> 2018 NCAA “Live Results” (updated after each round)
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2018 Postseason Portal
CF360 2018 NCAA Historical Notebook
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Official NCAA Release (2018 NCAA qualifiers)
2018 NCAA Regional Results: Northeast | Mid-Atlantic/South | Midwest | West
2018 NCAA MEN'S SABRE ENTRANTS
– 24-fencer field
includes:
• 15 who also were in the 2017 NCAAs (plus two who were in the ’16 NCAAs but not ’17; and one 2015
NCAA fencer who was not in ’16 or ‘17) … with the other six other
entrants including only four freshmen, plus two veterans making their NCAA debut
(a junior and sophomore)
… The 2017 NCAA m-sabre field included: 12 who also were in the 2016 NCAAs (plus two who were in '15 NCAAs but not '16) … with the other 10 entrants including 5 freshmen, plus 5 veterans who were making their NCAA debut (2 seniors; 3 sophomores)
… The 2016 NCAA m-sabre field included: 12 who also were in the '15 NCAAs (plus 1 who was in ’13 and ’14 NCAAs but not ’15) … with the other 11 entrants including 8 freshmen, plus 3 veterans who were making their NCAA debut (2 seniors; 1 sophomore)
… The 2015 m-sabre field included: 11 who had fenced in the 2014 NCAAs
• 14 former ALL-AMERICANS/top–12 (Liang,
Shainbeg, Fitzgerald, D. Koch, F. Koch, Dershwitz, Cai, Mankiewicz, Metryka,
Chin, Natanzon, Di Tella, Williams and Elsissy)
… The 2017 NCAA m-sabre field included 6 former All-Americans (Mackiewicz, Dershwitz, Pak, Valkai, DiTella and Shainberg)
… The 2016 NCAA m-sabre field included 11 former All-Americans (Loss–Streets–Mackiewicz–Pak–Valkai–Sydorenko–Arfa–Gordon–DiTella–Shainberg–Chin)
… The 2015 NCAA m-sabre field included 10 former All-Americans
• Five former MEDAL-ROUND fencers (top–4):
> Penn State sr. Andrew Mackiewicz (2015 & ’16
NCAA champion)
> Harvard jr. Eli Dershwitz (2017 NCAA champion, ’15
semifinalist; ’16 Olympian/no college fencing)
> Wayne State sr.
Ziad Elsissy (2017 NCAA runner-up)
> St. John’s jr. Ben Natanzon (2017 NCAA semifinalist)
> Princeton sr. Edward Chin (2016
NCAA semifinalist)
… the 2017 NCAA m-sabre field included 4 former medal-round fencers: Mackiewicz, Dershwitz, Chin and SJU's Ferenc Valkai (2015-17 NCAA runner-up)
… the 2016 NCAA m-sabre field included 5 former medal-round fencers: Mackiewicz, Valkai, PSU's Kaito Streets (2014 champion), Penn's Shaul Gordon ('13 runner-up/at PSU; '14 semifinalist/at Penn) and SJU's Roman Sydorenko ('14 and 'at semifinalist)
… the 2015 NCAA m-sabre field included 4 former medal-round fencers (all above)
• Five 3-time NCAA participants (Liang, Dershwitz, Dalli, Williams and Elsissy), plus FIVE 4-TIME NCAA participants (Mackiewicz and Shainberg could become rare 4-time All-Americans):
> Andrew Mackiewicz/Penn State (2015 and '16 NCAA champion, 7th in '17)
> Edward Chin/Princeton (2016 NCAA semifinalist, 8th in '15, 16th in '17)
> Jonah Shainberg/Notre Dame (5th at 2017 NCAAs, 12th in '15 and '16)
> Pascual Di Tella/Duke (5th at 2017 NCAAs, 13th in '16, 21st in '17)
> Jonathan Fitzgerald/Notre Dame (8th at 2017 NCAAs, 10th in '16, 20th in '15)
… the 2017 NCAA m-sabre field included three 4-time qualifiers: Fares Arfa (OSU), Peter Pak (Princeton) & Ferenc Valkai (SJU), with Valkai and Pak having the chance to become 4-time All-Americans; Valkai had been NCAA runner-up each year from 2015-17 before placing 11th in 2017 for his 4th All-America finish; Pak finished outside the top-12 at the 2017 NCAAs (17th)
