Best Fencing Colleges

[FHPyro4L]

what college can i go to with a good fencing team, but also good with their education as well....?

[jusplainfencing]

FONT=century gothic]hi i read your post and thought i would share the little info i have ive looked at numerous sites and i think baylor university of texas has a fencing team and im pretty sure harvard has one of the best traing facility`s and a excelent fencing team....... as i live in oklahoma ive looked at oklahoma university and oklahoma state univ. and they dont seem to have a fencing team i could be wrong but ive heard nothing about it if we do .............wich baffles me ,....we havent a fencing team but yet we have equestrian?!?
(i guess thats what u get when u live in oklahoma?!)

(ok must go now my vizsla has managed to throw my discman off my bed and now its making a strange noise!)[
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put the foil down and quit poking at that!.......

[asdfasdf]

fencing schools:
penn state
ohio state
notre dame
st johns
columbia/barnard
nyu
upenn
yale
princeton
stanford
northwestern

[JEC]

ncaa website

Also Duke, Harvard, Chapel Hill, Rice, etc.

Keep in mind that many Universities have non-varsity fencing clubs that still compete. (i.e.: UMass).

[Capt. Slo-mo]

According to the NCAA, Div 1 for men:

Boston College Chestnut Hill MA 02467-3861
Brown University Providence RI 02912
California State University, Fullerton Fullerton CA 92834-6810 Cleveland State University Cleveland OH 44115-2440
Columbia University-Barnard College New York NY 10027 University of Detroit Mercy Detroit MI 48219-0900
Duke University Durham NC 27708-0555
Harvard University Boston MA 02163-1012
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Chapel Hill NC 27515
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame IN 46556
Ohio State University Columbus OH 43210
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 19104-6322 Pennsylvania State University University Park PA 16802
Princeton University Princeton NJ 08544
Rutgers, State Univ of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Piscataway NJ 08854-8053
Sacred Heart University Fairfield CT 06432-1000
St. John's University (New York) Jamaica NY 11439
Stanford University Stanford CA 94305-2060
U.S. Air Force Academy USAF Academy CO 80840-5001
Yale University New Haven CT 06520-8216


For the women Div 1:

Boston College Chestnut Hill MA 02467-3861
Brown University Providence RI 02912
California State University, Fullerton Fullerton CA 92834-6810 Cleveland State University Cleveland OH 44115-2440
Columbia University-Barnard College New York NY 10027
Cornell University Ithaca NY 14853
University of Detroit Mercy Detroit MI 48219-0900
Duke University Durham NC 27708-0555
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck Teaneck NJ 07666 Harvard University Boston MA 02163-1012
James Madison University Harrisonburg VA 22807
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Chapel Hill NC 27515 Northwestern University Evanston IL 60208
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame IN 46556
Ohio State University Columbus OH 43210
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 19104-6322 Pennsylvania State University University Park PA 16802
Princeton University Princeton NJ 08544
Rutgers, State Univ of New Jersey, New Brunswick Piscataway NJ 08854-8053
Sacred Heart University Fairfield CT 06432-1000
St. John's University (New York) Jamaica NY 11439
Stanford University Stanford CA 94305-2060
Temple University Philadelphia PA 19122
U.S. Air Force Academy USAF Academy CO 80840-5001
Yale University New Haven CT 06520-8216

[Repechage]

Some schools which are not Div I have respectable teams as well.

[Peach]

Originally posted by Repechage
Some schools which are not Div I have respectable teams as well.

Such as Brandeis, where my daughter fences. They have both men's and women's teams and do quite well all things considered.

[CvilleFencer]

Lets not forget the eager young fencers at University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, William and Mary and George Washington University.

Also many smaller schools have very active club teams like Mary Baldwin University in Staunton VA, and Sweetbrier College.

And those are just the ones a couple hours around Charlottesville VA!

[Capt. Slo-mo]

And all of those are available on the NCAA website...do a search for fencing, follow the threads to div 1, 2 or 3 institutions which support fencing...and they even have links to the schools.

I just posted Div 1 for brevity.

No slight was intended for any of the other fine fencing Ivory Towers.

