Haugh, Foil 1 7 24 Other Team Fencers: Henry Chou (S), Ed LeFevre (F), Rian Girard (F), Kelly Haugh (F), Tara Kelly (F), Ben Finley (E), Geoff Pechinsky (E)

Name, Weapon Jeremy Siek, Foil Conor Power, Foil Maria Panyi, Foil Mindi Kalogera, Foil Bill Lester, Sabre Chris Hajnik, Sabre Carl Jackson, Epee Rakesh Patel, Epee Claudette de Bruin, Epee Colleen Smerek, Epee

1993 – 6th place (1,725 points)

@ Wayne St.

MF – 4th, WF – 9th, ME – 6th Stanton Brunner, Foil 9 7 11 Rian Girard, Foil 4 10 17 Jeff Piper, Foil 4 10 19 Geoff Pechinsky, Epee 11 4 9 Grzegorz Wozniak, Epee 2 7 17 Per Johnsson, Epee 2 6 20 Claudette de Bruin, Foil 6 6 18 Kathleen Vogt, Foil 1 9 25 Other Team Fencers: Jordan Maggio (F), Rian Girard (F), Corinne Dougherty (F), Mindi Kalogera (F), Kim Arndt (F) 1994 – 1st place (4,350 points)

Rakesh Patel (1993-94) earned All-America epee honors while helping Notre Dame win the 1994 NCAA title.

1990 – 3rd place (30 pts)

@ Notre Dame (SMC)

MS – 2nd, MF – 5th, WF – 2nd, ME – 5th Name, Weapon W L Rk. Noel Young, Foil 17 2 3 Jeff Piper, Foil 6 7 16 Phil Leary, Foil 6 7 18 Heidi Piper, Foil 15 3 2 Kristin Kralicek, Foil 11 6 7 Anne Barreda, Foil 9 8 8 Rachel Haugh, Foil 2 11 20 Leszek Nowosielski, Sabre 14 5 3 James Taliaferro, Sabre 13 3 7 Chris Baguer, Sabre 4 9 23 Jubba Beshin, Epee 13 6 1 David Calderhead, Epee 11 8 3 Other Team Fencers: Ed Baguer (S), Joel Clark (F), Mary Westrick (F), Lynn Kadri (F), Derek Holeman (E), Geoff Pechinsky (E) 1991 – 3rd place (3,900 points)

@ Brandeis

MS – 4th, MF – 1st, WF – 3rd, ME – 2nd Jeremy Siek, Foil 11 2 5 Stanton Brunner, Foil 4 7 17 Conor Power, Foil 2 9 24 Chris Hajnik, Sabre 7 7 10 Bill Lester, Sabre 3 8 21 Bernard Baez, Sabre 4 7 24 Rakesh Patel, Epee 7 7 12 Grzegorz Wozniak, Epee 6 7 13 Rian Girard, Epee 3 8 24 Claudette de Bruin, Foil 4 1 16 Mindi Kalogera, Foil 4 6 22 Corinne Dougherty, Foil 1 5 29 Other Team Fencers: Jeff Wartgow (S), Kim Arndt (F), Monica Wagner (F), Paul Capobianco (F), Jason Arnold (E)

L 12 17 3 23 6 20 12 13 6 4

15 21 15 18 16 7 17 10

7 9 2 2 8 6 5 4 7 6 16 22 6 3 13 15

1996 – 2nd place (1,190 points) Jeremy Siek , Foil Sara Walsh, Foil Myriah Brown, Foil Luke La Valle, Sabre Bill Lester, Sabre Brice Dille, Epee Claudette de Bruin, Epee Anne Hoos, Epee

Rk. 12 21 2 24 2 20 6 8 3 28

@ Yale

1997 – 2nd place (1,470 points)

@ Air Force

Jeremy Siek, Foil Stephane Auriol, Foil Sara Walsh, Foil Myriah Brown, Foil Bill Lester, Sabre Luke La Valle, Sabre Brian Stone, Epee Carl Jackson, Epee Magda Krol, Epee Anne Hoos, Epee

17 9 19 16 21 15 12 9 18 11

1998 – 2nd place (147 points) John Tejada, Foil Stephane Auriol, Foil Sara Walsh, Foil Myriah Brown, Foil Luke La Valle, Sabre Andrzej Bednarski, Sabre Brian Stone, Epee Carl Jackson, Epee Nicole Mustilli, Epee Magda Krol, Epee

6 14 4 7 2 8 11 14 5 12

6 16 2 5 3 5 13 19 1 15

@ ND (SMC) 9 6 21 17 17 12 17 13 19 16

14 17 2 6 6 11 6 10 4 7

18 19 3 6 1 11 4 11 4 6

Bold indicates All-Americans 1999 – 2nd place (139 points) Name, Weapon Charles Hayes, Foil Stephane Auriol, Foil Sara Walsh, Foil Myriah Brown, Foil Gabor Szelle, Sabre Luke La Valle, Sabre Brian Casas, Epee James Gaither, Epee Nicole Mustilli, Epee Magda Krol, Epee

@ Penn St.

MS – 2nd, MF – 2nd, WF – 2nd, ME – 7th Noel Young, Foil 13 4 2 Phil Leary, Foil 7 8 13 Jeff Piper, Foil 8 8 16 Leszek Nowosielski, Sabre 16 1 2 Chris Baguer, Sabre 5 10 14 Ed Baguer, Sabre 4 6 21 Jubba Beshin, Epee 13 6 2 David Calderhead, Epee 11 6 3 Grzegorz Wozniak, Epee 8 7 13 Heidi Piper, Foil 17 1 1 Rachel Haugh, Foil 2 11 20 Anne Barreda, Foil 4 4 22 Other Team Fencers: James Taliafero (S), Rian Girard (F), Mary Westrick (F), Lynn Kadri (F), Geoff Pechinsky (E)

W 16 8 25 5 23 8 19 15 23 1

2000 – 2nd place (171 points)

Notre Dame’s 1997 fencing team – led by captains (from left) Jeremy Siek (foil), Anne Hoos (epee), Phil Lee (epee), Rose Saari (foil) and Bill Lester (sabre) – came just shy of winning the NCAA title, after being edged by Penn State (1,530-1,470) in the expanded scoring format that awarded 10 points for each win totaled by fencers in their respective 23 round-robin bouts (the score was the equivalent of 153-147 under the current tabulation system).

Ozren Debic, Foil Forest Walton, Foil Magda Krol, Foil Liza Boutsikaris, Foil Gabor Szelle, Sabre Andrzej Bednarski, Sabre Natalia Mazur, Sabre Carianne McCullough, Sabre Jan Viviani, Epee Brian Casas, Epee Anna Carnick, Epee Meagan Call, Epee

@ Brandeis W 11 10 19 13 20 12 14 11 15 14

L 12 13 4 10 3 11 9 12 8 9

Rk. 14 16 5 10 2 11 8 14 5 8

@ Stanford 20 13 16 12 20 17 13 9 17 9 14 11

2009-10 FENCING

3 10 7 11 3 6 10 14 6 14 9 12

2 14 5 12 1 5 10 19 3 18 9 12

107

NCAA Championship Results 2001 – 3rd place (153 pts.)

Name, Weapon Ozren Debic, Foil Forest Walton, Foil Liza Boutsikaris, Foil Maggie Jordan, Foil Andre Crompton, Sabre Andrzej Bednarski, Sabre Carianne McCullough, Sabre Destanie Milo, Sabre Jan Viviani, Epee Brian Casas, Epee Meagan Call, Epee Anna Carnick, Epee 2002 – 3rd place (186 points) Name, Weapon Ozren Debic, Foil Derek Snyder, Foil Alicja Kryczalo, Foil Andrea Ament, Foil Andre Crompton, Sabre Matt Fabricant, Sabre Carianne McCullough, Sabre Destanie Milo, Sabre Jan Viviani, Epee Michal Sobieraj, Epee Kerry Walton, Epee Anna Carnick, Epee

@ Wis. Parkside W 17 13 8 8 16 15 10 8 17 14 15 12

L 6 10 15 15 7 8 13 15 6 9 8 11

Rk. 5 9 16 17 7 10 15 17 3 7 5 12

@ Drew (N.J.) W 18 15 23 22 18 9 12 8 17 12 18 14

L 5 8 0 1 5 14 11 15 6 11 5 9

Rk. 4 7 1 2 5 14 12 18 5 10 1 10

2003 – 1st place (182 points)

@ Air Force

Ozren Debic, Foil Derek Snyder, Foil Alicja Kryczalo, Foil Andrea Ament, Foil

18 17 19 19

5 6 4 4

4 5 1 3

The Notre Dame fencing team’s quest for the program’s sixth national championship – after a decade of near-misses – finally produced the winning point total in 2003, with the Irish fencers outfitted for their national-title rings after the triumphant return from Colorado Springs. Foilist Alicja Kryczalo, who went on to win her second of three NCAA individual titles, fittingly delivered the 5-3 win over Stanford’s Iris Zimmermann (pictured) that helped provide the final winning margin over Penn State (182-179). Senior sabreists Matt Fabricant and Destanie Milo closed with the best NCAA showings of their careers (both 6th) while five others posted top finishes: epeeists Michal Sobieraj (2nd) and Kerry Walton (5th), and foilists Andrea Ament (3rd), Ozren Debic (4th) and Derek Snyder (5th).

Matt Fabricant, Sabre Gabor Szelle, Sabre Destanie Milo, Sabre Maggie Jordan, Sabre Michal Sobieraj, Epee Jan Viviani, Epee Kerry Walton, Epee Meagan Call, Epee 2004 – 3rd place (153 points) Frank Bontempo, Foil Forest Walton, Foil Andrea Ament, Foil Alicja Kryczalo, Foil Patrick Ghattas, Sabre Matthew Stearns, Sabre Valerie Providenza, Sabre Angela Vincent, Sabre Michal Sobieraj, Epee Amy Orlando, Epee Kerry Walton, Epee 2005 – 1st place (173 points) Jakub Jedrkowiak, Foil Andrea Ament, Foil Alicja Kryczalo, Foil Patrick Ghattas, Sabre Matt Stearns, Sabre Valerie Providenza, Sabre Mariel Zagunis, Sabre Aaron Adjemian, Epee Michal Sobieraj, Epee Amy Orlando, Epee Kerry Walton, Epee 2006 – 4th place (152 points)

Andre Crompton (150-19) finished eighth in Notre Dame history for career men’s sabre wins and win percentage (.888), also adding All-America finishes at the 2001 and 2002 NCAAs.

108

Jakub Jedrkowiak, Foil Mark Kubik, Foil Melanie Bautista, Foil Adrienne Nott, Foil Patrick Ghattas, Sabre Matt Stearns, Sabre Valerie Providenza, Sabre Mariel Zagunis, Sabre Aaron Adjemian, Epee Karol Kostka, Epee Amy Orlando, Epee Madeleine Stephan, Epee

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

15 12 16 6 20 12 15 13

8 11 7 17 3 11 8 10

6 11 6 21 2 10 5 10

@ Brandeis 7 9 19 21 13 10 18 8 18 13 17

16 14 4 2 10 13 5 15 5 10 6

20 17 2 1 10 14 1 16 3 10 2

@ Houston 15 15 21 18 14 19 21 5 18 16 11

8 7 8 7 2 2 5 2 9 10 4 4 2 2 18 24 5 1 7 2 12 14

@ Houston 12 7 11 15 20 12 15 17 10 8 11 14

11 16 11 8 3 11 8 6 13 15 12 9

8 21 14 6 2 11 9 1 16 18 15 6

2007 – 4th place (160 points) Jakub Jedrkowiak, Foil Mark Kubik, Foil Adrienne Nott, Foil Emilie Prot, Foil Patrick Ghattas, Sabre Bill Thanhouser, Sabre Valerie Providenza, Sabre Ashley Serrette, Sabre Greg Howard, Epee Karol Kostka, Epee Kelley Hurley, Epee 2008 – 2nd place (176 points) Barron Nydam,Sabre Bill Thanhouser, Sabre Steve Kubik, Foil Zach Schirtz, Foil Greg Howard, Epee Karol Kostka, Epee Sarah Borrmann, Sabre Eileen Hassett, Sabre Adi Nott, Foil Hayley Reese, Foil Kelley Hurley, Epee Ewa Nelip, Epee 2009 – 2nd place (182 points) Avery Zuck, Sabre Barron Nydam,Sabre Gerek Meinhardt, Foil Enzo Castellani, Foil Karol Kostka, Epee Greg Schoolcraft, Epee Eileen Hassett, Sabre Sarah Borrmann, Sabre Hayley Reese, Foil Adrienne Nott, Foil Courtney Hurley, Epee Ewa Nelip, Epee Bold indicates All-Americans

@ Drew (N.J.) 12 13 18 11 18 17 19 9 13 12 18

11 9 10 7 5 3 12 14 5 2 6 6 3 4 14 16 10 8 11 11 5 2

@ Ohio State 16 11 13 12 13 13 18 18 19 11 16 16

6 6 12 13 10 8 11 11 10 8 10 9 5 1 5 5 4 4 12 11 7 1 7 3

@ Penn State 17 13 19 13 13 9 15 12 19 14 21 17

6 10 4 10 10 14 8 11 5 10 3 7

5 10 2 8 10 18 6 13 2 9 3 3

Notre Dame’s NCAA Finishes

NCAA Records

(numbers indicate men’s/women’s finishes and All-Americans)

Men’s Individual Career NCAA Leaders Men’s All-Time NCAA Victories (round-robin bouts) Weapon

Years

Finishes

W

L

Pct.

1.

2.

3.

4.

Mike Sullivan Ozren Debic Patrick Ghattas Michal Sobieraj

Sabre Foil Sabre Epee

1976-79 2000-03 2004-07 2002-05

3-1-1-2 2-5-4-4 10-2-2-2 10-2-3-1

95 73 69 68

9 19 23 24

.913 .794 .750 .739

5.

Bill Lester Jan Viviani Luke La Valle Andy Bonk Leszek Nowosielski Jeremy Siek

Sabre Epee Sabre Foil Sabre Foil

1994-97 2000-03 1996-99 1979-80 1988-91 1994-97

21-2-6-3 3-3-5-10 4-5-1-11 1-2 4-5-3-2 5-12-9-6

63 63 62 59 59 59

18 29 30 5 13 27

.778 .685 .674 .922 .819 .686

Tim Glass Charles Higgs-Coulthard Jim Russomano Gabor Szelle

Epee Foil Foil Sabre

1975-77 1984-87 1958-60 1999-2000, 2003

6-4-4 1-4-3-4 4-6-6 2-1

57 56 54 52

17 20 15 17

.770 .737 .783 .754

Pl.

6.

7.

11.

12.

13.

14.

Name

’47 ’48 ’49 ’50 ’51 ’52 ’53 ’54 ’55 ’56 ’57 ’58 ’58 ’59 ’60 ’61 ’62 ’63 ’64 ’65 ’66 ’67

.... 13th .... 12th .... 24th .... 6th . . . . . .... 10th . . . . .... 16th . . . . .... 7th . . . . . .... 8th . . . . . .... 8th . . . . . .... 15th . . . . .... 9th . . . . . .... 6th . . . . . .... 8th . . . . . .... 7th . . . . . .... 7th . . . . . .... 13th . . . . .... 12th . . . . .... 10th . . . . .... 5th . . . . . .... 15th . . . . .... . . . . . . . . .... 6th . . . . .

3 1 1 3 3 3 1 1 2 2 2 3 1 2 2 3 2 2 2

’68 ’69 ’70 ’71 ’72 ’73 ’74 ’75 ’76 ’77 ’78 ’79 ’80 ’81 ’82 ’83 ’84 ’85 ’86 ’87 ’88 ’89

Pl.

Weapon

Years

Finishes

W

L

Pct.

1.

2.

3.

4.

Andy Bonk Mike Sullivan Pat Gerard Noel Young

Foil Sabre Foil Foil

1979-80 1976-79 1977-78 1990-91

1-2 3-1-1-2 1-2 3-2

59 95 37 30

5 9 7 6

.922 .913 .841 .833

5.

6.

7.

8.

Leszek Nowosielski Ozren Debic Jim Russomano Bill Lester

Sabre Foil Foil Sabre

1988-91 2000-03 1958-60 1994-97

4-5-3-2 2-5-4-4 4-6-6 21-2-6-3

59 73 54 63

13 19 15 18

.819 .794 .783 .778

Tim Glass Gabor Szelle

Epee Sabre

1975-77 1999-2000, 2003

6-4-4 2-1

57 52

17 17

.770 .754

9.

10.

Name

Epeeist Tim Glass finished in the top six at the NCAAs every year from 1975-77, with a 57-17 career NCAA record.

1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

– 2nd – 1st – 3rd – 3rd (27 pts) – 7th (24 pts) – 5th (13 pts) – 2nd – 4th – 4th (750 pts) – 1st (1,200 pts) – 8th (54 pts) – 11th (150 pts) – 1st (260 pts) – 7th (36 pts) – 7th (21 pts) – 2nd (33 pts) – 3rd (30 pts) – 2nd (33 pts) – 1st (35 pts) – 7th (16 pts) – 8th (15 pts) – 6th (19 pts) – 5th (25 pts) - t-5th (25 pts) - 2nd (32 pts)

Men’s Epee Epeeist Nicole Mustilli closed her Notre Dame career with a 34-12 combined record at the 1998 and ’99 NCAAs

Women’s Individual Career NCAA Leaders Women’s All-Time NCAA Victories (round-robin bouts) Pl.

Name

1.

2.

3.

4.

Alicja Kryczalo Sara Walsh Andrea Ament Valerie Providenza

5.

6.

Magda Krol Myriah Brown Kerry Walton Molly Sullivan Heidi Piper

8.

9.

Weapon

Years

Finishes

W

L

Pct.

Foil Foil Foil Sabre

2002-05 1996-99 2002-05 2004-07

1-1-1-2 2-2-3-5 2-3-2-7 1-4-9-4

84 80 75 71

8 12 17 19

.913 .870 .815 .789

Foil/Epee Foil Epee Foil Foil

1997-2000 1996-99 2002-05 1985-88 1989-92

1-6-8-5 6-5-6-10 1-5-2-14 5-1-3-1 13-2-1-4

64 61 61 54 53

28 31 31 5 14

.696 .663 .663 .915 .791

Women’s All-Time NCAA Winning Percentage (min. 30 bouts, two years) Pl.

Name

Weapon

Years

Finishes

W

L

Pct.

1.

2.

3.

4.

Molly Sullivan Alicja Kryczalo Sara Walsh Mariel Zagunis

Foil Foil Foil Sabre

1985-88 2002-05 1996-99 2005-06

5-1-3-1 1-1-1-2 2-2-3-5 2-1

54 84 80 38

5 8 12 8

.915 .913 .870 .826

5.

6.

7.

8.

