A quick glance at the IFA result sheets shows that numerous elite fencers from top teams did not compete in today's event (most likely due to World Cup conflicts). Here's a list of missing fencers (again, from first glance, there likely were more):
Columbia women: epeeist Tess Finkel and sabreist Jackie Jacobson and
Columbia men: foilisr Kurt Getz and epeeist Dwight Smith
Harvard women: foilist Emily Cross and epeeist Noam Mills
Princeton women: foilist Lucille Jarry, and epeeists Jasjit Bhinder and Susannah Scanlan
Princeton men: epeeist Graham Wicas