[epeemike81]

Originally posted by Capt. Slo-mo
And all of those are available on the NCAA website...do a serch for fencing, follow the threads to div 1, 2 or 3 institutions which support fencing...and they even have links to the schools.

I just posted Div 1 for brevity.

No slight was intended for any of the other fine fencing Ivory Towers.

true, and thank you for the link, but this doesn't help with club teams (nor is there a site which will). It is important not to ignore club teams, as some of them are better than many varsity teams.

some of the better club teams that I know of are U. Florida at Gainsville, Tufts (Men), Northwestern, Smith (women only, obviously), UNH (their women are MUCH better than their men), and, of course, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Also, in fencing, the divisions are much less important. for example, Sacred Heart is Div. I, but their team is nowhere near the caliber of "lower" division schools like MIT, Brandeis, etc.

-m

["Fence like a Cat"]

Oh Captain, my Captain... thanks for the addresses.

[a517dogg]

i am on the brown team. i love it, it's perfect for me.

[DJ Apostrophe]

the usfa has a list of all the ncaa teams, as well as clubs that are registered with associations to colleges... (many links to club / team pages)
go here: http://www.usfencing.org/Clubs/NCAA.asp
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[Mulligan]

hey....let's not forget Wayne State, Detroit.

[asdfasdf]

it depends on your definition of a "good" school. top fencing schools are not necessarily top academic schools. everything's a tradeoff.

[Mappiq]

Originally posted by jusplainfencing
hi i read your post and thought i would share the little info i have ive looked at numerous sites and i think baylor university of texas has a fencing team...

Baylor certainly has a fencing team (I'm on it), but I would bet that it probably is not any kind of a nationally competive fencing school. We only have like 20-30 people on it this year, and a lot of that is newbies (including me). My impression is that we mostly play teams within Texas at the more localized tournaments that we go to.

Baylor does have some good academics though, and if you can make national merit finalist you don't have to pay any tuition (which makes it considerably less steep).

-Mappiq

[qatet]

In some cases, the most important thing is having plenty of decent fencing schools in the area. I went to Smith, which isn't a first-rate team, but we got to compete against varsity teams and clubs teams alike and sometimes practiced with other teams in the area - Hampshire and UMass.

You can make your collegiate fencing into what you want it to be by pursuing USFA meets as well. Check out the coach, check out practices when you visit. If there's a school that has great academics but no fencing, go there and see if you can found a club. (Although the time you invest in it might cancel out the good academics!)

[rats_foiled_agn]

What about Valparasio?

My daughter is considering going there and one of the recruiter's said he thought they had a club but we can't find any info to confirm or deny???

[magma]

what would be the advantage of fencing ncaa? from what i can tell, you'd have a pool of college fencers, who fence [in their area] only each other, which could be an advantage, for ratings, but eventually, you'd have to confront the fencer from a private club, who has also fenced ncaa in the past or at least on a college team - so you don't want to burn your bridges.

speaking of colleges, i recently fenced a group of college students, news flash: college students come in all shapes and sizes now, due to the fact that college entrance is open now, so your incoming freshman could be 40 years old, but he could have 10 years of fencing from somewhere else, so it's a toss up. They don't like losing that's one thing. One bout in particular, an opponent tried to convince the director that she had actually lost her balance somewhere in the bout and was unable to parry. I can't tell you how many times i've lost my balance in a bout. I did better here than i thought, i have to credit those who have encouraged me in the past. my fighting spirit came out right in the middle of a bout, when suddenly i asked myself "what are we doing, playing" - so i put 100% into the bout. i have to credit edew for the recent surge of energy as i've taken much of my encouragement from the board.

[Tomas N]

I'd like to second qatet's post. As a former member and current advisor to a college fencing club, the membership of the club and the level of competition at nearby schools (or in your USFA division) are very important. We don't have any nearby schools, but we do compete in Cleveland and Pittsburgh...not fencing meccas, but certainly places where you can find some strong competition. Many clubs are starved for student leadership, so if you fenced in high school, you may very well be the coach in college. That was more or less my experience.

Tomas