Congrats to Becca on her third NCAA individual saber championship.
That has to put her pretty high on the list of accomplished Duke athletes, male or female, any sport.
First woman to win three times in sabre. Fifth women overall in NCAA history to win three fencing championships. Don't know if anybody has ever won four. Congrats! What an accomplishment!
http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.db...DB_OEM_ID=4200
Crazy. Then again, she is an Olympian and pretty far beyond a lot of her competition at the college level.
Fencing has now contributed what... four NCAA titles? As many as basketball! Coach Beguinet and Coach K... two peas in a pod!
Congrats Becca. Amazing.
"This is the best of all possible worlds."
Dr. Pangloss - Candide
Thanks for that info! She joins very select company. I wasn't counting coaches - obviously Coach K has 4. Just individuals who were on championship teams or who won NCAA titles in individual competition.
Reminds me of my 10th Duke reunion ... met a classmate, with whom I had several math classes, who went on to fence in the Olympics and now coaches at Duke - Leslie McFarland Marx. Women's fencing was completely off my radar, and I felt bad for not knowing of her tremendous success in that realm, but I was very happy for her and glad to see her again. Holy crap, I see she got a PhD in econ too. Wow. Another amazing Dukie.