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2022-23 Women's Fencing Roster

Don Felice

Jessica Liang

  • Height 6-1
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Memorial
  • Hometown Sugar Land, Texas

Biography

2022-23: NCAA Qualifier (14th in epee) … Second-team All-Ivy … Won 66 of 101 bouts during the season, a .653 win percentage … Posted 3-0 records against North Carolina, Duke, and Haverford at Penn State Invitational (1/15) … Posted 3-0 records against Fairleigh Dickinson, Lafayette, Wagner, and Sacred Heart at Philadelphia Invitational (1/21) …  Went 3-0 against LIU, Yale, and Hunter at Tri-State Shark Showcase (1/29) … Went 12-6 at Ivy Round-Robins, winning five bouts on day one and seven bouts on day two.

2021-22Second-team All-Ivy … Competed in 24 team bouts in epee, going 40-25 …  Went 8-4 during Penn State Invitational, including bookend 3-0 performances against North Carolina and Haverford (1/16) … Finished Philadelphia Invitational 13-5, including 3-0 performances against North Carolina and Temple (1/22-1/23) … Finished Ivy Round-Robins 10-9, with seven wins in nine matches against Princeton, Columbia, and Brown.

2019-20: First-team All-America ... First-Team All-Region ... Second-team All-Ivy …With Vanessa Dib, became the second and third first-team All-America selections in Quakers women's epee history ... Appeared in 35 of 41 team bouts with women’s epee, going 65-31 … NCAA Championships qualifier … Recorded the first 60-win season by a Quaker woman since Sara Papp and Nicole Vaiani in 2017-18 … Won first collegiate bout against North Carolina as part of a 7-8 debut at the Elite Invitational (11/16) … Earned sweeps of Duke and Haverford while going 13-5 overall at the Penn State Invitational (1/12) … Turned in a cumulative mark of 17-7, including nine straight wins at one point and five against ranked opponents, at the Philadelphia Invitational (1/18 & 1/19) … Recorded a 6-3 mark at the Sollee Invitational (2/1) … Tallied an 11-6 mark at the Ivy League Round-Robins, earning a sweep against Brown (2/8 & 2/9) … Cruised at the Temple Invitational, going 11-2 including a 3-0 sweep of the #5 Owls (2/23) … Finished third at the NCAA Regional to lead all Quaker women (3/7) … All 2020 NCAA winter postseason competition was canceled on Thursday, March 12 due to a nationwide outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19.

High School: Finished fifth in the 2019 Summer National Division I Epee Championships … Came in first place in the 2019 Junior Olympics Team Championships … Finished sixth in the 2018 April North American Cup in epee.

Personal: Daughter of Junyi and Frank Liang … Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.
 
Career Statistics
Year W-L Pct. 
2019-20 65-31 .677
2020-21
2021-22 40-25 .615
2022-23 66-35 .653
Career 171-91 .653

Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20Freshman

    Epee
    6'1"
  • 2020-21Sophomore

    Epee
    6'1"
  • 2021-22Junior

    Epee
    6'1"
  • 2022-23Senior

    Epee
    6'1"