Andrea Ament Heidi Piper Valerie Providenza Nicole Mustilli

Foil Foil Sabre Epee

2002-05 1989-92 2004-07 1998-99

2-3-2-7 13-2-1-4 1-4-9-4 4-5

75 53 71 34

17 14 19 12

.815 .791 .789 .739

’90 ’91 ’92 ’93 ’94 ’95 ’96 ’97 ’98 ’99 ’00 ’01 ’02 ’03 ’04 ’05 ’06 ’07 ’08 ’09

.... 3rd . . . 5/3 .... 3rd . . . 4/1 .... 4th . . . 2/1 .... 6th . . . 2/0 .... 1st. . . . 3/0 .... 3rd . . . 3/2 .... 2nd . . . 3/3 .... 2nd . . . 3/3 .... 2nd . . . 4/4 .... 2nd . . . 3/4 .... 2nd . . . 4/5 .... 3rd . . . . 6/2 .... 3rd . . . 5/5 .... 1st. . . . 6/5 .... 3rd . . . 2/5 .... 1st. . . . 4/5 .... 4th . . . 3/4 .... 4th . . . 6/3 .... 2nd . . . 5/6 .... 2nd . . . 5/5

ND’s NCAA Finishes By Weapon Men’s Foil

Men’s All-Time NCAA Winning Percentage (min. 30 bouts, two years)

.... 6th . . . . . 3 .... 6th . . . . . 2 .... 8th . . . . . 1 .... 6th . . . . . 2 .... 8th . . . . . 1 .... 12th . . . . 1 .... 13th . . . . 2 .... 3rd . . . . . 3 .... 3rd . . . . . 2 .... 1st . . . . . 3 .... 1st . . . . . 3 .... 2nd. . . . . 2 .... 8th . . . . . 2 .... 5th . . . . . 3 .... 7th/6th. . 1 .... 2nd/12th 2 .... 3rd . . . 3/1 .... 2nd/9th 5/1 .... 1st/2nd 5/2 .... 4th/1st 4/1 .... 2nd/2nd 3/2 .... 4th/3rd 3/2

1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

– 4th – 1st – 11th – 2nd (29 pts) – 10th (19 pts) – 5th (4 pts) – 7th – 5th – 6th (450 pts) – 2nd (1,000 pts) – 1st (92 pts) – 16th (70 pts) – 7th (210 pts) – 2nd (30 pts) – 5th (25 pts) – 2nd (26 pts) – 2nd (31 pts) – 2nd (29 pts) – 2nd (32 pts) – 7th (18 pts) – 6th (23 pts) – 8th (18 pts) – 5th (25 pts) - 3rd (26 pts) - 6th (22 pts)

Men’s Sabre 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998

– – – – – – – – – – – – – –

2nd 6th 4th 3rd (27 pts) 4th (26 pts) 2nd (4 pts) 2nd 3rd N.A. 3rd (750 pts) 3rd (85 pts) 1st (340 pts) 2nd (360 pts) 3rd (29 pts)

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

– 1st (32 pts) – 1st (37 pts) – 2nd (31 pts) – 4th (27 pts) – 1st (35 pts) – 5th (23 pts) – 2nd (32 pts) – 2nd (32 pts) – 1st (35 pts) - 4th (27 pts) - t3rd (30 pts)

Women’s Epee 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

– 5th (62 pts) – 3rd (270 pts) – 1st (290 pts) – 2nd (30 pts) – 3rd (29 pts) – 5th (25 pts) – 2nd (27 pts) – 3rd (32 pts) – 2nd (28 pts) – 1st (30 pts) – 3rd (27 pts) – 3rd (25 pts) – 7th (18 pts) - 1st (32 pts) - 1st (38 pts)

Women’s Foil 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

– 6th – 12th – N.A. – 9th – 2nd – 1st – 2nd (2-1) – 2nd (13 pts) – 2nd – 7th – 9th (525 pts) – 1st (1,400 pts) – 2nd (77 pts) – 1st (360 pts) – 2nd (350 pts) – 1st (38 pts) – 4th (32 pts) – 4th (28 pts) – 8th (16 pts) – 1st (45 pts) – 1st (38 pts) – 1st (40 pts) – 1st (36 pts) – 5th (26 pts) – 3rd (29 pts) - t-2nd (30 pts) - 2nd (33 pts)

Women’s Sabre 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

– 7th (22 pts) – 5th (18 pts) – 6th (20 pts) – 7th (23 pts) – 5th (26 pts) – 1st (40 pts) – 3rd (32 pts) – 4th (28 pts) - 2nd (36 pts) - 5th (27 pts)

2009-10 FENCING

109

Individual NCAA Results Men’s NCAA National Champions Name (Weapon, Class)

Year

W-L/Pct.

Runner-Up (record or title bout)

Don Tadrowski (Epee, Jr.) Pat Gerard (Foil, Jr.) Mike Sullivan (Sabre, So.)

1955 1977 1977

22-4/.846 18-4/.818 20-2/.909

Nyles Ayers, Columbia (21-3 record) Mike Marx, Portland State (16-6) Yuri Rabinovich, Wayne State (19-3)

Mike Sullivan (Sabre, Jr.) Bjorn Vaggo (Epee, Fr.) Andy Bonk (Foil), Jr.

1978 1978 1979

23-0/1.000 19-4/.826 30-2/.938

Greg Hasyn, Temple (18-5) Chris Hanson, Penn (19-4) Bradley Thomas, Maryland

Ola Harstrom (Epee, Jr.) Charles Higgs-Coulthard (Foil, Fr.) Jubba Beshin (Epee, So.)

1983 1984 1990

29-2/.935 13-6/.684 13-6/.684

Ettore Bianchi, Wayne State Stefan Kogler, Wayne State Dan Nowosielski, Princeton (4-5, 3-5)

Luke La Valle (Sabre, Jr.) Gabor Szelle (Sabre, So.) Michal Sobieraj (Epee, Sr.)

1998 2000 2005

17-6/.739 20-3/.867 18-5/.783

Michael Golia, Penn (11-15 bout) Jakub Krochmalski, Wayne State (12-15) Marek Petraszek, Wayne State (13-15)

Mike Sullivan Sabre Champion – 1977 Sabre Champion – 1978

Bjorn Vaggo

Andy Bonk

Epee Champion – 1978

Foil Champion – 1979 Foil Runner-Up – 1980

Luke La Valle

Gabor Szelle

Michal Sobieraj

Sabre Champion – 1998

Sabre Champion – 2000

Epee Champion – 2005 Epee Runner-Up - 2003

Ola Harstrom Epee Champion – 1983

Don Tadrowski

Pat Gerard

Epee Champion – 1955

Foil Champion – 1977 Foil Runner-Up – 1978

Charles HiggsCoulthard Foil Champion – 1984

Jubba Beshin Epee Champion – 1990 Epee Runner-Up – 1991

NCAA Runner-Up Finishers

Gerek Meinhardt Foil Runner-Up – 2009

110

Name (Weapon, Class)

Year

W-L/Pct.

Dennis Hemerle (Epee, Sr.) Pat Gerard (Foil, Sr.) Mike Sullivan (Sabre, Sr.)

1957 1978 1979

25-4/.862 19-3/.864 30-2/.938

James Margolis, Columbia Ernest Simon, Wayne St. (5-4 fence-off) Yuri Rabinovich, Wayne State

Andy Bonk (Foil, Sr.) Yehuda Kovacs (Foil, Fr.) Todd Griffee (Epee, Jr.)

1980 1986 1988

29-3/.906 14-6/.700 10-9/.526

Ernest Simon, Wayne State Adam Feldman, Penn St. (10-5) Jon Normile, Columbia (10-2)

Jubba Beshin (Epee, Jr.) Leszek Nowosielski (Sabre, Sr.) Noel Young (Foil, So.)

1991 1991 1991

13-6/.684 16-1/.941 13-4/.765

Marc Oshima, Columbia (3-5, 5-2, 5-1) Vitali Nazlimov, Penn St. (0-5, 5-2, 5-2) Ben Atkins, Columbia (3-5, 5-4, 5-3)

Bill Lester (Sabre, So.) Gabor Szelle (Sabre, Fr.) Ozren Debic (Foil, Fr.)

1995 1999 2000

23-6/.793 21-4/.840 20-3/.867

Paul Palestis, NYU (5-2 fence-off) Keeth Smart, St. John’s (15-4) Felix Reichling, Stanford (15-10)

Michal Sobieraj (Epee, So.) Patrick Ghattas (Sabre, So.) Patrick Ghattas (Sabre, Jr.) Patrick Ghattas (Sabre, Sr.) Gerek Meinhardt (Foil, Fr.)

2003 2005 2006 2007 2009

20-3/.867 18-5/.783 20-3/.870 18-5/.782 19-4/.826

Seth Kelsey, Air Force (8-7, OT) Sergey Isayenko, St. John’s (15-12) Adam Crompton, Ohio State (15-9) Tim Hagamen, Harvard (15-14) Nicholas Chinman, Penn State (15-14)

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Champion (title bout)

NCAA Men’s Results

Tim Glass (Epee, Sr.) Charles Higgs-Coulthard (Foil, So.) Christian Scherpe (Epee, Sr.)

1977 1985 1986

16-7/.695 14-4/.777 14-5/.736

John Crikelair (Foil, Jr.) Bob Mendes (Sabre, Sr.) Doug Daher (Sabre, Sr.)

1967 1969 1971

21-10/.677 20-10/.667 21-11/.656

Charles Higgs-Coulthard (Foil, Sr.) Leszek Nowosielski (Sabre, Fr.) Yehuda Kovacs (Foil, Jr.)

1987 1988 1988

15-5/.750 10-9/.526 13-6/.684

Mike Van der Velden (Foil, Jr.) Rakesh Patel (Epee, Sr.) Brian Casas (Epee, Fr.)

1985 1995 1999

11-6/.647 15-13/.536 14-9/.609

James Taliaferro (Sabre, Jr.) Luke La Valle (Sabre, Fr.) Brian Stone (Epee, Sr.)

1992 1996 1998

10-8/.625 18-5/.782 17-6/.739

Ozren Debic (Foil, Jr.) Ozren Debic (Foil, Sr.)

2002 2003

18-5/.783 18-5/.783

Jakub Jedrkowiak (Foil, So.) Greg Howard (Epee, Jr.) Greg Howard (Epee, Sr.) Steve Kubik (Foil, Fr.) Enzo Castellani (Foil, So.)

2006 2007 2008 2008 2009

12-11/.522 13-10/.565 13-10/.565 13-10/.565 13-10/.565

Name (Weapon, Class)

Year

W-L/Pct.

Dick Hull (Foil, Sr.) Don Tadrowski (Epee, Sr.) Ralph DeMatteis (Sabre, Sr.)

1954 1956 1963

16-10/.615 21-13/.618 12-9/.571

Jeff Pero (Epee, Sr.) Bob Babineau (Foil, Sr.) Don Johnson (Sabre, Jr.)

1968 1969 1985

23-13/.639 18-12/.600 10-6/.625

Geoff Pechinsky (Epee, Sr.) Jeremy Siek (Foil, Jr.) Forest Walton (Foil, So.) Jakub Jedrkowiak (Foil, Jr.) Karol Kostka (Epee, Sr.)

1993 1996 2001 2007 2008

11-4/.733 15-7/.682 13-10/.565 12-11/.522 13-10/.565

Name (Weapon, Class)

Year

W-L/Pct.

Jim Waters (Foil, Sr.) Dan Kenney (Epee, Sr.) Dick Marks (Epee, Sr.)

1955 1962 1963

13-12/.520 18-14/.563 11-10/.524

Mike Dwyer (Sabre, Sr.) John Klier (Sabre, Sr.) Chris Hajnik (Sabre, Jr.)

1965 1966 1994

19-13/.594 12-15/.444 7-7/.500

Andrzej Bednarski (Sabre, Sr.) Michal Sobieraj (Epee, Fr.) Jan Viviani (Epee, Sr.)

2001 2002 2003

15-8/.652 12-11/.521 12-11/.521

Patrick Ghattas (Sabre, Fr.) Matt Stearns (Sabre, So.) Barron Nydam (Sabre, So.) Karol Kostka (Epee, Sr.)

2004 2005 2009 2009

13-10/.565 14-9/.609 13-10/.565 13-10/.565

Name (Weapon, Class)

Year

W-L/Pct.

Bob Schlosser (Sabre, Sr.) Tom Lee (Sabre, Sr.) John Crikelair (Foil, Sr.)

1950 1959 1968

19-11/.633 13-11/.542 25-14/.641

Mike Cornwall (Foil, Sr.) Sam DiFiglio (Sabre, Jr.) Stanton Brunner (Foil, So.)

1973 1975 1993

18-15/.545 13-9/.591 9-7/.563

Andrzej Bednarski (Sabre, Fr.) Carl Jackson (Epee, Sr.) Luke La Valle (Sabre, Sr.)

1998 1998 1999

12-11/.521 13-10/.565 12-11/.521

Gabor Szelle (Sabre, Sr.) Matt Stearns (Sabre, Jr.) Karol Kostka (Epee, So.) Zach Schirtz (Foil, Fr.)

2003 2006 2007 2008

12-11/.521 12-11/.522 12-11/.522 12-11/.522

Name (Weapon, Class)

Year

W-L/Pct.

Charlie Daschle (Sabre, Sr.) Brian Duff (Epee, Sr.) Jack Mooney (Foil, Sr.)

1951 1952 1953

10-12/.455 17-13/.567 21-13/.618

Rod Duff (Epee, Sr.) Tom Shipp (Sabre, Sr.) Ray Benson (Foil, Sr.)

1954 1962 1981

16-14/.533 14-15/.483 12-11/.522

Rich Daly (Epee, So.) Todd Griffee (Epee, So.) Ted Fay (Epee, Sr.)

1981 1987 1989

10-13/.435 8-8/.500 6-10/.375

Ed Baguer (Sabre, Sr.) Rakesh Patel (Epee, Jr.) Jeremy Siek (Foil, So.)

1992 1994 1995

9-7/.563 7-7/.500 16-12/.571

Ninth-Place Finishers

Fifth-Place Finishers Name (Weapon, Class) Ralph Dixon (Epee, Sr.) John Donlon (Epee, Sr.) Bill Ferrence (Foil, Sr.)

Year 1950 1961 1965

W-L/Pct. 18-10/.642 22-8/.733 24-8/.750

Mike Daher (Sabre, Sr.) Marc DeJong (Foil, Sr.) John Edwards (Sabre, Jr.)

1968 1983 1985

25-8/.757 21-10/.677 12-6/.667

Yehuda Kovacs (Foil, So.) Leszek Nowosielski (Sabre, So.) Jeremy Siek (Foil, Fr.)

1987 1989 1994

14-4/.778 15-3/.833 11-2/.846

Luke La Valle (Sabre, So.) Andrzej Bednarski (Sabre, Jr.) Ozren Debic (Foil, So.)

1997 2000 2001

15-8/.652 17-6/.739 17-6/.739

Andre Crompton (Sabre, Sr.) Jan Viviani (Epee, Jr.) Derek Snyder (Foil, So.) Avery Zuck (Sabre, So.)

2002 2002 2003 2009

18-5/.783 17-6/.739 17-6/.739 17-6/.739

Name (Weapon, Class) Gerry Finney (Sabre, Jr.) Jim Russomano (Foil, Jr.) Jim Russomano (Foil, Sr.)

Year 1953 1959 1960

W-L/Pct. 28-9/.727 21-5/.807 20-6/.769

John Bishko (Foil, Jr.) Rich Deladrier (Epee, Jr.) Rich Deladrier (Epee, Sr.)

1966 1970 1971

13-9/.590 19-15/.558 20-12/.625

Ed Fellows (Epee, Fr.) Tim Glass (Epee, Jr.) Chris Lyons (Sabre, Sr.)

1974 1976 1980

28-10/.706 20-5/.800 22-10/.687

Rich Daly (Epee, Jr.) Andy Quaroni (Epee, Jr.) Don Johnson (Sabre, Sr.)

1982 1984 1986

22-10/.687 7-12/.367 14-8/.777

Kevin Stoutermire (Sabre, Sr.) Carl Jackson (Epee, Fr.) Bill Lester (Sabre, Jr.)

1987 1995 1996

15-3/.833 19-12/.613 16-7/.695

Jeremy Siek (Foil, Sr.) Matt Fabricant (Sabre, Sr.) Bill Thanhouser (Sabre, Fr.) Barron Nydam (Sabre, Fr.)

1997 2003 2007 2008

17-6/.739 15-8/.652 17-6/.739 16-6/.696

Sixth-Place Finishers

Bill Ferrence was cut from Notre Dame basketball tryouts in the fall of 1963 before making a quick transition to fencing, earning All-America honors as a foilist the next spring (and the following year, in ’65) despite no previous fencing experience.

Third-Place Finishers Name (Weapon, Class) Ron Farrow (Epee, Sr.) Mike Sullivan (Sabre, Fr.) Greg Armi (Sabre, Sr.)

Year 1958 1976 1981

W-L/Pct. 13-5/.722 22-5/.814 18-5/.783

Don Johnson (Sabre, So.) Andy Quaroni (Epee, Sr.) Charles Higgs-Coulthard (Foil, Jr.)

1984 1985 1986

14-5/.736 12-8/.600 14-5/.736

Mike Gostigian (Epee, Sr.) Noel Young (Foil, Fr.) Leszek Nowsielski (Sabre, Jr.)

1986 1990 1990

16-3/.842 17-2/.895 14-5/.737

Name (Weapon, Class) Tom Dorwin (Sabre, Sr.) Ted DeBaene (Sabre, Sr.) Pete Giaimo (Epee, Sr.)

Year 1955 1960 1960

W-L/Pct. 13-9/.591 10-14/.417 14-9/.609

David Calderhead (Epee, So.) David Calderhead (Epee, Jr.) Bill Lester (Sabre, Sr.)

1990 1991 1997

11-8/.579 11-6/.647 21-2/.913

Ron Sollitto (Sabre, Sr.) Mike McCahey (Foil, Fr.) Yehuda Kovacs (Foil, Sr.)

1972 1975 1989

21-11/.656 18-4/.818 11-6/.647

Jan Viviani (Epee, Fr.) Jan Viviani (Epee, So.) Michal Sobieraj (Epee, Jr.)

2000 2001 2004

17-6/.739 18-5/.783 18-5/.783

James Taliaferro (Sabre, Fr.) Brian Casas (Epee, Jr.) Andre Crompton (Sabre, Jr.)

1990 2001 2001

13-3/.813 14-9/.609 14-9/.609

Derek Snyder (Foil, Fr.) Jakub Jedrkowiak (Foil, Fr.) Mark Kubik (Foil, So.)

2002 2005 2007

15-8/.652 15-8/.652 13-10/.565

Name (Weapon, Class)

Year

W-L/Pct.

John McGinn (Epee, Jr.) Sam Crimone (Sabre, Sr.) Dick Marks (Epee, Sr.)

1953 1964 1964

22-12/.647 26-9/.743 22-12/.647

Fourth-Place Finishers Name (Weapon, Class) Nick Scalera (Foil, Jr.) Gerry Finney (Sabre, Sr.) Jim Russomano (Foil, So.)

Year 1950 1954 1958

W-L/Pct. 24-8/.750 20-7/.740 13-4/.764

Bill Ferrence (Foil, Jr.) Steve Donlon (Epee, Jr.) Tim Glass (Epee, So.)

1964 1967 1975

25-8/.757 22-7/.758 21-5/.807

Seventh-Place Finishers

Eighth-Place Finishers

10th-Place Finishers

11th-Place Finishers

12th-Place Finishers

Bold indicates current fencers

2009-10 FENCING

111

NCAA Women’s Results Women’s NCAA National Champions Name (Weapon, Class) Molly Sullivan (Foil, So.) Molly Sullivan (Foil, Sr.) Heidi Piper (Foil, Jr.) Magda Krol (Epee, Fr.)

Year 1986 1988 1991 1997

W-L/Pct. 15-0/1.000 15-0/1.000 17-1/.944 18-5/.783

Runner-Up (title bout) Catlin Bilodeaux, Columbia-Barnard (3-8) Loredana Ranza, Wayne State (7-9) Ute Schaeper, F. Dickinson (2-5, 1-5) Nicole Dygert, St. John’s (14-15)

Alicja Kryczalo (Foil, Fr.) Kerry Walton (Epee, So.) Alicja Kryczalo (Foil, So.) Alicja Kryczalo (Foil, Jr.)

2002 2002 2003 2004

23-0/1.000 18-5/.783 19-4/.826 21-2/.913

Andrea Ament, Notre Dame (6-15) Stephanie Eim, Penn State (12-15) Iris Zimmermann, Stanford (12-15) Andrea Ament, Notre Dame (12-15)

Valerie Providenza (Sabre, Fr.) Mariel Zagunis (Sabre, So.) Sarah Borrman (Sabre, Fr.) Kelley Hurley (Epee, So.)

2004 2006 2008 2008

18-5/.783 17-6/.739 18-5/.783 16-7/.696

Sophia Hiss, Penn State (8-15) Emily Jacobson, Columbia-Barnard (8-15) Siobhan Bryne, Ohio State (11-15) Reka Szele, St. John’s (10-11)

Molly Sullivan

Heidi Piper

Magda Krol

Foil Champion 1986, 1988

Foil Champion 1991

Epee Champion 1997

Kerry Walton

Alicja Kryczalo

Valerie Providenza

Epee Champion 2002

Foil Champion 2002, 2003, 2004

Sabre Champion 2004

Mariel Zagunis

Kelley Hurley

Sarah Borrmann

Sabre Champion 2006

Epee Champion 2008

Sabre Champion 2008

112

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Hayley Reese earned runner-up status at the 2009 NCAA Championship in women’s foil.

Destanie Milo’s sixth-place sabre finish at the 2003 NCAAs helped Notre Dame hold off Penn State for the program’s sixth national title.

Women’s NCAA Runner-Up Finishers Name (Weapon, Class) Heidi Piper (Foil, So.) Maria Panyi (Foil, Jr.) Sara Walsh (Foil, Fr.) Sara Walsh (Foil, So.)

Year 1990 1995 1996 1997

W-L/Pct. 15-3/.833 25-3/.893 21-2/.913 19-4/.826

Champion (record or title bout) Tzu Moy, Columbia-Barnard (18-0 record) Olga Kalinovskaya, Penn State (23-0 record) Olga Kalinovskaya, Penn State (15-4 bout) Yelena Kalkina, Ohio State (15-6 )

Andrea Ament (Foil, Fr.) Andrea Ament (Foil, Jr.) Kerry Walton (Epee, Sr.) Amy Orlando (Epee, So.)

2002 2004 2004 2005

22-1/.956 19-4/.826 17-6/.739 16-7/.696

Alicja Kryczalo, Notre Dame (15-6) Alicja Kryczalo, Notre Dame (15-12) Anna Garina, Wayne State (15-10) Anna Garina, Wayne State (15-6)

Alicja Kryczalo (Foil, Sr.) Mariel Zagunis (Sabre, Fr.) Kelley Hurley (Epee, Fr.) Hayley Reese (Foil, So.)

