ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell fencing head coach Iryna Dolgikh has announced the Big Red's incoming class of 2014. Cornell will add five fencers to next year's squad, as Haley Conover (Comstock Park, Mich.), Kristi Conway (Wading River, N.Y.), Jennifer Lee (Parsippany, N.J.), Christine McIntosh (Clifton, N.J.) and April Whitney (Washington Depot, Conn.) will join the team for the 2010-11 season. The class of five comes from four different states and consists of three foil, one saber and one epee.

“Our strategy as team recruiters is to bring in fencers in certain weapons a year before they will be needed,” said Dolgikh. “For example, in the 2008-09 recruiting year we heavily recruited epee fencers because we expected to have four major epees graduate in the spring of 2010. Now, as we enter the fall of 2010, we have with several solid sophomore epeeists. This past season, our task was to concentrate on brining in quality foil fencers as freshmen for the fall of 2010, as we expect to graduate several foils this spring.”

Cornell Fencing 2010-11 Recruiting Class
Name	Ht.	Pos.	Hometown (High School)
Haley Conover	5-4	Foil	Comstock Park, Mich. (Comstock Park HS)
Kristi Conway	5-3	Saber	Wading River, N.Y. (Shoreham-Wading River HS)
Jennifer Lee	5-2	Epee	Parsippany, N.J. (The Dwight School)
Christine McIntosh	5-8	Foil	Clifton, N.J. (Montclair Kimberley Academy)
April Whitney	5-1	Foil	Washington Depot, Conn. (The Masters School)

Cornell Fencing Class of 2014
Player Biographies

Haley Conover – 5-4 – Foil – Comstock Park, Mich.
(Comstock Park HS)
Conover fenced at the West Michigan Fencing Academy, where she served as team captain during the 2009-10 season and was named a 2010 USFA Academic All-American first team selection. She was the Great Lakes High School championship silver medalist in 2010, after winning the gold medal in 2009.

Dolgikh on Conover: Haley is a USFA C-rated fencer. She has some great experience, including winning the 2009 Great Lakes High School Championship, and we expect her to do well in team competition.

Kristi Conway – 5-3 – Saber – Wading River, N.Y.
(Shoreham-Wading River HS)
As a member of the Mission Fencing Center, Conway took third-place at the 2008 Division II NAC A tournament. That same year, she also took third-place at the Division III Summer Nationals. Conway was also the valedictorian of her class at Shoreham-Wading River high school, where she lettered twice in cross country and once each in winter and spring track. She earned all-county honors in cross country and was named all-league in both winter and spring track.

Dolgikh on Conway: Kristi is a USFA-B rated fencer. She has shown great results on the Junior National fencing stage and she will be a great addition to our young saber squad.

Jennifer Lee – 5-2 – Epee – Parsippany, N.J.
(The Dwight School)
Lee fenced for six years at The Dwight School, as well as Fencers Club, one of the best clubs in the nation.

Dolgikh on Lee: Jennifer is a USFA C-rated fencer. She has many years of experience fencing on the national stage and belongs to one of the best and well known fencing clubs in the country. She is also an excellent student in the classroom.

Christine McIntosh – 5-8 – Foil – Clifton, N.J.
(Montclair Kimberley Academy)
McIntosh lettered in fencing twice at Montclair Kimberley Academy, serving as team captain during her senior season. Twice she was selected as team MVP and named to the All State team. On the national level, McIntosh is a USFA A rated fencer having earned the silver medal at the 2010 Summer National Championships in Division 1A, and placed in the top 32 in both Division 1 and U19. During the 2009 Summer National Championships, McIntosh won the gold medal in Division 3 and placed in the top 8 in Division 1A. Internationally, she placed in the top 16 at the 2009 Montreal Junior World Cup, and the top 32 at the 2010 Zagreb Junior World Cup.

Dolgikh on McIntosh: Christine is a USFA A-rated fencer. She is sharp, motivated, very productive and a hard worker. She has improved tremendously in just two years of serious fencing.

April Whitney – 5-1 – Foil – Washington Depot, Conn.
(The Masters School)
Whitney fenced for nine years at The Masters School and three years at the Fencers Club before joining Empire United Fencing in 2007. She enters Cornell as the 22nd ranked junior foil in the nation by the USFA and is the 77th ranked junior foil by the Federation Internationale D'Escrime. Whitney has had many top-20 performances at various national and international competitions, highlighted by placing sixth in the women's foil at the 2009-10 Junior World Cup after taking seventh at the 2008-09 Division IA Summer Nationals. During the 2008-09 season, she helped the junior women's foil team to a gold medal at the Summer Nationals, before helping the senior women's foil team to a silver medal.

Dolgikh on Whitney: April is a USFA A-rated fencer. She is very stable and has many years of experience on the strip. She will be a solid and reliable performer in team competition.