MEN’S AND WOMEN’S FENCING won its first combined national title in program history, beating 24 other teams at the NCAA Championships in San Antonio March 21–24. All six of Princeton’s competing women earned All-American honors, led by Eliza Stone ’13, who won the individual NCAA championship in saber. Jonathan Yergler ’13 and Susannah Scanlan ’14 also reached the individual finals in men’s and women’s epee, respectively.
Lisa Boyce ’14 finished 13th in the 100-yard freestyle at the WOMEN’S SWIMMING NCAA Championships March 23, setting an Ivy League record. MEN’S SWIMMING finished in the top 30 at the NCAAs in the 400-yard medley relay and the 400-yard freestyle relay March 28–30.
WOMEN’S LACROSSE finished March with victories over No. 12 Johns Hopkins and No. 11 Cornell. The Tigers were 3–0 in the Ivy League and tied for first with Penn and Dartmouth.
With a 3–0 victory over St. Francis March 28, MEN’S VOLLEYBALL clinched a spot in the four-team EIVA playoffs.
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John E. Sands ’62
8 Years AgoFencing’s banner year
I start with full disclosure: At Princeton I wandered into fencing and ultimately became captain, All-American, All-Ivy, and the saber fencer of the trio who finished second in the 1961 NCAA Championships, Princeton’s highest finish at the time. I was flummoxed by PAW’s April 24 coverage of the fencing team’s first-ever combined NCAA Championships, which PAW relegated to one paragraph in “Sports Shorts,” below a freshman water polo goalie’s profile and the women’s basketball team’s NCAA first-round elimination.
Not to denigrate those accomplishments, but where are your priorities? This was a national championship for combined men’s and women’s teams! Indeed, it was the fourth consecutive year that Princeton’s women fencers would have won, had their scores been counted separately from men’s. In addition, the team’s three Stone siblings’ scores taken alone would have finished eighth, and at least three members of the team are Academic All-Americans. Surely these achievements deserve more than marginal acknowledgment.