2005 2005 2007 2009

21-2/.913 21-2/.913 18-5/.783 19-4/.826

Emily Cross, Harvard (15-5) Emily Jacobson, Columbia/Barnard (15-11) Anna Garina, Wayne State (15-13) Doris Willette, Penn State (15-5)

Name (Weapon, Class) Molly Sullivan (Foil, Jr.) Anne Barreda (Foil, So.) Claudette de Bruin (Epee, Jr.) Claudette de Bruin (Epee, Sr.)

Year 1987 1988 1995 1996

W-L/Pct. 13-2/.867 10-6/.625 23-6/.793 17-6/.739

Sara Walsh (Foil, Jr.) Andrea Ament (Foil, So.) Adrienne Nott (Foil, So.) Ewa Nelip (Epee, Fr.) Ewa Nelip (Epee, So.) Courtney Hurley (Epee, Fr.)

1998 2003 2007 2008 2009 2009

21-2/.913 19-4/.826 18-5/.783 16-7/.606 17-6/.739 21-3/.875

Fourth-Place Finishers Heidi Piper (Foil, Sr.) Nicole Mustilli (Epee, Jr.) Valerie Providenza (Sabre, So.) Valerie Providenza (Sabre, So.) Adrienne Nott (Foil, Jr.)

10th-Place Finishers

Sixth-Place Finishers

Third-Place Finishers

1992 1998 2005 2007 2008

14-5/.737 19-4/.826 19-4/.826 19-3/.864 19-4/.826

Janice Hynes (Foil, Sr.) Myriah Brown (Foil, Fr.) Myriah Brown (Foil, Jr.) Magda Krol (Epee, So.)

1989 1996 1998 1998

9-5/.643 15-8/.652 17-6/.782 16-7/.695

Destanie Milo (Sabre, Jr.) Madeleine Stephan (Epee, Fr.) Adrienne Nott (Foil, Fr.) Eileen Hassett (Sabre, So.)

2003 2006 2006 2009

16-7/.695 14-9/.609 15-8/.652 15-8/.652

Year 1990 2005

W-L/Pct. 11-6/.647 15-8/.652

Seventh-Place Finishers Name (Weapon, Class) Kristin Kralicek (Foil, Sr.) Andrea Ament (Foil, Sr.)

1990 1999

9-8/.529 14-9/.609

2000 2006 2009

14-9/.609 15-8/.652 14-10/.583

Ninth-Place Finishers

Fifth-Place Finishers Molly Sullivan (Foil, Fr.) Myriah Brown (Foil, So.) Nicole Mustilli (Epee, Sr.) Sara Walsh (Foil, Sr.)

1985 1997 1999 1999

11-3/.786 16-7/.696 15-8/.522 19-4/.826

Magda Krol (Foil, Sr.) Meagan Call (Epee, So.) Kerry Walton (Epee, Jr.) Eileen Hassett (Sabre, Fr.)

2000 2001 2003 2008

16-7/.696 15-8/.522 15-8/.522 18-5/.783

Anna Carnick (Epee, Fr.) Valerie Providenza (Sabre, Jr.) Adrienne Nott (Foil, Sr.)

Year 1982 1984 1989 1999

W-L/Pct.

9-4/.692 13-10/.565

Natalia Mazur (Sabre, Fr.) Anna Carnick (Epee, Jr.) Meagan Call (Epee, Sr.) Amy Orlando (Epee, Fr.)

2000 2002 2003 2004

13-10/.565 14- 9/.609 13-10/.565 13-10/.565

1986 2008

5-8/.385 11-12/.478

2000 2000 2001 2002

12-11/.522 11-12/.478 12-11/.522 12-11/.522

11th-Place Finisher Janice Hynes (Foil, Fr.) Hayley Reese (Foil, Fr.)

12th-Place Finishers

Eighth-Place Finishers Anne Barreda (Foil, Sr.) Magda Krol (Epee, Jr.)

Name (Weapon, Class) Susan Valdiserri (Foil, Jr.) Pia Albertson (Foil, Fr.) Kristin Kralicek (Foil, Jr.) Myriah Brown (Foil, Sr.)

Liza Boutsikaris (Foil, Fr.) Meagan Call (Epee, Fr.) Anna Carnick (Epee, So.) Carianne McCullough (Sabre, Sr.)

2009-10 FENCING

113

Conference Championship History Notre Dame’s Midwest Championship History The below results indicate Notre Dame’s finish in the Great Lakes Championship (1974-91), the Midwest Intercollegiate (’92-’98) and the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships (’99-’09). Teams in parentheses refer to the teams ahead of Notre Dame.

Year 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

114

........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........

Men

Women

1st 2nd (Wayne State) 1st 2nd (Detroit) 3rd (Detroit, Wayne State) 3rd (Detroit, Wayne State) 2nd (Wayne State) ...................................... 1st 1st.............................................................. 5th 1st.............................................................. 4th 1st .............................................................. 1st 1st.............................................................. 4th 2nd (Wayne State) .................................... 4th 2nd (Wayne State) ................ 2nd (Wayne St.) 2nd (Wayne State) .................................... 4th 2nd (Wayne State) ................ 2nd (Wayne St.) 2nd (Wayne State) ................ 2nd (Wayne St.) 1st ........................................ 2nd (Wayne St.) 1st ........................................ 2nd (Wayne St.) 1st ............................................................ 1st 1st ............................................................ 1st 1st .................................... 2nd (Wayne State) 1st ............................................................ 1st 1st ............................................................ 1st 1st .............................................................. 1st 1st (combined) 1st (combined) 1st (combined) 1st (combined) 1st (combined) 1st (combined) 1st (combined) 1st .............................................................. 1st 1st .................................... 2nd (Northwestern) 1st .................................... 2nd (Northwestern) 1st .............................................................. 1st 2nd (Ohio State) ........................................ 1st 2nd (Ohio State) .................. 2nd (Ohio State) 2nd (Ohio State) ........................................ 1st 2nd (Ohio State) .................. 2nd (Ohio State) 2nd (Ohio State) .................. 2nd (Ohio State) 2nd (Ohio State) ....................2nd (Ohio State) 2nd (Ohio State) ....................2nd (Ohio State)

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Conference Champions 1971 1974 1976 1977 1978 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985

John Crikelair (MF) Kathy Valdiserri (WF) Mike Sullivan (MS), Tim Glass (ME) Pat Gerard (MF), Tim Glass (ME) Mike McCahey (MF), Mike Sullivan (MS) Andy Bonk (MF) Rich Daly (ME) Marc DeJong (MF) Ola Harstrom (ME) Mike Janis (MS), Pia Albertson (WF) Charles Higgs-Coulthard (MF), Molly Sullivan (WF) 1986 Yehuda Kovacss (MF), Molly Sullivan (WF) Christian Scherpe (ME) 1987 Yehuda Kovacss (MF), Janice Hynes (WF) 1988 Leszek Nowoliewski (MS), Todd Griffee (ME) 1989 Leszek Nowoliewski (MS), David Calderhead (ME) 1990 James Taliafero (MS), Jubba Beshin (ME) 1991 James Taliafero (MS), Anne Barreda (WF) Jubba Beshin (ME) 1992 David Calderhead (ME) 1993 Heidi Piper (MF) 1994 Jeremy Siek (MF), Bill Lester (MS), Maria Panyi (WF) 1995-98: No individual championships contested.

1999 James Gaither (ME), Nicole Mustilli (WE) Gabor Szelle (MS), Sara Walsh (WF) 2000 Ozren Debic (MF), Anna Carnick (WE) 2001 Brian Casas (ME), Andre Crompton (MS), Ozren Debic (MF) 2002 Jan Viviani (ME), Ozren Debic (MF) Kerry Walton (WE), Alicja Kryczalo (WF) 2003 Ozren Debic (MF), Alicja Kryczalo (WF) 2004 Michal Sobieraj (ME) 2005 Michal Sobieraj (ME), Frank Bontempo (MF), Patrick Ghattas (MS), Kerry Walton, (WE), Andrea Ament (WF), Valerie Providenza (WS) 2006 Emilie Prot (WF) 2007 Jakub Jedrkowiak (MF), Kelley Hurley (WE), Adrienne Nott (WF) 2008 Karol Kostka (ME), Ewa Nelip (WE)

Women’s Results Women’s Series Records School

Record

Air Force ........................................................ 31-6 Army ................................................................ 1-0 Boston College ................................................ 2-0 Bowling Green .................................................. 8-1 Brandeis ............................................................ 2-0 Brockport .......................................................... 1-0 Brown .............................................................. 4-0 California (Pa.) .................................................. 1-0 Cal State Fullerton ............................................ 9-0 Cal Tech ............................................................4-0 UC San Diego .................................................. 9-0 Carnegie-Mellon................................................ 1-0 Case Western Reserve...................................... 17-0 Chicago .......................................................... 15-0 Clemson ............................................................ 1-0 Cleveland State ................................................ 33-0 Columbia ........................................................ 10-7 Cornell.............................................................. 5-1 Culver Military Academy .................................. 4-0 Detroit .......................................................... 36-0 Duke .............................................................. 17-0 Eastern Michigan .............................................. 9-0 Fairleigh-Dickinson............................................ 9-1 Florida .............................................................. 4-0 Harpeth Hall .................................................... 1-0 Harvard ............................................................ 4-0 Haverford .......................................................... 2-0 Hollins .............................................................. 1-0 Illinois .............................................................. 1-0 Illinois-Chicago.................................................. 2-1 Indiana .............................................................. 5-1 James Madison .................................................. 4-0 Johns Hopkins .................................................. 9-0 Kent State.......................................................... 1-0 Lawrence ........................................................ 32-0 Long Beach State .............................................. 6-0 M.I.T. .............................................................. 6-0 Miami (Ohio) .................................................... 6-0 Michigan ........................................................ 21-0 Michigan-Dearborn.......................................... 10-0 Michigan State ................................................ 26-0 Milwaukee Tech ................................................ 8-0 Minnesota........................................................ 13-1 Mount Mary .................................................... 1-0 NYU .............................................................. 18-0 North Carolina ................................................ 21-0 North Carolina State.......................................... 4-0 Northwestern .................................................. 35-8 Oakland ............................................................ 4-0 Oberlin.............................................................. 6-2 Ohio State .................................................... 29-13 Pennsylvania ...................................................... 2-3 Penn State ........................................................ 6-7 Princeton .......................................................... 7-0 Purdue ............................................................ 38-0 Rutgers ............................................................ 7-0 St. John’s.......................................................... 14-2 St. Louis .......................................................... 1-0 St. Mary’s .......................................................... 0-2 Stanford .......................................................... 17-1 Temple .............................................................. 9-4 Tri-State .......................................................... 22-0 UC San Diego ....................................................3-0 Vanderbilt .......................................................... 2-1 Washington (Mo.).............................................. 3-0 Wayne State .................................................. 27-17 Winnipeg .......................................................... 2-0 Wisconsin........................................................ 11-9 Wisconsin-Parkside ............................................ 9-2 Yale .................................................................. 7-1

Notre Dame’s first varsity women’s fencing team (1976-77) included (front row, from left) coach Mike DeCicco, Cathy Buzard, Kathy Valdiserri, Pat Farro, Karen Lacity and coach Tom Coye; (back row, from left) Chris Marciniak, Joan Richtmeier, Chris Simony, Debbie Valentino and Terri Foley.

Year-by-Year Women’s All-Time Results Individual W L

Captains (all foil fencers)

Coach

(Non-Varsity Seasons) 1972 2 3 1973 3 2 1974 13 2 1975 8 5 1976 8 6

22 26 125 61 74

41 19 54 68 71

None None Cathy Schoendiens Cindy Rebholz Pat Ferro, Kathy Valdiserri

Richard Hosinski Richard Hosinski Richard Hosinski Richard Hosinski Tim Taylor

(Varsity Seasons) 1977 13 1978 8 1979 14

1 3 3

72 59 132

44 40 63

Kathy Valdiserri Kathy Valdiserri Karen Lacity

Tom Coye Tom Coye Mike DeCicco

1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

11 16 11 17 13 12 23 19 17 18

2 4 8 6 5 7 0 0 2 1

118 128 130 210 207 168 309 257 253 225

67 77 112 126 93 106 59 47 51 51

Dodee Carney Susan Valdiserri Susan Valdiserri Susan Valdiserri Sharon DeNicola, Mary Shilts Janet Sullivan Vittoria Quaroni Cindy Weeks Molly Sullivan Janice Hynes

Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Yves Auriol Yves Auriol Yves Auriol Yves Auriol

1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

22 19 11 17 23 32 31 30 24 19

1 0 2 3 0 0 1 1 1 4

297 244 154 237 304 799 832 792 619 521

69 50 54 83 64 209 192 168 181 215

Anne Barreda Lynn Kadri Heidi Piper Dinamarie Garcia Marit Fischer (epee), Dinamarie Garcia (foil) Claudette de Bruin (epee), Maria Panyi (foil) Claudette de Bruin (epee), Mindi Kalogera (foil) Anne Hoos (epee), Rose Saari (foil) Anne Hoos (epee), Myriah Brown (foil) Nicole Mustilli (epee), Nicole Paulina (foil)

Yves Auriol Yves Auriol Yves Auriol Yves Auriol Yves Auriol Yves Auriol Yves Auriol Yves Auriol Yves Auriol Yves Auriol

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

18 21 20 22 26 22 29 24 29 30

2 4 2 2 0 2 1 4 2 2

393 484 442 530 535 536 659 553 645 700

147 196 151 118 167 112 151 203 192 164

Kim DeMaio (e), Magda Krol (f), Carianne McCullough (s) Yves Auriol Kim DeMaio (epee), Carianne McCullough (sabre) Yves Auriol Anna Carnick (epee), Liza Boutsikaris (foil), Carianne McCullough (s) Yves Auriol Anna Carnick (epee), Liza Boutsikaris (foil), Destanie Milo (sabre) Janusz Bednarski Kerry Walton (epee), Alicja Kryczalo (foil), Destanie Milo (sabre) Janusz Bednarski Kerry Walton (epee), Alicja Kryczalo (foil), Danielle Davis (sabre) Janusz Bednarski Amy Orlando (e), R. Cota (f), Val. Providenza (s), M. Zagunis (s) Janusz Bednarski Orlando (e), Cota (f), Adi Nott (f), Providenza (s), Zagunis (s) Janusz Bednarski Kelley Hurley (e), Kim Montoya (e), Rachel Cota (f), Adi Nott (f), Ashley Serrette (s) Janusz Bednarski Kim Montoya (e), Ewa Nelip (e), Adrienne Nott (f), Ashley Serrette (s), Sarah Borrmann (s) Janusz Bednarski

Year

Total

Team W L

695 94 (.881)

Women’s Win Streaks Rank

Wins

Women’s Coaching Records

Year(s)

1. .................... 75.............................. 1993-1996 2. .................... 42.............................. 1986-1988 3. .................... 41 ............................ 2003-2004 4. .................... 38.............................. 1997-1998 5. .................... 35.............................. 1990-1992 6. .................... 31.............................. 2006-2007 7. .................... 27.............................. 2005-2006 8. ................24 .. 2009- active entering 2010 9. .................... 21.............................. 1989-1990 10. .................... 19 ................................ 1996-97

Name

Years (Seasons)

W

L

T

Pct.

Richard Hosinski Tim Taylor Tom Coye

1972-75 (4, non-varsity) 1976 (1, non-varsity) 1977-78 (2)

26 8 21

12 6 4

0 0 0

.684 .571 .840

Mike DeCicco Yves Auriol Janusz Bednarski

1979-85 (7) 1986-2002 (17) 2003- (7)

94 364 182

35 24 13

0 0 0

.729 .938 .933

Totals

38 Seasons

695

94

0

.881

2009-10 FENCING

115

Men’s Results Men’s Series Records School

(since ’36) Record

Air Force ........................................................ 31-6 Army .............................................................. 1-1 Baruch ............................................................ 3-0 Boston College ................................................ 1-0 Bowling Green ................................................ 6-0 Brandeis .......................................................... 3-0 Brown .............................................................. 4-0 Buffalo State .................................................. 22-1 California (Pa.) ................................................ 1-0 Cal State Fullerton .......................................... 9-0 Cal Tech ............................................................4-0 UC-San Diego................................................ 11-0 Carnegie-Mellon .............................................. 1-0 Case Western Reserve .................................... 57-0 Chicago.......................................................... 58-8 Cincinnati ...................................................... 17-0 Clemson .......................................................... 2-0 Cleveland State .............................................. 56-1 Columbia ...................................................... 16-1 Cornell ............................................................ 6-0 Culver Military Academy .................................. 1-0 Detroit .......................................................... 65-6 Duke .............................................................. 20-0 Eastern Michigan.............................................. 6-0 Florida ............................................................ 4-0 Harper ............................................................ 1-0 Harvard............................................................ 5-0 Haverford ........................................................ 2-0 Hobart ............................................................ 1-0 Illinois .......................................................... 37-13 Illinois-Chicago .............................................. 15-0 Illinois Tech ...................................................... 3-0 Indiana .......................................................... 31-0 Indiana Tech .................................................. 15-0 Johns Hopkins .................................................. 8-0 Kent State ........................................................ 1-0 Kentucky.......................................................... 4-0 Lawrence ........................................................ 39-0 LePanche Fencers ............................................ 1-0 Long Beach State ............................................ 7-0 Louisville.......................................................... 2-0 Marquette ........................................................ 5-0 Maryland.......................................................... 1-0 M.I.T. ............................................................ 6-0 Miami (Ohio) .................................................. 8-0 Michigan ........................................................ 22-0 Michigan-Dearborn .......................................... 8-0 Michigan State.............................................. 68-10 Milwaukee Tech.............................................. 15-0 Minnesota ...................................................... 14-0 Missouri-Kansas City ........................................ 1-0 Navy ................................................................ 3-1 NYU.............................................................. 16-3 North Carolina .............................................. 21-0 North Carolina State ........................................ 4-0 Northwestern ................................................ 52-4 Oakland .......................................................... 4-0 Oberlin .......................................................... 22-0 Ohio State .................................................... 60-17 Oklahoma City ................................................ 1-0 Pennsylvania .................................................... 6-1 Penn State ........................................................ 8-6 Princeton.......................................................... 7-2 Purdue............................................................ 52-2 Rutgers ............................................................ 8-0 St. John’s ........................................................ 11-5 St. Louis .......................................................... 1-0 St. Thomas........................................................ 1-0 Stanford.......................................................... 16-2 Stevens Tech .................................................... 3-0 SUNY-Binghamton .......................................... 1-0 Syracuse .......................................................... 8-0 Temple ............................................................ 1-0 Tri-State ........................................................ 30-0 Vanderbilt ........................................................ 5-0 Washington (Mo.) .......................................... 14-0 Wayne State ................................................ 54-15 Western Reserve .............................................. 9-0 William & Mary .............................................. 2-0 William Paterson .............................................. 1-0 Winnipeg ........................................................ 2-0 Wisconsin .................................................... 44-10 Wisconsin-Parkside ........................................ 18-0 Wittenberg ...................................................... 1-0 Windsor .......................................................... 1-0 Yale.................................................................. 8-0

116

1935 Notre Dame men’s fencing team

Year-by-Year Men’s Team Won-Loss Records Year

Team W L

Individual W L Captains

Coach

59 73 94 89 111 110

Pedro Pedro Pedro Pedro Pedro Pedro

1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939

3 7 9 5 7 7

5 0 0 3 2 2

76 41 58 63 87 69

David Ryan (epee) Carlos DeLandero (sabre) Carlos DeLandero (sabre), Kevin Kehoe (all weapons) Telmo DeLandero (foil) John Zerbst (sabre) Salvatore Scarlata (sabre)

1940 1941 1942 1943 1944-46 1947 1948 1949

5 7 5 2

4 2 3 4

4 9 8

102 95 132 90 106 100 75 77 No fencing due 3 105 83 1 170 111 1 150 93

1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959

9 8 9 13 12 12 15 14 16 13

0 2 2 1 1 3 2 1 0 2

187 161 190 243 239 146 291 259 293 262

55 109 107 135 112 159 168 146 139 143

Bob Schlosser (sabre) Nick Scalera (foil), Dan Parisi (foil) James Walsh (foil) Jack Mooney (f) Rod Duff (e) Jim Waters (f), Tom Dorwin (s) Don Tadrowski (e) Jack Ryan (f), Dennis Hemmerle (e) Dick Fagon (s) Jim Johnson (e), Joe Klein (s)

Herb Melton Walter Langford Walter Langford Walter Langford Walter Langford Walter Langford Walter Langford Walter Langford Walter Langford Walter Langford

1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969

14 10 7 14 15 15 17 18 20 16

2 6 8 2 2 2 4 0 1 1

273 241 222 266 303 285 259 344 379 323

160 191 183 166 156 174 208 142 188 135

Jim Russomano (f), Jerry Johnson (f) Mike Curtin (f), John Donlon (e) Dan Kenney (e), Tim Shipp (s) John Wagner (e), Ralph DeMattis (s) Jack Joyce (f), Sam Crimone (s) Joe McQuade (f), Mike Dwyer (s) Jack Haynes (e), Joe Malone (s) Jack Haynes (e), Pat Korth (s) John Crikelair (f), Tom Sheridan (f), Steve Donlon (e) Lou Emerson (f), Bob Mendes (s)

Walter Langford Walter Langford Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco

Robert Sayia (foil/epee) John Gaither (foil) Frank Veit (epee) James Madigan (foil) to World War II Ventura Gonzalez (foil), Alfredo Ortiz (sabre) Lou Burns (foil) Ralph Witucki (foil)

DeLandero DeLandero DeLandero DeLandero DeLandero DeLandero

Walter Walter Walter Walter

Herb Melton Herb Melton Herb Melton

Men’s Coaching Records Name

Years (Seasons)

W

L

T

Pct.

