Olga Kalinovskaya earned her first NCAA individual national championship in 1993 and repeated as national champion three more times through 1996. In 1995, Penn State began a run of six consecutive national team titles.
The Division I Competition Oversight Committee will initiate a review process this fall for championship sports that have 50 or fewer sponsoring schools.
Fencing is a family passion for the Hurleys, who were coached by a father who met their mother through fencing. It was also a path for an academic career that guided Kelley to medical school and Courtney to a film, television and theater degree.
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.
