Due to the uncertain economic climate, the Stanford University Athletic Department is considering cutting multiple sports this year including fencing. Cardinal Fencing Club (CFC) coaches offered to continue running the program without Stanford funding and without personal salaries, but the fencing team still faces the possibility of being cut. “We offered to self fund our budget (through the club and camps),” Stanford fencing head coach Lisa Posthumus wrote in an e-mail. “We cannot believe they would cut a sport that would self fund.” CFC is the only Division I fencing program in the entire western half of the U.S.