Team USA’s Men’s Foil Fencers Aim To Parry Their Way To Gold: “Together, We Are Unstoppable”
All told the foursome each owns at least one Olympic medal, plus a combined 25 world championships medals.
Athlete Bio#
Age
24
Hometown
Livingston, NJ
Education
Harvard University
Personal
- Discovered fencing after watching her great uncle medal at Beijing 2008
- Hobbies include piano, art, drawing, reading, Zumba, cycling, skiing, swimming
- She speaks fluent Russian (her first language) at home with her parents
- She looks up to her older sister, Gabby, who also competed at Harvard University
- Practiced ballet for five years
World Championships Experience
- Most recent: 2023 – 7th (Team Sabre - Women), 19th (Individual Sabre - Women)
- Years of participation: Individual Sabre - Women 2017, 2022, 2023; Team Sabre - Women 2022, 2023
- Medals: 1 (1 bronze)
- Bronze – 2017 (Individual Sabre - Women)
Career Highlights
- World Junior Championships, Verona, 2018 (Team Sabre - Women, Individual Sabre - Women)
- World Junior Championships, Plovdiv, 2017 (Team Sabre - Women, Individual Sabre - Women)
- World Junior Championships, Bourges, 2016 (Team Sabre - Women)
Olympic Experience
- 1-time Olympian
- Olympic Games Paris 2024, 5th (Team Sabre - Women), 18th (Individual Sabre - Women)
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