Queen's Fencing had a successful weekend at the Brock Open, with two fencers coming home with double bronze, while Queen's Women's Squash dominated their second Jesters Sectional of the season, winning both matches 7-0.

Queen's Fencing

Brock University hosted 45 Queen's fencers in eleven events at the 2025 Brock Open this weekend. Queen's rookie foilists Graeme Wood and Alison Wang add to the Gaels' medal count this season as they both won bronze medals in their respective Junior Foil events.

On Saturday's, in Junior Men's Foil, Wood defeated Vango's Yevgen Yanko to get in the semi-finals where he narrowly lost to Canadian Fencing Academy's Gavin Yin, finishing with a score of 14 to 15 and securing the Bronze Medal.
 

Queen's had several top 8 finishes in Saturday's Senior events, with Graham Goodwin placing 6th in Senior Men's Epee, Luke Steverango coming 7th in Senior Men's Sabre, and Alison Wang placing 8th in Senior Women's Foil. Additionally, the Gaels teams had two top 16 finishes and six top 32 placements in the first day's events.

In the second day of the competition, Alison Wang repeated her teammate's success by winning the Bronze in Junior Women's Foil after defeating Eva Cao of Olympia de Longueuil to get into the semi-finals where she faced the eventual gold medalist from Vango, Maryna Yanko.

In other events on Sunday, in Senior Women's Sabre, Tia Gayowsky narrowly missed the podium placing 5th and there were four Gaels who made the top 16 in their events and six others in the top 32.

The Queen's Varsity Fencing Team returns to competition at the Carleton Team Invitational after the winter break in preparation for the OUA Championships.



















Full Results:
 
Junior Men's Foil
Bronze – Graeme Wood
19th – Ewan Sutherland

Senior Men's Epee
6th – Graham Goodwin
36th – Nathan Harrison
53rd – Leopold Barbier
57th – Jay Solomon
76th – Liam Pereira-Mendoza
86th – Joshua Gough

Junior Women's Sabre
9th - Sonia Wu

Senior Men's Sabre
7th – Luke Steverango
11th – Luigi Burjato
19th – Jack Atkinson
30th – Ben Van Eeden
32nd – Justin Bhatla
47th – Ryan Davidson
51st – Leo Zhao
63rd – Jacob Phillipson

Senior Women's Foil
8th – Alison Wang
24th – Sarah Jacobson
27th – Sophie Kitson
36th – Annika Kim
37th – Shayna Sharma
51st – Abbi Solomon
75th – Cary Tu

Senior Men's Foil
10th – Ewan Peterson
14th – Graeme Wood
42ndT – Pendleton Murray
42ndT – Kevin Xie
58th – Ewan Sutherland
67th – Benjamin Niemi
74th – Jimmy Lu
97th – Brogan Long

Junior Women's Foil
BRONZE – Alison Wang
19th – Abbi Solomon

Senior Women's Sabre
5th - Tia Gayowsky
21st – Sara Gharbaoui
22nd – Quintyn Zuber
42nd – Sonia Wu
49th – Joyce Lyn Fox
60th – Alisha Zheng
62nd – Aya El-Awour

Senior Women's Epee
22nd – Lillian Liu
24th – Songyeon Kim
30th – Autumn Wang
44th – Elizabeth Fullerton
48th – Eli Hiatt
54th – Sarena Sandhu
57th – Drew Gabrielle Cuencaho
65th – Julia Robinson

Junior Men's Epee
9th – Graham Goodwin

Queen's Women's Squash

The Queen's Women's Squash team travelled to McMaster this past weekend to compete in the 2nd Jesters Sectional facing both home team McMaster and Guelph. The Gaels dominated with a 7-0 win over both opponents.



Sage Eberhard, our #1 roster position, played two hard fought battles, beating Sofia Quon (MAC) 3-2 in a marathon match and Guelph's #1, 3-1. Mental toughness and solid fitness paved the way for victory.

The Queen's Men's and Women's Squash teams will host all universities at the Jesters Crossover #2 on January 17-18 at the ARC. Come out and support your Gaels!