Adrienne Nott Class: Senior Hometown: Pittsford, NY High School: Mendon Height: 5-2 Event: Foil Birthdate: 01/22/1985 Club: Rochester Fencing Club

Two-Time All-American
Academic All-America Candidate (3.76)
U.S. Junior National Team Member (2006)
Women's Foil Team Co-Captain

Third-year standout who has emerged as one of nation's top women's foilists, after reaching 2007 NCAA semifinals (3rd-place; also was 6th-place finisher in '06) ... has made some key adjustments while working with Notre Dame second-year assistant coach Gia Kvaratskhelia ... those improvements have included becoming more patient and picking her spots 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 ... reported for fall practice in good technical and mental framework, after taking the 2007 summer off from competitive fencing in order to study in Japan ... 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 ... previously was listed seventh in USFA women's foil rankings for junior-level fencers (under-20), as of Dec. 11, 2006 - behind Doris Willette, Lindsay Knauer, Naihga Prescod, Samantha Nemecek, Nicole Ross and Abigail Emerson ... also 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) ... earlier completed 2005-06 USFA circuit with 5th-place standing in junior rankings, behind world champion Emily Cross, Willette, Nemecek and Knauer ... enters junior season having won nearly 90 percent of her regular-season bouts with the Irish (101-12; .894), representing the 10th-best career win percentage ever by a Notre Dame women's fencer ... one of several Academic All-America candidates among the junior class of the Notre Dame fencing program, after compiling a 3.77 GPA during her first two years (as a double major in Japanese and psychology) ... emerging leader who combines with senior Rachel Cota as second-year captains of women's foil squad ... competed alongside Cross, Willette and 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) ... quick fighter on the strip with good actions on her touches and strong workrate ... nicknamed "Adi" ... invited member of Notre Dame athletics' Academic Honors faculty mentoring program ... reached semifinals at annual Penn State Open (fall '07), with 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).

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 (see notes above) ... opened 2006-07 USFA competition with 7th-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 7th-place 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 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) ... had other noteworthy wins at the ND Duals over Wayne State's Lindsey Howard (5-4), Cleveland State's Leigh Pendergrass (5-0) and UC San Diego's Jen Chun (5-3) ... 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 (a 4-3 defensive battle) ... swept all 10 of her bouts at the Duke Duals, including a 5-1 win over Marilyn Tycer (from the host team) 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 ... the ND women's showdown with Penn State at that meet ended with PSU bringing Doris Willette (a U.S. junior national teammate of Nott's) off the bench, with Willette edging 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 ... others who have completed that double include men's foilist Ozren Debic (each year from 2000-02), epeeist Brian Casas ('01), foilist Alicja Kryczalo ('02 and '03) and sabreist Patrick Ghattas in 2005 ... 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 3rd-place bout (9-8; trailed 2-4) ... her 12-2 record on day-1 of the NCAAs included going 5-2 versus fencers who finished the day in the top-8: 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-2 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 #3 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. (shortly before MFCs) ... had another impressive finish as runner-up at Penn State Open in fall of '06, after entering as #11 seed (she rose to #4 for direct-elimination) ... top wins at PSU Open came vs. Temple's Gernes (5-2), #5 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 6th-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) ... matched her seed with 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-1 wins vs. defending champion Cross (5-4), her Harvard teammate Chloe Stinetorf, Florendo, PSU's Najm, Penn's Emerson and Fullerton's Breden (all 5-2), plus WSU's Howard (5-1) ... completed her 6th-place All-America showing (15-8) with 6-3 record on day-2, 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 runner-up), 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 Rochester Fencing Club, under Nat Goodhartz (a U.S. national team coach) ... ranked top-10 in age group throughout youth fencing ... had top-8 finishes in junior and cadet N.A.C.'s from '01-'05 (top-32 at Jr. World Cups in Slovakia and France) ... finished top-8 at cadet and junior nationals from '01-'05 ... member of National Honor Society ... 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.