UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State men's and women's fencing teams travel to Durham, North Carolina this weekend for their fifth dual series of the season. The men will kick off the weekend on Saturday, Feb. 9, and the women will finish out the dual meet on Sunday, Feb. 10. They will fence UNC, Boston College, Air Force and Duke. Additionally, the Penn State women's fencing team will fence Northwestern and the men will fence Johns Hopkins.
Fencing this weekend for the men will be:
Foil- Mohamed Hassan (Saint Louis, Mo.), Shane Iverson (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Andrey Ostatnigrosh (Fresno, Calif.), Sebastiano Bicego (Vicenza, Italy), Sebastian Tirado (Dorado, Puerto Rico), Felipe Rosario (Maplewood, N.J.)
Epee- Elias Cole (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Ryan Griffiths (Fair Lawn), Anton Piskovatskov (Houston, Texas), Joshua Cole (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Demetri Zacharakis (Houston, Texas), Devin Tafoya (Highlands Ranch, Colo.)
Saber- Eduardo Lara (Queretaro, Mexico), Karol Metryka (Linden, N.J.), Inti Farfan-Bayerl (Morrison, Colo.), Gavin Turner (Rehoboth, Mass.), Matt Lewicki (Oakland, N.J.), Marcel Dolegiewicz (Park Ridge, Ill.)
Fencing this weekend for the women are:
Foil- Isabella Zuzulo (Newtown, Pa.), Lodovica Bicego (Vicenza, Italy), Jade Rowland (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Tyanne Fong (Ampang, Malaysia), Najiyyah Clark (Maplewood, N.J.), Jiajing Li (Jiangsu, China)
Epee- Alexandra Gillis (Dix Hills, N.Y.), Alissa Hofmann (Cambridge, Mass.), Nicolette Vigna (Thornwood, N.Y.), Anastasia Kalonji (Rennes, France), Hailey Hahn (Berdnardsville, N.J.), Barbara VanBenthuysen (Spring, Texas)
Saber- Kelli Wozniak (Westerville, Ohio), Sara Cunningham (Decatur, Ga.), DeAna Oliver (Montclair, N.J.), Karen Chang (Hong Kong, China), Zara Moss (Cranberry Township, Pa.), Erin Mcloughlin (San Jose, Costa Rica)
Following this weekend's action, select members of the Penn State fencing teams will travel to Denver, Colo. for the Junior Olympics, which is a four-day event starting Friday, Feb. 15 and ends Monday, Feb. 18. Fans can keep up with Penn State Fencing at GoPSUsports.com. Follow the team on Facebook at Penn State Fencing and on Twitter @pennstateFEN.