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Adrienne Nott |
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HONORS & AWARDS
NCAA Fourth Place Finisher (2008)
First Team All-American (2007, 2008)
Second Team All-American (2006)
CoSIDA Academic All-America (2008)
U.S. Junior National Team Member (2006)
Women's Foil Team Captain
Fourth-year standout who has emerged as one
of nation's top women's foilists, after earning All-
America honors in her first three years with the
Irish ... has become more patient with picking her
spots and deciding when to force the action ... an
intelligent fencer who does extensive film study of
her previous bouts ... has mental toughness to
overcome any challenge during a competition ...
overcomes smaller frame with significant physical
preparation and extensive bouting practice that
simulates tough situations ... steadily moved up
national rankings while making her technical
actions more complex and effective ... owned a
solid overall ranking of 13th among all U.S.
women's foilists (she is not currently ranked, due
to limited competition in '07&'08) ... earlier
completed the 2005-06 USFA circuit with fifthplace
standing in junior rankings ... enters senior
season having won nearly 90 percent of her
regular-season bouts with the Irish (170-22; .885),
representing the sixth-most career wins in
women's foil history ... quick fighter on the strip
with good actions on her touches and a strong
workrate ... nicknamed "Adi" ... invited member
of Notre Dame athletics' Academic Honors
faculty mentoring program.
RECENT NATIONAL AND
INTERNATIONAL RESULTS: Competed in
two Junior World Cup events during 2006 fall
semester, placing 64th in Bratislava, Slovakia
(Oct.), and 45th in Jesi, Italy (Nov.) ... her results
on 2005-06 Jr.World Cup circuit included 39th in
Jesi (Nov. '05), 88th in Budapest (Jan. '06) and
83rd in Lyon, France (Feb. '06) ... member of U.S.
team that competed at 2006 Junior World
Championships in South Korea ... competed
alongside Emily Cross,Doris Willette and Lindsay
Knauer on U.S women's foil team that took
fourth at 2006 World Jr. Championships (South
Korea; April '06) ... the U.S. beat Hong Kong
(45-12) and Hungary (45-43) before semifinal
loss to eventual champ Italy (34-45) ... opened
2006-07 USFA competition with seventh-place
finish at North American Cup in Albuquerque,
N.M. (Nov. '06), followed by 13th at N.A.C. in
Richmond,Va. (Dec. '06), another seventh-place
finish at the N.A.C. in Columbus, Ohio, and a
runner-up finish at the Junior Olympics in
Denver, Colo. ... her 2005-06 USFA results
included: 14th in overall D-1 standings at
Pittsburgh N.A.C. (Dec. '05); 21st overall and
third in junior/U-20 competition (behind Willette
and Nemecek) at the Houston N.A.C. (Jan. '06);
runner-up to Cross at Junior Olympics in
Hartford, Conn. (Feb. '06); 12th in overall bouts
at the Sacramento N.A.C. (April '06); and 17th in
Atlanta at Summer Nationals (July '06), among
elite field that included Cross, Iris Zimmermann
(former NCAA and world champ), Erinn Smart
('04 Olympian), former ND four-year All-
American Andrea Ament and recent Ohio State
standout Hanna Thompson (Nott also was 19th in
U-19 bouts at 2006 Summer
Nationals) ... earlier placed
33rd at 2005 Summer Nationals
in Sacramento and 16th at
Albuquerque N.A.C (Nov. '05).
AS A JUNIOR: Earned First
Team All-American honors
with a fourth place finish at
NCAAs ... runner-up at the
NCAA Midwest Regional ...
named Notre Dame
Monogram Club MVP and the
Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph
Valley Rockne Student-Athlete
Award winner ... posted a 69-
10 (.873) record in the regular
season ... at the Western Invite
went 15-0 on day one and
allowed only five touches at the
event, including 12 shutouts ...
her most noteworthy win at the
event came against Stanford's
Jessica Wacker (5-0),who was a
2007 NCAA entrant ... went
10-1 at the Northwestern
Duals ... posted an impressive
22-0 record at the ND duals ...
at the Midwest Regionals
opened with a 4-1 record in
pool play, including wins over
Northwestern's Sam Nemecek
(5-0) and Meredith Baskies,
also of Northwestern, (5-2) ...
