TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN—Freshmen Henrique Marques and Julia Garcia of the NJIT men's and women's fencing teams competed in fencing's 2015 Junior World Championships in an international field that included the world's top fencers.

Marques, from Sao Paulo, Brazil, entered the Junior World Championships ranked 74^th in the world.  He finished 23^rd out of 113 fencers from 47 countries.

Henrique went 4-1 in pools
#108 Erik Gabriel of ARG: win 5-3
#19 Mohannad Abozeid of EGY: win 5-2
#290 Alexander Tiu Beck of THA: win 5-1
#41 Ali Fadel Abbas of KUW: win 5-2
#25 Mengkai Huang of CHN: loss 1-5

Marques was seeded 25^th after pool competition and received a bye into the round of 64.  He defeated Rajan Rai of GBR 15-12 in the top 64 but came up short against 8th seed Bartosz Cegielski of POL 10-15 in the top 32.

Marques finished 23rd at the event, 36 spots up from 59th place at the 2014 Junior World Championships.

Garcia, from Madrid, Spain, made history at NJIT, placing second in the women's epee event at the 2015 NCAA Fencing Championships on March 22.  She is the first female fencer to compete in the National Championship and becomes the newest NJIT All-American.

Garcia entered the Junior World Championships ranked 117^th in the world and finished 13^th out of 113 fencers from 49 countries.

Julia went 4-2 in pools
#46 Claudia Naboiu of ROU: win 5-4
#1 Roberta Marzani of ITA: loss 2-5
#119 Yixuan Xiang of CHN: win 5-2
#45 Noemi Moeschlin of SUI: loss 4-5
#73 Dayana Jakupova of KAZ: win 5-4
Chia Yu Chiu of TPE: win 5-1

She was seeded 37^th after pool competition and received a bye into the Round of 64. 

Garcia defeated 28th seed Shiori Komata of JPN 15-8 in the round of 64 and followed up with a 15-13 win against 5th seed Anna Mroszczak of POL in the round of 32.  She dropped a close decision to #4 in the world Anna Kun of HUN 10-15 in the round of 16.

She finished the epee event 13^th, 53 spots up from 66^th place at the 2014 Junior World Championships.