Pedro DeLandero Walt Langford Herb Melton

1934-39 (6) 1940-43, 1951-61 (15) 1947-50 (4)

38 155 30

12 35 5

2 0 0

.750 .816 .857

Mike DeCicco Yves Auriol Janusz Bednarski

1962-95 (34) 1996-2002 (7) 2003- (7)

680 161 179

45 9 14

0 0 0

.938 .947 .927

Totals

73 Seasons

1,245

120

2

.911

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Langford Langford Langford Langford

Year-by-Year Team Won-Loss Records Team

Individual

The Notre Dame men did not lose more than three dual matches in a season from 1966-2006, including 15 unbeaten, 13 one-loss and eight two-loss seasons in that 41-year stretch.

Year 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

W 20 21 19 15 22 23 26 23 18 20

L 2 3 2 3 1 2 0 0 0 0

W 402 458 408 328 446 465 550 468 392 412

L 192 195 159 158 175 202 135 153 94 128

Captains (epee, foil, sabre) John Albright (e), Roger Holzgrafe (s) Rich Deladrier (e), John Lyons (f), Doug Daher (s) Tim Taylor (e), Mike Cornwall (f), Matt Fruzynski (s) Mike Matranga (e), Mike Cornwall (f), Dan Mulligan (s) Mike Matranga (e), Jim Mullinix (f), Roy Seitz (s) Tom Coye (f) Tim Glass (e), Terry McConville (f), Mike Sazdanoff (s) Tim Glass (e), Terry McConville (f), Tim Mulligan (s) Bill Kica (e), Pat Gerard (f), Mike Sullivan (s) Mike Carney (e), Steve Salimando (f), Mike Sullivan (s)

Coach Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco

Men’s Win Streaks

1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

19 21 20 23 19 23 26 22 24 21

1 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 0

395 453 411 418 449 439 568 486 538 481

144 175 179 189 112 148 134 108 137 86

Thom Cullum (e), Andy Bonk (f), Chris Lyons (s) Kevin Tindell (e), Ray Benson (f), Greg Armi (s) Rich Daly (e), Jim Thompson (f), Sal D’Allura (s) Rich Daly (e), Marc DeJong (f), Joel Tietz (s) Andy Quaroni (e), Chris Grady (f), Mike Janis (s) Andy Quaroni (e), Mike Van der Velden (f), Mike Janis (s) Tim Vaughan (e), Mike Van der Velden (f), Tony Consoli (s) Tim Vaughan (e), Charles Higgs-Coulthard (f), Kevin Stoutermire (s) Todd Griffee (e), Yehuda Kovacs (f), Tim Collins (s) Ted Fay (e), Joel Clark (f), Tim Collins (s)

Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike

1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

24 23 14 23 21 28 29 24 25 22

1 0 0 1 0 2 3 2 1 1

534 504 305 463 394 601 606 566 522 482

140 100 75 186 173 209 249 163 170 139

Mark Gugel (e), Joel Clark (f), Chris Baguer (s) David Calderhead (e), Phil Leary (f), Chris Baguer (s) David Calderhead (e), Jeff Piper (f), Chris Baguer (s) Grzegorz Wozniak (e), Jeff Piper (f), James Taliaferro (s) Grzegorz Wozniak (e), Rian Girard (f), Chris Hajnik (s) Rakesh Patel (e), Stanton Brunner (f), Chris Hajnik (s) Jeremy Siek (f), Bill Lester (s) Phil Lee (e), Jeremy Siek (f), Bill Lester (s) Brian Stone (e), Stephane Auriol (f), Luke La Valle (s) Tim Monahan (e), Stephane Auriol (f), Luke La Valle (s)

Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Mike DiCicco Mike DeCicco Mike DeCicco Yves Auriol Yves Auriol Yves Auriol Yves Auriol

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

18 25 18 24 24 21 29 21 27 33

2 0 0 0 1 3 1 5 4 0

427 509 395 518 515 497 627 508 623 657

113 166 91 130 160 151 183 194 214 234

James Harris (f), Clay Morton (s) Jan Viviani (e), Ozren Debic (f) Jan Viviani (e), Ozren Debic (f), Andre Crompton (s) Jan Viviani (e), Ozren Debic (f) Forest Walton (f), Brian Dosal (s) None Greg Howard (e), Frank Bontempo (f), Patrick Ghattas (s) Greg Howard (e), Frank Bontempo (f), Patrick Ghattas (s) Greg Howard (e), Mark Kubik (f), Bill Thanhouser (s) Karol Kostka (e), Mark Kubik (f), Bill Thanhouser (s)

Yves Auriol Yves Auriol Yves Auriol Janusz Bednarski Janusz Bednarski Janusz Bednarski Janusz Bednarski Janusz Bednarski Janusz Bednarski Janusz Bednarski

Total

1,245-120-2 (.911)

Did You Know?

Rank Wins Year(s) 1. .................. 122 ................ 1975-1980 2. .................... 98.................. 1984-1988 3. .................... 90.................. 2000-2004 4. .................... 50.................. 1990-1993 5. .................... 46.................. 1989-1990 6. .................... 37.................. 1997-1998 .................... 37.................. 1993-1995 8. .................... 31.................. 1967-1968 9. .................... 26.................. 1973-1974 10. .................... 25.................. 1957-1959 11. .................... 23.................. 2006-2007 .................. 23 ..................2005-2006 .................... 23.................. 1999-2000 .................... 23.................. 1981-1982 15. .................... 22.................. 1983-1984 .................... 22 ..................2004-2005 17. .................... 21 .......................... 1981 .................... 19 ..................1955-1956 19. .................... 18 ................ 1995-1996 .................... 18.................. 1971-1972 .................... 18.................. 1968-1969

DeCicco DeCicco DeCicco DeCicco DeCicco DeCicco DeCicco DeCicco DeCicco DeCicco

Bill Thanhouser captained the men’s sabre squad in 2008 and 2009.

2009-10 FENCING

117

Men’s All-Time Roster

Sabreist Greg Armi posted a 114-81 career record, placed third at the 1981 NCAAs and received the fencing program’s Langford Leadership Award.

Name

118

A

Adams, John Adjemian, Aaron Albright, John Aldrich, John Amaro, Josue Angelo, Paul Anthony, David Arena, Anthony Armi, Gregory Armstrong, Gary Arnold, Jason Asher, Gerald Audino, Richard Aumen, Carl Auriol, Stephane

B

Babineau, Bob Baez, Bernard Baguer, Ed Baguer, Chris Banas, Brian Bannon, Greg Bares, Theodore Barr, James Barton, Edmund Barwick, John Barwick, Robert Bathon, Michael Batill, Stephen Batow, David Beary, John Beau, Jeremy Bednarski, Andrzej Beeler, Thomas Belle, Lawrence Belczyk, Dave Benson, Raymond Bentley, Reggie Beshin, Jubba Bevilaqua, Paul Bird, Robert Bishko, John Bishko, Michael Blaine, Duane Blazina, John Blazina, Joseph Bloschock, Leo Bonk, Andy Bontempo, Frank Borchard, Brian Borchard, Phillip Boron, Jason Bosler, Robert Boyd, John Bradley, Ryan Brainerd, James Brainerd, Jerome Brede, Craig Brehm, Drew Brennan, Raymond Brick, Tim

Sabreist Chris Baguer compiled a 129-17 career sabre record (’89-’92) and was a threeyear captain while also competing in the 1990-92 NCAAs.

Ed Baguer’s 110-10 career sabre record (’88, ’90-’92) was capped by an AllAmerica sabre finish (11th) at the 1992 NCAAs.

Stanton Brunner posted a 122-36 career record (1993-95) and competed in the NCAAs from 199394, helping the Irish foil squad earn first place in 1994.

Years (MW)

Record

Pct.

Weapon

Hometown

1986 2004-07 (4) 1968-70 (2) 1970-73 (1) 1987-88 (1) 1973-75 (1) 1981 (1) 1974-76 (2) 1978-81 (2) 1964-65 (1) 1993-94 (1) 1965-66 (2) 1984-85 1979-80 (1) 1996-99 (4)

1-0 129-53 46-25 12-7 10-4 10-5 13-6 21-10 114-31 9-5 28-15 8-5 2-11 9-3 154-53

1.000 .709 .649 .632 .714 .667 .684 .677 .786 .636 .651 .714 .154 .750 .744

Mgr./ Epee Epee Epee Epee Sabre Sabre Foil Foil Sabre Sabre Epee Sabre Foil Epee/Sabre Foil

Cincinnati, OH El Paso, TX Columbus, NE Geneseo, NY Guayama, Puerto Rico Columbus, OH Centereach, NY Absecon, NJ Los Altos, CA Columbus, OH Williams Bay, WI San Diego, CA New Castle, PA Fairview, MI Elkhart, IN

1967-69 (1) 1993-94 (2) 1989-92 (3) 1988, ‘90-’92 (4) 1996-99 (1) 1993-96 (2) 1957-59 (1) 1958 1960-62 1984 1985 1984-86 (3) 1967 1972-74 (2) 1968-69 (1) 1999-2002 (3) 1998, 2000-02 (4) 1953-54 (2) 1959 2001 1978-81 (4) 2009- (1) 1990-91 (2) 1965-66 (2) 1971-73 (2) 1965-67 (3) 1960-62 (2) 1980 1963 1955-57 (3) 1998-2001 (1) 1977-80 (4) 2004-07 (4) 2002 1976-78 (1) 1995-98 (2) 1947-50 (4) 1950 2005-07 (2) 1977-79 (2) 1952-54 (2) 2004-06 (1) 1975-76 (2) 1955-57 2000

43-9 79-43 100-10 129-17 22-6 24-24 14-7 1-0 24-25 2-1 0-1 42-6 1-1 41-16 9-4 61-11 152-32 11-8 0-1 1-5 86-31 24-6 58-20 8-5 19-14 53-13 42-27 1-1 2-1 37-21 16-11 117-14 160-69 7-0 8-7 26-14 46-38 1-0 56-14 11-18 43-31 26-11 20-9 1-5 0-1

.827 .648 .909 .889 .786 .500 .667 1.000 .490 .667 .000 .875 .500 .719 .692 .847 .826 .579 .000 .167 .735 .800 .743 .714 .528 .803 .609 .500 .667 .638 .593 .890 .699 1.000 .533 .650 .548 1.000 .800 .379 .581 .703 .690 .167 .000

Foil Sabre Sabre Sabre Sabre Foil/Sabre Foil Mgr./Epee Foil Mgr./Sabre Mgr./Sabre Sabre Sabre Sabre Foil Foil Sabre Foil Foil Foil Foil Foil Epee Epee Foil Foil Foil Mgr./Epee Foil Foil Foil Foil Foil Sabre Epee Epee Sabre Sabre Sabre Foil Foil Epee Epee Epee Epee

Fitchburg, MA Roslyn Heights, NY North Newark, NJ North Newark, NJ Sterling Heights, MI Guilford, CT Salt Lake City, UT Columbus, OH White Plains, NY Paterson, NJ Paterson, NJ Hanover, PA Park Forest, IL Wilmette, IL Albia, IA Dunedin, FL Granger, IN Greentown, IN Soldow, OH Ambridge, PA Centereach, NY Little Rock, AR Newark, NJ Miami, FL Demarest, NJ Clifton, NJ Clifton, NJ Ohio, IL Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Columbia, SC Park Ridge, IL Pittsburgh, PA Rochester Hills, MI Buffalo, NY Bethel Park, PA Louisville, KY East Orange, NJ Warrensburg, MO Amarillo, TX Huntsville, AL Bloomfield Hills, MI Kettering, OH Brook, NY Bridgewater, NJ

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Epeeist David Calderhead placed third at the 1991 and ’92 NCAAs while compiling a 133-32 regular-season record (’89-’92).

Joel Clark (’87-’90) posted a 96-12 career foil record and earned the program’s 1990 Rockne Student-Athlete Award.

Sabreist Tony Consoli (’83-’86) owned a 94-21 career record and was presented with the team’s 1986 Langford Leadership Award.

Rich Daly, an All-America epeeist, placed sixth at the 1982 NCAAs and owned a 123-29 career record.

Name

Years (MW)

Record

Pct.

Weapon

B

Brockmole, Dean Brogan, James Brogan, John Brooks de Vita, Ceschino Brough, Chris Brown, Sommers Brunner, Stanton Buell, Alex Buhl, Thomas Burchett, Glenn Burlage, James Burns, Louis Burns, Jerome

1973-74 (1) 1957-59 (3) 1954-56 (1) 2006 1997-2000 (3) 1950 1993-95 (3) 2008- (2) 1963-65 (3) 1966-68 (3) 1954-56 1942-3, 48-9 (2) 1953

14-10 21-19 51-32 5-4 23-2 0-1 122-36 39-26 40-37 58-25 8-13 50-17 0-1

.583 .525 .525 .556 .920 .000 .772 .600 .519 .699 .381 .746 .000

Epee Epee Epee Sabre Foil Foil Foil Sabre Epee Epee Foil Foil Foil

Hometown Evansville, IN Rocky River, OH Rocky River, OH South Bend, IN Fairfield, CT Memphis, TN Manassas, VA Waterford, WI Colorado Springs, CO Anaheim, CA Fort Wayne, IN Washington, DC Saginaw, MI

C

Calderhead, David Calmback, Walter Capobianco, Paul Caresio, John Carey, North E. Carey, North J. Carney, Dennis Carney, Michael Carroll, Errol Carroll, John Casas, Brian Castellan, Chris Castellan, Matt Castellani, Enzo Caulfield, Justin Cazeau, Charles Cenedella, Phillip Chandra, Nitin Cheng, Christopher Chou, Henry Clancy, Daniel Clare, Thomas Clark, Joel Clarke, James Cochrane, William Colgan, Charles Colley-Capo, Jaime Collins, Tim Collins, William Colman, Richard Conlon, Joseph Conner, Craig Connor, Thomas Connor, David Connors, Michael Consoli, Tony Corbett, James Corda, William Cornwall, Michael Coscia, Michael Cotter, Gary Couch, John Coye, Thomas Cragin, Marleau Crebs, Nicholas Cregg, George Crikelair, John Crimone, Sam Crolley, Kevin Crompton, Andre Cullinane, Daniel Cullum, Thomas Cunningham, Thomas Curtin, Michael

1989-92 (4) 1975 (1) 1993-96 (3) 1934-35 (2) 1970-73 (4) 2003-2004 (2) 1982 1977-79 (2) 1958 1965-67 (3) 1999-2002 (4) 2004-05 2001-2004 (4) 2009- (1) 1995 1952-53 (1) 1956 1999 1968-69 1989, ‘91-’92 (3) 1957-59 (3) 1989-92 (1) 1987-90 (4) 1959, 61 (1) 1961 1937-39 (3) 1980-83 (3) 1986-89 (4) 1976 1955-56 (1) 1950-52 (2) 1990-92 (1) 1966-68 (3) 1973-75 (1) 1961-63 (2) 1983-86 (3) 1940-41 (1) 1969-71 (1) 1970-73 (4) 1976-77 (1) 1970 1963-64 (2) 1972-75 (4) 1942 (1) 2009- (1) 1965 1966-68 (3) 1962-64 (3) 1979 1999-2002 (4) 1984-85 (2) 1977-80 (4) 1985 1960-61 (2)

133-32 7-4 85-34 30-21 42-16 53-34 9-3 44-21 1-0 54-24 156-55 12-1 95-21 29-9 1-0 8-11 0-2 5-1 1-1 56-13 27-27 26-5 96-12 4-6 1-0 32-21 65-42 92-21 0-1 5-7 30-26 17-7 41-22 33-22 33-26 94-21 16-23 29-14 115-45 15-3 1-1 12-7 111-34 3-0 28-4 2-1 91-24 66-37 1-0 150-19 24-8 88-41 0-1 30-20

.806 .636 .714 .588 .724 .609 .750 .677 1.000 .692 .739 .923 .819 .763 1.000 .421 .000 .833 .500 .812 .500 .806 .889 .400 1.000 .518 .607 .814 .000 .416 .536 .708 .651 .600 .560 .817 .415 .675 .719 .833 .500 .632 .766 1.000 .875 .667 .792 .641 1.000 .888 .750 .680 .000 .600

Epee Epee Foil Foil Epee Epee Sabre Epee Epee Foil Epee Epee Foil Foil Mgr./Epee Sabre Mgr./Epee Epee Foil Sabre Epee Foil Foil Epee Epee Epee Foil Sabre Sabre Epee Epee Epee Foil Epee Sabre Sabre Epee Epee Foil Epee Epee Foil Foil Epee Foil Epee Foil Sabre Mgr./Sabre Sabre Epee Epee Mgr./Sabre Foil

Wadsworth, England San Antonio, TX Seldon, NY Chicago, IL Fort Lauderdale, FL Los Alamos, NM Wellesley, MA Sanford, NC Traverse City, MI Grosse Pointe, MI Mishawaka, IN Short Hills, NJ Short Hills, NJ Keller, TX Wood Ridge, NJ Rochester, NY Uniontown, PA Centereach, NY Hong Kong Pompton Lakes, NJ Rocky River, OH Fredericksburg, VA Hackettstown, NJ Detroit, MI Beloit, WI Buenos Aires, Argentina Mayaguez, PR Morristown, NJ Chesterton, IN Dorchester, MA St. Louis, MO Katy, TX Peoria, IL Cincinnati, OH West Nyack, NY Wayne, NJ Elmhurst, NY Belleville, NJ Chicago, IL Memphis, TN Pontiac, MI Kinderhook, NY Brooklyn, NY Las Vegas, NV Portland, OR Syracuse, NY Ridgewood, NJ Somerset, PA Minneapolis, MN Irvington, NJ Topsfield, MA Evansville, IN West Orange, NJ Tulsa, OK

2009-10 FENCING

119

Men’s All-Time Roster

All-America foilist Marc DeJong (’80-’83) posted a 107-27 career record while placing 5th and 11th in NCAA tournament action.

Name

D

E

120

Two-time All-American Sam DiFiglio compiled a 130-23 sabre record during the 1974-76 seasons.

Tom Dorwin earned sabre All-America status following his seventh-place finish in the 1955 NCAAs, with a 38-28 record in regular-season bouts (’53-’55).

Sabreist John Edwards was a threetime NCAA competitor, earning second team All-America after placing fifth in 1985 (121-20 career record).

Years (MW)

Record

Pct.

