NYU Athletics

2009-10: Led the team in wins with a 51-18 foil record…four-time UAA Athlete of the Week (11/2, 11/30, 1/19, 2/1)…finished 11th in foil at the NCAA Northeast Regionals (3/14)…named first alternate selection for the northeast region for the NCAA Championships, but was not called on to compete…finished seventh out of 92 competitors at the Temple Open (10/31-11/1)…compiled an 18-3 record at the Eric Sollee Invitational (1/30), including perfect 3-0 outings against five schools…went 11-6 at the Harvard Invitational (11/29)…Intercollegiate Athletics Advisory Committee Fall and Spring Honor Roll…named to the UAA Presidents Scholar-Athlete Team…received the Arthur Ashe, Jr. Sports-Scholar Award…UAA Winter Sport All-Academic honoree. 2008-09: Finished 23rd in foil at the NCAA Championships (3/19-22)…posted a 35-26 season record…UAA Winter Sport All-Academic honoree...named to the UAA Presidents Scholar-Athlete Team. 2007-08: Placed third on the team in total wins with a 33-18 foil mark. High School: Fenced at the Los Angeles International Fencing Center for six years (Mira Costa did not have a fencing team)…three-time Southern California Senior Division women’s foil champion and three-time Junior Division women’s foil champion…two-time second-place finisher at the Junior Pacific Coast Championships in women’s foil…three-time Southern California Scholastic League champion…finished second in foil at the Cadet Pacific Coast Championships…took 16th in the junior women’s foil at the Summer National Championships in 2005…National Merit Scholar semifinalist…three-time National Latin Exam gold medalist…member of Model U.N., Young Democrats Club, Tree Musketeers, and the National Honor Society. Personal: Spends summers in Eastern Europe…is half-Polish and half-Chinese…enjoys Polish language and culture, exotic foods, and bioethics…inspired by Marie Curie…member of the New York Fencers Club…assists with college and high school application counseling for underprivileged children at the Children’s Storefront School in Harlem…works as an unpaid interpreter at an annual international fencing camp in Poland…plans to attend graduate school to earn a doctorate in theoretical linguistics and eventually be a professor of linguistics at a research university.