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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.

Finished seventh at the United States Senior National Championships ... Represented the U.S. on the senior level at the Turin Grand Prix ... Was 10th in Georgia and 13th in Croatia at Junior World Cups ... Placed ninth at the USA Fencing Junior Olympics and Junior November NAC ... Won bronze at the Division I January NAC ... Won a team gold with the U.S. at the FIE Foil Junior World Cup in Thailand.

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 ... Won bronze in Division I at USA Fencing's Summer Nationals in 2024, silver in Division IA in both 2022 and 2023 ... 10th at the Junior World Championships in 2024 ... Five top-seven finishes at Junior World Cups from 2022-24, including one bronze and two silver medals ... Won gold at the cadet level and bronze at the junior level at the 2022 Pan American Championships ... Took home silver at USA Fencing's 2024 Junior Olympics ... Placed third at the 2022 Junior December NAC ... Selected to the Team USA Junior World Team (2024), Designated Junior USA National Team (2022-24) and Designated Cadet USA National Team ... Won team golds at the 2023 Lima and 2024 Leipzig Junior World Cups, along with the 2022 Junior Pan American Championships ... Also won a team gold at USA Fencing's 2023 Junior Olympics ... Finished sixth with Team USA at the 2024 Junior World Championships.

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. Aspires to become a criminal investigator and forensic profiler
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