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Fencing
HONORS & AWARDS Second Team All-American Talented sophomore who combines with classmate Avery Zuck and senior Bll Thanhouser for yet another strong sabre trio ... combines with Thanhouser to give Irish pair of dangerous lefthanders on sabre squad ... has tremendous natural speed and sturdy 6-1 frame ... emotional competitor who should benefit as he gains experience on college level ... served as alternate with U.S. team at 2005 Cadet/Under- 17 World Championship ... owns an FIE U-20 world ranking of 23 (as of Dec. 4, 2008), after ranking as high as 10th in the past year. RECENT INTERNATIONAL RESULTS: Finished second at the October 2008 Junior World Cup Event held in Montreal ... placed 46th out of 139 competitors at the Junior World Cup Event held in Dormagen, Germany in November of the same year... also finished 10th at the Goppingen, Germany Junior World Cup event held in January 2008 ... competed in four Senior World Cup events during the 2008 season, topping out with a 24th-place finish at the Fencing World Cup event held in Venezuela in June ... had a strong 12th-place finish (field of 56) in first Junior World Cup of season (in Odessa, Ukraine; Sept. '06) ... competed the next month at Junior World Cup in Sosnowiec, Poland (96th of 105) and then was 68th out of 133 fencers at the Junior World Cup in Dormagen, Germany (Nov.) ... competed at a pair of World Cups to open 2007 (both in Jan.), placing 52nd out of 136 in Budapest and 13th in a field of 33 in Montreal ... also fenced in the Las Vegas Senior Grand Prix (June '07) and placed 74th among sabre fencers from all age groups (field of 99) ... opened USFA competition in the 2006-07 season by placing 16th in large U-20 field (155) at the North American Cup in Albuquerque,N.M. (Nov. '06) ... fenced the next month at the N.A.C. in Richmond,Va., versus a talented overall men's sabre field of 103 that included four current/future ND fencers among the top-30 finishers (Thanhouser eighth, Ghattas 22nd, Zuck 27th, Nydam 30th; no U-20 bouting) ... went on to place 55th out of 141 total men's sabreists at another elite-level N.A.C., in Columbus, Ohio (Jan. '07; also 22nd out of 133 in U-20 bouts) and then was 18th out of 97 total men's sabre entrants at N.A.C. in Tucson, Ariz. ... added impressive fifth-place showing at Junior Olympics, in Denver (field of 179; Feb.) and then placed 18th in an overall field of 43 at 2007 Summer Nationals, in Miami (ninth among 107 in the U-19s). AS A FRESHMAN: Finished the regular season with a 36-12 record before having a strong postseason that included third-place showings at both the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships and the NCAA Midwest Regional and a sixth-place finish at the NCAA Championships (good for second team All-American honors) ... turned in an impressive result during 2007 fall semester by winning junior-level (Under-20) men's sabre competition at North American Cup in Dallas ... followed up that performance with fourthplace finish at annual Penn State Open (fall '07), with 15-9 quarterfinal win over North Carolina's Bob Ziechmann before losing in semifinal to Ohio State's Mike Momtselidze (9- 15) and in third-place bout versus PSU's Franz Boghicev (12-15) ... started the spring season with a 13-5 showing at the NYU Duals ... finished with a 17-7 record at the Northwestern Duals ... finished the regular season with a 6-0 showing at the Notre Dame Duals ... opened the postseason with a third-place finish at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships ... entered the direct-elimination portion of the conference championships seeded second but was beaten by Ohio State's Mike Momtselidze 15-13 in the semifinals ... went undefeated in first-round pool play at the NCAA Midwest Regional to earn the top seed entering direct elimination ... received a first round bye and earned a bid into the quarterfinals by beating Wayne State's Jakub Gibczynski 15-4 ... beat Lawrence's Nils Schaede 15-8 in the quarterfinal before losing to Ohio State's Sergey Smirnov in the semifinal ... then beat Gibczynski 15-11 to take bronze and advance to the NCAA Championships ... earned 2nd team All- America honors by placing 6th at the NCAA Championships with a 16-7 record. PREP & PERSONAL: Attended Santa Fe Christian High School while training for seven years under coach Dmitriy Guy (a former fencing standout in the U.S.S.R.) at the Spartak Fencing Club, in San Diego ... first cracked the USFA U-20 men's sabre rankings in 2004-05 (24th) before rising to 12th in '05-'06 and 10th in '06-'07 (his top U-17 ranking was sixth) ... competed in two Cadet World Cups (U-17) during 2005-06 season, placing 17th at the event in Konin, Poland (Sept.) - where he also was a member of the winning U-17 team(with his fellow U.S. sabreists) - and then finishing 18th the next month in Godollo, Hungary ... had a busy domestic schedule in 2005-06, when he competed at three North American Cup events - in Albuquerque (third in the cadet/U- 17; Nov.), Pittsburgh (27th among all men's sabreists; Dec.) and Sacramento (13th, again in open age group; April) - in addition to placing 21st at the Junior Olympics (in a U-20 field of 173; also eighth out of 181 in the U-17 bouts; Feb. '06) ... also won the 2006 Senior Pacific Coast Championships (in both the individual and team events) and was runner-up at the Duel in the Desert ... earlier placed 13th at the Junior World Cup in Louisville, Ky., and was an alternate with the U.S. team at the 2005 Cadet (U-17) World Championships ... his results at the 2005 Junior Olympics included 13th in the U-20 bouts (also seventh in the U-17s) and he went on to post a third-place finish in the U-16 bouting at the USFA 2005 National Championships (held in Sacramento) ... won San Diego junior- and senior-level championships in 2005 while placing second at '05 Senior Pacific Coast Championships (also team champion) ... his first noteworthy national finish came in April of 2004 (seventh at the N.A.C. held in Atlanta) ... won cadet/U-17 points title for 2004 Southern California/Nevada Junior Circuit ... his sister, Alexa, also is a sabre fencer ... born March 17, 1989, in San Diego ... son of Bill and Dorothy Nydam ... full name is Barron William Nydam ... enrolled in the Mendoza College of Business. |
    
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