… the 2016 NCAA m-sabre field included only one 4-time qualifier: Shaul Gordon (first season at Penn State before fencing final three years with U-Penn)
… the 2015 NCAA m-sabre field also included only one 4-time qualifier: Columbia's Will Spear, who placed 17th at the NCAAs to come up short of earning a 4th All-America finish; also only one 3-timer (Gordon)
• Only 4 FRESHMEN, most notably:
> Air Force newcomer Matthew Goode (runner-up at West Regional)
> Princeton newcomer Daniel Kwak (Mid-Atlantic/South Regional #3 seed; placed 7th)
> St. John’s newcomer Fares Ferjani (3rd at Northeast Regional, as #7 seed)
… the 2017 NCAA m-sabre field included 5 freshmen, led by Stanford's Samuel Kwong (West Regional champion, as #4 seed) and OSU's Domenik Koch (Midwest Regional #2 seed; placed 7th)
… the 2016 NCAA m-sabre field included 8 freshmen, among them: Columbia's Calvin Liang (3rd at Northeast Regional as #3 seed … Stanford's Jeffrey Dali (West Regional champion) … and NYU's Grant Williams (4th at Northeast Regional as #9 seed)
… the 2015 NCAA m-sabre field included 8 freshmen, led by elite fencers such as: PSU’s Mackiewicz (2015 Mid-Atlantic/South Regional champion) … ND’s Jonah Shainberg (Midwest Regional runner-up) … and Harvard’s Eli Dershwitz (Northeast Regional initial #1 seed/placed 7th)
• HOMETOWN SUMMARY – Nearly half of the 2018 NCAA men's sabre field (11 off 24) hail from the northeast, including a total of nine from New York/New Jersey … also 3 from California … 1 from the upper Southeast … 1 from the Southwest … 1 from Texas … and 6 foreign-based fencers (3 from Europe; 1 Middle East; 1 Africa; 1 South America). Here’s the breakdown:
> 6 from New Jersey (2 Linden/Metryka & Bak, plus Wayne/Sierdzky, East Brunswick/Fitzgerald, Livingston/Chin & Manalapan/Natanzon)
> 3 from Massachusetts (Sherborn/Dershwitz, Westwood/Mackiewicz & Framingham/Walter)
> 3 from California (Los Angeles/Kwak, San Carlos/Dalli & San Jose/Wang)
> 2 from New York (Rye/Shainberg & New Rochelle/Merchant)
> 2 from Georgia (Marietta/Cai & Atlanta/Williams
> 1 from Arizona (Chandler/Liang)
> 1 from Texas (Carlton/Goode)
> 2 from Germany (OSU’s Koch brothers, from Dormagen)
> 1 from France (Vallauris/Van Hoffelen)
> 1 from Tunisia (Carthage)
> 1 from Argentina (Buenos Aires/Di Tella)
> 1 from Egypt (Alexandria/Elsissy)
– AND HERE ARE THE 24 NCAA MEN’S SABRE ENTRANTS for 2018:
* below – indicates number of previous appearances in the NCAA Championships
COLUMBIA
– jr. Calvin Liang**
(Chandler, AZ; 11th at 2016 NCAAs, 14th in ’17)
^^^ 3-Time NCAA Participant ^^^
... and fr. Dawson Sierdzky (Wayne, NJ)
> Liang was runner-up at 2018 NCAA
Northeast Regional (as #5 seed) while Sierdzky was 5th (#13 seed)
NOTRE DAME – sr. Jonah Shainberg*** (Rye,
NY; 5th at 2017 NCAAs, 12th in ’15 & ’16)
^^^ 4-Time NCAA Participant (potential 4-time All-American)^^^
… and sr. Jonathan Fitzgerald*** (East Brunswick, NJ; 8th at
2017 NCAAs, 10th in ’16, 20th in ’15)
^^^ 4-Time NCAA Participant ^^^
> Fitzgerald placed 5th at the 2018 NCAA
Midwest Regional (as the #6 seed) while Shainberg was 6th (#3 seed)
OHIO STATE – so. Domenik Koch* (Dormagen, Germany; 10th at 2017 NCAAs)
... and older brother, sr. Frederik Koch* (Dormagen, Germany; 10th at 2015 NCAAS)
> D. Koch won '18 NCAA Midwest
Regional (as #1 seed) while F. Koch matched his seed with 4th-place
finish
... sr.
