5 Fencers Selected For NCAA Championship

Five Temple Fencers were selected to compete in the 2001 NCAA

Championships to be held at the

University of Wisconsin - Parkside March 22nd -25th. Seniors, Jaime

Beecher and Gina DeIeso both

qualified in Women's Foil for the fourth year in a row. In Women 's

Epee, Junior Julia Korony qualified for

the third year. Newcomers to the NCAA tournament include Freshman

Epeeist Sara Forsythe and

Sophomore Sakinah Shaahid in Women's Sabre.

Coaches Franke and Palacio are very pleased with the number of

NCAA selections Temple received.

Five qualifiers are the most fencers that Temple has ever had selected

for the Championships. The team is

definitely looking forward to improving on their 11th place finish

last year among the women's teams.

The team will be competing on March 24th and 25th against the top

fencers from across the nation.

Also an accomplishment to add the the list of the Temple Women's Fencing team

is the lastest and final USFCA 2001 Fencing Poll in which the Owls were ranked

ninth.

WOMEN

1. Stanford (1)

2. St. John's (NY) (3)

3. Columbia-Barnard (4)

4. Penn State (3)

5. Notre Dame (6)

6. Northwestern (7)

7. Yale (5)

8. Princeton (8)

9. Temple (9)

10. Pennsylvania (NR)

Also receiving votes: MIT, North Carolina, Harvard, Rutgers, Duke,

Ohio

State, Brandeis, NYU, Boston College, Wayne State (MI)

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