Women's Fencing | 3/22/2015 11:56:00 AM

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Two members of the Wayne State University women's fencing program competed on the final day of the 2015 NCAA Collegiate Championship hosted by The Ohio State University with sophomore Zuzanna Sobczak (Gdansk, Poland) earning Honorable Mention All-America accolades with her 11th-place finish.

The first two days (Thursday and Friday) saw the men competing, with the women taking center stage yesterday and today.

Both Sobczak and freshman Julie Saint-Cricq (Pau, France) went 6-9 through the first three rounds of competition on Saturday. 

Sobczak won six of her eight bouts on Sunday to finish with a 12-11 record.  The 12 victories put her in a four-way tie for ninth with touch differential deciding the final finishes.  Ohio State's Eleanor Harvey was ninth (+10 / 84-74), while Princeton's Ashley Tsue was 10th (+5 / 87-82) with Sobczak placing 11th (+4 / 77-73).  Yale's Lauren Miller was 12th (+3 / 90-87).

Saint-Cricq had a 4-4 record on Sunday to finish with a 10-13 mark and place 14th out of the 24 competitors.

As a team (men and women combined), Wayne State finished 15th with 39 wins.  Columbia won the combined team competition with 156 wins.  Penn State edged Notre Dame in the second-place tie on touch differential (+176 to +145) as both school finished with 156 vcitories.  The fourth through 10th-place teams were Princeton (148), Ohio State (137 / +165), St. John's (137 / +47), Harvard (129), Penn (96), Duke (67) and Stanford (65).

The two WSU women earned 22 victories to place 13th among just the women's squads.