Weapon

1979-82 (3) 1967-68 1966-68 (3) 1969-71 (1) 1980-83 (4) 1963 1949-51 (2) 1958-60 (1) 1947-49 (3) 1984 (1) 2000-03 (3) 1980-83 (4) 1969-71 (1) 1934-37 (1) 1935-37 (1) 1937-38 (1) 1961-63 (2) 1951-52 (1) 1969-71 (1) 1976-77 (1) 1967-69 (1) 1968-70 1977-80 (2) 1970 2004-2006 (3) 1975 1965 1974-76 (3) 1994-97 (3) 1953-54 (1) 1947-50 (3) 1968-69 (1) 1948-50 (3) 1951 2005-06 (1) 1970 1959-61 (3) 1961 1966-68 (3) 2005 1938-40 (2) 2001-03 (1) 1941 1982-85 1953-55 (2) 2003-04 (1) 1962-64 (3) 1985, ’87-’88 (2) 1952-54 (3) 1950-52 (2) 1974 1966 1957-59 (1) 1982 1955-57 (1) 1955-57 (3) 1963-65 (3) 1960-63 (3)

81-34 1-2 70-34 99-38 123-29 2-2 47-24 34-16 63-20 8-5 157-8 107-27 86-23 31-15 48-33 13-11 43-30 4-6 28-16 7-24 34-17 1-2 24-10

.704 .333 .673 .768 .809 .500 .662 .680 .759 .615 .952 .799 .788 .783 .591 .541 .589 .400 .637 .225 .667 .333 .710

Sabre Sabre Sabre Sabre Epee Sabre Sabre Sabre All Weapons Epee Foil Foil Epee Sabre Foil Sabre Sabre Foil Epee Foil Epee Epee Epee

81-49 1-0 2-1 130-23 99-69 11-14 61-21 27-19 26-16 0-3 14-3 0-1 55-18 0-1 57-21 8-10 15-13 18-16 0-1 11-2 38-28 57-28 55-25 50-11 59-20 37-16 1-1 0-1 5-13 1-3 50-19 33-37 65-25 74-41

.623 1.000 .667 .850 .589 .440 .741 .587 .619 .000 .824 .000 .767 .000 .731 .444 .536 .529 .000 .846 .576 .671 .688 .820 .747 .694 .500 .000 .278 .250 .725 .472 .722 .643

Sabre Mgr./Epee Epee Sabre Epee Foil Epee Epee Epee Epee Sabre Epee Epee Sabre Epee Foil Sabre Foil Foil Epee Sabre Sabre Epee Epee Epee Epee Foil Foil Foil Sabre Foil Sabre Sabre Foil

Edwards, Thomas Edwards, John Ehrensing, Rudolph Ehrlich, Bill Eichelman, Robert Emerson, Louis

1977 (1) 1983-86 (4) 1959-61 (1) 2007-09 (1) 1954-56 (1) 1967-69 (3)

37-11 121-21 41-34 21-17 21-24 40-26

.771 .852 .547 .553 .466 .606

Sabre Sabre Sabre Epee Sabre Foil

Espinosa, John

2003-05 (3)

55-17

.764

Sabre

Plantation, FL

Eusterman, Joseph Evan, Allen Eyerman, Raymond

1949 (1) 1965-67 (2) 1955-56

5-3 28-19 5-4

.625 .594 .555

Sabre Sabre Epee

Rochester, MN Trumbull, CT Columbus, OH

D’Allura, Salvatore Daby, John Daher, Michael Daher, Doug Daly, Rich Darko, Richard Daschle, Charles DeBaene, Ted DeCicco, Michael DeCicco, Michael, Jr. Debic, Ozren DeJong, Marc Deladrier, Richard DeLandero, Carlos DeLandero, Telmo DeLaVergne, Pierre DeMatteis, Ralph Dentino, Michael DePaolo, Hugh DePaul, Andrew DePietro, Joseph DeTalance, William Detzner, Richard Devita, Robert Diacou, Nicholas Dieckelman, David Dietrich, Robert DiFiglio, Sam Dille, Brice Dixon, Donald Dixon, Ralph Dobson, Arthur Dobyns, Jerome Doerr, Louis Doherty, Matt Domzalski, Henry Donlon, John Donlon, Jerome Donlon, Steve Donnelly, Patrick Donovan, Gerard Donovan, Sean Doody, Francis Dore, Ted Dorwin, Tom Dosal, Brian Dreher, Stephen Dudinski, Douglas Duff, Roderick Duff, Brian Duffy, Patrick Duffy, Robert Duggan, Charles Dunn, Terrence duVair, Pierre Dwan, Francis Dwyer, Michael Dwyer, Thomas

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Hometown Centereach, NY Fall River, MA Grosse Pointe, MI Grosse Pointe, MI Centereach, NY Indianapolis, IN Aberdeen, SD Detroit, MI Newark, NJ South Bend, IN Zagreb, Croatia Pretoria, South Africa Annapolis, MD South Bend, IN South Bend, IN New Orleans, LA Holidaysburg, PA Peoria, IL Casper, WY Pittsburgh, PA Glen Head, NY North Manchester, IN Des Plaines, IL New York, NY New York, NY Elm Grove, WI Birmingham, MI Skokie, IL Atlanta, GA Toldeo, OH Long Beach, CA Arlington, VT Jacksonville, FL Alice, TX Cupertino, CA Grosse Pointe, MI Farmingdale, NY Farmingdale, NY Farmingdale, NY Bridgeton, MO Tulsa, OK Tulsa, OK Oak Park, IL Butler, NJ Minocqua, WI Miami, FL Baldwinsville, NY Saugus, MA Peabody, MA Peabody, MA South Attleboro, MA Northbrook, IL Chicago, IL Cleveland, OH Madison, WI Summit, IL Racine, WI Omaha, NE St. Louis, MO St. Louis, MO New Orleans, LA Woodbury, MN Chicago, IL Denison, TX

All-America epeeist Ron Farrow (’57-’58) compiled a 52-11 record and placed third at the 1958 NCAAs.

Name

F

G

Ed Fellows posted a 136-38 record (’74-’77) and earned epee AllAmerica honors with his sixth-place finish at the 1974 NCAAs.

Two-time All-America sabreist Gerard Finney (’52-’54) owned a 61-7 career regular-season record and was fourth at the 1954 NCAAs.

Epeeist Michael Gostigian (’82-’86) compiled a 49-18 career record and was named Notre Dame’s 1986 team MVP.

Years (MW)

Record

Pct.

Weapon

Fabian, Dan Fabricant, Matt Fagon, Richard Fallat, Thomas Farrow, Ron Farrow, Geoffrey Fay, Ted Feeney, Edward Feeney, Michael Feighery, Daniel Feldman, Keith Fellows, Ed Fenech, Craig Fernandez, Miguel Ferrall, Charles Ferrence, Bill Finley, Benjamin Finn, Michael Finney, Gerard Fleisch, Paul Flynn, John Fox, Frank Fox, William Francis, Rowland Franzgrote, Ernest Frenkel, Marcel Friel, John Friske, Dave Froess, James Fruzynski, Matthew Funai, Craig Fuster, Alexander

1988 2000-03 (4) 1956-58 (3) 1962-63 (1) 1957-58 (2) 1971 1986-89 (4) 1975 1969-71 (1) 1998-2000 (1) 2009- (1) 1974-77 (4) 1969 1959-61 (1) 1966-69 (2) 1964-65 (2) 1990-92 (2) 1996-97 (1) 1952-54 (2) 1996-98 (1) 1941-42 (1) 1965-67 (2) 1954-56 (3) 1983 (1) 1950-52 (3) 2009- (1) 1954-56 (3) 1955-56 (2) 1971-72 (1) 1970-72 (3) 1982-83, ‘85-’86 (4) 1985-87 (1)

0-1 151-21 55-34 11-8 52-11 2-2 95-25 6-3 72-36 8-5 35-12 136-38 2-0 16-21 25-13 56-13 27-7 23-7 61-7 19-11 25-30 16-13 30-25 1-0 31-15 18-5 35-23 37-20 19-6 81-24 62-34 14-7

.000 .878 .618 .579 .825 .500 .729 .667 .667 .615 .745 .781 1.000 .435 .658 .812 .794 .767 .897 .633 .455 .552 .545 1.000 .673 .783 .603 .648 .760 .771 .646 .667

Epee Sabre Sabre Foil Epee Foil Epee Epee Sabre Foil Sabre Epee Sabre Epee Foil Foil Epee Foil Sabre Epee Foil Foil Foil Epee Epee Sabre Foil Sabre Foil Sabre Foil Foil

Gabler, Scott Gaither, James Gaither, John Galbraith, Mark Galbraith, James Galeziewski, Gary Galinanes, Manolo Gamarra, Joseph Garcia, David Garcia, Enrique Gardner, Alan Gasperetti, Matt Gase, Eugene Gavan, John Geary, John George, Thomas Gerard, Pat Gerrity, John Gettings, Connor Gettings, Patrick Ghattas, Patrick Giaimo, Peter Gibbons, Paul Girard, Rian Glass, Tim Gleason, Patrick Glock, Earl Glover, Leon Goeller, Thomas Goetz, Jack Goff, James Golden, Ronald Gonzalez, Angel Gonzalez, Ventura Gootwald, John Gostigian, Michael Grady, Christopher

1998-2001 (2) 1997-2000 (4) 1939-41 (2) 1969 1969 (1) 1986-88 (1) 1994-95 (2) 1980-81 (1) 1989-90 1980-81 (1) 1981-83 (1) 2008 1954-55 (1) 1938-40 (3) 1964-65 (2) 1957 1975-79 (4) 1975 2008- (1) 2004-07 (4) 2004-07 (4) 1958-60 (1) 1950-52 (1) 1991-94 (4) 1974-77 (4) 1978 (1) 1972-74 (1) 1957 1972-73 (1) 2003, 2005-2006 (1) 1965 1986-87 (1) 1941-43 (2) 1943, ‘47 (2) 1964 1982-86 (4) 1981-84 (3)

56-17 76-42 42-33 3-0 7-5 22-7 15-10 14-0 6-3 7-5 9-6 5-3 37-15 40-15 21-19 0-1 146-19 3-2 27-8 127-34 158-19 37-11 32-21 126-42 160-26 25-9 24-13 0-1 9-7 24-14 1-2 15-4 20-20 27-28 1-1 49-18 59-34

.727 .644 .560 1.000 .583 .759 .600 1.000 .667 .583 .600 .625 .713 .727 .525 .000 .884 .600 .771 .789 .893 .770 .604 .750 .860 .735 .640 .000 .563 .632 .333 .789 .500 .491 .500 .731 .634

Foil Epee Foil Sabre Sabre Foil Sabre Foil Foil Foil Epee Epee Sabre Sabre Sabre Foil Foil Foil Epee Epee Sabre Epee Sabre Epee/Foil Epee Sabre Foil Mgr./Sabre Epee Foil Sabre Epee Foil Foil Epee Epee Foil

Hometown Park Ridge, IL Elizabeth, NJ Mt. Vernon, NY Atlas, PA St. Louis, MO Itasca, IL Oakland, NJ Ivesdale, IL Chicago, IL Yonkers, NY Stony Brook, NY Oakland, NJ Clifton, NJ Miramar, PR Larchmont, NY Mercer, PA Los Angeles, CA Atwood, KS Grosse Pointe, MI Milwaukee, WI Westport, CT Birmingham, AL Chicago, IL Somerville, NJ Peoria, IL Sao Paolo, Brazil Gary, IN Saginaw, MI Erie, PA Chicago, IL Fair Lawn, NJ El Dorado, Panama Chatsworth, CA Piedmont, CA Louisville, KY Steubenville, OH South Bend, IN South Bend, IN San Juan, Puerto Rico Langley Park, MD Quito, Ecuador Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico Hamburg, IA South Bend, IN Saginaw, MI Milwaukee, WI Tulsa, OK Flint, MI Norridge, IL Annandale, VA Lake Forest, IL Lake Forest, IL Beaverton, OR New York, NY Andover, MA Vancouver, WA Niles, IL Boulder, CO Johnstown, PA Palo Alto, CA Amawalk, NY Jericho, VT Arlington, VA York, PA Dallas, TX Dallas, TX New York, NY Newton Square, PA Middletown, RI

2009-10 FENCING

121

Men’s All-Time Roster

Sabreist Chris Hajnik ranks 22nd on the Irish career wins list (14754; ’93-’95) and twice earned the Mulligan Sabre Leadership Award.

All-American Carl Jackson ranks third on the Irish list for career epee wins (174-58; ’95-’99) and received the 1998 Donlon Epee Leadership Award.

Name

Years (MW)

Record

Pct.

Weapon

G

Graham, James Graham, James Green, Patrick Griffee, Todd Grigorenko, Alexander Gross, Peter Grosso, Louis Gruman, Alexander Guarnaschelli, Dominic Guerin, Harold Gugel, Mark Gumbs, Colin Gunshinan, James

1937-39 (1) 1950-52 (3) 1957-59 (1) 1986-89 (4) 2006-07 (2) 1947-48 (2) 1934-35 1985-86 (2) 1997-2000 (4) 1938 1988-90 (3) 1987-90 (4) 1979-81 (2)

19-18 29-32 43-29 118-26 44-13 16-20 24-14 23-12 50-27 1-6 60-26 83-19 31-19

.518 .475 .597 .814 .772 .444 .631 .657 .649 .143 .698 .814 .620

Epee Epee Sabre Epee Foil Epee Foil Epee Epee Epee Epee Foil Epee

H

Habig, Adam Hagmann, Joseph Haines, Andrew Hajnik, Chris Hajnik, Frank Harding, Norris Harkness, Charles Harris, James Harris, Russell Harris, Shaun Harstrom, Ola Harvey, Adam Hathaway, John Haugh, John Hayes, Charles Haynes, John Heinzen, Fritz Helm, Jeffrey Hemmerle, Dennis Henry, Robert Henzler, Thomas Hernandez, Mickey Hickey, James Hicks, Gregory Higgs-Coulthard, Charles Higgs-Coulthard, Michael Hodges, Teddy Hogan, Noah Holeman, Derek Holzgrafe, Roger Horton, Tom Horvath, Peter Howard, Greg Howard, Kevin Hull, Dick Humphreys, Michael Hunt, Gordon Hurley, James Hutchings, John Hysell, Matt

2001 2005-06 1999 1993-95 (3) 1963-65 (1) 1987-88 (2) 1970-72 (2) 1997-2000 (2) 1938, ’40-’41 (2) 1999-2001 (1) 1981-83 (3) 2001-03 (1) 1973-74 (2) 1984-87 (4) 1997-99 (3) 1965-67 (3) 1975 1982-83 1955-57 (3) 1960-61 1974-76 (2) 1977 1981-84 (1) 1994 1984-87 (4) 1983, ’90 2008- (2) 1996-98 (1) 1987-90 (4) 1968-70 (2) 2006-2009 (4) 1983 2005-08 (4) 1985-86 (1) 1952-54 (1) 1940-42 (2) 1967 1951-53 (2) 1958-60 (1) 1996-98 (1)

2-4 16-4 1-0 141-53 29-18 8-5 80-23 23-7 55-25 11-6 93-15 23-10 25-11 81-25 119-35 54-32 1-4 2-7 84-18 2-3 38-13 1-0 18-7 1-3 45-17 21-5 62-17 21-12 109-16 76-24 102-44 1-4 174-44 22-15 52-22 31-27 1-1 30-13 9-8 21-8

.667 .800 1.000 .727 .617 .615 .776 .767 .688 .647 .861 .697 .692 .764 .773 .628 .200 .222 .824 .400 .745 1.000 .720 .250 .895 .807 .785 .636 .886 .753 .699 .200 .798 .595 .703 .535 .500 .697 .529 .724

Foil Foil Foil Sabre Epee Sabre Epee Foil Foil/Epee Foil Epee Epee Epee Epee Foil Epee Foil Foil Epee Epee Epee Sabre Epee Epee Foil Sabre Foil Sabre Foil Sabre Sabre Foil Epee Foil Foil Sabre Sabre Sabre Foil Foil

Isaacs, Jerome Isaacs, John Jackson, Carl Jacobs, James Janis, Mike Jansen, George Jedrkowiak, Jakub Joaquin, Manuel Jock, Paul Joe, Ronald Johnson, Donald Johnson, James Johnson, Jerry Johnsson, Per Johnston, John Jones, Jerry Joyce, Jack

1954-56 (2) 1969-71 (2) 1995, ‘97-’99 (4) 1951-52 (2) 1982-85 (4) 1947-49 (3) 2005-08 (4) 1975-77 (1) 1963-65 (3) 1980-83 (3) 1983-86 (4) 1957-59 (1) 1958-60 (1) 1992-93 (2) 1968 1956-57 1962-64 (3)

36-12 17-11 174-58 31-13 161-27 9-17 157-45 15-15 32-37 23-18 126-34 70-20 88-28 49-23 1-0 3-6 45-34

.750 .609 .750 .704 .856 .356 .777 .500 .464 .561 .787 .778 .759 .681 1.000 .333 .570

Epee/Sabre Epee Epee Foil Sabre Epee Foil Sabre Epee Epee Sabre Epee Foil Epee Epee Foil Foil

I-J

122

Foilist Derek Holeman earned the fencing program’s 1990 DeCicco/Langford Award (most inspirational) and compiled a 109-16 record from 1987-1990.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Sabreist Don Johnson amassed a 12634 record from 1983-86 and is one of 16 Irish men’s fencers to claim AllAmerica honors three-plus times (he was 3rd, 9th and 6th from 1984-86).

Hometown Tulsa, OK York, PA Chicago, IL Niles, MI New York, NY Brooklyn, NY New York, NY Los Angeles, CA Louisville, KY Wingdale, NY Reynoldsburg, OH Freeport, NY Silver Spring, MD Sheridan, IN Westfield, NJ Concord, MA Santa Maria, CA Springdale, PA New Brunswick, NJ Chippewa Falls, WI North Haven, CT Little Rock, AR North Haven, CT Goteborg, Sweden Connersville, IN Columbus, OH Portland, OR South Bend, IN Syracuse, NY Peoria, IL Elizabeth, PA Cincinnati, OH Bluffton, IN Arnold, MO New Orleans, LA Bethlehem, PA St. Charles, IL Boxford, MA Boxford, MA Salina, KS Rochester, IN Beaverton, OR Quincy, IL Franksville, WI Centereach, NY Granger, IN Owensboro, KY Honolulu, HI Fullerton, CA North Little Rock, AR Newark, NJ Muncie, IN Midland, MI Petersburg, VA Wilmette, IL Ringoes, NJ Bloomington, IN Franklin Lakes, NJ Bala Cynwyd, PA Leszno, Poland Utica, NY Ft. Wayne, IN Oakland, NJ Boxford, MA Indianapolis, IN Newark, NJ Goteborg, Sweden Chatham, NJ Boise, ID Rockford, IL

David Kirby’s .943 career win percentage (67-4; ’88-’92) ranks third all-time among Notre Dame men’s sabreists.

K

L

Foilist Phil Leary compiled a 126-18 regular-season record, competed in the 1990 and ’91 NCAAs, and earned Notre Dame’s 1991 DeCicco/Langford Award (most inspirational).

Epeeist Phil Lee (62-44; ’95-’97) earned the 1995 Auriol Award (most improved), the ’96 and ’97 Knute Rockne Student-Athlete Awards, and the ’97 Langford Leadership Award.

All-America sabreist Chris Lyons placed sixth at the 1980 NCAAs, capping his career that included a 10722 record and the 1980 Notre Dame Fencing Langford Leadership Award.

Name

Years (MW)

Record

Pct.

