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2024-25 Women's Fencing Roster

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Lauren Scruggs (She/her/hers)

  • Position Foil
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Packer Collegiate Institute
  • Hometown Queens, N.Y.

Biography

Junior (2023-24)
Two-time Olympic Medalist … Represented the United States at the 2024 Paris Olympics … Won silver in the women’s foil individual event at the 2024 Paris Olympics … Also anchored the United States to a gold medal in the women’s foil team event, the nation’s first gold medal in a team fencing event at the Olympics … First Olympic gold medalist in program history … USFCA All-America First Team honoree … Finished in second at the 2024 NCAA Fencing Championships with a 17-6 record … Garnered All-Region honors with a second place showing at the 2024 NCAA Northeast Regional Championships … Ended the season with a 56-9 record … Led the Crimson to the 2024 NCAA National Championship.

Sophomore (2022-23)
NCAA Women's Foil Champion... First Team All-America... USFCA Women's Foil Athlete of the Year... Posted a record of 17-6 in the NCAA Championships... Defeated Princeton's Maia Weintraub 15-9 in the NCAA Women's Foil Semifinals... Defeated Princeton's May Tieu 15-7 in the NCAA Women's Foil Championship... First Team All-Northeast Region... NCAA Women's Foil Northeast Regional Silver Medalist... Went undefeated on the season with a record of 36-0

First-Year (2021-22)
NCAA Northeast Regional Women's Foil Champion ... First Team All-Ivy League ... First Team Northeast All-Region ... Second Team All-America ... The Crimson: Female Rookie of the Year ... Posted a 21-2 record with a +54-touch differential to earn the gold medal at the Northeast Regionals ... 13-4 record with a +33-touch differential at the Ivy League Championships ... Used a 16-7 (+12) showing to finish seventh at the NCAA Championships ... Held a 60-17 overall mark on the season.

Before Harvard 
Youngest U.S. foil fencer to win Junior World Championship … One of two African-Americans to win an individual world title (male or female) … 2019 Junior Cadet World Champion … 2018 Bronze Junior World medalist .. Won the gold medal at the 2020 Junior World Cup in Germany … Captured the gold at the 2018 Cadet World Cup … Took home the gold at the 2021 and 2019 Junior Team World Championships … Earned the silver at the 2019 Junior World Cup in Croatia … Won the silver at the 2018 Cadet World Cup in Italy … Gold medalist at the 2019 Division 1 North American Cup … Brother, Nolen Scruggs, fenced at Columbia.

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22First-Year

  • 2022-23Sophomore

    Foil
  • 2023-24Junior

    Foil
  • 2024-25Senior

    Foil