Barron Nydam Senior Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. Santa Fe Christian Spartak Fencing Club
HONORS & AWARDS NCAA Sixth-Place Finisher (2008) NCAA 10th-Place Finisher (2009, 2010) Second Team All-American (2008) Third Team All-American (2009, 2010) MFC Sabre Champion (2010) MFC Sabre Third-Place Finisher (2008) First Team All-MFC (2008, 2010) Second Team All-MFC (2009) Talented senior 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. RECENT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESULTS: Earned points to senior division ranking at back-to-back events, finishing 20th at the Isla De Margarita (June 13, 2010) and New York (June 18, 2010) … 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 World Cups to open NYDAM’S CAREER RECORD Year 2008 2009 2010 Career
W 36 22 32 90
L 12 10 8 30
Pct. .750 ..688 .800 .750
NCAA Finish 6th 10th 10th --
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 U-20 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 U-20 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 JUNIOR: Took 10th at the NCAA Championships … completed the season with a record of 32-8 … started his junior campaign with a 13-4 record at the NYU Invitational, posting his first clinching win of the season against Yale, the Irish’s first opponent of the season … added another clinching win during the NYU Invitational by downing St. John’s Griffin Sweet and NYU’s Sam Roukas … earned an 8-4 record at the St. John’s Challenge, posting clinching wins in matchups with Adrian Lumley of St. John’s and Harry Lang of Columbia (5-3) … went 10-3 at the Northwestern Duals, downing Duke’s Tyler Hancock for the sabre clincher … took first at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships, enjoying a bye before downing Iowa’s Adam Rains (15-7), Purdue’s Cedric Hall (15-14), Case Western’s Garret Singer (15-13), Notre Dame’s Marcel Frenkel (15-5), Ohio State’s Max Stearns (15-4) and Ohio State’s Bryan Cheney (15-14)… took fifth at the NCAA Midwest Regional, beating teammate Jason Choy, 15-7, to earn a spot at the NCAA Championships … placed fifth at the NCAA Midwest Regionals, defeating Ohio State’s Dexter Wilde 15-5 and Notre Dame’s Jason Choy, 15-7, … ranked as tenth best sabreist at the NCAA Championships with a round robin record of 13-10 and an indicator of +11 … earned the Dan Mulligan Award.
AS A SOPHOMORE: Earned third-team AllAmerican 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 Conference Championships, which earned him second-team 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, 15-10, in the quarterfinals … placed fifth at the NCAA Midwest Regionals … at the regionals, 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 Championships to earn 10th place.
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