Temple University Athletics
Fencing ranked No. 8 in first NCAA poll
1.23.09 | Women's Fencing
Jan. 23, 2009
PHILADELPHIA - After a 4-1 start to the season, the Temple women's fencing team is ranked No. 8 in the first NCAA poll of the season.
This weekend, the Owls to enter the heart of dual-meet season with the Princeton Multi-Meet, where they will be fencing some of the nation's other elite teams, including No. 1 Penn State, No. 7 Princeton, No. 9 Penn, and No. 10 Duke.
This is the first of three polls for the 2009 Season. The second will appear around President's Day; the third and final poll will appear after the NCAA Regional Qualifiers, in the first week of March.
Women
1. Penn State
2. Notre Dame
3. Ohio State
4. Columbia-Barnard
5. Harvard
6. Northwestern
7. Princeton
8. Temple
9. Pennsylvania
10. Duke
Others receiving votes -- St. John's (NY); Stanford; North Carolina; Brandeis; NYU; Cornell, Wayne State (MI)(tied); UC- San Diego; Air Force, Brown, Drew, Yale (all tied).
