The Northwestern fencing team’s meteoric season came to a close this past weekend in Durham, North Carolina — home of this year’s NCAA Championships.
A 43-13 record was good enough to propel the ‘Cats from No. 9 in the USFCA Coaches Pre-Season Poll to No. 4 in the final set of rankings, sitting only behind Columbia, Princeton and Notre Dame. What’s more impressive is that four of NU’s fencers managed to qualify for the national tourney with their impressive finishes at NCAA Midwest Regionals.
Sabre Megumi Oishi, a freshman from Portland, Oregon, who has spearheaded the team’s charge all year, secured her spot at NCAAs with a top-five finish at Regionals.