UC San Diego freshman Nurzhan Abzhanov (Almaty, Kazakhstan) had the best individual record on for the Triton men at the Dave Micahnik Penn Invitational (Jan. 17-18). He went 12-3 to help the Tritons go 5-3, with two of those losses to fellow ranked teams. Abzhanov also beat NJIT's Paul Veltrup, who is the top-ranked fencer in the country by SPI in men's epee with a record of 44-4 this season. This is the first career MPSF award for Abzhanov