UC San Diego

MEDIA
KUSI: UCSD Fencing team is aiming high (1/17/25)

ATHLETIC AWARDS

• Second Team All-American (2025)
• First Team All-Region (2025)
• First Team All-MPSF (2025)
• West Regional Champion (2025)
• MPSF Female Fencer of the Year (2025)
• Qualified for the National Collegiate Fencing Championships (2025)

• USFCA All-Academic, Scholar of Distinction (2025)

AS A FRESHMAN IN 2024-25
Second Team All-American ... Qualified for the National Collegiate Fencing Championships, finishing seventh ... Bested Paris 2024 Olympic medalist Lauren Scruggs of Harvard at the National Championships ... Finalist for USFCA Women's Foil Collegiate Newcomer of the Year ... Won the women's foil competition at the NCAA West Regional Championship ... Finished second in the MPSF Championship ... Part of the team that won the first MPSF Team Championship in program history, scoring the winning point ... MPSF Female Fencer of the Year ... First Team All-Region and All-MPSF ... Named UCU Athlete of the Week three times (Jan. 6, Mar. 10, Mar. 24) ... USFCA All-Academic selection with Scholar of Distinction honors ... Named to UC San Diego's All-Trtion Team ... Finished third at UC San Diego's BladeRunner tournament ... Selected to Team USA for the 2025 World University Games ... Represented the U.S. on the senior level at the Turin Grand Prix.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION - INDIVIDUAL

• 7th - USA Fencing Senior National Championship (2025)
• 10th - Georgia Junior World Cup (2025)
• 13th - Croatia Junior World Cup (2025)
• 9th - Junior Olympics (2025)
• 3rd - Division I January NAC (2025)
• 9th - Junior November NAC (2024)
• 10th - Junior World Championships (2024)
• Silver - Junior Olympics (2024)
• Bronze - Summer Nationals Division I (2024)
• Silver - Zagreb Junior World Cup (2024)
• Bronze - Leipzig Junior World Cup (2024)
• 7th - Bangkok Junior World Cup (2023)
• 7th - Lima Junior World Cup (2023)
• Silver - Summer Nationals Division IA (2023)
• 7th - Summer Nationals Junior (2023)
• Bronze - Junior Pan American Championships (2022)
• Gold - Cadet Pan American Championships (2022)
• Silver - Bangkok Junior World Cup (2022)
• Bronze - Junior December NAC (2022)
• Silver - Summer Nationals Division IA (2022)

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION - TEAM USA

• Team USA Junior World Team Member (2024)
• Designated Junior USA National Team (2022-24)
• Designated Cadet USA National Team (2021-22)
• 6th - Junior World Championships (2024)
• Gold - Bangkok Junior World Cup (2024)
• Gold - Leipzig Junior World Cup (2024)
• Gold - Junior Olympics (2023)
• Gold - Lima Junior World Cup (2023)
• Gold - Junior Pan American Championships (2022)

BEFORE UC SAN DIEGO
A 2024 graduate of Tustin Connect High School in Tustin, Calif. ... Fenced with Golubitsky Fencing Center beginning in 2016 ... 4x USA Fencing All-American and All-Academic First Team ... 3x USA Fencing Region 4 Gold Patch winner.

PERSONAL
Born: November 11 in Newport Beach, Calif.
Parents: Mother attended Concorde Career College, father attended UC Davis
Siblings: Has a younger brother, Andrei
Major: Human Biology
College: Sixth
Future plans: Hopes to fence in the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, current career interests are forensics and biology
Favorite fencing memory: Competing in the 2024 Junior World Championships in Saudi Arabia for Team USA
Hobbies: Reading, biking, cooking, solving Rubik's Cubes
Favorite movies: Avatar, Studio Ghibli movies
Favorite athletes: Lee Kiefer, Gerek Meinhardt
Listens to: One Republic, BTS, Agust D, IU, Ateez
Favorite food: Seafood pasta
Favorite social media: Instagram
Did you know: Can solve a Rubik's Cube in under one minute