HAVERFORD, Pa. The Eastern Women's Fencing Conference (EWFC) has announced its 2022 Woman of the Year honorable mention award winners, with Haverford's Golda Glasser being named to the prestigious list for the 2021-22 season. The league's Woman of the Year Award is bestowed annually upon the fencer who best combines the triple standards of success in athletics, excellence in academics, and participation in extracurricular activities. In 2018-19, Haverford sabre fencer Anna Neuheardt was the overall winner of the award.
Glasser most recently represented the Fords in the NCAA Regional Championships at Princeton, placing 34th overall. Glasser won the EWFC Foil Championship, the first EWFC individual crown for the Fords since Emma Buckingham won in epee in 2009. Unlike her opponents in the individual competition, Golda fenced every single bout of every round during the grueling team event, posting an impressive 17 -7 record. The distinction of "EWFC Foil Fencer of the Year" came on the heels of that championship, as Glasser later followed up the win with a solid performance at the National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association (NIWFA) meet on March 8, finishing with qualification to the direction elimination bouts and a 13th overall placement as the foil squad grabbed an eighth place finish.
The nine student-athletes garnering EWFC Woman of the Year honorable mention accolades are Hunter College junior Yiqi Deng (Epee / Biochemistry), Wellesley College senior Yasemin Ersen (Saber / Neuroscience), Haverford College senior Golda Glasser (Foil / Political Science & Mathematics), Johns Hopkins University senior Miya Herman (Foil / Cognitive Science), Yeshiva University senior Ruth Lando (Foil & Epee / Psychology), Drew University junior Sophia McGee (Epee / Marketing), Vassar College senior Emilie Rose Parker (Epee / Political Science & Hispanic Studies), City College of New York senior Katherine Scardino (Epee / Psychology), and Denison University junior Tessy Udoh (Saber / Computer Science).
The EWFC was founded ahead of the 2000-01 campaign and includes charter members City College of New York, Hunter College, Stevens Institute of Technology, and Yeshiva University. Former program Bard College was replaced by Drew University in 2002-03, while Haverford College joined in 2005-06, Johns Hopkins University entered in 2007-08, and Vassar College came on board in 2014-15. And the conference most recently expanded to a record-high 10 teams with the additions of Wellesley College and Denison University for the 2021-22 edition of its Dual Meet & Individual Championships.
EWFC 2022 WOMAN OF THE YEAR TEAM • OVERALL WINNER
- Kiera Barnes (Stevens Institute of Technology) Saber
EWFC 2022 WOMAN OF THE YEAR TEAM • HONORABLE MENTION
- Yiqi Deng (Hunter College) Epee
- Yasemin Ersen (Wellesley College) Saber
- Golda Glasser (Haverford College) Foil
- Miya Herman (Johns Hopkins University) Foil
- Ruth Lando (Yeshiva University) Foil & Epee
- Sophia McGee (Drew University) Epee
- Emilie Rose Parker (Vassar College) Epee
- Katherine Scardino (City College of New York) Epee
- Tessy Udoh (Denison University) Saber