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2008-09 Women's Fencing

Emily Cross

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

Biography

Senior • 2008-09
Team captain ... Selected to All-America first team after finishingthird at NCAA Championships ... Won 21 bouts and had 107 touches atNCAA meet ... Named first-team All-Ivy League ... ESPN The MagazineAcademic All-District first team ... Academic All-Ivy League ...Earned the gold medal at NCAA Regionals; namedCollegeFencing360.com National Foil Fencer of the Week for effort... Won all six matches in meet against Sacred Heart and Tufts ...Captured all nine matches at Beanpot ... Recorded a perfect 12-0record at the Vassar duals ... Was 5-1 at St. John''s Invitationalagainst Ohio State and St. John''s ... Went 11-1 in the foil at theIvy League Championships, Part I ... Posted a 5-1 mark at thesecond half of the Ivy League Championships.

2008 Olympics
Won silver medal as member of United States women''s foil team at2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ... Is the first Harvard women''sfencer to medal at the Olympics ... Led U.S. with 31 touches inthree rounds, helping Team USA to upset victories over Poland andHungary ... Advanced to the round of 32 in individual foil.

Sophomore • 2005-06
Member of Harvard national championship team ... NCAA bronzemedalist ... All-American ... First-Team All-Ivy League ...Academic All-America Third Team ... Academic All-Ivy Leagueselection ... ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Team ... Wonsecond Under-20 Junior World Championship.

Freshman • 2004-05
Won national individual title, becoming the first Harvard and fifthIvy woman to achieve that distinction ... All-American ... IvyLeague Rookie of the Year ... First-Team All-Ivy League ... LedHarvard to Ivy League and dual IFA titles ... Won gold at Under-20Junior World Championships.