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Jamison Cook | Friday, February 26, 2021
The Notre Dame fencing teams will travel down to North Carolina this weekend to defend their conference titles at the ACC Championships. Both the men’s and women’s teams are two-time defending conference champions, with their second-place finishes in 2018 also coming in Chapel Hill. In fact, since the tournament resumed competition in 2015, both teams
Charlotte Edmonds | Tuesday, March 26, 2019
After struggling to find its groove in the first two days of competition, Notre Dame fell short of a comeback in the second half of the weekend on their quest to secure a third-straight NCAA title. Opening in Cleveland last Thursday, the men looked to hang in with a crowded field of Columbia, Penn State
Charlotte Edmonds | Friday, May 18, 2018
Winning one national championship is difficult enough. Two-straight moves you into elite company. Notre Dame’s joined Columbia-Barnard and Penn State as one of three schools to repeat on the national stage with their second-straight title, cementing itself in the history books as one of the top programs. Despite coming into the season with a target
Charlotte Edmonds | Monday, March 26, 2018
When asked about the key to the success of the fencing team, athletes and coaches repeatedly cited one quality — grit. This determination proved key in the team’s quest to repeat as national champions this past Sunday in State College, Pennsylvania. Irish head coach Gia Kvaratskhelia said there was never a doubt in the team’s
Charlotte Edmonds | Thursday, March 22, 2018
Notre Dame will prepare to defend its title starting Thursday at the NCAA championships with a full roster of 12 competitors. As one of only three schools, along with Columbia and Ohio State, to qualify the maximum number of athletes, the Irish have positioned themselves to compete for a repeat of last year’s success. The
Charlotte Edmonds | Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Notre Dame had another dominant performance at the Midwest Regional championship in Cleveland on March 10, earning the maximum number of qualifications a team can achieve for the NCAA championships Thursday. Coming off the ACC championships — where both the men and women finished in second place in team competition, though the women swept the
Charlotte Edmonds | Friday, February 23, 2018
The Notre Dame’s men’s and women’s squads will travel to Greensboro, North Carolina, to compete in the two-day ACC championships beginning Saturday. Twenty-four of the 65 members of the team will make the trip, with four athletes representing the Irish in each category of competition. The tournament will see eight different champions crowned, as there
Benjamin Padanilam and Zach Klonsinski | Monday, March 27, 2017
From start to finish, there was one only program with its name at the top of the leaderboard at the 2017 NCAA championships, and that was Notre Dame. Throughout the four-day competition, the Irish found themselves outpacing the likes of Ohio State, Columbia, St. John’s and Harvard to notch the program’s ninth national title in
Observer Sports Staff | Thursday, March 23, 2017
Coming off an eventful spring break, Notre Dame returns to action this weekend at the NCAA Championships, which will take place Thursday through Sunday in Indianapolis. In order to prepare for this upcoming weekend’s NCAA Championships, the Irish welcomed competition from a group of fencers from the Shanghai Lixin University in Shanghai, China, over spring break.
Observer Sports Staff | Tuesday, February 7, 2017
At the Elite Northwestern Duals over the weekend, the No. 3 Irish women went 10-1 and the No. 4 Irish men went 7-4 overall after two days of competition at Castellan Family Fencing Center. The women finished with a 5-1 record on Saturday behind key performances from sophomore foilist Elyssa Kleiner, who posted an 11-1 record