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38 ACC Fencers to Compete at 2026 NCAA Championships This Week

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – A league-record 38 fencers from the Atlantic Coast Conference will compete in the 2026 NCAA Fencing Championships, which will be conducted Thursday, March 19, through Sunday, March 22, at the Joyce Center in South Bend, Indiana.
 
The 2026 championships feature a major change, as separate team championships will be awarded for the men and women, replacing the co-ed championship, which had been in place since 1990. Notre Dame has won 10 co-ed team championships, including four of the last five (1994, 2003, 2005, 2011, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025).
 
The women will begin the championships with round-robin bouts on Thursday followed by semifinals and finals on Friday. The men will follow with the same schedule on Saturday and Sunday.
 
A live feed of semifinal and final bouts will be available on Friday and Sunday at 1:30 p.m. ET on ESPN+. Semifinals and finals, along with other championships highlights, will air on ESPNU on Wednesday, April 1, at 5 p.m. ET.
 
On the women’s side, Notre Dame joins Columbia and Northwestern as the lone schools to qualify six fencers for the championships, which includes the maximum number of two qualifiers in each of the three events. On the men’s front, the Fighting Irish, Columbia and St. John’s are the only schools with the maximum number of qualifiers. The Irish are the only team nationally to send 12 fencers to the NCAA Championships in each of the last 12 seasons.
 
All five ACC programs will be represented at the women’s championships, as 18 ACC women will compete. Notre Dame has six qualifiers, followed by Stanford (5), Duke (4), North Carolina (2) and Boston College (1).
 
On the men’s side, 20 ACC men qualified from the five schools, led by Notre Dame with six, followed by Boston College (4), Duke (4), North Carolina (3) and Stanford (3).
 
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.
 
Fencers will compete in a round-robin format of five-touch bouts. After round robin, the top-four finishers in each weapon will fence in semifinal 15-touch bouts, with winners fencing to determine first and second places, and non-advancing fencers being awarded a tie for third place.
 
An institution’s place finish in the championships will be based on points earned by each individual. A team will be awarded one point for each victory by its student-athletes during round-robin competition.
 
2026 NCAA Fencing Championships (all times Eastern)
Thursday, March 19
  • 9 a.m. | Women's Épée rounds 1-3
  • 11 a.m. | Women's Foil rounds 1-3
  • 1:30 p.m. | Women's Sabre rounds 1-3
 
Friday, March 20 
  • 9 a.m. | Women's Épée rounds 4-5
  • 9 a.m. | Women's Foil rounds 4-5
  • 9 a.m. | Women's Sabre rounds 4-5
  • 1:30 p.m. | Women's Semifinal and Championship Bouts (in the order of épée, foil and sabre)
 
Saturday, March 21
  • 9 a.m. | Men's Épée rounds 1-3
  • 11 a.m. | Men's Foil rounds 1-3
  • 1 p.m. | Men's Sabre rounds 1-3
 
Sunday, March 22
  • 9 a.m. | Men's Épée rounds 4-5
  • 9 a.m. | Men's Foil rounds 4-5
  • 9 a.m. | Men's Sabre rounds 4-5
  • 1:30 p.m. | Men's Semifinal and Championship Bouts (in the order of épée, foil and sabre)
 
ACC Qualifiers
Women’s Épée
Yeva Mazur, Duke
Maria Capellua, North Carolina
Kyle Fallon, Notre Dame
Eszter Muhari, Notre Dame
Tanishka Padhye, Stanford
 
Women’s Foil
Charlotte Koenig, Duke
Sophia Shen, Duke
Ariadna Tucker Alarcon, Notre Dame
Josephina Conway, Notre Dame
Arianna Cao, Stanford
Ruoxi Sun, Stanford
 
Women’s Sabre
Lydia Johnson, Boston College
Natalie Olsen, Duke
Dagny Johnson, North Carolina
Lola Possick, Notre Dame
Magda Skarbonkiewicz, Notre Dame
Sophia Chin, Stanford
Erika Yong, Stanford
 
Men’s Epee
Ivan Goriunov, Boston College
Youssef Shamel, North Carolina
Jonathon Hamilton-Meikle, Notre Dame
Kruz Schembri, Notre Dame
 
Men’s Foil
Yikai Lu, Boston College
Elijah Onik, Boston College
Owen Li, Duke
Abdelrahman Tolba, Duke
Peter Bruk, North Carolina
Ziyuan Chen, Notre Dame
Chase Emmer, Notre Dame
Julian Goor, Stanford
Sanjay Kasi, Stanford
 
Men’s Sabre
Luca Berman, Boston College
Lev Ermakov, Duke
Zach Shoman, Duke
Elden Wood, North Carolina
Ahmed Hesham, Notre Dame
Radu Nitu, Notre Dame
Robert Wang, Stanford