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NIWFA Championships
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No. 11 Fencing Wins 27th Straight NIWFA Title, Earns Five Weapon Titles
3.4.23 | Women's Fencing
MADISON, N.J. - The No. 11 Temple fencing team once again opened the postseason with a bang, earning its 27th straight NIWFA Title. The Owls also swept the three weapons titles for the third straight year, as well as winning two of the three individual titles.
Meet Highlights
>Â The Cherry and White won the Olympians Trophy to take the team title and beat out 15 teams for the championship, with No. 1 (DIII) Johns Hopkins taking second and No. 4 (DIII) NYU taking third.
> The team swept the weapons titles for the third year in a row, winning the epee and foil titles for the fourth straight year.
> Sophomore Anna Novoseltseva defended her individual foil title, defeating teammate Gretl Merges in the semifinals, while Margherita Calderaro took home her second career epee title.Â
> Merges tied for third place while Diana Tiburcio (sabre) finished in eighth place to round out the top-8 finishers.Â
> Cindy Long (epee) placed 12th and Emma Pincus (sabre) placed 16th.Â
> Novoseltseva, Merges, and Calderaro all earned NIWFA First-Team honors. Tiburcio earned NIWFA Second-Team honors and was named to the NIWFAÂ All-Academic Team.
Quotable
> "Across the board we performed really well today. It was a true team effort, with all three squads winning their weapon championship which gave us the overall team championship. What a pleasure to have Cindy, Emma, Diana, Gretl, Anna, and Margherita make it to the individual round, with Gretl and Diana medaling and Anna and Margherita winning their weapon title. I am honored to be able to continue this legacy of winning this conference championship which Nikki Franke brought back to North Broad for the past 26 consecutive years. We wore our WWND (what would Nikki do?) bracelets and we did it!" – head coach Jennie Salmon
Up Next
> The Owls will continue postseason play, heading to Haverford College for NCAA Regionals on March 11.
Meet Highlights
>Â The Cherry and White won the Olympians Trophy to take the team title and beat out 15 teams for the championship, with No. 1 (DIII) Johns Hopkins taking second and No. 4 (DIII) NYU taking third.
> The team swept the weapons titles for the third year in a row, winning the epee and foil titles for the fourth straight year.
> Sophomore Anna Novoseltseva defended her individual foil title, defeating teammate Gretl Merges in the semifinals, while Margherita Calderaro took home her second career epee title.Â
> Merges tied for third place while Diana Tiburcio (sabre) finished in eighth place to round out the top-8 finishers.Â
> Cindy Long (epee) placed 12th and Emma Pincus (sabre) placed 16th.Â
> Novoseltseva, Merges, and Calderaro all earned NIWFA First-Team honors. Tiburcio earned NIWFA Second-Team honors and was named to the NIWFAÂ All-Academic Team.
Quotable
> "Across the board we performed really well today. It was a true team effort, with all three squads winning their weapon championship which gave us the overall team championship. What a pleasure to have Cindy, Emma, Diana, Gretl, Anna, and Margherita make it to the individual round, with Gretl and Diana medaling and Anna and Margherita winning their weapon title. I am honored to be able to continue this legacy of winning this conference championship which Nikki Franke brought back to North Broad for the past 26 consecutive years. We wore our WWND (what would Nikki do?) bracelets and we did it!" – head coach Jennie Salmon
Up Next
> The Owls will continue postseason play, heading to Haverford College for NCAA Regionals on March 11.
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