NOTRE DAME FENCING - 2003 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP REVIEW AND NOTES
There will be no need to take down the #1 flag that flies proudly on the flagpole outside the Joyce Center. Such was the case last year, when the 2002 Notre Dame fencing team (led by the nation's top-ranked men's squad) ended up on the wrong end of another agonizingly close finish at the NCAA Championships. But now the flag proclaiming that a Notre Dame team is No. 1 can remain on display, following the fencing team's triumph at the 2003 NCAAs.
After nearly a decade of frustrating near-misses and an assortment of strong individual showings that were tempered by the missed chances in the team competition, the Notre Dame fencing team captured the program's sixth all-time NCAA title and first since 1994 - following a tension-filled final day of action at Air Force's Cadet Field House.
Notre Dame finished as the runner-up to Penn State every year from 1996-2000, also finishing third in '95, '01 and '02. First-year Irish head coach Janusz Bednarski witnessed each of those close calls, after joining the ND staff in 1995.
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