received the top seed and a first
round bye in direct elimination
... advanced to the final with a
win over Natalie Wang of Northwestern (15-6) ...
defeated Baskies (15-4) and Reese (15-7) to
advance to the finals ... fell to Oksana Dmytruk
of Ohio State (15-10) in the championship bout
... in the fall season, reached semifinals at annual
Penn State Open ... had a quarterfinal win over
Penn's Abby Emerson, loss to Ohio State's Knauer
in semifinals (4-15) and win over Northwestern's
Nemecek in 3rd-place bout (15-6).
AS A SOPHOMORE: Turned in a
dominating regular season that saw her win more
than 90 percent of her bouts (57-6) before an
equally impressive postseason that included
winning the Midwest Fencing Conference and
NCAA Midwest Region titles (plus a 3rd-place
finish for All-America honors at the NCAAs) ...
she and freshman epeeist Kelley Hurley were
named co-MVPs of the 2007 Notre Dame
women's fencing team (she also was named the
women's foil team MVP) ... won all but one of
her 18 bouts at the ND Duals, with a pair of key
wins to help Irish women edge Ohio State, 14-13
(5-0 vs. Courtney Streithorst; 5-2 vs. Holly
McKibben) ... kept rolling at the NYU Duals
(15-3), where her pair of wins versus
Northwestern (5-2 vs. Jessica Florendo; 5-1 vs.
Christina Wang) helped produce another thrilling
14-13 win for the Irish women ... had several
other top wins at NYU, in bouts versus the
Columbia duo of Kelsey Finkel (5-0) and Cassidy
Luitjen (5-3), North Carolina's Diana
Schawlowski (5-2),Yale's Alisa Mendelsohn 5-2)
and Katia Larchanka of St. John's (4-3) ... swept
all 10 of her bouts at the Duke Duals, including a
5-1 win over Marilyn Tycer and a 5-3 victory over Myramn Ruth that helped the women's foil team
battle back to beat Air Force ... closed the regular
season with a 17-2 record at the Northwestern
Duals that included a 5-2 win over Florendo, two
wins over Penn State (5-2 vs. both Tamara Najm
and Allison Glasser), and a 5-1 bout with Temple's
Nina Gernes ... Doris Willette (a U.S. junior
national teammate of Nott's) edged Nott for a 5-
4 win and a 14-13 PSU team victory ...
maintained her top seed at the MFC by breezing
through her pools, followed by 15-2 wins over
ND teammate Cota in the round of 16 and OSU's
McKibben in the quarterfinals ... rolled on to the
MFC title with a 15-10 semifinal victory over
Florendo and a comfortable margin in the final
(15-6, vs. the other Northwestern standout,
Nemecek) ... had pair of wins - over Streithorst
(5-1) and Julia Tikhonova (5-2) - in MFC epee
team semifinal (won 5-4 by OSU) ... entered
Regional (at ND) as #2 seed but moved up to top
spot after pool bouts ... followed with big wins
over OSU's Streithorst (15-4) and McKibben (15-
2; round-of-8) before again topping the NU duo
(15-10 semifinal vs. Florendo; 8-6 final vs.
Nemecek) ... joined Hurley as two of five Notre
Dame fencers (two men, three women) in current
decade who have won MFC and Regional titles
in same season ... had a chance to pull off the
postseason trifecta at the NCAAs (in Madison,
N.J.), after finishing third in the round robin (18-
5) ... suffered loss to St. John's newcomer Monika
Golebiewski in the NCAA semifinals (3-15) but
won overtime battle with PSU's Najm in thirdplace
bout (9-8; trailed 2-4) ... her 12-2 record on
day one of the NCAAs included going 5-2 versus
fencers who finished the day in the top-eight: 5-1
vs. both Florendo and Nemecek; 5-3 vs. OSU's
Tikhonova; 5-2 vs. Najm; and 5-1 vs. Penn's
Emerson ... closed on day two with a 6-3 record
that included key wins over Columbia's Kathleen Reckling (5-0) and the Harvard duo of Arielle
Pensler (5-1) and Misha Goldfeder (3-2) ... was
tied for third after the round robin but seized
third seed due to strong total-point indicators
(+42) ... combined with Prot for 29 wins in
NCAAs, trailing only PSU's 40 and SJU's 30
among the women's foil field ... earlier had been
runner-up at the Jr. Olympics in Denver, Colo....
had another impressive finish as runner-up at
Penn State Open in fall of '06, after entering as
#11 seed ... top wins at PSU Open came vs.
Temple's Gernes (5-2), the fifth seed, Emerson of
Penn (4-3),WSU's Howard (5-0), #7 seed Zoya
Abdikulova of Penn (5-0), PSU's Anne Jackson
(15-4, in DE), #8 seed Melissa Parker of Temple
(15-7 quarterfinal) and Harvard's Pensler (15-2
semifinal), before losing 7-15 final to Cross (who
fences for Harvard).
AS A FRESHMAN: Won nearly 90 percent
of her bouts in regular season (44-6) before
reaching MFC semifinals, finishing as runner-up
at the Midwest Regional and earning All-
America honors with sixth-place finish at NCAAs
(in Houston) ... named MVP of women's foil
squad ... her 15-1 record at Northwestern Duals
included 5-2 wins over NU's Nemecek and
Fullerton's Senta Breden ... followed with more
impressive wins at NYU Duals (11-3), vs.
eventual NCAA champion Erzsebet Garay of St.
John's (5-3), Yale's Alisa Mendelsohn (5-4),
Columbia's Kathleen Reckling (5-4) and NYU's
Kristen Wentrcek (5-0) ... her 14-2 record at ND
Duals included wins over Florendo (5-2) and
Duke's Tycer (5-1) ... added 4-0 mark at OSU
Duals ... topped teammate Melanie Bautista in
MFC semifinals (15-2) before losing semifinal to
Nemecek (3-15) ... her wins over Amelia Galliard
(5-2) and Kristen Rill (5-0) helped knock off
Ohio State in MFC team semifinals ... had two
wins vs. Northwestern (3-2 vs. Nemecek, 5-1 vs.
Wang) in MFC team title matchup that went to
final bout (4-5) ... regional runner-up finish (in
Cleveland), posting DE wins over OSU's
Marguerite Plekhanov (15-1),Wang (15-11) and
Florendo (15-13) before losing final bout to
Nemecek (7-15) ... opened NCAAs 9-5, with
her top day-one wins vs. defending champion
Cross (5-4), Harvard's Chloe Stinetorf, Florendo,
PSU's Najm, Penn's Emerson and Fullerton's
Breden (all 5-2), plus WSU's Howard (5-1) ...
completed her sixth-place All-America showing
(15-8) with 6-3 record on day two, including wins
over Columbia's Kelsey Finkel (5-0), eventual
runner-up Jacqueline Leahy of Princeton (5-2),
Princeton's Sara Jew-Lim (5-2), Temple's Gernes
(5-1) and NYU's Wentrcek (5-0) ... seven
previous ND freshman women's fencers had
posted top-six finishes at the NCAAs: foilists
Alicja Kryczalo ('02 champ), Ament ('02 runnerup),
Sara Walsh ('96 runner-up) and Molly
Sullivan (5th in '85), epeeist Magda Krol ('97
champ), and Valerie Providenza ('04 champ) and
Mariel Zagunis ('05 runner-up) ... placed 12th at
PSU Open (fall '05), losing in round of 16 to her
club teammate and former OSU standout Metta
Thompson.
PREP & PERSONAL: Attended Pittsford
Mendon HS while training at the Rochester
Fencing Club, under Nat Goodhartz (a U.S.
national team coach) ... ranked in the top-10 in
age group throughout youth fencing ... had topeight
finishes in junior and cadet N.A.C.'s from
'01-'05 (top-32 at Jr.World Cups in Slovakia and
France) ... finished top-eight at cadet and junior
nationals from '01-'05 ... member of National
Honor Society ... full name is Adrienne Marissa
Nott ... daughter of Ken Nott and Teri Pasadero
... born April 30, 1987, in Baltimore ... a double
major in Japanese and psychology, in the College
of Arts and Letters.
