NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The NCAA Men's and Women's Fencing Committee announced the field of 144 competitors who will participate in 2020 National Collegiate Men's and Women's Fencing Championships and three Yale men's fencers have been selected.
 
Safi Haider (epee), Maxwell Yee (foil) and Nicholas Del Vecchio (sabre) will each be heading to Michigan later this month. Haider is coming off a second-place finish at the Northeast Regionals over the weekend.
 
Twenty-Six member institutions will be represented at this year's fencing championships. University of Detroit Mercy and Detroit Sports Commission will co-host the championships at TCF Center in Detroit, March 19-22, 2020. 
 
National Collegiate Men's and Women's Fencing Championships include individual events in each of six weapons (men's épée, men's foil, men's sabre, women's épée, women's foil and women's sabre). 

Fencers will compete in a round-robin format of five-touch bouts. After round robin, top-four finishers in each weapon will fence in semifinal 15-touch bouts, with winners fencing to determine first and second places, and non-advancing fencers being awarded a tie for third place. 
 
An institution's place finish in championships will be based on points earned by each individual. A team will be awarded one point for each victory by its student-athletes during round-robin competition.