April 12, 2006
Two freshman members of the Notre Dame fencing team – sabreist Bill Thanhouser and foilist Adrienne Nott – currently are in Taebek City, South Korea, competing with the United States national-team contingent at the World Junior Fencing Championships. Notre Dame is one of just three college fencing programs with multiple fencers among the 24 total participants on the U.S. junior (under-20) team. The 24 Team USA fencers include nine current collegians and 15 high school fencers, among them Notre Dame signee and epee standout Kelley Hurley.
Adrienne Nott – fresh off an All-America performance at the NCAAs – will compete with Team USA in the World Junior foil team bouts (photo by Pete LaFleur).
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The April 12 bouts were to include the junior men’s sabre and women’s foil individual competition, followed by women’s sabre and men’s epee on the 13th and men’s foil and women’s epee on the 14th. The team bouting then will take place over the final three days, in the same rotation with men’s sabre and women’s foil on April 15, women’s sabre and men’s epee on the 16th and men’s foil and women’s epee on the 17th.
Thanhouser (Portland, Ore.) and Hurley will compete in both the individual and team competitions for their respective weapons while Nott in slated to fence only in the team portion. Thanhouser’s teammates include Stanford’s Teddy Levitt, Penn State’s Matthew Zich and high schooler Andrew Bielen (Philadelphia, Pa.) while Hurley (San Antonio, Texas) is teamed with her younger sister Courtney and two other pre-college fencers in Christa French (Southlake, Texas) and Tess Finkel (New York, N.Y.).
Nott (Rochester, N.Y.) – like Thanhouser and Hurley, a lefthanded fencer – will fence alongside Harvard’s Emily Cross and high schoolers Doris Willette (Rodeo, Calif.) and Lindsay Knauer (Medford, N.J.)
The other five college fencers (in addition to those listed above) on the U.S. 2006 world junior team include: Ohio State foilist Andras Horanyi (19, Boulder, Colo./Northern Colo. Fencers/Ohio State ’09), Harvard epeeists Ben Ungar and Teddy Sherrill, epeeist Stanley Vaksman of St. John’s and Penn State sabreist Caitlin Thompson.
Notre Dame signee Kelley Hurley – one of the top-ranked young women’s epeeists in the world – will join her future Notre Dame teammates Bill Thanhouser and Adi Nott as members of the U.S. contingent at the 2006 World Juniors.
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