An NCAA committee has selected two former student-athletes as recipients of the Walter Byers Scholarship. The scholarships will go to Rachael Acker, a former swimmer at California, and Derek Soled, a former fencer at Yale.
The Division I Competition Oversight Committee will initiate a review process this fall for championship sports that have 50 or fewer sponsoring schools.
All it took was a change of mentality to bring Columbia University-Barnard College’s fencing program back to its former glory as the Lions earned their first national championship since 1993 – a 22-year drought.
