STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford fencing heads to South Bend, Ind. this weekend for the NCAA Championships, sending eight competitors across five different weapon groups.
Leading the Card is reigning NCAA and ACC Women's Foil Champion Arianna Cao, who will be competing in her third-straight NCAA Championships. Sanjay Kasi joins Cao as a three-time NCAA qualifier, and the six other Stanford competitors give the program eight representatives at the final site for the first time since 2017.
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK » Stanford sends four freshmen to NCAAs, as Tanishka Padhye (women's epee), Ruoxi Sun (women's foil), Julian Goor (men's foil) and Robert Wang (men's saber) will all compete at Notre Dame.
BACK FOR ANOTHER ROUND » Last season Stanford fencing finished ninth in the NCAA, the program's best finish since 2014.
RETURNING CHAMPION » Arianna Cao took home a National Championship in Women's Foil, the Cardinal's 15th individual champion in program history and first since 2015.
Cao is the Cardinal’s fourth women’s foil champion in program history, and first since Iris Zimmerman in 2001. The last member of the Cardinal women’s team to take home an NCAA Championship was Vivian Kong, winning epee in 2014.
STUDENT, OLYMPIAN, COACH » Massialas is back on The Farm for his second season as head coach of his alma mater. Massialas boasts one of the most successful fencing careers in Cardinal history, as a two time individual NCAA Champion in the men's foil (2013, 2015), and a three-time Olympic medalist in four trips to the Olympic Games.