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Warrior of the Week

Ziad_Elsissy

Ziad Elsissy

  • Award
    Warrior of the Week
  • Week Of
    3/26/2018
  • Sport
    Men's Fencing
  • Bio
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Redshirt senior Ziad Elsissy (Alexandria, Egypt) went 7-4 on day two of the NCAA Championships to improve his overall record to 19-6 and finish as the national runner-up and earn First Team All-American honors for the second consecutive season.  He fell to Harvard's Eli Dershwitz, 15-14, for the second consecutive season.  The 2016 U.S. Olympian, Dershwitz was ranked the No. 1 sabreist in the United States on Feb. 26, 2018, by USA Fencing.

He becomes an All-American for the third time in his career.  He was the national runner-up last season and finished seventh in 2015.  In 2017, Elsissy was the first Warrior to compete in a gold medal bout since former three-time national champion Slava Zingerman claimed his third consecutive national title in the men's epee in 2009.


Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
11/12/2018 Joao Martimbianco Ribeiro Men's Swimming & Diving
11/5/2018 Ethan Byrnes Men's Cross Country
11/5/2018 Ashley Defrain Women's Cross Country
10/29/2018 Khadija Da-Silva Women's Tennis
10/29/2018 Darece Roberson, Jr. Football
10/22/2018 Ellie Rodriguez Volleyball
10/22/2018 James Hill Football
10/15/2018 Laura Cazacu Women's Tennis
10/15/2018 Tieler Houston Football
10/8/2018 Brendan Seys Men's Golf
10/8/2018 Dasha Kuznetsova Women's Tennis
10/1/2018 Nikolas Senkowski Men's Golf
10/1/2018 Linda Liong Women's Tennis
9/24/2018 Ethan Byrnes Men's Cross Country
9/24/2018 Anastassia Lee Women's Golf
9/17/2018 Darece Roberson, Jr. Football
9/17/2018 Meredith Weidner Women's Golf
9/10/2018 Ellie Rodriguez Volleyball
9/10/2018 Grant Haefner Men's Golf
9/3/2018 Ashley Defrain Women's Cross Country
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