Notre Dame Fighting Irish fencing


The Notre Dame Fighting Irish fencing team represents the University of Notre Dame in collegiate fencing. The Irish compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference of NCAA Division I.

National championships

Team

  • Men: 1977, 1978, 1986
  • Women: 1987
  • Combined: 1994, 2003, 2005, 2011, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025

    Individual

Women's Foil
  • Molly Sullivan
  • Heidi Piper
  • Alicja Kryczalo
  • Lee Kiefer
  • Stefani Deschner
Women's Épée
  • Magda Krol
  • Kerry Walton
  • Kelley Hurley
  • Courtney Hurley
  • Eszter Muhari
Women's Saber
  • Valerie Providenza
  • Mariel Zagunis
  • Sarah Borrmann
  • Francesca Russo
  • Kara Linder
  • Magda Skarbonkiewicz
Men's Foil
  • Pat Gerard
  • Andrew Bonk
  • Charles Higgs-Coulthard
  • Gerek Meinhardt
  • Ariel DeSmet
  • Nick Itkin
  • Marcello Olivares
  • Chase Emmer
Men's Épée
Men's Saber
  • Mike Sullivan
  • Luke LaValle
  • Gabor Szelle
  • Luke Linder

    Year-by-year results

The following is a list of Notre Dame's all-time season records. Note that women's fencing was club status from 1972 to 1975, becoming varsity in the 1976 season.

Facilities

Castellan Family Fencing Center

After the Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's ice hockey team moved from the Joyce Center to the Compton Family Ice Arena in 2011, the vacated facilities were renovated and opened as the Castellan Family Fencing Center in 2012. The facility consists of 15 permanent strips in front of bleacher seating, under which features separate men’s, women’s and coaches’ locker rooms, an armory repair room, team lounge and kitchen area, an enclosed conference room and individual coaches offices.
Prior to 2012, the Irish trained on the second floor of the Joyce Center and hosted home matches opposite the hockey rink on portable strips.

The Winning Streak

From 1975 to 1980, the Irish won 122 straight regular season matches, surpassing John Wooden's 88 consecutive basketball wins to set the NCAA varsity sports winning streak record, a record not broken for over a decade.. During the streak, the Irish won their first national championship in 1977 and again in 1978.