Notre Dame women’s fencing wins NCAA Championship

Notre Dame women’s fencing wins NCAA Championship

Last Updated: March 20, 2026By

(Notre Dame) — For the first time since 1990, the NCAA is holding separate men’s and women’s fencing championships.

That may just mean twice the titles for the host school, Notre Dame.

Friday, the Irish women rallied on the second day of competition to get past Columbia, 102-99, earning the school’s first exclusive women’s fencing championship since 1987.  Notre Dame had won 11 co-ed championships, including six of the last eight.

Notre Dame’s Hungarian senior Eszter Muhari dominated the epee competition, blasting Princeton’s Hadley Husisian in the finals, 13-1. The Irish also took second and third in the women’s sabre. Portland, Oregon native Magd Skarbokiewicz lost the championship match to Ohio State’s Natalia Botello, 15-5, while her fellow Oregonian Siobhan Sullivan lost to Botello, 15-11, in the semifinals.

It’s the seventh championship for Notre Dame head coach Gia Kvaratskhelia since taking over the program in 2014.

The men’s championship opens Saturday in the north dome of the Joyce Center.

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