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2019-20 Women's Fencing

Victoria Zhang

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Mira Loma
  • Hometown Carmichael, Calif.

Biography

2019-20: Competed in 17 bouts with women’s sabre, going 20-18 … Picked up wins against Johns Hopkins and Harvard in the season-opening Elite Invitational (11/16) … Notched a 14-7 record at the Philadelphia Invitational, earning a sweep against Wagner and four combined wins against #9 Northwestern and #8 St. John’s (1/18 & 1/19) … Picked up a win against #1 Princeton at the Ivy League Round-Robins (2/8) … Earned two more wins against #5 Temple and #1 Princeton at the Temple Invitational (2/23) … Ended her Penn career with 84 wins.

2018-19: Finished with a 24-18 record ... Finished 19th at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South regional ... Helped the Quakers to a top-3 finish at the Ivy League championships ... Went 5-2 at the Elite Invitational ... Went 9-4 at the Philadelphia Invitational ... Went 5-2 at the Temple Invitational ... Posted 3-0 mark against Yale (1/21).

2017-18: Did not face any competition as a sophomore.

2016-17: Tallied a 40-22 record in dual matches (saber) … Tied for most wins on the saber squad … Placed ninth at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional (March 11) … Began the year with a 9-4 mark at the Elite Invitational (Nov. 5) … Finished second at the Penn State Open (Nov. 20) … Posted an 11-2 record at the Penn State Invitational (Jan. 16).

High School: Placed first (sabre) at US Fencing Nationals and July Challenge in 2015 (Division IA) … Back-to-back fifth-place finishes in the Junior Women’s Sabre Division at Nationals and July Challenge … Finished seventh at the October North American Cup in 2013 (Cadet Women’s Sabre) … Awarded Scholar of Merit … Completed the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme.

Personal: Daughter of Melinda Yang and Hao Zhang … Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.
 

Career Statistics
Year W-L Pct. 
2016-17 40-22 .645
2017-18     -    -
2018-19 24-18 .571
2019-20 20-18 .526
Career 84-58 .592

Historical Player Information

  • 2016-17Freshman

    Sabre
  • 2017-18Sophomore

    Sabre
  • 2018-19Junior

    Sabre
  • 2019-20Senior

    Sabre