PRINCETON: Fencing Previews

Montgomery
    Head Coach: Johanna Snedecker, third year (girls); Tim Sullivan, first year (boys)
   Last year: Boys 2-11; Girls 2-11. 
     Key returning fencers: Josh Cige (Sr.), Margaret Strair (Sr.), Nina Kuzman (Sr.), Justin Lozano (Sr.), Tony Qian (Sr.), Sam Stevens (Jr.), Peter Oh (Jr.), Suraj Sinha (Jr.), Andrew Orlowicz (Jr.), Anjalie Ramaswamy (Jr.), Sarah Caputo (So.), Austin Heath (So.), Alex Kass (So.). 
   Top newcomers: Alex Chien (Sr.), Kevin Kung (Sr.), Alanna Liao (Jr.), Sarah Sheldon (Jr.), Ambika Singh (Jr.), Nick Bradley (So.), Andrew Chen (So.), Brandon Petchock (So.), Mir Ali (Fr.), Nabeel Chaudary (Fr.), Nicholas Sledeski (Fr.).
   Coach’s Thoughts: (Girls) We have improved so much in the past year. The girls have been working hard to improve their skills through lessons and tournament competition. It should be a great season. Everything is falling into place in this third year for the team. (Boys)
WW-P North
    Head Coach: Gail Kedoin, fourth year
   Last year: Boys 4-9; Girls 3-8
     Key returning fencers: Joseph Behnke (Sr.), Ralph Conserva (Sr.), Will Goldhirsch (Sr.), Komal Kumar (Sr.), Austin McGuire (Sr.), Prasant Nanisetty (Sr.), Deesha Sarma (Sr.), Ashley Wu (Sr.),  Anjali Baliga (Jr.), Sara DeSimine (Jr.), Liliana Ma (Jr.), Hamad Masood (Jr.), Lara Wilder (Jr.), Robert Goldhirsch (So.), Selena Park (So.), Giselle Torralba (So.), Daphne Ye (So.).
   Top newcomers: Kimberley Khounsombath (Sr.), Anant Gharpure (Jr.), Amy Gill-Murphy (Jr.), Gentley Smith (Jr.), Kevin Dwyer (So.), Martin Gitomer (So.), Rosetta Isnardi (So.), Vivek Jaishankar (So.), Anthony Szewczyk (So.), Nishant Thelakkat (So.), Katherine Wang (So.), Michael Zhuang (So.), Raj Ardeshna (Fr.), Tejasvi Gowda (Fr.), Mena Chandrasekar (Fr.), Angel Sun (Fr.). Victor Wu (Fr.), Derek Yan (Fr.), Mark Van Zevenbergen (Fr.).
   Coach’s Thoughts: Both my girls and boys teams are very solid. Last year we had some close meets that we think this year we can turn around in our favor. Two-thirds of our starting varsity fencers from last year are returning this year.
WW-P South
    Head Coach: George Michalik, third year
   Last year: Boys 9-4; Girls 9-1
   Key returning fencers: Kelly Cave (Sr.), Ben Gelsey (Sr.), Kevin Gu (Sr.), Tiffany Hu (Sr.), Jen Kong (Sr.), Brianna Nieradka (Sr.),  Logan Otremba (Sr.), Chris Smith (Sr.), Elliot Tas (Sr.), John Uysal (Sr.), Jason Wang (Sr.), Michael Wang (Sr.), Maddie Weiss (Sr.), Kurt Wheeler (Sr.), Sabrina Arias (Jr.), Andrew Chan (Jr.), Howard Chen (Jr.), Yurani Farfan (Jr.), Alex Guo (Jr.), Sarita Patankar (Jr.), Emma Rosen (Jr.), Greg Snyder (Jr.), Sharon Gao (So.), Eric Hu (So.), Stephen Yang (So.), 
   Top newcomers:  Glenn Harris (Jr.),  Christina Lim (Jr.), Emma Funaki (So., Nicole Joseph (So.), David Meni (So.), Selena Seto (So.), Rebecca Shi (So.), Elizabeth Yu (So.), Adam McGill (Fr.), Christina Paek (Fr.), Charles Zhou (Fr.). 
Coach’s Thoughts: Based on a strong return in sabre and foil, the boys team should have a winning season this year. Strong contenders such as Alex Guo and Stephen Yangwill carry the sabre squad. The foil team also has a strong comeback this year with Michael Wang and Kevin Gu. The girls will have to overcome the absences of Kelly Cave in sabre and Sharon Gao in foil, both of whom are on the disabled list.Sabre does have Maddie Weiss, Sabrina Arias and Emma Rosen returning. Foil has Jen Kong and a newcomer, Rebecca Shi, who has shown much promise. Epee has Brianna Nieradka, who has been a consistent fencer her three years.
Hun School
    Head Coach: Rey Gonzalez, 22nd year
   Last year: Boys 2-11; Girls 5-6
   Key returning fencers: Maria Hower (Sr.), Ryan Megaro (Sr.), Anna Saminathan (Sr.)Cimaron Sharon (Sr.), Darrell Washington (Sr.), Valencia Washington (Sr.), Teddy Weller (Sr.),    
Princeton Day
Head Coach: Paul Epply-Schmidt, 20th year
   Last year: Boys 5-5; Girls 3-7
   Key returning fencers: Francesca Behling (Sr), Jeremy Brinstery (Sr.), Cameron Dunbar (Sr.), Phillip Grudzina (Sr.), Noah Lanard (Sr.), Katie Elbert (Jr.), Priyanka Trevedi (Jr.), Sophia Weissman (Jr.), Alex Ioffreda (So.), Andrew Schroeder (So.).
   Top newcomers: Paul Mannino (Sr.), Charlie Behling (Jr.), Jacob Kaufman (Jr.), David Cutler-Kreutz (Jr.), Spencer Pretecrum (Jr.), Bobby Wei (Jr.), Jermaine Williams (Jr.), Maya Anjur-Dietrich (So.), Jane Coates (So.).
   Coach’s Thoughts: Our squad is somewhat smaller than last year, yet still strong in several weapons. We are especially strong in boys’ sabre and girls’ foil.