Weapon

Kalin, Glenn Kane, Richard Kane, Steve Keane, Robert Kearns, John Keeler, David Kehoe, Kevin Kelleher, Kevin Keller, David Kelly, Brent Kennedy, William Kenney, Daniel Keough, George Keough, Larry Kerrigan, Elie Kica, William Kiefer, Eugene Kirby, David Kirsch, Matthew Klein, Joseph Klier, John Kluczyk, Richard Koester, Edward Konzelman, Charles Korth, Patrick Kosse, Louis Kostka, Karol Kovacs, Yehuda Kowalski, Jim Kroener, Kent Krug, Louis Kubik, Mark Kubik, Steve Kurz, Richard Kvatsak, Robert

1969-71 (2) 1977 1998-2000 (1) 1989 1956-58 (2) 1968-70 (2) 1934-36 1974, ‘76 (1) 1999 2009- (1) 1962-64 (3) 1960-62 (2) 1988 1959-61 (1) 1987-88 (1) 1975-78 (4) 1940 1988-90, ‘92 (4) 1985-86 (1) 1956-58 (2) 1964-66 (2) 1981 1954-56 (1) 1979-82 (1) 1965-67 (3) 1951 2006-2009 (4) 1986-89 (4) 1987, ‘89 (1) 1987-89 (2) 1978-79 (1) 2006-2009 (4) 2008- (1) 1993 (1) 1939

79-29 0-4 13-7 2-1 24-16 32-17 65-33 12-10 1-1 27-14 30-19 46-34 4-3 24-30 11-4 41-12 0-1 67-4 23-7 64-20 53-31 0-2 11-15 14-10 67-30 2-1 198-56 115-10 15-4 20-9 10-3 145-54 72-15 7-5 16-7

.739 .000 .650 .667 .600 .654 .663 .545 .500 .659 .678 .575 .571 .444 .733 .774 .000 .944 .766 .697 .631 .000 .428 .583 .691 .667 .780 .920 .789 .690 .769 .729 .828 .583 .696

Foil Foil Epee Mgr./Epee Epee Foil All Weapons Foil Epee Epee Sabre Epee Mgr./Epee Sabre Sabre Foil/Epee Foil Sabre Foil Sabre Sabre Mgr./Epee Sabre Epee Sabre Epee Epee Foil Sabre Foil Foil Foil Foil Foil Sabre

Laeuchli, Jesse Lam, Arthur Lauck, John Lauerman, John Laughlin, Terry Laurendeau, Norman La Valle, Luke Lawless, Mark Laws, Jason Le Dinh, Thuy Leary, Phil Lebec, Xavier Lee, Phil Lee, Thomas LeFevre, Edouard Leising, James Leising, Joseph Lennert, Dave Leonard, Thomas Lesso, William Lester, Bill Letscher, David Lolli, Francis Long, Thomas Longeway, Thomas Lubin, Gerald Luzak, Kevin Lyons, Chris Lyons, John III Lyons, John IV Lyons, Michael

2004-06 (3) 20051971-73 (2) 1957-59 (3) 1956-57, ‘60 (2) 1964-66 (4) 1996-99 (4) 1989 (1) 2005 1989-90 1988-91 (4) 20071995-97 (2) 1957-59 (1) 1989-92 (4) 1940-42 (1) 1937-39 (1) 1986-87 (1) 1949 1953 (1) 1994-97 (4) 1990-92 (1) 1953-54 1965 1961, ‘63 (1) 1947-49 (2) 1984 1978-80 (3) 1969-71 (2) 1995 (1) 1971-73 (1)

73-13 3-5 29-13 56-37 34-15 31-21 200-20 13-4 5-1 18-3 126-18 28-16 62-44 30-16 73-21 7-12 20-22 15-7 0-1 7-9 206-38 10-7 1-2 3-4 18-15 10-7 4-3 107-22 72-32 18-10 32-14

.849 .375 .690 .602 .694 .596 .909 .765 .833 .856 .875 .636 .585 .652 .777 .360 .476 .682 .000 .438 .844 .588 .333 .429 .546 .588 .571 .829 .693 .642 .696

Epee Foil Epee Foil Epee/Foil Foil Sabre Epee Sabre Sabre Foil Foil Epee Sabre Foil Sabre Foil Epee Epee Epee Sabre Foil Sabre Foil Foil Foil Foil Sabre Foil Epee Sabre

Hometown Des Plaines, IL Park Ridge, IL Cincinnati, OH West Orange, NJ Champaign, IL Hudson, NY Chicago, IL Columbus, OH Adelphi, MD Grapevine, TX Cheshire, CT Chicago, IL Fort Lauderdale, FL San Antonio, TX Dublin, Ireland Glenview, IL Snyder, NY North Andover, MA Syracuse, NY San Antonio, TX Syracuse, NY Bayonne, NJ Wichita, KS Brunswick, ME Bloomington Hills, MI Louisville, TX Krakow, Poland Hod Hosharon, Israel St. Clair Shores, MI Camp Hill, PA Baltimore, MD San Antonio, TX San Antonio, TX Radnor, PA Pittsburgh, PA Dulles, VA Hong Kong Muncie, IN Marinette, WI Long Beach, CA Lewiston, ME New York, NY Califon, NJ Charlotte, NC Pompton Lakes, NJ Elizabeth, NJ Greenwich, CT Pasadena, CA Memphis, TN Fairfield, CT Buffalo, NY Buffalo, NY Cincinnati, OH Grand Rapids, MI Cleveland, OH Windsor, Ontario Brookfield, WI Oak Park, IL DeWitt, NY Lincolnwood, IL El Paso, TX West Redding, CT Berwyn, PA Berwyn, PA Marietta, GA Berwyn, PA

2009-10 FENCING

123

Men’s All-Time Roster

Sabreist Anthony Mandolini compiled a 44-19 career record (’52’54) and recently served on the Notre Dame Monogram Club board of directors.

M

124

All-American Michael McCahey (’75-’78) ranks 10th on the Irish list for career foil wins (138-21).

Terry McConville owns the ninth-most career wins (142-44; ’74-’77) of any Notre Dame men’s foilist.

Sabreist Bob Mendes earned three monograms and owned a 52-24 record from 1967-69.

Name

Years (MW)

Record

Pct.

Weapon

Hometown

Macaulay, Michael MacDonald, Colin Maddalone, Ray Madigan, David Madigan, James Mages, Phil Maggio, Jordan Mahoney, William Malecz, Richard Malfa, John Maliszewski, William Malone, Joseph Mandolini, Anthony Markel, Michael Marks, Dick Maroon, Frederick Marterseck, Paul Martin, Edward Masserer, Johannes Matranga, Michael Mattern, Paul Mautone, Steve Mazure, John McAuliffe, John McBride, David McBride, John McCabe, Thomas McCahey, Mike McCandless, Paul McCarty, Shaun McConville, Terry McCue, Leonard McDonough, Patrick McEnearney, Burton McGee, George McGinn, John McGookey, James McGuire, John McNally, T.J. McNamara, John McQuade, Chris McQuade, Michael McQuade, Joseph McQuade, Steve Meathe, Edward Meinhardt, Gerek Melton, Herbert Melton, Herbert III Mendes, Bob Mercado, Victor Mergen, Matthew Merrill, William Merten, Dean Mertens, Richard Metrailer, Andrew Meyer, Eric Meyer, Gerald Miller, John Miller, Lawrence Mitalo, Brian Mlachak, Ivan Mock, Phillip Molina, Rich Molinelli, Michael Monahan, Joseph Monahan, Tim

2001-04 (3) 1948 (1) 1968-70 (2) 1979-81 (2) 1941-43 (3) 1996-97 (2) 1993-95 (3) 1938 1973 (1) 1953-54 1969-71 (1) 1963-66 (4) 1952-54 (2) 1976-78 (1) 1962-64 (3) 1955 1934 1948-49 2004-05 (1) 1971-74 (4) 1948 1999-2002 (4) 1967-68 (1) 1935-37 (1) 1951-53 (2) 1980-81 (1) 1982 1975-78 (4) 1967-69 (2) 1981-83 (2) 1974-77 (4) 1960-62 (1) 1968-69 (1) 1938-39 (2) 1967 1952-54 (2) 1970 1977-79 (2) 2003-05 (3) 1985-86 (1) 1992, ‘94-’96 (3) 1963-65 (3) 1963-65 (3) 1996-99 (3) 1966 2009- (1) 1941-43 (3) 1969 1967-69 (3) 1936-38 (1) 1988 (1) 1965-67 (2) 1980 (1) 1970 1997-99 (1) 1968 1956-58 (2) 1999-2000 (1) 1976-78 (2) 1984-87 (1) 1982-83 (2) 1975, ‘77 (1) 20081979, ‘81-’82 (2) 1995 (1) 1997-99 (2)

44-19

.698

17-11 15-9 30-36 29-10 64-19 0-4 8-4 18-19 16-15 38-34 44-19 9-6 64-27 1-0 4-5 2-2 7-4 129-31

.609 .625 .455 .744 .771 .000 .667 .486 .516 .528 .698 .600 .707 1.000 .444 .500 .636 .806

Epee Epee Foil Epee Foil Foil Foil Epee Foil Epee Sabre Sabre Sabre Epee Epee Mgr./Sabre Epee Epee Foil Epee

137-59 11-8 37-33 31-34 15-9 1-0 138-21 46-31 17-8 142-44 8-4 4-6 25-21 0-1 53-21 1-2 27-9 27-14 10-9 114-53 42-20 37-20 89-32 1-0 31-2 35-20 0-1 52-24 17-9 23-14 14-11 0-1

.698 .579 .529 .476 .584 1.000 .868 .597 .635 .764 .667 .400 .543 .000 .716 .333 .750 .659 .526 .683 .677 .650 .736 1.000 .939 .636 .000 .684 .654 .621 .560 .000

Foil Epee Foil Epee Epee Mgr./Epee Foil Sabre Sabre Foil Epee Epee Foil/Epee Foil Epee Foil Sabre Epee Foil Sabre Foil Foil Epee/Sabre Epee Foil Sabre Sabre Sabre Foil Foil Sabre Epee/Armorer

14-8 0-1 34-23 7-5 18-13 12-12 9-7 12-5 9-3 19-12 8-8 35-10

.636 .000 .596 .583 .581 .500 .563 .706 .750 .613 .500 .778

Epee Foil Sabre Epee Sabre Foil Sabre Sabre Epee Sabre Epee Epee

Temple, TX Providence, RI Munster, IN South Bend, IN Little Rock, AR Thousand Oaks, CA New York, NY Winslow, AZ Denville, NJ Auburn, NY New York, NY New York, NY Elmwood Park, IL Akron, OH New York, NY Wilson, NC South Bend, IN Canton, NY Frankenhardt, Germany Wantagh, NY N/A Short Hills, NJ Fargo, ND Oak Park, IL Chicago, IL Oak Park, IL Wilmette, IL Shaker Heights, OH Omaha, NE Los Angeles, CA Niles, IL Newburgh, NY Pittsfield, MA Rockville Centre, NY Pittsburgh, PA Des Moines, IA Sandusky, OH Sea Cliff, NY Fredericksburg, VA Johnstown, NY Clifton, NJ New York, NY New York, NY Clifton, NJ Whittier, CA San Francisco, CA Paducah, KY Paducah, KY Merrick, NY Woodhaven, NY Glen Gardner, NJ Fort Worth, TX Kenosha, WI Dolvay, NY Dallas, TX West Hartford, CT Arlington, VA Las Vegas, NV Pittsford, NY Chicago, IL Houston, TX Winston-Salem, NC Newark, NJ Briarcliff, NY Arcola, IL Arcola, IL

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Foilist James Mullenix compiled a 111-44 regular-season record with the Irish from 1971-74.

All-America epeeist Geoff Pechinsky placed ninth at the 1993 NCAAs, after going 81-45 in his career (’90-’93) .

Epeeist Jeff Pero (’66-’68) posted a 53-18 career record and added an AllAmerica finish (9th) at the 1968 NCAAs.

Foilist Jeff Piper fenced at the NCAAs from 1991-93, also owning a 116-18 career record and earning the 1993 Langford Leadership Award.

Name

Years (MW)

Record

Pct.

Weapon

Hometown

M

Mooney, John Moran, Richard Moran, Kevin Morton, Clay Moschella, Phillip Muckenhirn, Carl Mulhern, John Mullenix, James Muller-Bergh, Klaus Mulligan, Dan Mulligan, Timothy Mulrooney, Patrick Muoio, Salvatore Murphy, Eamon Murphy, Greg Myron, Joseph

1951-53 (3) 1963 1966 1998-2000 (1) 1985 (1) 1981-82 1961 1971-74 (4) 1957-59 (1) 1971-73 (1) 1975-77 (2) 1951-53 (2) 1978-79, ‘81 (2) 2004 (1) 1996 1935

53-18 0-2 0-1 23-7 13-4 9-11 1-0 111-44 7-9 60-25 70-20 16-16 70-17 22-5 1-0 2-2

.746 .000 .000 .767 .765 .450 1.000 .716 .437 .706 .778 .500 .779 .815 1.000 .500

Foil Epee Epee Sabre Foil Foil Sabre Foil Sabre Sabre Sabre Sabre Sabre Foil Mgr./Epee Sabre

Cleveland, OH N/A Wormleysburg, PA Hernando, MS Selden, NY Northfield, IL Evergreen Park, IL Golf, IL Potsdam, NY Highland Park, NJ Highland Park, NJ Eagle River, WI Centereach, NY Winnetka, IL South Pasadena, CA Jamaica, NY

N

Nagle, Gerold Nahser, Frank Nanovic, Roy Nasher, Frank Navin, Richard Nee, Christopher Nenoff, Robert Nerlinger, Andrew Nigro, Joseph Noonan, Timothy Nowacki, Theodore Nowosielski, Leszek Nydam, Barron

1971 1962 1967-68 (1) 1960-61 1956 1989 (1) 1966-67 2001-02 (1) 1939 1984 1968 1988-91 (4) 2008- (2)

1-0 7-6 12-8

1.000 .539 .600

7-5 1-2 8-5

.583 .333 .615

Foil Foil Sabre Foil Epee Foil Foil Epee Foil

1-1 97-2 58-22

.500 .980 .725

Epee Sabre Sabre

Hyde Park, MA Winnetka, IL Jackson Heights, NY N/A Des Plaines, IL South Bend, IN Greensburg, PA Wilmington, DE Kansas City, MO Waterloo, IA South Bend, IN Ottawa, Ontario Rancho Sante Fe, CA

O’Donnell, Robert O’Malley, Michael Olivares, Jose Ortiz, Alfredo Osborne, Jacob Ott, William Owoc, Richard

1938 1994-97 1951 1943, ‘47 (2) 2009- (1) 1964-66 (2) 1974-75

0-1 15-9 0-1 9-9 36-17 28-24 1-2

.000 .625 .000 .500 .679 .539 .333

Foil Foil Foil Sabre Epee Epee Foil

Chicago, IL Sherman Oaks, CA San Antonio, TX Santa Fe, NM Colleyville, TX St. Louis, MO Akron, OH

Packo, John Parisi, Daniel Parker, William Pashel, George Patel, Rakesh Patout, Rivers Paul, Michael Paulus, Alan Pauwels, Joseph Pechinsky, Geoff Peck, Louis Pellecchia, Leonard Pentz, Matt Perez, John Pero, Jeff Peters, Matt Petrungaro, Charles Pfarr, Chris Pfeiffer, Charles Pietrusiak, William Pikna, Raymond Pinkowski, Chris Piper, Jeff Plunkett, John Power, Conor Prendergast, Brendan Price, Arthur Progar, Michael

1975-76 (1) 1949-51 (3) 1961 1972-74 1993-94 (2) 1959-60 (1) 1995 1978 (1) 1970-72 (3) 1990-93 (4) 1940-41 (1) 1966-68 2007-09 (1) 1986 (1) 1966-68 (3) 2001 1957-59 (1) 2008- (1) 1968 1988-89 (1) 1974-76 (2) 20091990-93 (4) 2008 1994-95 (2) 2003-04 (2) 1956-57 (1) 1973-75 (2)

24-11 38-13 1-4 5-11 65-39 6-5 0-1 1-1 27-23 81-45 6-7 4-3 38-22 1-1 53-18 8-2 13-8 25-4 2-1 15-7 25-11 18-5 116-18 13-13 89-23 32-16 21-18 32-18

.686 .746 .200 .312 .615 .546 .000 .500 .540 .643 .461 .571 .633 .500 .746 .800 .619 .862 .667 .682 .694 .782 .866 .500 .795 .667 .538 .640

Sabre Foil Foil Foil Epee Sabre Epee Mgr./Epee Sabre Epee Sabre Sabre Sabre Armorer/Foil Epee Sabre Sabre Epee Epee Sabre Foil Epee Foil Sabre Foil Sabre Sabre Sabre

O P

Toldeo, OH Newark, NJ Nebraska City, NE Pittsburgh, PA Hackettstown, NJ Navasota, TX Worcester, MA Midland, MI Jackson, MI Danvers, MA Montpelier, VT Newark, NJ Oak Ridge, NC Chicago, IL Rochester, NY Helena, MT Chicago, IL Highlands Ranch, CO Montclair, NJ Medfield, MA Akron, OH Simi Valley, CA Gold Coast, Australia Wycoff, NJ Beaumont, TX St. Petersburg, FL Chestertown, IN Sheboygan, MS

2009-10 FENCING

125

Men’s All-Time Roster

All-America epeeist Andy Quaroni (’82-’85) placed sixth and third at the 1994 and ’95 NCAAs and compiled a 133-23 career record.

Name

Q R

S

126

Foilist Jim Russomano posted three All-America seasons while compiling a 54-15 record at the 1958-60 NCAA tournaments.

Steve Salimando owned a 100-17 career foil record and received the fencing program’s 1979 Walter Langford Leadership Award.

Christian Scherpe, a two-time All-American at Cal StateNorthridge, posted a 68-15 record at Notre Dame (’85-’86) and placed fourth at the 1986 NCAAs (also All-America).

Years (MW)

Record

Pct.

Weapon

Hometown

Quaroni, Andy Quenan, Timothy Quinn, Brian Quinonez, Diego

1982-85 (4) 1993 1986-87 (1) 2005-06 (2)

133-23 1-1 16-5 47-35

.853 .500 .762 .573

Epee Mgr./Epee Sabre Foil

San Antonio, TX Shell Lake, WI Littleton, CO San Salvador, El Salvador

Radde, James Raley, Charles Rastellini, James Rawlings, Steven Ray, Brian Reardon, Chris Reardon, James Reardon, Sean Recoy, Martin Reilly, James Repilado, Frank Reuter, Joseph Reuter, David Reyes, Paul Ricci, John Rice, George Riechenbach, Tom Riegel, Martin Ripple, Gregory Rizzuti, Tony Ronayne, John Roney, David Roney, Thomas Rooney, Ben Rooney, Patrick Rosamilia, Victor Rosamilia, Steven Rose, William Rossi, Geoffrey Roveda, Joseph Rueter, Scott Russomano, Jim Rutherford, Scott Ryan, David Ryan, Jack Ryan, John Ryder, Thomas

1959-60 (1) 1943 1972 1987-89 (3) 1990, 93 (1) 1987-88 (2) 1969-71 (1) 1984-86 (2) 1970 1987-88 (1) 1943 (1) 1964 1983-86 (4) 2005 1961-63 (2) 1962-63 1966-68 (1) 1982 1992 (2) 1999-2000 (2) 1958-60 (2) 1943 (1) 1947-49 (2) 2000-01 1979-80 (2) 1961 1987 1967 (1) 1985, ‘87, ‘89 (3) 1982, 84 1979 (1) 1958-60 (2) 1980-83 (4) 1934 1955-57 (3) 1953 (1) 1986 (1)

28-9 1-4 0-1 35-6 24-11 27-11 9-8 39-9 3-0 27-3 8-20 1-2 68-23 2-2 40-35 8-4 60-29 3-1 5-3 8-2 17-4 9-8 8-5 0-3 19-10 1-1 0-1 7-6 73-17 9-11 0-2 100-17 40-23 8-17 13-16 0-1 2-0

.757 .200 .000 .854 .676 .711 .529 .813 1.000 .900 .286 .333 .747 .500 .534 .667 .674 .750 .625 .800 .810 .529 .614 .000 .660 .500 .000 .538 .823 .450 .000 .855 .635 .327 .448 .000 1.000

Epee Epee Foil Sabre Epee Epee Foil Sabre Foil Sabre Epee Epee Foil Foil Epee Sabre Epee Foil Foil/Armorer Sabre Epee Sabre Sabre Epee Epee Sabre Sabre Epee Sabre Foil Epee/Armorer Foil Foil/Epee Epee Foil Foil Armorer/Sabre

1966-68 (1) 1976-79 (4) 2001-02 (2) 1999 1999 1938-40 (2) 1974-76 (2) 1949-51 (3) 1982 1937-39 (3) 1960-61 1978-79 (1) 1985-86 (2) 1995-97 (1) 2008- (2) 1939-40 20091947-50 (4) 2008- (2) 1967-69 (1) 2003- (3) 2006 2001-04 (3) 1968 1936-37 (1)

2-1 100-17 13-8 1-0 2-0 22-26 63-35 64-14 0-3 28-16 6-10 36-12 68-15 44-14 75-20 4-9 11-3 71-23 62-35 9-3 45-14 1-1 35-14 2-2 33-27

.667 .855 .619 1.000 1.000 .459 .643 .820 .000 .636 .375 .750 .803 .759 .789 .353 .786 .755 .639 .750 .763 .500 .714 .500 .549

Sabre Foil Sabre Epee Sabre Foil/Epee Sabre Foil Foil Sabre Sabre Epee Epee Sabre Foil Foil Sabre Sabre Epee Foil Sabre Foil Epee Foil Foil/Epee

Sabol, Mark Salimando, Steve Salisian, Neal Sanabria, Chris Sanderson, Sam Sayia, Robert Sazdanoff, Michael Scalera, Nick Scallon, James Scarlata, Salvatore Schaefgen, Harold Schermoly, Michael Scherpe, Christian Scherpereel, John Schirtz, Zach Schlafly, Hubert Schlehuber, Tony Schlosser, Bob Schoolcraft, Greg Schnierle, Michael Schumacher, Alex Schumacher, Andrew Schumacher, Nick Schwalbach, Joseph Seco, Robert

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Wahpeton, ND Wilmington, DE Woburn, MA New Fairfield, CT Akron, OH Cincinnati, OH Roxbury, ME Cincinnati, OH Mexico City, Mexico Staten Island, NY Havana, Cuba Pasadena, CA Bethesda, MD Los Angeles, CA Drexel Hill, PA Medawaska, ME Alton, MA Indianapolis, IN South Bend, IN St. Louis, MO New Rochelle, NY Detroit, MI Detroit, MI South Bend, IN Des Moines, IA Bloomfield, NJ West Caldwell, NJ Fredevick, MD Manchester, MA Lincolnshire, IL Decatur, IL Caldwell, NJ Louisville, KY South Bend, IN Berwyn, PA Berwyn, IL Allentown, PA Solon, OH Selden, NY Pasadena, CA Haughton, LA Seattle, WA Montclair, NJ Mansfield, OH Newark, NJ West Covina, CA Lodi, NJ Memphis, TN Overland Park, KS Krefield, Germany Murrysville, PA Rochester, NY St. Louis, MO Carmel, IN Springfield, IL San Jose, CA Chicago, IL New Berlin, WI New Berlin, WI New Berlin, WI South Bend, IN Newark, NJ

Sabreist Ron Sollitto earned AllAmerica honors at the 1972 NCAAs (7th) and posted an 8023 career record during the 1970-72 seasons.

