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2024-25 Men's Fencing Roster

Gil Talbot

James Chen

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown New York, N.Y.
  • High School Stuyvesant
  • Position Foil

Biography

Junior (2023-24)
Team Captain … USFCA All-America honorable mention … Garnered All-Ivy League First Team status … Finished in 10th place at the NCAA Championships with a 13-10 record and +19 touch differential … Qualified for the NCAA Championships after finishing in ninth place at the NCAA Northeast Regional Championships … Pushed the Crimson to a share of the Ivy League title after finishing the weekend with a 10-2 record … Finished the season with a 36-12 record … A member of a Crimson squad that won the 2024 NCAA National Championship.

Sophomore (2022-23)
Men's Foil Ivy League Champion... First Team All-Ivy... First Team All-Northeast Region... Placed 13th at the NCAA Championships after posting a record of 11-12... NCAA Men's Foil Northeast Regional Silver Medalist... Went 10-2 in the Ivy League Championships to secure the men's foil individual title... Tallied a record of 38-7 on the season. 

First-Year (2021-22)
First Team All-America ... First Team Northeast All-Region ... Second Team All-Ivy League ... Posted a 17-6 (+29) showing at the NCAA Championships to finish tied for third ... Recorded a 17-6 mark with a +49-touch differential at the Northeast regionals to finish with a silver medal ... Held a 7-5 record at the Ivy League Championships ... Posted a 45-19 record overall on the season. 

Before Harvard
Selected on 2019 and 2020 US Fencing Cadet Team ... Selected for 2021 Olympic Training Camp ... May NAC, Div. I, 3rd place 2021 (Richmond, Va.) ... 2021 Summer Nationals, Div. I, 7th place (Philadelphia, Pa.) ... 2020 International Junior World Cup Junior Team, 2nd place (Aix-En-Provence, France) ... 2019 International Junior World Cup Junior Team, 3rd place (Bangkok, Thailand) ... 2019 International Cadet European Cup, 2nd place (Cabries, France) ... 2019 International Under 17 European Circuit, 1st place (Rome, Italy) ... 2021 National Merit Scholarship Finalist ... 2021 American Invitational Mathematics Examination Qualifier ... 2021 Winner of the Federal Bar Association Essay Contest ... 2019 and 2020 Member of the New York City Math Team ... Brother, Earnest Chen, is a member of the Yale fencing team.

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22First-Year

    FOIL
  • 2022-23Sophomore

    Foil
  • 2023-24Junior

    Foil
  • 2024-25Senior

    Foil