ORLANDO, Fla. – Stanford fencing opened the 2026-27 season this weekend with a series of strong individual showings at the October NAC. Luao Yang and Carson Bosita took home second-place finishes, while Ruoxi Sun finished third. Chloe Tolsma also earned a fifth-place finish in the Women's Cadet Elite Epee competition. In total, 10 of the Card’s 12 competitors advanced out of pool play and six finished in the top 20 of their respective competitions.
Yang was one of two strong Cardinal performers in the Elite Men’s Foil competition. The freshman went 4-2 in pool play and won his first five bouts in bracket play. Yang came up just short in the final, falling 15-12. Fellow freshman Victor Lyu joined Yang in the competition, going 3-3 in pool play and 3-1 in bracket play to finish 14th.
In the Challenger Men’s Saber competition, Bosita finished second after a dominant start to the competition. The sophomore went a perfect 6-0 in pool play, and won his first five bracket bouts to finish 11-1 on the day. Joining Bosita in the competition was freshman Chris Hu, who went 4-5 to finish 32nd.
Leading the way for the Cardinal women’s fencers was sophomore Ruoxi Sun. Sun took third in the Challenger Foil competition, going 4-1 in pool play and 4-1 in bracket play.
Tanishka Padhye took 14th in the Women’s Challenger Epee competition, going 4-2 in pool play and winning three times in bracket play. Rounding out the Card’s top-20 finishers was Julian Goor, who took 20th in the Men’s Challenger competition. Goor went 5-1 in pool play and won his first competition in bracket play to finish 6-2.
Freshman Chloe Tolsma went a perfect 6-0 in pool play of the Cadet Elite Epee competition, winning three bouts in braket play to finish fifth. Tolsma also finished 26th in the Women’s Elite Epee competition, going 3-3 in pool play and winning twice in the bracket. Fellow freshman Victoria Zhang finished 60th in the same competition, finishing 3-5 overall.
Jake Lo finished 72nd in the Men’s Elite Epee competition, going 3-3 before falling in his first bracket bout.
Catelyn So and Grace Ker both represented the Cardinal in Women’s Elite Saber competition, going a combined 3-9.
The Cardinal’s next competition is November 7-8, when the team heads to La Jolla, Calif. for the Western Invitational.