Name

S

T

All-American Brian Stone ranks first on the Notre Dame list for career epee wins (183-81; ’95-’98).

Two-time All-America sabreist James Taliaferro owned a 101-17 career record, also placing seventh at the 1990 NCAAs and fourth in 1992.

Foilist John Tejada received Notre Dame’s 1996 DeCicco/Langford Award (most inspirational) and competed in the 1998 NCAAs.

Years (MW)

Record

Pct.

Weapon

Hometown

Seitz, Roy Seroff, Andrew Sheridan, Thomas Schwartz, David Shields, John Shipman, Richard Shipp, Thomas Shonkwiler, Joe Siek, Jeremy Sierra, Jose Silha, Elmer Silva, Diego Slevin, Eugene Smalley, Joseph Smith, Richard Snooks, Richard Snyder, Derek Sobieraj, Michal Sollitto, Ron Songer, Thomas Spahn, Thomas Spejewski, Eugene Spitzer, Norbert St. Clair, Brian Stabrawa, David Stachowski, Russell Stearns, Matt Stone, Brian Stoutermire, Kevin Strass, John Stratter, Stewart Sullivan, Michael Sullivan, Mike Sullivan, James Suwalsky, Albert Swiney, Mark Switek, Michael Szelle, Gabor

1972-74 (3) 2008- (2) 1966-68 (3) 1958-59 (1) 1957-58 1951 1960-62 (2) 2001 (1) 1994-97 (4) 1981 1943 (1) 20071943 (1) 1938-40 (2) 1953-54 1935-36 (1) 2002-04 (3) 2002-05 (4) 1970-72 (3) 1983 1971-73 (1) 1958-60 (1) 1958-60 (2) 1984-86 (2) 1983-86 (1) 1979-81 (1) 2004-07 (4) 1995-98 (4) 1984-87 (4) 1975-78 (4) 1943 1960-61 1976-79 (4) 1979-81 (2) 1952 1997-99 (1) 1986 1999-01 (3)

59-33 54-20 64-23 5-3 0-5

.641 .730 .736 .625 .000

53-27 9-6 184-21

.589 .600 .898

6-3 30-14 7-6 40-15 2-7 4-5 104-19 176-12 80-23 0-2 11-7 11-11 24-20 53-13 9-9 6-8 145-44 183-81 108-14 111-42 0-1 3-5 183-4 13-9 0-1 7-7 1-0 134-8

.667 .682 .538 .727 .222 .444 .846 .936 .753 .000 .611 .500 .546 .803 .500 .428 .767 .693 .885 .725 .000 .375 .979 .590 .000 .500 1.000 .944

Sabre Epee Foil Epee Foil Sabre Sabre Sabre Foil Foil Foil Foil Sabre Sabre Epee Foil Foil Epee Sabre Mgr./Epee Epee Sabre Foil Epee Epee Foil Sabre Epee Sabre Epee Sabre Foil Sabre Foil Foil Foil Epee Sabre

Cleveland, OH Boulder, CO Forest Hills, NY Mansfield, OH Washington, D.C. South Bend, IN Tulsa, OK Galena, OH Newmarket, NH Adelphi, MD Chicago, IL Greenwich, CT Peoria, IL New York, NY South Bend, IN St. Joseph, MI Chatsworth, CA Krakow, Poland Scotch Plains, NJ Greensburgh, PA Westchester, IL East Chicago, IN Green Bay, WI Huntington Station, NY Oak Lawn, IL Lindstrom, MN Minnetrista, MN Hackettstown, NJ Troy, MI Glenview, IL Sharon, PA Kalamazoo, MI Peabody, MA Walpole, NH Leavenworth, KS Tulsa, OK Houston, TX Budapest, Hungary

Tadrowski, Don Taliaferro, James Tan, Desney Tansey, James Tate, Jack Tawadros, Adele Taylor, Tim Tearney, Thomas Tejada, John Terreault, Matthew Thanhouser, Bill Thompson, James Tietz, Joel Till, Mark Tindell, Kevin Tivenius, Jan Todd, Michael Townsend, William Trayers, Frederick Trisko, Michael Truog, James Tschetter, John Turgeon, Joseph Tyler, David

1954-56 (2) 1990-92 (3) 1995 1958 1962-63 (1) 1973 1969-72 (3) 1940-42 (1) 1996-98 (3) 2004 (1) 2006-2009 (4) 1979-82 (4) 1980-83 (4) 1978-79 (2) 1979-82 (4) 1983 (1) 1956 1986 (1) 1988, ‘90 (2) 1989-92 (4) 1993 1966-67 (2) 1975-77 (2) 2000-01 (1)

76-18 101-17 1-1 0-1 11-6 0-2 70-28 6-11 97-39 7-2 174-51 98-34 78-28 1-0 94-32 45-3 0-2 11-3 14-3 64-14 2-3 10-3 32-17 14-12

.808 .856 .500 .000 .647 .000 .715 .353 .713 .778 .773 .742 .736 1.000 .746 .937 .000 .783 .824 .821 .400 .769 .653 .538

Epee Sabre Sabre Epee Foil Epee Epee Sabre Foil Epee Sabre Foil Sabre Mgr./Foil Epee Epee Foil Foil Foil Foil Sabre Sabre Epee Epee

Chicago, IL Montclair, NJ Monroe, LA Caracas, Venezuela Allentown, PA South Bend, IN Columbus, IL Chicago, IL Brooklyn, NY Boonton, NJ Portland, OR Oberlin, OH Somerville, NJ Houston, TX Newark, NJ Orebor, Sweden Chicago, IL Guaynabo, Puerto Rico Peabody, MA Northfield, IL Waukesha, WI South Bend, IN East Hartford, CT Somers, CT

2009-10 FENCING

127

Men’s All-Time Roster

Jeff Wartgow received the 1997 Dan Mulligan Award for sabre team leadership and concluded his career with a 123-62 regular-season record.

U-V

W

Y-Z

Grzegorz Wozniak compiled a 154-48 career record and received the Donlon Epee Leadersip Award from 1992-94.

Foilist Noel Young racked up a 30-6 record at the NCAAs while posting All-America finishes in both 1990 and ’91.

Name

Years (MW)

Record

Pct.

Weapon

Ubbing, William Vaggo, Bjorn Valdiserri, Thomas Valdiserri, Richard Valentino, Paul Valerio, Michael Van der Velden, Mike Vaughan, Timothy Veit, Francis Venerus, Joseph Vermeersch, David Viamontes, George Viamontes, George, Jr. Vincent, John Vivado, Guillermo Viviani, Jan Vizcarrondo, Julio Vogt, Paul Vozella, John

1974-76 (2) 1977-78 (2) 1978-80 (2) 1975, ‘77 (1) 1978-79 (1) 1979, ‘81 (1) 1983-86 (4) 1984-87 (4) 1941-42 (2) 1966-67 (2) 1978-80 (2) 1971-73 (2) 1999-2001 (1) 1947-50 (2) 1958 2000-03 (4) 1954-56 (3) 1989-90 (2) 1974-75 (2)

28-7 30-2 24-12 14-19 12-6 6-8 137-41 80-19 19-9 8-2 13-9 43-15 30-6 45-25 0-1 162-20 27-15 31-8 37-33

.800 .938 .670 .424 .667 .428 .770 .808 .672 .800 .590 .741 .833 .644 .000 .890 .642 .795 .528

Epee Epee Sabre Sabre Sabre Foil Foil Epee Epee Foil Foil Sabre Sabre Epee Foil Epee Foil Epee Sabre

1961-63 (2) 1984-86 (1) 1962 (1) 1939-40 1987 1950-52 (3) 1985-86 (1) 1961-63 2000-01, ’03-04 (4) 1956-57 1994-97 (4) 1959-60 (1) 1953-55 (1) 1943 (1) 1971-73 (3) 1947-48 1954 1948, ‘50 (1) 1978-80 (1) 1980-82 (1) 1973 (1) 1973 1964 1972, ‘74 1943 (1) 1947-49 (3) 1990-91 1991-94 (4) 1958-60 (1)

28-29 14-7

.492 .667

0-4 1-2 36-18 10-11 10-10 158-35 0-3 123-62 6-6 48-20 11-6 37-12 1-2 0-1 19-4 9-5 8-7 5-4 0-3 0-2 5-9 3-4 45-24 8-6 154-48 9-13

.000 .333 .667 .476 .500 .819 .000 .665 .500 .706 .647 .755 .333 .000 .826 .640 .573 .556 .000 .000 .357 .429 .452 .571 .762 .409

Epee Epee Sabre Foil Mgr./Epee Foil Epee Epee Foil Sabre Sabre Epee Foil Epee Epee Sabre Foil Foil Foil Foil Epee Foil Foil Foil Foil Foil/Sabre Epee Epee Sabre

1970-72 (3) 1990-91 (2) 1987-89, ‘91 (4)

35-28 60-7 107-18

.555 .870 .856

Foil Foil Sabre

Hong Kong Brisbane, Australia New York, NY

1965 1937-38 (2) 2005-06 (1) 2008- (2) 1960-61

2-1 25-8 30-8 67-16 1-6

.667 .758 .789 .807 .143

Epee Sabre Foil Sabre Foil

Dearborn, MI Kansas City, KS Berwyn, PA Beaverton, OR Upland, CA

Wagner, John Walker, Kevin Walker, Robert Wallace, George Walsh, Brian Walsh, James Walsh, Robert Walter, Robert Walton, Forest Warnicke, Edward Wartgow, Jeffrey Wassil, John Waters, Jim Watters, John Waugh, Richard Weir, William Westrick, Howard Westrick, Robert Wheaton, Joe Wheaton, Kelly White, Richard Whitesell, Frank Wilke, William Wilkowski, Joseph Witucki, Robert Witucki, Ralph Wolfe, Michael Wozniak, Grzegorz Wursta, John Yau, Warren Young, Noel Yu, Dan Zarrow, Andrew Zerbst, John Zodda, Andrew Zuck, Avery Zwettler, Michael

128

All-America foilist Jim Waters owned a 48-20 record and capped his career with a 10th-place finish at the 1955 NCAAs.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Hometown Columbus, OH Goteborg, Sweden South Bend, IN South Bend, IN Clarkston, MI Phoenixville, PA Seattle, WA North Andover, MA Grand Rapids, MI Woodbridge, NJ Grand Rapids, MI St. Louis, MO Chesterfield, MO Amarillo, TX La Paz, Bolivia Haworth, NJ San Juan, Puerto Rico Gretna, LA Reading, MA Utica, NY Minneapolis, MN Bristol, IN N/A Chicago, IL St. Louis, MO Hartford, CT Greenfield, WI Londonderry, NH Indianapolis, IN Golden, CO Sharon, PA Manhatten, MT New Orleans, LA Columbus, OH Philadelphia, PA Hinsdale, IL Hinsdale, IL Lebanon, TN Lebanon, TN Sterling Heights, MI Arlington, VA Lorain, OH Detroit, MI South Bend, IN South Bend, IN Fremont, OH Chicago, IL Wildwood, NJ

Women’s All-Time Roster

All-American Pia Albertson posted a 37-2 season record, placed 10th at the 1984 NCAAs and received the ’84 women’s foil MVP Award (as did her sister Charlotte, in ’83).

Name

Foilist Amee Appel totaled a 215-65 career record (’95-’98) while training with four-time All-Americans Sara Walsh and Myriah Brown and 1995 NCAA runner-up Maria Panyi.

Epeeist Kim DeMaio (’98-’01) posted a 95-75 career record and received the Notre Dame fencing program’s 2001 Langford Leadership Award.

Kiersten Ferguson’s 114-80 record (’98-’00) ranks 10th on the Irish list for all-time women’s epee wins.

Years (MW)

Record

Pct.

Weapon

A

Al-Aali, Ghadeer Albertson, Charlotte Albertson, Pia Almeida, Beatriz Alokolaro, Pauline Ament, Andrea Appel, Amee Arndt, Kimberly

2000 1983 (1) 1984 (1) 2009- (1) 2000-01 (1) 2002-05 (4) 1995-98 (4) 1992-94 (3)

5-2 51-10 37-2 41-14 13-4 164-15 215-65 72-17

.714 .836 .949 .745 .765 .916 .768 .828

Epee Foil Foil Sabre Sabre Foil Foil Foil

Manama, Bahrain Goteborg, Sweden Frolunda, Sweden Chappagua, NY Seattle, WA Gates Mills, OH Hackettstown, NJ Romeo, MI

B

Barreda, Anne Bathon, Elizabeth Bautista, Melanie Behnke, Susan Bonifert, Joan Borrmann, Sarah Boutsikaris, Liza Brown, Myriah Burns, Anne Bustamante, Natalie Buzard, Catherine

1987-91 (4) 1978-81 (4) 2005-07 (3) 1979 (1) 1972-74 2008- (2) 2000-03 (4) 1996-99 (4) 1982-83 (2) 2003-05 (3) 1975-76 (1)

159-24 73-37 147-46 10-4 14-15 113-15 168-37 291-28 26-23 66-34 44-47

.868 .663 .762 .714 .483 .883 .820 .912 .531 .660 .484

Foil Foil Foil Foil Foil Sabre Foil Foil Foil Epee Foil

Peabody, MA Hanover, PA Dayton, OH Battle Creek, MI N/A Beaverton, OR Sparta, NJ Mishawaka, IN Columbus, OH Bakersfield, CA Lake Forest, IL

C

Call, Meagan Campos, Angela Carney, Dorothy Carnick, Anna Caruso, Elizabeth Chimahusky, Rebecca Clark, Susan Connor, Margaret Connor, Marielle Cota, Rachel Couri, Gina

2000-03 (4) 2000-02 1979-80 (2) 2000-03 (4) 1993-95 (2) 2003-06 (4) 2000-2002 (1) 1988-91 (2) 2004-06 (3) 2005-08 (4) 1997-99 (3)

168-52 0-4 68-15 179-43 63-30 144-56 10-3 53-35 55-12 135-48 70-18

.764 .000 .810 .806 .677 .720 .769 .602 .821 .738 .795

Epee Foil Foil Epee Foil Epee Epee Foil Epee Foil Foil

Eugene, OR San Diego, CA Sanford, NC South Bend, IN Hampton, VA Bartlesville, OK Harbeson, DE Oakland, NJ Atlanta, GA Altadena, CA East Peoria, IL

Dailey, Elizabeth Davis, Danielle Dawes, Colleen de Bruin, Claudette DeMaio, Kimberly DiNicola, Sharon Dougherty, Corinne Durney, Tara

1998-2000 (1) 2002-05 (4) 20091993-96 (4) 1998-01 (4) 1981-84 (4) 1992-94 (2) 1987

19-8 125-35 15-17 235-24 95-75 108-83 72-18 1-2

.704 .781 .469 .907 .559 .725 .800 .333

Foil Sabre Sabre Epee/Foil Epee Foil Foil Foil

Moline, IL Grand Rapids, MI Golden, CO Wilsonville, OR Pompton Lakes, NJ Huntington, NY Waukesha, WI Dallas, TX

E-F

Efta, Christine Emilian, Beth Enydedy, Louise Feher, Mary-Hope Ferguson, Kiersten Fischer, Marit Fischer, Sally Filkins, Jessie Flanagan, Katie Foley, Maig Foley, Terri

1999 2002-04 (2) 1978-80 2002 1998-2000 (3) 1994 (1) 1972-74 2001-02 (1) 2000-01 (2) 2000 1977-79 (1)

8-3 43-15 25-31 2-4 114-81 29-10 26-39 44-23 54-32 0-1 10-13

.727 .741 .446 .333 .585 .744 .400 .657 .628 .000 .714

Epee/Foil Foil Foil Sabre Epee Epee Foil Sabre Sabre/Foil Foil Foil

South Bend, IN Fort Wayne, IN N/A Berwyn, PA Winston Salem, NC Fort Pierre, SD Elkhart, IN Wilmette, IL North Hills, PA Seabrook, TX Chicago, IL

G

Gallagher, Maura Garcia, Dinamarie Gase, Linda Gerard, Carole Gerard, Terri Girardi, Danielle Goulet, Brigette

1994 (1) 1993-94 (2) 1984-86 (1) 1982-84 (1) 1980 1994 1981

50-29 34-13 27-24 0-3 7-0 1-1

.633 .723 .529 .000 1.000 .500

Epee Foil Foil Foil Foil Epee Foil

Yonkers, NY Monegan Lake, NY Tarzana, CA Norridge, IL Norridge, IL Winnetka, IL South Bend, IN

H

Haradem, Denise Hassett, Eileen Haugh, Kelly Haugh, Rachel Hayes, Anne

1978-81 (1) 2008- (2) 1989-92 (1) 1989-92 (2) 1996-97 (2)

19-28 110-22 63-14 61-23 90-26

.404 .833 .818 .755 .776

Foil Sabre Foil Foil Epee

Avon, OH Beaverton, OR Portland, OR Portland, OR South Bend, IN

D

Hometown

2009-10 FENCING

129

Women’s All-Time Roster

Anne Hayes (’96-’97) compiled a 90-26 career record, with her .776 winning percentage now ranking seventh in Irish women’s epee history.

Lynn Kadri (’88-’91) owned a 137-42 career record and received the fencing program’s 1991 Langford Foil Leadership Award.

Mindi Kalogera’s 248-63 foil record from 1993-96 ranks as the fourthhighest victory total by any Notre Dame women’s fencer.

Foilist Brenda Leiser (’86-’89) posted a 119-32 career record while also competing in the 1988 and ’89 NCAAs.

Name

Years (MW)

Record

Pct.

Weapon

H

Heinzen, Katie Helmich, Adria Hoos, Anne Housing, Erin Housing, Kirsten Hurley, Courtney Hurley, Kelley Hynes, Janice

2009- (1) 2006 1995-98 (4) 2005-07 (1) 2000-2002 (2) 2009- (1) 2007- (3) 1986-89 (4)

22-4 0-0 313-70 67-39 16-9 50-5 134-14 126-21

.846 – .817 .632 .640 .909 .905 .857

Foil Epee Epee Sabre Epee Epee Epee Foil

I-K

Inghram, Jill Jordan, Maggie Kadri, Lynn Kalogera, Aimee Kalogera, Mindi Kellmann, Suzanne Kelly, Tara Kluge, Susan Kowalski, Celeste Kralicek, Kristin Krol, Magda Kryczalo, Alicja

2001-03 (1) 2001-04 (4) 1988-91 (4) 1997-2000 (4) 1993-96 (4) 2000 1989-92 (4) 1979 1983-85 (1) 1987-90 (4) 1997-2000 (4) 2002-05 (4)

23-14 168-58 (83-36 foil; 85-22 sabre) 137-42 129-62 248-63 0-1 115-21 6-12 14-12 142-30 230-30 (167-21 epee; 63-9 foil) 161-12

.622 .743 .602 .675 .797 .000 .846 .333 .538 .826 .885 .931

Foil Foil/Sabre Foil Foil Foil Foil Foil Foil Foil Foil Epee/Foil Foil

2009- (1) 1977-79 (2) 1981-84 (4) 2003- (2) 1979-82 (4) 1979 2007 (1) 1986-89 (4) 1981 2008

17-9 56-24 25-25 23-12 108-45 2-1 34-6 119-32 1-0 14-13

.654 .700 .500 .657 .640 .667 .850 .788 1.000 .519

Foil Foil Foil Epee Foil Foil Epee Foil Foil Epee

Malynn, Darsie Mazur, Natalia McCann, Mary McCullough, Carianne McKenna, Mary McNamara, Denise McNeill, Stephanie Marafino, Michelle Marciniak, Christine Marshall, Mary Milo, Destanie Montoya, Kimberlee Morrison, Kathleen Mowchan, Donna Muller, Tiffany Mustilli, Nicole Myers, Stephanie

2009- (1) 2000-01, ‘04 (3) 1980-81 (2) 2000-2002 (3) 2000-2002 (1) 1972 1988-89 (1) 1997-99 (2) 1976-77 (1) 1981-83 (1) 2001-04 (4) 2006-2009 (4) 1981-84 (2) 2000-01 (2) 2003-05 (2) 1996-99 (4) 2009-

39-7 111-15 22-11 161-38 0-1 4-3 34-6 54-54 24-14 19-23 166-36 192-54 27-20 33-14 28-10 (10-1 F, 18-9 S) 304-51 6-6

.848 .881 .667 .809 .000 .571 .850 .500 .632 .452 .822 .780 .475 .702 .737 .855 .500

Foil Sabre Foil Sabre Foil Foil Foil Epee Foil Foil Sabre Epee Foil Sabre Foil/Sabre Foil/Epee Epee

Grapevine, TX Summit, NJ Palm Desert, CA Philadelphia, PA Aurora, IL N/A Winnetka, IL Rochester, NY Chicago, IL Newton, MA Knox, IN Las Vegas, NV Indianapolis, IN McMurray, PA Midlothian, VA South Orange, NJ El Paso, TX

Nieboer, Elizabeth Nelip, Ewa Nott, Adrienne O’Boyle, Kathleen O’Connell, Joanne O’Donnell, Trish Offerle, Judy Orlando, Amy Orsi, Kelly

1995 (1) 2008- (2) 2006-2009 (4) 1997 1981, ‘83-’84 (1) 1975-76 1972-74 2004-07 (4) 1998-2000 (3)

47-23 82-8 223-35 2-1 14-14 4-9 50-25 172-59 39-10

.671 .911 .864 .667 .500 .308 .667 .745 .796

Epee Epee Foil Epee Foil Foil Foil Epee Foil

South Bend, IN Katowice, Poland Pittsford, NY Oceanport, NJ Monterey, MA Palos Heights, IL Fort Wayne, IN Brookline, MA Crystal Lake, IL

L M

N-O

130

LaBarge, Christina Lacity, Karen Lambert, Barbara Landgraf, Jocelyn Lansford, Marcella Lara, Evelyn Leighton, Eleanor Leiser, Brenda Long, Elise Lubold, Nikki

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME®

Hometown Fairfax, VA Sandea Park, NM Wilmette, IL New Lenox, IL New Lenox, IL San Antonio, TX San Antonio, TX Peabody, MA Grand Rapids, MI Maplewood, NJ Chatham, NJ Wyckoff, NJ Wyckoff, NJ Fremont, CA Fort Sam Houston, TX N/A South Hampton, PA Portland, OR Vancouver, British Columbia Gdansk, Poland Pasadena, CA Margate, NJ Scituate, MA West Hills, CA Angola, IN Memphis, TN Mishawaka, IN Portland, OR Wayzata, MN Scottsdale, AZ

P-Q R S

T U-V W-Z

Vittoria Quaroni (’84-’87) and Andy Quaroni became Notre Dame’s first brother-sister combination ever to compete in the NCAAs (Vittoria owned a 119-43 career foil record).

