National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association (NIWFA) |
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Established | 1929 |
Association | NCAA |
Division | Interdivisional |
Members | 20 |
Sports fielded | 1 |
Region |
Northeast (15 schools) South (5 schools) |
Website | www |
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The National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association (NIWFA) is a women's collegiate fencing organization in the United States. The organization was founded as the IWFA in 1929 by two New York University students, Julia Jones and Dorothy Hafner and Betsy Ross, a student at Cornell University who based the organization on the male Intercollegiate Fencing Association. The IWFA became the "National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association" in 1964 and called for a national championship, which it conducted annually among its membership. From 1980 through 2012, a national championship was also administered by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women.