March 20, 2003

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - NCAA and Air Force Academy officials announced today, that the men's and women's fencing championships will be moved to Saturday and Sunday, March 22-23 due to Colorado's severe weather conditions. The new schedule of events is as follows:

Saturday, March 22

Opening Ceremonies - 9:30 a.m.

Men's rounds 1-4 - 10 a.m.

Women's rounds 1-4 - 2 p.m.

Championships Banquet - 8 p.m. - Press Box

Sunday, March 23

Men's rounds 5-7 - 9 a.m.

Men's Semi/Finals - 12:00 - 1 p.m.

Women's rounds 5-7 - 1 - 4 p.m.

Women's Semi/Finals - 4 - 5 p.m.

Fencers will compete in a round-robin of 24 fencers in five-touch bouts. After the round-robin, the top four fencers in each event will fence direct elimination 15-touch bouts for first, second, third and fourth place. Absolute ties for the seeding will be broken as follows: for positions one through three, by a coin toss; for position four, by a fence-off.

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 for the duration of the championships.

The following Stanford individuals were selected to participate in the championships:

MEN'S EPEE

Martin Lee

Ken Jung (alternate)

MEN'S FOIL

Steve Gerberman

Florian Reichling

MEN'S SABRE

Robert Owens

Jonathan Pearlstein

WOMEN'S EPEE

None

WOMEN'S FOIL

Eva Petschnigg

Iris Zimmermann

Meghan Everett (alternate)