Women's Fencing Finishes Ninth Overall at NCAA Championships
3/25/2000 12:00:00 AM | Women's Fencing
March 25, 2000
EVANSTON, Ill. - The Northwestern women's fencing team finished competition at the 2000 NCAA Fencing Championships in Palo Alto, Calif. with a ninth-place finish. At last year's championships, NU finished in 19th place. The `Cats ended the tournament with 69 points with team champion Penn State scoring 175 points.
Individually for the Wildcats, senior Vivian Imaizumi (Penn Valley, Pa./Harriton) and junior Carly Wells (Arlington Heights, Ill./John Hersey) finished fourth and fifth in the sabre division. The individual champion in sabre with 19 wins was Caroline Purceli from M.I.T.. Imaizumi ended the competition with 17 victories while Wells had 16. Freshman ep?eist Kate Rudkin (Boulder, Colo./Boulder) also finished fifth scoring 17 wins while fellow ep?eist Jennifer Greenebaum (Mendham, N.J./Pingrey School) finished 15th with 10 victories. This year's ep?eist champion was Jessica Burke from Penn State. Sophomore Kristen Dorf (St. Paul, Minn./St. Paul Academy) finished in 16th place in the foil division scoring nine victories to round out the Wildcat contingency at this year's championships. The 2000 foil champion was Eva Petschnigg from Princeton.
Imaizumi was awarded first-team All-American honors as Wells and Rudkin received second-team All-American honors.