LA JOLLA, Calif. – The Tritons travel to the Northwestern Duals in Evanston, Ill. on Feb. 4 and 5. UC San Diego will face several top 20 opponents such as: No. 5 Northwestern, No. 11 Temple, No. 1 Notre Dame, No. 13 Stanford, and No. 6 Ohio State.
 
Each day of competition will begin at 8:15 am ET. Live scoring will be available here and a live stream will be provided on Northwestern's website.
 
This will be the Tritons final test before heading into the postseason with the NCAA Regionals and the MPSF Conference Championships coming up in March.
 
SCHEDULE

Saturday Schedule by Team
Team and Gender	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7	Round 8
AFA W	Temple	CSU	OSU	NU	ND
AFA M		BC	Stanford		ND	WSU
BC W	CSU	WSU	UCSD	Temple	Denison		OSU
BC M	UCSD	AFA		OSU	Stanford	ND
Cornell W	Stanford	UIW	Denison	ND		LU
CSU W	BC	AFA	Temple		Stanford	FDU
CSU M	OSU	Stanford			NU		WSU
Denison W	OSU	Stanford	Cornell	UIW	BC
FDU W	UIW		Stanford		NU	CSU
LU W				OSU		Cornell	UIW
LU M				Stanford	OSU	UCSD	UIW	ND
ND W			NU	Cornell	AFA	UCSD		UIW
ND M			UCSD	UIW	AFA	BC	Stanford	LU
NU W	UCSD	Temple	ND	AFA	FDU
NU M		WSU			CSU
OSU W	Denison	UCSD	AFA	LU	WSU	UIW	BC
OSU M	CSU	UCSD		BC	LU	UIW
Stanford W	Cornell	Denison	FDU		CSU	Temple
Stanford M		CSU	AFA	LU	BC		ND
Temple W	AFA	NU	CSU	BC		Stanford	UCSD
UCSD W	NU	OSU	BC	WSU		ND	Temple
UCSD M	BC	OSU	ND	WSU	UIW	LU
UIW W	FDU	Cornell	WSU	Denison		OSU	LU	ND
UIW M			WSU	ND	UCSD	OSU	LU
WSU W		BC	UIW	UCSD	OSU
WSU M		NU	UIW	UCSD		AFA	CSU

 

Sunday Schedule by Team
Team	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
AFA W	UDM	WSU	Denison	FDU	LU	BC
AFA M			CSU	UIW	UDM	LU
BC W	UIW	NU		LU	Stanford	AFA
BC M	UIW	UDM	LU		CSU	WSU
Cornell W		OSU	Temple	CSU	WSU	UDM
CSU W	OSU	UIW		Cornell	UCSD
CSU M	UCSD	UIW	AFA		BC
Denison		UCSD	AFA		Temple	FDU
FDU W	UCSD		WSU	AFA	UDM	Denison	LU
LU W		Temple	UCSD	BC	AFA		FDU
LU M			BC			AFA	NU
NU W	Stanford	BC		OSU	UIW
NU M							LU
OSU W	CSU	Cornell	Stanford	NU		Temple
OSU M			Stanford		WSU	UDM
Stanford W	NU	UDM	OSU	WSU	BC
Stanford M	UDM	UCSD	OSU	WSU
Temple W	WSU	LU	Cornell	UIW	Denison	OSU	UDM
UCSD W	FDU	Denison	LU	UDM	CSU
UCSD M	CSU	Stanford		UDM
UDM W	AFA	Stanford	UIW	UCSD	FDU	Cornell	Temple
UDM M	Stanford	BC	UIW	UCSD	AFA	OSU
UIW W	BC	CSU	UDM	Temple	NU
UIW M	BC	CSU	UDM	AFA
WSU W	Temple	AFA	FDU	Stanford	Cornell
WSU M				Stanford	OSU	BC

 

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LAST TIME OUT
Hosting Wellesley College on Jan. 19 at Main Gym, the UC San Diego women's fencing squad topped the Blue in a dual meet.
 
The Tritons earned two team victories today as the squads faced each other in two rounds. In round one, the Tritons earned 16 victories to the Blue's 11. The Tritons put the pressure on in the second dual taking the victory 20 to 7. The saber squad made up of Sarah Shen, Roxane Cayrat, Maya Desai, Christine Teng and Zara Fearns, led the day going undefeated in the second round with nine straight victories.

