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Cleveland State Fencing Prepares for NCAA Midwest Regional Championships

Cleveland State Fencing Prepares for NCAA Midwest Regional Championships

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland State fencing team will continue their postseason action tomorrow with the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships.

The Regional is taking place this Saturday, March 12, inside the French Field House in Columbus, hosted by Ohio State. The women's events will be held in the morning, starting at 9 a.m., and expected to end at about noon. Men's events are slated to start at 12:30 p.m. and are expected to run until about 3:30 p.m.

The teams involved are Cleveland State, Denison, Detroit Mercy, Lawrence, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, and Wayne State.

To follow the Regional Championships results

Women's Participants
Foil: Shelbie Seeberg
Sabre: Ilyssa Freiburger
Epee: Karina Grossl, Lily Robertson, Maeve Kozak

Men's Participants
Foil: Evran Walter, Paul DiVenti, John Wenger, Conner Shepherd
Sabre: Mason Moskowitz, John Gaffney
Epee: Will Waters, Weymouth Walker, Jesse Ndjeka, De'Mario Steele, Ian Wu

How to Qualify to NCAA Championships
The NCAA Championships will include 144 participants, with a maximum of two per weapon, per gender, per school.

Each region is allocated a certain number of spots. This year, the Midwest Region has four NCAA allocations in men's and women's epee, men's and women's sabre and men's foil, and five in women's foil. All six weapons have two national at-large spots each. Qualification to the NCAA Championships is based 40 percent on regular-season results and 60 percent on NCAA regional finish.

The NCAA Championships will be held March 24-27, hosted by Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind.