Notre Dame Women Win 2026 NCAA Fencing National Championship

Notre Dame remains a fencing school after bringing home (while being at home) another NCAA National Championship. Notre Dame outscored Columbia, 102-99, in South Bend to win the inaugural women's three-weapon NCAA championship, while Eszter Muhari, Jessica Guo and Natalia Botello gave the event an unmistakably international set of individual champions. https://t.

co/XtidX3dO4i — USA Fencing (@USAFencing) March 20, 2026 Notre Dame Wins 2026 NCAA Women’s Fencing Championship CHARLOTTE, N. C. (theACC.

com) – The Notre Dame women’s fencing program won the 2026 NCAA Women’s Fencing Championship on Friday, March 20, at the Joyce Center in South Bend, Indiana. This marks the Fighting Irish’s first women’s team championship, as the event shifted to separate men’s and women’s team championships this season. Notre Dame won 14 co-ed national championships, including six of the last eight under head coach Gia Kvaratskhelia (2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025).

The team national championship is the third earned by an ACC program this school year, following women’s cross country (NC State) and women’s soccer (Florida State). Notre Dame’s Eszter Muhari (women’s epee) won her third career individual national title, including her second straight (2023, 2025). She rolled in the championship bout, downing Princeton’s Hadley Husisian, 13-1.