Final Results
GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Notre Dame fencing program continued its dominance by winning the 2022 NCAA Fencing Championships Sunday in its home facility, the Castellan Family Fencing Center, in Notre Dame, Indiana. The Fighting Irish have now won back-to-back titles and four of the last five championships.
Notre Dame captured its 12th national championship in program history, including the fourth under head coach Gia Kvaratskhelia (2017, 2018, 2021, 2022).
The national championship is the fifth captured by an ACC program this school year – men's soccer (Clemson), women's soccer (Florida State), women's cross country (NC State) and women's swimming and diving (Virginia).
Twenty-two student-athletes from the ACC competed in the event, with 15 bringing home All-America honors. Each of Notre Dame’s 12 fencers who competed at the championships finished as All-Americans. Duke also brought home three All-America awards.
After finishing as the national runner-up in epee last season, Notre Dame’s Kaylin Hsieh won the epee championship this season. She became the sixth Notre Dame epeeist to win the national championship after defeating Harvard’s Emily Vermeule, 15-10, in the championship bout.
The Fighting Irish’s Atara Greenbaum and Amita Berthier each earned runner-up honors in the women’s sabre and foil, respectively, in claiming first-team All-America laurels.
Duke’s Terence Lee earned the silver medal in men’s sabre, reaching the championship match before falling, 15-10, in the title bout to Harvard’s Filip Dolegiewicz.
The championships include individual events in each of six weapons (men’s épée, men’s foil, men’s sabre, women’s épée, women’s foil and women’s sabre). First-team All-America honors are awarded to those finishing in the top four of each event. Second-team laurels go to those finishing in positions five through eight, while honorable-mention honors are awarded to positions nine through 12.
2022 NCAA Men’s and Women’s Fencing Championships
Final Standings
1. Notre Dame, 189
2. Harvard, 168
3. Columbia, 168
4. Princeton, 154
5. Ohio State, 144
10. Duke, 63
18. Boston College, 17
26. North Carolina, 10
ACC All-Americans
Women’s Epee
1. Kaylin Hsieh, Notre Dame
8. Amanda Pirkowski, Notre Dame
Women’s Foil
2. Amita Berthier, Notre Dame
6. Nicole Pustinik, Notre Dame
11. Christina Ferrari, Duke
Women’s Sabre
2. Atara Greenbaum, Notre Dame
5. Kara Linder, Notre Dame
Men’s Epee
8. Hunter Candreva, Notre Dame
11. Stephen Ewart, Notre Dame
Men’s Foil
5. Andrew Machovec, Notre Dame
6. Nick Itkin, Notre Dame
9. Finn Hossfeld, Duke
Men’s Sabre
2. Terence Lee, Duke
6. Jared Smith, Notre Dame
7. Luke Linder, Notre Dame