Fencing Completes Temple Open; 12 Quakers Earn Spots on the Podium

PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania fencing applications opened the 2025-26 season on the Temple Open this weekend, with 12 Quakers incomes spots on the rostrum to finish the two-day event.
 
Eight fencers from the lads’s group and 4 from the ladies’s group earned medals to cap off the weekend for Penn. For the ladies, Grace Hu led the cost, incomes gold within the epee desk. Kimberly Jang trailed Hu, incomes silver in foil, whereas Lila Paul positioned sixth in saber, and Katherine Andres grabbed eighth in saber.
 
Antonio Heathcock rallied the troops for the lads’s group, incomes silver in foil, adopted by Nicholas Jin (epee), Conrad Lo (foil), Simon Lioznyansky (epee), and Jaesun Yun (saber), all of whom landed bronze of their weapons. Avery Townsend (sixth, epee), Ben Serafin (eighth, epee), and Alexander Wu (eighth, foil) rounded out the Quakers who earned podium spots on Broad Street.
 
Victoria Amore, Eda Cevikol, Misha Gujja, Jang, Boryana Mitova, Lila Paul, Cathleen Shi, and Sophia Zheng made their collegiate debuts for the ladies, whereas Lioznyansky, Lo, Alexander Moses, and Wu hit the piste for the primary time for the lads.
 
Up Next
The Quakers head to Ohio State for the Elite Invitational on Friday, Nov. 7, and Saturday, Nov. 8.
 
Men
Foil
Conrad Lo, T3rd
Alexander Wu, eighth
Nicholas Wu, 18th
Luke Zhang, 51st
Epee
Simon Lioznyansky, T3rd
Nicholas Jin, T3rd
Avery Townsend, sixth
Ben Serafin eighth
Alexander Moses thirteenth
Joseph Wu, twenty seventh
Saber
Antonio Heathcock, 2nd
Jaesun Yun, T3rd
Ben Kogan, twentieth
Simon Kushkov, twenty first
Gian Dhingra, forty sixth
Ryan Cheong, fifty fifth
 
Women
Foil
Kimberly Jang, 2nd
Victoria Amore, twenty second
Malak Hamza, thirty second
Sophie Neuman, T34th
Samantha Hsiung, thirty eighth
Emily Kim, T48th
Alexis Bienstock, T58th
Epee
Grace Hu, 1st
Victoria Kuznetsov, twelfth
Alexandra Wong, twenty fourth
Eda Cevikol, twenty fifth
Boryana Mitova, thirty third
Misha Gujja, forty fifth
Saber
Lila Paul, sixth
Katherine Andres, eighth
Leah Blum, ninth
Cathleen Shi, 14th
Amanda Li, T44th
Sophia Zheng, T65th
 

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