March 8, 2005
INDIANAPOLIS -
Johns Hopkins freshman Aaron Fernandes (Short Hills, NJ/Millburn) and sophomore Nick Marchuk (Ringoes, NJ/The Hun School) are among the 144 athletes selected to compete at the 2005 National Collegiate Men's and Women's Fencing Championships, as announced today by the NCAA Men's and Women's Fencing Committee.
Fernandes finished 10th in sabre and Marchuk placed 11th in foil at the NCAA Regionals held at Drew University last weekend.
Rice University and the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority will host the championships at the George R. Brown Convention Center, March 17-20, in Houston, Texas. For the championships host Web site, please go to http://www.hchsa.org.
The National Collegiate Men's and Women's Fencing Championships include individual events in each of the six weapons (women's foil, women's epee, women's sabre, men's foil, men's epee, men's sabre).
Fencers will compete in a round-robin of 24 fencers in five-touch bouts. After the round-robin, the top four fencers in each event will fence direct elimination 15-touch bouts for first, second, third and fourth place. Absolute ties for the seeding will be broken as follows: for positions one through three, by a coin toss; for position four, by a fence-off.
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 for the duration of the championships.
