CAMBRIDGE, Mass.- Harvard men's fencing coach Daria Schneider announced juniors Geoffrey Tourette and Adrien Thein-Sandler will serve as the 2020-21 captains. As all captains at Harvard, the leadership posts were determined based on an election by the student-athletes on the team.

Tourette served this past season as a co-captain of the Crimson team. The junior had a successful 2019-20 campaign posting a 75-10 record with the best touch differential on the team at plus-225. Tourette was crowned individual champion in foil at the Ivy League Round Robins going 14-0 and securing first team All-Ivy League honors. The junior foilist ended the season qualifying for NCAA Championships.

He joins Thein-Sandler as a co-captain who tabbed a 51-22 record with a plus-79 touch differential. The junior epeeist won gold at NCAA Northeast Regionals in Ithaca, N.Y. going 16-7. He capped of the season qualifying for NCAA Championships in Detroit, Mich.

The two will lead a Crimson team that won the outright Ivy League Championship for the first time since 2013. The team went 20-3 and ranked as high as No. 1 in the nation after two wins over Columbia. Harvard returns 11 fencers as well as adds a talented first-year group to compete in the 2020 season.