HAVERFORD, Pa. - The Haverford College fencing teams will close out the 2025-26 home season at the NCAA Regional Championships on Saturday, March 7, competing on their home strips inside the Alumni Field House.
A program-record 20 Fords have qualified for regional competition, including 12 men and eight women. The total marks the largest postseason contingent in program history. The regional meet counts for 60 percent of a fencer's qualification profile while regular-season results count for 40 percent.Â
Haverford's men's foil qualifiers are Oliver Po, Dean Myers, Michael Pyo, Conrad Seib-Levinson, Andrew Strayer and Henry Fedonchik. Sophie Stamicar and Aanya Jeganathen represent the Fords in women's foil.
In men's epee, Eric Chen, Jack Richards, Ian Alvarez and Kenji Gullo earned regional bids. Nina Hamilton, Nina Chafee, Payton Wagner and Evelyn Penhoet will compete in women's epee. Stephen Yarosh and Andy Loo qualified in men's saber, while Carter Wood and Grace Leverton will represent Haverford in women's saber.
Competition begins at 9 a.m. with Round 1 pools in men's epee, women's epee, men's foil and women's foil. Women's saber follows at 10:30 a.m., with men's saber slated for a 12 p.m. start.Â
Fencing programs from across the Mid-Atlantic and South regions, representing all three NCAA Divisions, will compete for NCAA Championship qualification, including Penn State, Wagner, Princeton, Duke, North Carolina, Penn, NJIT, Stevens, Drew, Johns Hopkins, Lafayette, Fairleigh Dickinson and Temple.
Live results will be available via FencingTimeLive, with updates posted to Haverford Athletics social media accounts and full recaps published on the department's website among completion of the day's action. Tickets can be purchased via Temple's Athletic ticketing website.
