CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Notre Dame fencing program captured its 14th national championship in school history on Sunday, March 23, as the Fighting Irish won the 2025 NCAA Fencing Championship at Penn State’s Multi-Sport Facility in University Park, Pennsylvania. The Fighting Irish have now earned six of the last eight NCAA Championships.
Notre Dame won its sixth national title under head coach Gia Kvaratskhelia (2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025). Notre Dame moves into a tie for second place with Penn State for most fencing national titles in NCAA history.
The national championship is the third earned by an ACC program this school year, following women’s soccer (North Carolina) and women's swimming and diving (Virginia).
ACC fencers brought home four of the six individual national championships. Notre Dame’s Eszter Muhari (women’s epee) and freshman Magda Skarbonkiewicz (women’s sabre) and Stanford’s Arianna Cao (women’s foil) swept the titles on Sunday, while the Fighting Irish’s Chase Emmer was crowned the men’s foil national champion on Friday. Muhari won her second national title (2023), while Cao was the Cardinal’s first individual national champion since 2015.
Notre Dame scored 183 points to claim the team crown over second-place Columbia/Barnard (172). Stanford also earned a top-10 finish in the team competition, taking ninth with 73 points. Duke was 12th with 47 points, while North Carolina was 13th with 45 points and Boston College was 24th with 12 points.
Twenty-eight ACC fencers competed in the event, with 17 earning All-America honors. Notre Dame finished with nine individual All-America honors, while North Carolina and Stanford each had three, and Duke had two.
The championships included 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.
2025 NCAA Fencing Championships
Final Standings
1. Notre Dame, 183
2. Columbia/Barnhard, 172
3. Harvard, 141
4. Princeton, 141
5. St. John’s 95
9. Stanford, 73
12. Duke, 47
13. North Carolina, 45
24. Boston College, 12
ACC All-Americans
Men’s Epee
11. Jonathan Hamilton-Meikle
Men’s Foil
1. Chase Emmer, Notre Dame
T3. Ziyuan Chen, Notre Dame
8. Renzo Fukuda, Stanford
9. Peter Bruk, North Carolina
12. Dayaal Singh, Duke
Men’s Sabre
2. Radu Nitu, Notre Dame
T3. Ahmed Hesham, Notre Dame
11. Elden Wood, North Carolina
Women’s Epee
1. Eszter Muhari, Notre Dame
5. Kaylin Hsieh, Notre Dame
Women’s Foil
1. Arianna Cao, Stanford
8. Rachel Koo, Duke
11. Crystal Qian, Stanford
Women’s Sabre
1. Magda Skarbonkiewicz, Notre Dame
2. Siobhan Sullivan, Notre Dame
10. Sophia Kovacs, North Carolina