Wayne State University Athletics

Senior Mehreen Siddiqui was selected to the Excellence Team for the third season running.

Women's Fencing 7/6/2026 1:00:00 PM Cooper Weidenthaler, Assistant Director for Media Relations

Six Members of Women's Fencing Team Named Academic All-GLIAC

All six honorees earned a spot on the Excellence Team.

DETROIT -- Six members of the 2025-26 Wayne State University women's fencing team earned Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) All-Academic honors with all six being named to the All-Academic Excellence Team. This is the seventh year that the conference has recognized student-athletes from non-GLIAC sports with All-Academic distinctions.

Criteria states that student-athlete must be an active member on their respective sport roster at the end of the season, and not a true freshman or a first-year transfer student.

Grade-point averages listed are calculated through the fall semester since that was the last grading period before the season ended.

As stated above, all six Warriors were named to the All-Academic Excellence Team for maintaining a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.5. Those six student-athletes were junior Salma Abdrabou (Cairo, Egypt / Dar El Tarbiah IGCSE), sophomore Anabella Acurero Gonzalez (Valencia, Venezuela / Colegio de San Gabriel Arcangel), graduate student Reagan Byars (Warren, Mich. / Warren Woods Tower), junior Reka Galfalvy (Budapest, Hungary / Vörösmarty Mihály), senior Ludovica Mancini (Rome, Lazio, Italy / Liceo Linguistico Niccolò Machiavelli), and senior Mehreen Siddiqui (Canton, Mich. / Salem).

Both Mancini (Global Studies - 3.96) and Siddiqui (Biochem & Chem Bio Honors - 4.00) were honored for a third-straight season, while Abdrabou (Technology, Information Systems and Analytics - 3.98) and Galfalvy (Finance - 3.87) were recognized for a second consecutive time after being first-year eligible last year. Gonzalez (Global Studies - 3.95) is a newcomer to the Excellence Team as she became eligible this season. Byars (master's degree in Biomedical Engineering - 4.00) received her first nod to the Excellence Team in her final season with the women's fencing program.

The women's fencing team had the fourth-best cumulative term GPA (3.766) out of WSU's 18 sponsored teams for the Winter 2026 semester, trailing only men's tennis (3.868), women's soccer (3.781), and softball (3.777). Seven student-athletes were included on the Athletic Director's Honor Roll for a term GPA of 3.5 or better, with five of those seven achieving a perfect 4.0 term GPA.

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Players Mentioned

Ludovica Mancini: Foil; 5' 4"; Senior

Mehreen Siddiqui: Sabre; 4' 11"; Senior

Reagan Byars: Sabre; 5' 7"; Graduate Student

Salma Abdrabou: Epee; 5' 5"; Senior

Anabella Acurero Gonzalez: Foil; 5' 4"; Junior

Reka Galfalvy: Epee; 5' 6"; Senior

Players Mentioned

Ludovica Mancini
: 5' 4"; Senior
: Foil

Mehreen Siddiqui
: 4' 11"; Senior
: Sabre

Reagan Byars
: 5' 7"; Graduate Student
: Sabre

Salma Abdrabou
: 5' 5"; Senior
: Epee

Anabella Acurero Gonzalez
: 5' 4"; Junior
: Foil

Reka Galfalvy
: 5' 6"; Senior
: Epee