March 19, 2007
BALTIMORE, MD - Sophomore David Ferguson (New York, NY/Stuyvesant) will compete at the 2007 National Collegiate Fencing Championships this weekend at Drew University. The championships are set to begin on March 22 in Madison, NJ. Ferguson, seeded 18th, placed eighth in the Foil at the Mid-Atlantic Regionals last weekend in Teaneck, NJ to earn his spot at nationals.
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.
