St. John's University Athletics
STJ Fencing Heads To Ohio For NCAA Championships
3/23/2011 12:00:00 AM | Fencing
March 23, 2011
Queens, N.Y. - NCAA Northeast Regional Champions Daryl Homer, Dagmara Wozniak, Nicholas Vomero and Eli Schenkel will lead a group of 11 St. John's fencers to the 2011 NCAA Championships at Ohio State University on Thursday.
The Fencing Championships include individual events in each of the six weapons (women's foil, women's epee, women's saber, men's foil, men's epee, men's saber).
In addition to Homer, Vomero and Schenkel the men's fencing team will be represented by sophomore Sean Buckley and junior Marat Israelian.
On the women's side, Wozniak, Zsofia Fath, Alina Ferdman, Evgeniya Kirpicheva, Irina Koroleva and Anna Limbach will head to Columbus.
Fencers will compete in a round-robin format of five-touch bouts. After the round-robin, the top four fencers fence semifinal 15-touch bouts, with the winners fencing to determine first and second places, and the losers being awarded a tie for third place. Absolute ties for the seeding will be broken as follows: for positions 1-3, by a coin toss; for position 4, by a fence-off.
An institution's place finish in the championships will be based on points earned by each individual. A team will be awarded one point for each victory by its student-athletes for the duration of the championships.
Last season, Head Coach Yury Gelman led St. John's to second place at the NCAA Championships. STJ has finished sixth or better at the national championships in each year since 1993. As a team, St. John's has one national championship (2001) and five second-place finishes (1995, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2010). In 2010, Homer and Israelien each brought individual national championships back to Queens and 10 fencers earned All-America honors. In total, St. John's has won 14 individual NCAA titles and Gelman has coached STJ fencers to All-America status more than 100 times.
For more information about the championships and to catch live coverage of the event, log on to www.NCAA.com. Highlights of the National Collegiate Men's and Women's Fencing Championships will be shown on CBS at 2 p.m. Eastern time, Saturday, April 30. The seasonal show, "CBS Sports Presents Championships of the NCAA", will feature highlights of 18 different NCAA championships that took place during the winter.
