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Jamison Cook | Monday, March 29, 2021
The Notre Dame men’s and women’s fencing teams claimed the national championship in dominant fashion on Sunday, March 28. The Irish beat competitors from 18 other teams, including host Penn State, en route to their second national championship in the last three years that the competition has been held. It is the 11th national championship
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
Hayden Adams | Friday, May 15, 2020
It was not a typical year for the Notre Dame fencing program — even before their season was cut short by a pandemic. From the outset, they had to overcome the loss of some of their best athletes, but not because of graduation. Rather, several took a year off to train for the upcoming Tokyo
Connor Mulvena | Tuesday, February 25, 2020
The Notre Dame men’s and women’s fencing teams posted a strong performance in the ACC Championship over the weekend at home at the Castellan Family Fencing Center, in which they swept the field entirely, achieving every championship title up for grabs. After the meet, Irish head coach Gia Kvaratskhelia spoke with The Observer about his
Observer Sports Staff | Monday, February 24, 2020
The Notre Dame men’s and women’s fencing squads, playing hosts this weekend of the ACC Championships, put on a dominant performance against some of the team’s most notable conference rivals. In the end, the Irish walked away with a sweep of the individual titles Saturday and both team titles Sunday. Things started off on a
Jimmy Ward | Wednesday, February 5, 2020
The No. 3 ranked Notre Dame women’s fencing team and the No. 5 ranked men were both able to record sweeps on the road this weekend at the Northwestern Duals. Both teams were able to record an undefeated weekend for the second time this season in as many weeks Saturday at Ryan Fieldhouse in Evanston,
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 | Wednesday, February 27, 2019
The two-time defending national champions issued a mandate this past weekend, sweeping all six individual awards on their way to claim both the women’s and men’s ACC titles for the first time in program history. After falling short of the conference title last year, with the women losing to North Carolina in a three-way tiebreaker
Observer Sports Staff | Friday, January 18, 2019
Notre Dame will be joining a pool of elite competition as it travels east this weekend for the St. John’s Invitational on Saturday, followed immediately by the Philadelphia Invitational hosted by the University of Pennsylvania on Sunday. The No. 3 Irish will be among some of the best teams in the country this weekend, with
Observer Sports Staff | Wednesday, February 21, 2018
The No. 1 women’s and No. 2 men’s fencing teams got another weekend off before the ACC championships this Saturday. However, 12 athletes did travel to Memphis, Tennessee, to participate in the USA Fencing Junior Olympics, a non-collegiate competition for fencers under 20 years old. Athletes competed on an individual level and were not representatives