The final national collegiate fencing poll has been announced for 2009, as selected by the U.S. Fencing Coaches Association (USFCA). All of this info. will be posted later in release format, via the RANKINGS tab.
Notre Dame maintained the top spot in both the men's and women's polls, with most of the the other teams keeping their spots as well.
Here's a quick summary of teams that moved up or down, in relation to the previous poll:
• The Penn (now #3) and Ohio State men (#4) swapped places, while the Harvard men bumped up from #9 to #7 and the Stanford men from #10 to #9 (the St. John's men dropped one spot, to #8, while the Duke men slipped from #8 to #10).
• The Harvard (now #3) and OSU women (now #4) switched places, as did the Northwestern (now #6) and Penn women (now #7). There also was shifting in the final three spots of the women's poll, with Princeton moving up from #10 to #8 while Temple (now #9) and St. john's (now #10) each dropped down a spot.
MEN
1. Notre Dame (1)
2. Penn State (2)
3. Pennsylvania (4)
4. Ohio State (3)
5. Columbia (5)
6. Princeton (6)
7. Harvard (9)
8. St. John's (7)
9. Stanford (10)
10. Duke (8)
Others receiving votes: North Carolina; Air Force; Brandeis; Yale; UC-San Diego; Wayne State; Brown and Johns Hopkins (tied)
WOMEN
1. Notre Dame (1)
2. Penn State (2)
3. Harvard (4)
4. Ohio State (3)
5. Columbia (5)
6. Northwestern (7)
7. Pennsylvania (6)
8. Princeton (10)
9. Temple (8)
10. St. John's (9)
Others receiving votes: Stanford; Duke; Yale; North Carolina; NYU; Brandeis; Air Force; Cornell; MIT and UC-San Diego (tied); Wayne State