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This spring, though, junior Kwame van Leeuwen proved that there is more than a little nobility left in the sport. In an astounding feat of personal athleticism, van Leeuwen took first place in the grueling NCAA championship foil competition in March, becoming the third and final Harvard student this year--along with squash players Ezra and Fraiberg--to bring home an individual national championship...
...finals, van Leeuwen had to go through three long rounds of play, in which he amassed a spotless 13-0 record. Then, with the field reduced to eight in single-elimination play, he squeaked past his first opponent, 15-11, destroyed his second foe, 15-2 and then dismantled the meet's top seed, andy Gerhardt of Penn State, for the championship...
...stage was thus set for the foil finale.Going against Gerhardt, who had also been perfectfor the day, van Leeuwen got off to an early leadand never looked back...
...Leeuwen was a junior fencing champion priorto coming to Harvard, where he has been one of themost successful fencers in school history...
...going to Disneyworld," he said.CrimsonAmanda M. DawsonJunior KWAME VAN LEEUWEN (left) in actionearlier this season: Van Leeuwen won the nationalchampionship in the foil yesterday...