In 2000, 2001, 2010 and 2012, the Princeton men’s and women’s fencing teams swept both Ivy League titles. This year, they’ve done it again.
Both squads will be able to hoist conference crowns after excellent performances in the Ivy League round-robins this past weekend. The men’s squad (19-6, 4-1 Ivy League) started the two-day competition slowly, dropping a 15-12 match against Columbia, but soon bounced back with a 17-10 triumph over Harvard and a 15-12 win against Penn. The first-day performance was enough to put Princeton in the mix in a four-way tie for first place, although the final results of the competition were far from certain.
The Tigers began Sunday by facing Brown in the first of two crucial matches. Junior epeeist Alex House went 3-0 in his matches while sophomore Thomas Dudey also posted an undefeated record to spearhead a 20-7 Princeton victory. With Harvard having dropped matches against both Columbia and Penn and Columbia having defeated Penn already, a Princeton win in its final match against Yale would secure them a share of the title. Again, House and Dudey came through in a pair of dominant performances, going a combined 5-1 in their matches against the Bulldogs. Their efforts were bolstered by a 3-0 performance from senior Jack Hudson and ultimately led to an 18-9 Princeton victory. The 5-1 performance was enough to leave the Tigers in a three-way tie for first place with Penn and Columbia and allowed the men’s squad to claim their 15th Ivy title in the program’s history.
The women’s squad has also faced challenges on the road to victory; Princeton opened the two-day competition with a 17-10 trouncing of Columbia but dropped a 16-11 match against the Crimson before rebounding in a 17-10 win over Penn. Nevertheless, the women’s team entered the second day of competition trailing the Crimson, which survived the initial rounds unscathed with a 3-0 record.
However, the Tigers got a little welcome help from Columbia when the Lions handed the Crimson a loss, making a share in the title possible if Princeton won out. The women rose to the challenge: junior foilist Ashley Tsue, junior epeeist Audrey Abend, and freshman epeeist Charlene Liu went a combined 7-2 in their matches as the team crushed Brown 24-3. The trio proved even more successful against Yale, winning all nine of their individual matches as the Tigers won their second game of the day 23-4. Only Cornell remained, and Princeton proved more than capable of dispatching the Big Red. The Tigers won their final match by a score of 22-5, with Tsue, Abend, and Liu going 8-1 in the foil and epee disciplines, respectively; all three Tigers would ultimately make the all-Ivy squad.
The win earned Princeton a 5-1 final record and a share in the Ivy League title with Columbia and Harvard. The title is the ninth for the women’s team and their sixth in the past seven years; the Tigers had won five league crowns in a row before falling just short in 2015.
It’s 2016, however, and Princeton fencing is firmly back on top.
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