UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State men’s and women’s fencing teams will open their season on the road at the Nikki Franke Invitational at Temple University in Philadelphia, running from Saturday, October 25-26. The season opening competition will feature individual competition, with Saturday reserved for women’s competition and Sunday for the men’s team.
The first day of competition on Saturday features epee fencer Sophia Abashidze. Freshmen Lena Gyenes and Yuna Tamura will make their collegiate fencing debuts for the women’s epee team.
For the women’s saber team, Mia Novick, Eve Scott and Eunyu Kim will make their season debuts.
Seniors Sultan Hassan and Vasil Ivakimov return to the strip on Sunday to fence epee for the men’s team.
Carlos Fernando Chacon will fence saber for the men’s team along with Tyson Deck, making his collegiate debut.
The men’s foil team, under new assistant coach Simone Mazzoni, is sending juniors Alessio Fukuda and Matthew Gonzalez to Philadelphia.
Penn State will compete at the Nikki Franke Invitational against Temple University, Boston College, Sacred Heart, NJIT, Bryn Mawr, Drexel University, UPenn, Stevens Institute, UNC, Duke, Wagner, Johns Hopkins, Drew University, MIT, University of Florida, Haverford and NYU.
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