Epeeist Colleen Smerek (’95, ’97) racked up a 164-44 record in regular-season bouts and competed in the 1995 NCAAs.

Name

Years (MW)

Record

Pct.

Weapon

Panyi, Maria Paulina, Nicole Piper, Heidi Prot, Emilie Providenza, Valerie Quaroni, Vittoria

1994-95 (2) 1996-99 (4) 1989-92 (4) 2006-2009 (3) 2004-07 (4) 1984-87 (4)

146-3 216-68 152-15 146-51 191-30 119-43

.980 .761 .910 .741 .864 .735

Foil Foil Foil Foil Sabre Foil

Budapest, Hungary South Orange, NJ Brisbane, Australia Limoges, France Beaverton, OR San Antonio, TX

2004-06 (2) 2008- (2) 1993-94 (1) 2001-02 (1) 2005-07 (1) 2008- (1)

15-8 120-18 41-15 18-4 32-2 53-51

.652 .870 .732 .818 .941 .510

Foil Foil Foil Epee Epee Epee

Drexel Hill, PA Crestwood, KY Mount Holly, NJ Waldorf, MD El Zompapero, Guatemala El Paso, TX

1995, ‘97 (2) 1985 (1) 1998-99, ‘01 (2) 2009- (1) 1979 2001-02 (1) 2006-2009 (4) 1994-96 (3) 1981-84 (3) 1995, ‘97 (2) 1988 1994-97 (2) 2006 (1) 1997-98 (1) 1985-88 (4) 1983-86 (2) 1987-88 (2) 1996-97 (2) 2000-02 (3) 1982

144-38 13-7 44-50 42-14 1-2 11-10 234-83 149-68 67-67 113-44 7-1 65-27 60-15 30-10 160-14 106-55 41-9 19-20 41-34 3-1

.791 .650 .468 .750 .333 .524 .738 .687 .500 .720 .875 .707 .800 .750 .919 .658 .820 .487 .547 .750

Foil Foil Epee/Foil Foil Foil Foil Sabre Epee Foil Epee Foil Epee Epee Foil Foil Foil Foil Epee Foil Foil

Talarico, Liz Tenner, Natalie Thieneman, Maria Trevino, Melissa

1998 (1) 2003-05 (2) 1995, ’97 (2) 2000-02

30-10 75-47 1-3

.750 .615 .250

Epee Sabre Epee Sabre

Morris, IL Lubbock, TX St. Joseph, MI Deer Park, TX

Urbanic, Theresa Valdiserri, Kathy Valdiserri, Susan Varga, Elisabeth Vidaurri, Tish Vincent, Angela Vogt, Kathleen

1996-97 1973-78 (2) 1980-83 (4) 1988 1978 2004-06 (3) 1992-94 (3)

21-4 157-29 145-55 7-2 0-3 131-32 75-31

.840 .844 .725 .778 .000 .804 .708

Foil Foil Foil Foil Foil Sabre Foil

Ann Arbor, MI South Bend, IN South Bend, IN Chardon, OH San Antonio, TX Lake Oswego, OR Gretna, LA

1993-95 (2) 2003-04, 2006-07 (4) 1996-99 (4) 2001-05 (4) 1980 1984-87 (1) 1989-92 (3) 1982 (1) 2000-01 (2) 1985-86 (1) 2005-06(2) 2009- (1) 2007- (3)

99-28 108-39 231-7 175-28 0-4 159-57 96-15 5-8 36-10 30-10 75-3 46-4 72-37

.780 .735 .970 .862 .000 .736 .865 .385 .783 .750 .962 .920 .661

Foil Foil Foil Epee Foil Foil Foil Foil Sabre Foil Sabre Epee Sabre

Rochester, NY Monticello, IL Mishawaka, IN Londonderry, NH N/A Oakland, NJ Washington, MI Mishawaka, IN Bethel Park, PA Santa Ana, CA Beaverton, OR Bernardsville, NJ Delran, NJ

Real, Monica Reese, Hayley Ries, Noelle Riley, Erin Rodriguez, Anna Rosa, Vanessa Saari, Rose Sardegna, Christina Salb, Teri Sarkisova, Radmila Scanlon, Patricia Schuster, Kathryn Serrette, Ashley Shannon, Ashley Shilts, Mary Smerek, Colleen Sollinger, Kym Sromek, Amy Stephan, Madeleine Stough, Stacey Sullivan, Molly Sullivan, Janet Sully, Mary Jean Sutton, Jennifer Sutton, Michelle Sweetser, Sara

Wagner, Monica Walsh, Colleen Walsh, Sara Walton, Kerry Weber, Tess Weeks, Cynthia Westrick, Mary Wiessler, Lynda Willard, Mary Beth Williams, Cecila Zagunis, Mariel Zielinski, Diane Zoccoli, Christina

Monica Wagner (’93-’95) compiled a 99-28 career foil record and fenced on the 1994 NCAA championship squad.

Foilist Mary Westrick (’89-’92) posted a 96-15 career record and received the program’s 1992 DeCicco/Langford Award (most inspirational).

Hometown

Marquette, WI Malibu, CA Hobbs, NM Grand Rapids, MI Columbus, OH Iowa City, IA Orange, NJ Worcester, MA Fairfield, CA Hiram, OH Cincinnati, OH Anderson, IN Tauberbischofsheim, Germany Dunedin, FL North Andover, MA Conway, NH West Orange, NJ South Bend, IN Orlando, FL Edina, MN

2009-10 FENCING

131

ADIDAS IS PROUD TO BE THE OFFICIAL OUTFITTER OF NOTRE DAME ATHLETICS

Š2009 adidas America, INC. adidas, the 3-Bars logo and the 3-Stripes mark are registered trademarks of the adidasGroup.

NCAA COMPLIANCE REGULATIONS

Thank you for your tremendous support of our entire athletics program. Our 800+ student-athletes, our coaches and administrative staff are very appreciative of your spirit and affinity for Notre Dame, in particular intercollegiate athletics.

With that, your adherence to all applicable NCAA rules and regulations is essential as we strive to maintain and enhance our national athletic prominence while protecting the University’s tradition of integrity and values.

Our Compliance Office staff stands prepared to assist you with your

questions and concerns regarding NCAA regulations. Please contact us immediately should you have concern regarding any situation.

Your attention to these matters will ensure that the eligibility of both prospective student-athletes (“recruits”) and enrolled student-athletes is protected and maintained. Again, many thanks for your cooperation in this matter and your ongoing support.

Go Fighting Irish!

The Compliance Staff

WHO IS A REPRESENTATIVE OF NOTRE DAME’S ATHLETICS INTERESTS?

DOs AND DON’Ts FOR REPRESENTATIVES IN REGARDS TO A CURRENT STUDENT-ATHLETE:

(The following lists of examples are not all-inclusive. As always, ask before you act!)

You are, if: • you are an enrolled student or graduate of the University.

(The following lists of examples are not all-inclusive. As always, ask before you act!)

• you have ever participated in or are a member of any organization promoting Notre Dame’s athletics program. (The former Quarterback Club, The 3-Pt. Club, The Fast-Break Club, etc.)

• you have ever made financial contributions to the University of Notre Dame athletics department.

DO You may: • contact a current student-athlete regarding employment opportunities; however, no contact may be made without approval from the Compliance Office.

• provide a student-athlete, not their family and friends, an occasional (once a semester) meal at your home.

DON’T

• you have ever helped to arrange employment of or provided any benefits to prospective or enrolled student-athletes.

• you have ever been a season ticket holder in any sport.

• you have ever promoted the athletics programs at the University of Notre Dame.

According to NCAA rules, once an individual has been identified as an institutional “representative of athletics interests” the individual retains that title for life. The University of Notre Dame is ultimately responsible for the behavior of all its athletics representatives in relation to NCAA rules and regulations. Violations of NCAA regulations by an athletics representative could result in the loss of eligibility for involved student-athletes (e.g. no participation in competitions) and/ or severe sanctions against the University (e.g. loss of scholarships, television and post-season bans).

CURRENT STUDENT-ATHLETE A student-athlete is any Notre Dame student who is a member of a varsity athletics team.

NCAA regulations apply to all student-athletes, not just those studentathletes who were recruited or who receive an athletics scholarship. *Note: NCAA regulations concerning enrolled student-athletes remain in effect throughout the entire year (including summer break). If a student-athlete has completed his/her final season of eligibility, all NCAA regulations must be adhered to until he/she graduates or leaves school.

You may not: • provide a currently enrolled student-athlete, their parents or friends any benefit or special arrangement without prior approval from the Compliance Office.

• pay for or arrange for payment of room, board or any type of transportation for a student-athlete or their family and friends.

• entertain student-athletes or their family and friends. (Exception: NCAA rules do permit institutional staff members and athletics representatives to provide student-athletes (not including their family and friends) with an occasional meal (defined as once a semester) provided the meal is at the staff member’s or athletic representative’s home and not at a restaurant.)

• use the name, picture or appearance of an enrolled student-athlete to advertise, recommend or promote sales or use of a commercial product or service of any kind. Any use of a student-athlete’s name, picture or appearance must receive authorization from the Compliance Office.

• provide any payment of expense or loan of an automobile for a student-athlete to return home or to any other location.

• provide awards or gifts to a student-athlete for any reason. All awards provided to student-athletes must first be approved by the Compliance Office and meet all NCAA regulations.

• provide an honorarium to a student-athlete for a speaking engagement. All speaking engagements must be approved in advance by the Compliance Office.

• allow a student-athlete, his/her relatives or friends to use your telephone to make free calls.

215

19 Compliance.indd 215

8/18/09 2:45:29 PM

COMPLIANCE CONTINUED • continue established family relationships with friends and neighbors.

Contacts with sons and daughters of these families are permitted so long as they are not made for recruiting purposes or encouraged by Notre Dame coaches.

• provide free or reduced cost lodging in your home to a studentathlete or a student-athlete’s family and friends.

PROSPECTIVE STUDENT-ATHLETE A prospective student-athlete is any student who has started classes for the ninth grade. Any student younger than ninth grade who receives any benefits from an institution or athletics representative would also become a prospective student-athlete. In addition, student-athletes enrolled in preparatory school or two-year colleges are considered prospective student-athletes. * Note: An individual is considered a prospect (whether or not they have signed a National Letter-of-Intent) until the first day of initial collegiate enrollment or the first day they report for practice, whichever is earliest. Therefore, all NCAA regulations concerning contact with a prospective student-athlete are applicable until that time.

THE DOs AND DON’Ts FOR REPRESENTATIVES IN REGARDS TO A PROSPECTIVE STUDENTATHLETE: (The following lists of examples are not all-inclusive. As always, ask before you act!)

DO • forward information about prospective student-athletes to the appropriate coaching staff.

• have telephone contact with a prospect regarding permissible preenrollment activities such as summer employment, provided the prospect has graduated from high school and signed a National Letter of Intent.

• have a telephone conversation with a prospect only if the prospect initiates the call. Such a call may not be prearranged by an institutional staff member and you are not permitted to have a recruiting conversation, but may exhibit normal civility. You must refer any questions about our athletics programs to an athletics department staff member/coach.

• view a prospect’s athletic contest at your own initiative provided you do not contact the prospect or his/her parents. In addition, you may not contact a prospect’s coach, principal, or counselor in an attempt to evaluate the prospect.

Jill Bodensteiner, Associate Director of Athletics (574) 631-9647 or jbodenst@nd.edu

DON’T You may not: • write, e-mail or telephone a prospective student-athlete or his/her parents in an effort to recruit them to Notre Dame.

• become involved in making arrangements to provide money, financial aid or a benefit of any kind to a prospect or the prospect’s family and friends.

• make contact with a prospective student-athlete and his/her parents when the prospect is on-campus for an official or unofficial recruiting visit.

• contact a prospect to congratulate him/her on signing a National Letter of Intent to attend the University.

• transport, pay or arrange for payment of transportation costs for a prospect and his/her relatives or friends to visit campus (or elsewhere).

• pay or arrange for payment of summer camp registration fees for a prospect.

• provide ANYTHING to a prospect, the prospect’s family or friends without prior approval from the Compliance Office.

The support of our alumni and friends is welcomed and appreciated.

We ask, however, that you also help to keep Notre Dame’s tradition of athletics integrity intact by following the NCAA regulations. Your assistance will help ensure that the eligibility of both prospective and currently enrolled student-athletes is protected and preserved. Your efforts to know and follow the NCAA legislation are greatly appreciated because violations could affect the eligibility of involved prospects or student-athletes and/or result in NCAA penalties being imposed on the University.

To that end, it should be our goal, as the best alumni and fans in the country, to preserve and protect each and every student-athlete’s eligibility. All NCAA legislation cannot be covered in a limited space such as this program. Therefore, any additional questions should be forwarded to the Compliance Office in the Department of Athletics.

Please remember to ask before you act!

Go Fighting Irish!

Jen Vining-Smith, Assistant Director of Athletics (574) 631-3248 or jvinings@nd.edu Brent Moberg, Director of Compliance (574) 631-3041 or bmoberg1@nd.edu Tom Timmermans, Coordinator of Compliance Information (574) 631-2237 or ttimmerm@nd.edu

216

19 Compliance.indd 216

8/18/09 2:45:31 PM

Athletics by the numbers 25

National Championships (11 in football, seven in fencing, two in women’s soccer, two in men’s tennis and one in men’s golf, men’s cross country and women’s basketball)

10

Conference championships won by Irish teams in 2008-09 (BIG EAST, Central Collegiate Hockey Association and Great Western Lacrosse League)

101

BIG EAST Conference championships won by Notre Dame in 14 seasons of conference play

210

All-time Academic All-Americans, second most of any university

84

Academic All-Americans since 2000, more than any other school

48

NCAA postgraduate scholarship recipients since 1964, including four in 2008-09

13

Irish programs which finished their 2008-09 season nationally ranked

19

Notre Dame teams (out of 22) with a graduation rate of 100%

9

Irish athletic teams that earned a perfect score of 1,000 in the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate report in 2008-09

14

Programs honored by the NCAA for Academic Progress Rate scores in 2009

5,500

Hours of community service completed by Notre Dame student-athletes during the 200809 school year

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME History •

•

The University of Notre Dame du Lac was founded in 1842 by Father Edward Sorin. Adjacent to South Bend, Ind., and nestled next to Saint Mary’s and Saint Joseph’s Lakes, the University was started with $310 in cash and three log buildings in disrepair.

Notre Dame would establish many firsts for Catholic institutions of higher learning, including the first Catholic law school, the first Catholic engineering school and the first student residence with private rooms, Sorin Hall.

Students •

Graduate and undergraduate students at the University come from all 50 states and more than 100 countries worldwide.

•

Notre Dame’s graduation rate of 95 percent is exceeded by only Harvard and Princeton.

•

Notre Dame’s 98 percent retention rate between the freshman and sophomore years is among the highest in the country, thanks in large part to the University’s unique First Year of Studies Program.

•

Academics •

•

•

•

The University is organized into four colleges - Arts and Letters, Science, Engineering and the Mendoza College of Business - the School of Architecture, the Law School, the Graduate School, six major research institutes, more than 40 centers and special programs and the University library system.

Notre Dame is among a select group of schools that ranks in the top 25 on the U.S. News & World Report survey of the nation’s top colleges and in the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Directors’ Cup for overall success in athletics.

•

Community service is a hallmark of Notre Dame. About 80 percent of Notre Dame students engage in some form of voluntary community service during their years at the University, and at least 10 percent devote a year or more after graduation to service in the United States and around the world.

•

The University’s Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) annually sends 180 recent graduates to teach in some 100 understaffed Catholic schools in the southern, southeastern and southwestern United States and in South Bend. A national model, ACE has received the Higher Education Award from the Corporation for National Service for leadership in using national service resources through AmeriCorps.

Notre Dame has one of the highest undergraduate residential concentrations of any national university, with 80 percent of its students living in 27 residence halls.

Alumni

Notre Dame is rated among the nation’s top 25 institutions of higher learning in surveys conducted by U.S. News and World Report, Princeton Review, Time, Kiplinger’s, and Kaplan/Newsweek.

Notre Dame ranks fifth in a listing of “dream schools” in a survey of parents by the Princeton Review. The top five are Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, New York University and Notre Dame.

Service

•

The medical school acceptance rate of the University’s preprofessional studies graduates is 80 percent, almost twice the national average.

•

Notre Dame ranks first among Catholic universities in the number of doctorates earned by its undergraduate alumni - a record compiled over some 85 years.

•

The University’s network of 270 alumni clubs -- including 60 international clubs -- is the most extensive in higher education.

•

With graduates renowned for their loyalty and generosity, Notre Dame annually ranks among the top five in percentage of alumni who contribute to the University.

•

In recent years, Notre Dame alumni have won a Nobel Prize in medicine, a Pulitzer Prize in journalism, and an Emmy Award for contributions to television technology.

2009-10

Fencing Barron Nydam

2008 & 2009 Men’s Sabre All-American

Eileen Hassett

2008 & 2009 Women’s Sabre All-American

Enzo Castellani

2009 Men’s Foil All-American

Hayley Reese

2009 NCAA Runner-Up 2008 & 2009 Women’s Foil All-American

Date Event Jan. 15 - 18 USFA NAC (Senior/Junior) ^

Site/Host San Jose, Calif.

Convention Center

Jan. 23 NYU Duals

New York, N.Y. New York University

Jan. 24 St. John’s Challenge

Queens, N.Y. St. John’s University

Jan. 30-31 Northwestern Duals

Evanston, Ill. Northwestern University

Feb. 6-7 Notre Dame Duals Notre Dame, Ind. Notre Dame Feb. 12-15

USFA National Junior Olympics ^

Memphis, Tenn.

Mar. 6-7 MFC Championships Notre Dame, Ind. Notre Dame Mar. 13-14 NCAA Midwest Regional

Evanston, Ill. Northwestern University

Mar. 25-28

TBA

NCAA Championships

Apr. 23-26 USFA Div. I National Championships ^

Sarah Borrmann

2008 NCAA Champion 2008 Women’s Sabre All-American

2009-10 NOTRE DAME FENCING

2010 Notre Dame Fencing Schedule

Avery Zuck

2009 Men’s Sabre All-American

Courtney Hurley

2009 Women’s Epee All-American

Gerek Meinhardt

2008 U.S. Olympian 2009 NCAA Runner-Up 2009 Men’s Foil All-American

Virginia Beach, Va.

Home events listed in boldface and will be held at the Joyce Center ^ - Non-collegiate event

Kelley Hurley

2008 U.S. Olympian 2008 NCAA Champion 2007 NCAA Runner-Up 2007 & 2008 Women’s Epee All-American

Zach Schirtz

2008 men’s Foil All-American

Steve Kubik

2008 Men’s Foil All-American

www.und.com Fencing Cov.indd 1

1/6/10 1:19:08 PM