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St. John’s Fencing Set to Compete at NCAA Regional Championships
3/6/2020 9:20:00 PM | Fencing
The Red Storm will send 20 fencers to the NCAA Regional Championships in Ithaca, N.Y.
QUEENS, N.Y. (March 6, 2020) – After wrapping up the regular season two weeks ago in the City of Brotherly Love, the St. John's fencing program will send 20 student-athletes to the NCAA Regional Championships on Sunday, hosted by Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y.
Admission for the NCAA Regional Championship is free. Spectators will be allowed access to the facility and must stay on the outer perimeter of the field house and away from the strips.
18 institutions make up the Northeast Regional field. They include: Boston College, Brandeis, Brown, City College of New York, Columbia University-Barnard College, Cornell, Harvard, Hunter College, Long Island University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Sacred Heart, St. John's, Tufts, Vassar College, Wellesley College, Yale, and Yeshiva.
Currently ranked fourth in the College Fencing 360 Poll, the men's team earned 12 participants for the Regional Championships with four competing in the epee, foil and saber events.
All four members of the men's epee team enter Regionals seeded inside the top-10. Ivan Zagoruiko and Maksym Kariuchenko rank first and seventh respectively in the preliminary rankings. Nathan Vaysberg enters Sunday's event as the eighth-ranked fencer while Shomari Moore ranks 16th. All four of the Red Storm's epee specialists each finished the regular season with at least 20 victories in epee competition.
Freshmen Jan Jurkiewicz and Vadim Bazulev will be making their first appearances at regionals as the No. 8 and 22 foil fencers. Both fencers finished the regular season with a combined 61-37 mark in foil competition. Junior Maxime Tarasiewicz will be making his second NCAA Regional appearance this weekend after finishing the regular season with a 33-16 record. Malcolm Jackson will be heading to his third-straight NCAA Regional Championships as the No. 35 seed.
Freshman Karol Lademann leads the way for the Red Storm in saber as the senior carries the No. 7 seed into preliminaries after completing the regular season with a 27-12 record. Joining Lademann will be senior Dalton Walker (No. 15), freshman Tariq Karam (No. 17), and junior Sal Centanni (No. 19). As a team, the men's saber specialists enter the tournament with 105 total wins.
On the women's side, the No. 12-ranked Red Storm will be well-represented in women's epee with four Johnnies heading to Ithaca, N.Y. Andrea Rizzi, Nicole Gavrilko, Dominique Tannous, and Melanie Dolgonos. Rizzi enters the competition as the top-ranked epee fencer for the second year in a row. The junior has dominated on the piste this campaign, finishing the regular season with a 40-13 record. Tannous, a fifth-year fencer from North Providence, R.I., will be making her fourth-straight appearance at the NCAA Regionals as the No. 16 seed. Galvrilko and Dolgonos, who combined to tally 38 victories in their freshmen seasons, will be participating in their first NCAA Regionals.
No. 1-ranked Katarzyna Lachman and No. 6-ranked Arianna Pappone will be the two representatives for the Red Storm in women's foil. Lachman and Pappone finished the regular season with 53 and 44 wins, respectively.
Karolina Kaleta will lead the women's saber squad this weekend as the No. 7 seed. The senior finished the regular season with a 36-17 record. Karolina Cieslar, the defending NCAA Women's Saber Champion, will enter the NCAA Regionals as the No. 10 seed after being sidelined with an injury for most of the 2019-20 campaign.
All quarterfinals will have 35 fencers (unless there are fewer than 35 entries). All semifinals will have 21 fencers and all finals will have 12 fencers as follows: Quarterfinals: 5 pools of 7: 21 advance; Semifinals: 3 pools of 7: 12 advance; Finals: 1 pool of 12.
Following regionals, the Johnnies who qualify for the 2020 NCAA Fencing Championships will compete in Detroit, Mich. for a national title from March 19-22.
Admission for the NCAA Regional Championship is free. Spectators will be allowed access to the facility and must stay on the outer perimeter of the field house and away from the strips.
18 institutions make up the Northeast Regional field. They include: Boston College, Brandeis, Brown, City College of New York, Columbia University-Barnard College, Cornell, Harvard, Hunter College, Long Island University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Sacred Heart, St. John's, Tufts, Vassar College, Wellesley College, Yale, and Yeshiva.
Currently ranked fourth in the College Fencing 360 Poll, the men's team earned 12 participants for the Regional Championships with four competing in the epee, foil and saber events.
All four members of the men's epee team enter Regionals seeded inside the top-10. Ivan Zagoruiko and Maksym Kariuchenko rank first and seventh respectively in the preliminary rankings. Nathan Vaysberg enters Sunday's event as the eighth-ranked fencer while Shomari Moore ranks 16th. All four of the Red Storm's epee specialists each finished the regular season with at least 20 victories in epee competition.
Freshmen Jan Jurkiewicz and Vadim Bazulev will be making their first appearances at regionals as the No. 8 and 22 foil fencers. Both fencers finished the regular season with a combined 61-37 mark in foil competition. Junior Maxime Tarasiewicz will be making his second NCAA Regional appearance this weekend after finishing the regular season with a 33-16 record. Malcolm Jackson will be heading to his third-straight NCAA Regional Championships as the No. 35 seed.
Freshman Karol Lademann leads the way for the Red Storm in saber as the senior carries the No. 7 seed into preliminaries after completing the regular season with a 27-12 record. Joining Lademann will be senior Dalton Walker (No. 15), freshman Tariq Karam (No. 17), and junior Sal Centanni (No. 19). As a team, the men's saber specialists enter the tournament with 105 total wins.
On the women's side, the No. 12-ranked Red Storm will be well-represented in women's epee with four Johnnies heading to Ithaca, N.Y. Andrea Rizzi, Nicole Gavrilko, Dominique Tannous, and Melanie Dolgonos. Rizzi enters the competition as the top-ranked epee fencer for the second year in a row. The junior has dominated on the piste this campaign, finishing the regular season with a 40-13 record. Tannous, a fifth-year fencer from North Providence, R.I., will be making her fourth-straight appearance at the NCAA Regionals as the No. 16 seed. Galvrilko and Dolgonos, who combined to tally 38 victories in their freshmen seasons, will be participating in their first NCAA Regionals.
No. 1-ranked Katarzyna Lachman and No. 6-ranked Arianna Pappone will be the two representatives for the Red Storm in women's foil. Lachman and Pappone finished the regular season with 53 and 44 wins, respectively.
Karolina Kaleta will lead the women's saber squad this weekend as the No. 7 seed. The senior finished the regular season with a 36-17 record. Karolina Cieslar, the defending NCAA Women's Saber Champion, will enter the NCAA Regionals as the No. 10 seed after being sidelined with an injury for most of the 2019-20 campaign.
All quarterfinals will have 35 fencers (unless there are fewer than 35 entries). All semifinals will have 21 fencers and all finals will have 12 fencers as follows: Quarterfinals: 5 pools of 7: 21 advance; Semifinals: 3 pools of 7: 12 advance; Finals: 1 pool of 12.
Following regionals, the Johnnies who qualify for the 2020 NCAA Fencing Championships will compete in Detroit, Mich. for a national title from March 19-22.
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