CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Notre Dame women’s fencing program won the 2026 NCAA Women’s Fencing Championship on Friday, March 20, at the Joyce Center in South Bend, Indiana. This marks the Fighting Irish’s first women’s team championship, as the event shifted to separate men’s and women’s team championships this season. Notre Dame won 14 co-ed national championships, including six of the last eight under head coach Gia Kvaratskhelia (2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025).
 
The team national championship is the third earned by an ACC program this school year, following women’s cross country (NC State) and women’s soccer (Florida State).
 
Notre Dame’s Eszter Muhari (women’s epee) won her third career individual national title, including her second straight (2023, 2025). She rolled in the championship bout, downing Princeton’s Hadley Husisian, 13-1.
 
Notre Dame scored 102 points to claim the team crown over second-place Columbia/Barnard (99). Stanford also earned a top-10 finish in the team competition, taking eighth with 42 points. Duke was 11th with 37 points, while North Carolina was 15th with 20 points and Boston College was 20th with 10 points.
 
Eighteen ACC fencers competed in the event, with nine earning All-America honors. All six Notre Dame fencers claimed individual All-America honors, while Duke, North Carolina and Stanford each had one honoree.
 
The championships included individual events in each of three weapons (épée, foil, 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.
 
2026 NCAA Women’s Fencing Championships
Final Standings
1. Notre Dame, 102
2. Columbia/Barnard, 99
3. Princeton, 71
4. Harvard, 69
5. Penn, 54
6. Northwestern, 54
7. Ohio State, 43
8. Stanford, 42
9. Yale, 42
10. Cornell, 42
11. Duke, 37
15. North Carolina, 20
20. Boston College, 10

ACC All-Americans
Epee
1. Eszter Muhari, Notre Dame
7. Kyle Fallon, Notre Dame
 
Foil
6. Josephina Conway, Notre Dame
7. Ariadna Tucker Alarcon, Notre Dame
9. Arianna Cao, Stanford
12. Charlotte Koenig, Duke
 
Sabre
2. Magda Skarbonkiewicz, Notre Dame
T3. Siobhan Sullivan, Notre Dame
6. Dagny Johnson, North Carolina