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REWIND TO 2022 NATIONALS

Shawn Kim placed third and UC San Diego finished 13th as the NCAA National Collegiate Fencing Championships wrapped up Sunday at the University of Notre Dame. Kim's finish in Men's Sabre tied the highest-ever placing by any Triton at Nationals. He earned All-America status for his performance.

UC San Diego also equaled the team's best-ever finish at a full-field Nationals. A total of 27 teams were in contention in Indiana.

Justin Park also competed in Men's Sabre and finished in 19th position.

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Seven scholar-athletes from the UC San Diego fencing team have earned Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) All-Conference recognition. The MPSF announced its first-ever selections Monday. 

This is the first season that the MPSF is sponsoring the sport of fencing. Joining UC San Diego as members are Air Force, Incarnate Word, and Stanford.

2021-22 ALL-MPSF FENCING
First Team
Rafaella Gomes, Fr., Women's Foil
Shawn Kim, Jr., Men's Saber: West Region Saber Champion, MPSF Saber Champion
Vedran Markota, Jr., Men's Epee
Justin Park, Sr., Men's Saber
Sarah Shen, Jr., Women's Saber: West Region Saber Champion

Second Team
Julia Hill, Women's Saber, Sr.
Lawrence Song, So., Men's Foil

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THE WEAPONS
• Epee
Epee is the heaviest of the weapons. The target to score points is the entire body. It is the only weapon where points can be awarded to both sides if there is a double touch.
• Foil
Foil is the lightest of the three weapons and enacts a rule called right-of-way. Whoever is coming forward with the attack gets the point unless their opponent takes the right-of-way from them by parrying (deflecting/blocking) their blade. The target area for scoring points is the chest and the torso, marked by a light metallic vest called a lamé. 
• Sabre
Sabre also employs the right-of-way rule, but sabreurs and sabreuses slash instead of stab. Sabre touches happen so quickly that the referees won't even start the three-minute clock used to time the bout.

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FENCING GLOSSARY

• Advance: Take a step towards one's opponent.
• Attack: Movement or series of movements by which a fencer tries to score a point. In foil and saber, the fencer who attacks first acquires the "right-of-way." In order to execute an attack properly (i.e. one that the referee will acknowledge), the fencer's hand must be clearly extending towards their opponent's valid target in a threatening manner.
• Beat: Sharp tap on the opponent's blade to initiate an attack or provoke a reaction.
• En Garde: Position taken before fencing commences.
• Feint: A false attack intended to get a defensive reaction from the opposing fencer, thus creating the opportunity for a genuine attack ("feint-disengage attack").
• Fleche: Explosive, running attack (foil and epee only).
• Flunge: Action unique to sabre – a combination of a lunge and a fleche. Evolved recently after the FIE modified sabre rules in 1992 to prohibit running attacks.
• Lunge: Most common attacking technique, in which the fencer launches themselves at their opponent by pushing off from the back leg (which generally remains stationary).
• Parry: Defensive action in which a fencer blocks his opponent's blade.
• Point-in-Line: Action in which the fencer, who is generally out of attacking range, points their weapon at their opponent with their arm fully extended. A fencer who establishes a point in line has right-of-way, and their opponent cannot attack until they remove the blade from line by executing a beat.
• Recover: The return to the en guarde position after lunging.
• Riposte: Defender's offensive action immediately after parrying their opponent's attack.
• Second Intention: A tactic in which a fencer executes a convincing, yet false, action in hopes of drawing a true, committed reaction from their opponent.
• Stop Hit, Stop Cut (sabre only): A counter-action made at the moment of an opponent's hesitation, feint, or poorly executed attack. To be awarded the point, the fencer attempting to stop hit must clearly catch their opponent's tempo. Hence, if their Stop Hit is not "in time," the referee may award the touch to their attacker.
• Strip: Fencing area, 14 meters long by 2 meters wide.
• Touch: Score a point.

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About UC San Diego Athletics
After two decades as one of the most successful programs in NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program began a new era in 2020 as a member of the Big West Conference in NCAA Division I. The 23-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in Divisions II and III and helped guide 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 83 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 38 have earned prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world's preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 91 percent, one of the highest rates among institutions at all divisions.