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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard fencing will begin their 2022-23 season at the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado for the Air Force Western Invitational. The event will take place from Saturday, Nov. 5 – Sunday, Nov. 6.
 
Harvard will be joined by nine other schools in the event, including Air Force, Columbia, Incarnate Word, New Jersey Institute of Technology, North Carolina, Northwestern, Ohio State, Stanford and UC San Diego.
 

What to Know

• Last year, Harvard recorded two individual NCAA national champions for the first time in program history behind Filip Dolegiewicz in men's sabre and Elizabeth Tartakovsky in women's sabre. The Crimson has now totaled 13 individual NCAA national champions in program history. 
• Five fencers for the Crimson, Zoe Kim, Faith Park, Chloe Williams, Matthew Linsky and Ark Ma (all first-years) will be making their collegiate debuts this season.
• Harvard men's fencing captains are senior Kenji Bravo and junior Jonas Hansen while Harvard women's fencing is captained by senior Cynthia Liu and senior Elizabeth Tarakovsky.
• Assistant coach Eli Dershwitz won gold in the Division I men's sabre event at the North American Cup last month.
• Sophomore James Chen will be competing at the Junior World Cup this weekend in London in men's foil.
• First-year Faith Park will compete in the Senior World Cup in Tallin, Estonia next weekend.
• Harvard fencing is led by Head Coach Daria Schneider who returns for her fourth year.

Check out the Crimson's schedule for this weekend:
 
Day One - Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022
Pod (A) Tennis Courts
Pods (B, C, D) Volleyball Gym
 
Round 1 (8:00-9:30 am)
Pod A-UIW vs. HAR
Pod B-NU vs. NJIT (W)
Pod C-STAN vs. OSU
Pod D-UCSD vs. UNC
Bye-AF, NJIT, COL
 
Round 2 (9:30-11:00 am)
Pod A-AF vs. OSU (M)/NU vs. STAN (W)
Pod B-NJIT vs. UCSD/NU vs. HAR (W)
Pod C-COL vs. UIW
Pod D-HAR vs. UNC
Bye-AF (W), OSU (W), STAN (M)
 
Round 3 (11:00-12:30)
Pod A-AF vs. UNC (M)
Pod B-STAN vs. NJIT
Pod C-COL vs. UCSD
Pod D-OSU vs. UIW
Bye-AF (W), UNC (W), HAR (M)
 
Round 4 (1:00-2:30)
Pod A-AF vs. COL
Pod B-STAN vs. HAR
Pod C-OSU vs. UCSD
Pod D-UIW vs. UNC
Bye-NJIT, NU
 
Round 5 (2:30-4:00)
Pod A-COL vs. STAN
Pod B-OSU vs. HAR
Pod C-NU vs. UIW (W)
Pod D-NJIT vs. UNC
Bye-UIW (M, AF, UCSD
 
Round 6 (4:00-5:30
Pod A-AF vs. NJIT
Pod B-COL vs. OSU
Pod C-NU vs. UNC (W)
Pod D-UCSD vs. HAR
Bye-UNC (M), UIW, STAN
 
Day Two - Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022
Pod (A) Tennis Courts
Pods (B, C, D) Volleyball Gym
 
Round 1 (8:00-9:30 am)
Pod A-AF vs. NU (W)
Pod B-COL vs. UNC
Pod C-STAN vs. UIW
Pod D-NJIT vs. HAR
Bye-OSU, AF (M), UCSD
 
Round 2 (9:30-11:00 am)
Pod A-AF vs. UCSD
Pod B-NU vs. COL (W)/HAR vs. COL (M)
Pod C-NJIT vs. UIW
Pod D-OSU vs. UNC
Bye-STAN, HAR (W)
 
Round 3 (11:00-12:30)
Pod A-AF vs. HAR
Pod B-NU vs. UCSD
Pod C-NJIT vs. COL
Pod D-STAN vs. UNC
Bye-UCSD, UIW, OSU
 
Round 4 (1:00-2:30)
Pod A-AF vs. STAN
Pod B-UCSD vs. UIW
Pod C-NJIT vs. OSU
 
Round 5 (2:30-4:00)
Pod A-AF vs. UIW
Pod B-STAN vs. UCSD

Up Next

Harvard heads up the road to Chestnut Hill at Boston College to compete in the Beanpot on Nov. 16