Hector Florencia (Dallas, TX; 16th at 2016 NCAAS) also met the NCAA qualification standard, after placing 3rd at
the Regional (#5 seed)
HARVARD – jr. Eli Dershwitz** (Sherborn, MA; 2017 NCAA champion, 2016 Olympian/no college fencing, 2015 NCAA semfiinalist)
^^^ 3-Time NCAA Participant (Defending Champion) ^^^
... and so. Erwin Cai* (Marietta, GA; 12th at 2017
NCAAs)
> Dershwitz placed 4th at the 2018 NCAA
Northeast Regional (as #1 seed) while Cai was 7th (#6 seed)
U-PENN – jr. Julian Merchant* (New Rochelle, NY; 20th at 2017 NCAAs) *apparent at-large entrant*
... and jr. Raphael Van Hoffelen* (Vallauris, France; 19th at 2016 NCAAs)
> Von Hoffelen placed 5th at '18 NCAA
Mid-Atl./So. Regional (#12 seed) while Merchant was 10th (#9 seed)
PENN
STATE – sr. Andrew Mackiewicz*** (Westwood, MA; 2015 & ’16 NCAA champion, 7th in ’17)
^^^ 4-Time NCAA Participant (2-Time Champion; potential 4-time All-American) ^^^
... and jr. Karol Metryka* (Linden, NJ; 9th at 2017 NCAAs)
> Mackiewicz won 2018 NCAA
Mid-Atlantic/South Regional (as #1 seed) while Metryka was 3rd (#5 seed)
... two other PSU sabre fencers met the 2018 NCAA qualification standard: so. Matthew Lewicki (Oakland, NJ; 8th at Regional, as #4 seed) ... and jr. Marcel Dolegiewicz (Park Ridge, IL; 6th at Regional, as #14 seed)
PRINCETON
– sr. Edward Chin*** (Livingston, NJ; 2016 NCAA semifinalist, 8th in ’15, 16th in ’17)
^^^ 4-Time NCAA Participant ^^^
… and fr. Daniel Kwak (Los Angeles, CA)
> Chin placed 4th at 2018 NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional (as #7 seed) while Kwak was 7th (#3 seed)
ST. JOHN’S – jr. Ben Natanzon* (Manalapan, NJ; 2017 NCAA semifinalist)
... and fr. Fares Ferjani (Carthage, Tunisia)
> Ferjani placed 3rd at the 2018 NCAA
Northeast Regional (as the #7 seed) while Natanzon was 6th (#3 seed)
DUKE – sr. Pascual Di Tella*** (Buenos Aires, Argentina; 5th at ’15 NCAAs, 13th in ’16, 21st in ’17)
^^^ 4-Time NCAA Participant ^^^
...
and so. Agoston Walter (Framingham, MA)
> Di Tella was runner-up at the 2018 NCAA
Mid-Atlantic/South Regional runner-up (as the #2 seed) while Walter was 9th (#8
seed)
STANFORD – jr. Jeffrey Dalli** (San Carlos, CA; 15th at 2016 NCAAs, 23rd in ’17)
^^^ 3-Time NCAA Participant (apparent 2018 at-large entrant) ^^^
... and jr. Royce Wang (San Jose, CA)
> Wang won the 2018 NCAA West Regional (as
the #2 seed) while Dalli was 5th (#3 seed)
NYU – jr. Grant Williams** (Atlanta,
GA; 6th at 2017 NCAAs, 17th in ’16)
^^^ 3-Time NCAA Participant ^^^
...
and jr. Mikolaj Bak* (Linden, NJ; 19th at 2016 NCAAs)
> Williams won the 2018 NCAA Northeast
Regional runner-up (as the #2 seed) while Bak was 9th (#4 seed)
AIR
FORCE – fr. Matthew Goode(Carlton, TX)
> runner-up at the 2018 NCAA West Regional
(as the #1 seed)
WAYNE STATE – sr. Ziad Elsissy** (Alexandria, Egypt; 2017 NCAA
runner-up, 7th at ’15 NCAAs; pursued Olympic bid in 2016)
^^^ 3-Time NCAA Participant ^^^
> runner-up at the 2018 NCAA Midwest
Regional (as the #2 seed)