St. John's University Athletics
St. John's Fencing To Host Elite Schools This Weekend
1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM | Fencing
QUEENS, N.Y. - The St. John's men's and women's fencing programs will compete as a team in two prestigious invitationals this weekend against several elite fencing programs from across the country. The Red Storm will first host the annual St. John's Invitational Cup on Saturday, Jan. 23 in before hosting the St. John's/NYU Invitational on Sunday, Jan. 24. Both events take place in Taffner Field House.
All six schools participating - Columbia, Harvard, Notre Dame, Penn State, Ohio State, and host St. John's - have both their men's and women's squads in the top-10 of CollegeFencing360.com's first Coaches Poll of the 2015-16 season. The same six schools also occupied six of the seven top spots in the NCAA Fencing Championships last year and produced five of the six individual champions. Columbia is the defending NCAA champion, while St. John's finished sixth overall.
The six participants in this year's invitational have combined to win 25 of the 26 NCAA Championships since 1990, the year men's and women's teams began competing together.
At last year's invitational, the St. John's men finished fifth and the women's squad tied for fourth-place. Harvard took home the men's trophy with a 4-1 record, while the Columbia women finished with a perfect 5-0 record to win the title.
Senior saberist Roman Sydorenko led the men's team with a combined 25-5 record during last year's St. John's Invitational (13-2) and NYU Invitational (12-3), while graduate student Marta Hausman compiled a 13-2 and a 7-5 record, respectively, at both events to lead the women's team.
The St. John's Invitational Cup will start at 10 a.m., with the last round of bouts set to begin at 3:30 p.m.
Columbia, Notre Dame, Ohio State will compete in both events, with New York University, Wayne State, and Yale joining the competition for the St. John's/NYU Invitational. The event is set to begin at 9 a.m., with the last round of bouts starting at 4:00 p.m.
The men's squad finished with an impressive 5-0 record at the NYU Invitational last year, which was held at the Cobra Fencing Club in Jersey City, N.J. The women's team went 2-3, earning victories against NYU and Wayne State. A complete competition schedule for both events can be found below.
St. John's Invitational Cup competition schedule (Taffner Field House - Saturday, Jan. 23):
TIME | STRIP 1-5 | STRIP 6-10 | STRIP 11-15 |
10:00 a.m. | SJU vs. Columbia | Notre Dame vs. Ohio State | Penn State vs. Harvard |
11:15 a.m. | SJU vs. Ohio State | Penn State vs. Notre Dame | Columbia vs. Harvard |
12:30 p.m. | SJU vs. Penn State | Harvard vs. Notre Dame | Columbia vs. Ohio State |
1:45 p.m. | LUNCH | ||
2:15 p.m. | SJU vs. Notre Dame | Penn State vs. Columbia | Harvard vs. Ohio State |
3:30 p.m. | SJU vs. Harvard | Penn State vs. Ohio State | Columbia vs. Notre Dame |
St. John's/NYU Invitational Cup competition schedule (Taffner Field House - Sunday, Jan. 24):
TIME | STRIP 1-5 | STRIP 6-10 | STRIP 11-15 |
9:00 a.m. | SJU vs. Wayne State | Notre Dame vs. Yale | NYU vs. Ohio State |
10:15 a.m. | SJU vs. Ohio State | Columbia vs. Notre Dame | NYU vs. Wayne State |
11:30 p.m. | SJU vs. NYU | Columbia vs. Ohio State | Yale vs. Wayne State |
12:45 p.m. | LUNCH | ||
1:30 p.m. | SJU vs. Notre Dame | Columbia vs. Wayne State | NYU vs. Yale |
2:45 p.m. | SJU vs. Columbia | Yale vs. Ohio State | NYU vs. Notre Dame |
4:00 p.m. | NYU vs. Columbia | Notre Dame vs. Ohio State |
The complete CF360 Fencing Coaches Poll is listed below:
Men
- Columbia
- Notre Dame
- Pennslyvania
- Harvard
- Penn State
- St. John's
- Ohio State
- Princeton
- Duke
- Standford
Women
- Notre Dame
- Columbia
- Princeton
- Harvard
- Northwestern
- Ohio State
- St. John's
- Penn State
- Pennslyvania
- Temple
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