Wildcats Open First Coaches Poll at No. 5

NU is ranked No. 5 in first USFCA Coaches Poll

Wildcats Open First Coaches Poll at No. 5

1/23/2007 12:00:00 AM | Women's Fencing

Jan. 23, 2007

EVANSTON, Ill. - Northwestern's women's fencing team opened the 2007 USFCA College Fencing Coaches Poll at No. 5. The Wildcats are 16-1 this season with its only loss to No. 8 Penn.

The Big Ten is well represented in the first poll of the new year, as Penn State is No. 1, followed by NU at No. 5 and Ohio State No. 6.

A complete list of the Women's Coaches' Poll is below.

1. Penn State
2. Columbia-Barnard
3. Harvard
4. Notre Dame
5. Northwestern
6. Ohio State
t. St. John's (NY)
8. Pennsylvania
9. Temple
10. Stanford
Others receiving votes--Princeton, Yale, Duke, UC-San Diego, North Carolina, Wayne State (MI), Cornell, Air Force, Rutgers, Brandeis