Nine Buckeyes Selected for NCAA Championships

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Nine members of the Ohio State fencing program have been selected for the 2025 NCAA Championships, the NCAA announced Tuesday. The championships will be held March 20-23 in University Park, Pa.

The Buckeye Selections
Three Buckeyes will head to the national championships in each weapon. In epee, Gabriel Feinberg and Miles Weiss will compete for the men and Gloria Klughardt will be in the women's event. In foil, Ilya Ayupov and Solin Li earned a spot for the men's championship and Alina Lee was selected for the women's field. In sabre, Avin Rai and Nolan Williams will represent the Buckeyes in the men's event and Natalia Botello will be in the women's championship.

Lee will be making her fourth trip to the NCAA Championships and earned Honorable Mention All-America accolades in 2022. Feinberg is making his first appearance since winning the NCAA title and garnering First Team All-America honors as a freshman in 2022. Williams also competed in 2022 and Weiss was in the 2024 championships. Ayupov, Li and Rai will all be making their first appearances, along with first-year Buckeyes Klughardt and Botello.

Ohio State won combined NCAA team titles in 2004, 2008 and 2012 and the men's national crown in 1942, along with 18 individual titles.

NCAA Championships Format

The 2025 NCAA Fencing Championships will be held March 20-23 in University Park, Pa., hosted by Penn State. The men will compete the first two days, with the women the final two days.

Qualification to the NCAA Championships is based on regular season results and NCAA regional finish. No more than two fencers per gender per weapon from a school may be selected. Each region is allocated a certain number of spots for the NCAA Championships, with 144 total competitors selected.
At the championships, fencers will compete in a round-robin format of five-touch bouts. After round-robin, the Top 4 finishers in each weapon will fence in semifinal 15-touch bouts, with winners fencing to determine first and second places and non-advancing fencers awarded a tie for third place. An institution's place finish in the championships will be based on points earned by each individual. A team will be awarded one point for each victory by its student-athletes during round-robin competition.

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