Women's Fencing Bolsters Squad With Addition of Three Newcomers
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard head coach
Peter Brand announced this week that three women’s fencers
will join the Crimson for the upcoming 2009-10 season.
The incoming class includes one sabre, one epee and one foil
fencer, with two of the newcomers hailing from New Jersey. The
other incoming freshman is a native of Virginia.
Harvard, which placed fifth at the 2009 NCAA Championships, won
its third Ivy League title last season, going 6-0 in conference
action, and posted a 20-1 overall record. The Crimson earned three
All-America selections and four All-Ivy League nods.
Katherine Chou/Foil/Holmdel, N.J./Holmdel
Placed third at 2009 Summer Nationals with under-19 women’s
foil team … Member of USA Women’s Foil Junior National
Team at 2009 World Cup in France … Two-time Lucchetti
Fencing USA captain … Finished third at 2008 Division IA
Summer Nationals and was first at 2007 Division II Summer Nationals
… Fenced fifth at 2006 Division II Summer Nationals …
National Honor Society … French Honor Society …
Volunteered at Bayshore Hospital … Bloustein Scholar
… National Merit Finalist … Placed third at New
Jersey Music Teacher Association Young Musician Competition
… Piano solo winner at Piano Teacher Society of America
Young Artist Competition … Nominated for National Youth
Leadership Forum on Medicine … Piano Teacher Society of
America Five Year Carnegie Award … Finished sixth at
National French Competition Le Grand Concours.
Nadia Eldeib/Epee/Burke, Va./Edmund Burke
Won the 2007 Virginia state title in the epee … Placed
second in under-17 event at the North American Cups …
Finished seventh in under-20 at Junior Olympics in 2009 …
Outstanding Student Award at Edmund Burke High School.
Elena Helgiu/Sabre/Wayne, N.J./Wayne
Took second at the 2008 Summer National Junior Women’s Sabre
… Finished in the top 24 at the Junior Women’s Sabre
in 2009 … Placed in the top 32 at the Division I
Women’s Sabre and the Junior Women’s Sabre in 2008
… State Certamen champion in the Latin competition in 2008
and ’09 … Won the gold medal and earned a Summa Cum
Laude certificate at the National Latin Exam from 2004-08 …
Member of the National Honor Society as well as the Spanish,
Italian and Latin National Honor Societies … Helped out
former war detainees in Romania during the summer 2008.
Photo courtesy of DSPics.com.
