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University of Pennsylvania Athletics

2017-18 Men's Fencing

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Jake Raynis

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Chatsworth, N.J.
  • Highschool Harvard-Westlake

Biography

2017-18: Helped the Quakers to their third-straight Ivy League Championship ... Academic All-Ivy ... First-team All-Ivy ... Placed 14th at NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional ... Led Penn with career-best 60 wins ... Put together 15-bout win streak. Started season going 19-4. 

2016-17: Helped the Quakers to their second-straight Ivy League championship … Finished 14th at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional … Placed 10th at the Ivy League Championships (Feb. 12) … Registered a 55-31 record in dual matches, posting the highest winning percentage for the epees (.640) … Tallied a 15-2 record at the Philadelphia Invitational (Jan. 21) … Went 9-6 at the Northwestern Duals (Feb. 4).

2015-16: Helped the Quakers to the program’s first-ever No. 1 ranking, and first Ivy team title since 2009 … Part of a first-place epee squad at the United States Collegiate Squad Championships (third-straight team title) … Placed 19th at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional … Registered a mark of 35-20 in dual matches … Picked up eight wins at the Northwestern Duals (1/30) … Went 8-7 at the Ivy League Championships (2/7) … Posted an 8-3 mark at the Philadelphia Invitational (2/20).

2014-15: Third-team All-America … NCAA qualifier and placed 9th in epee ... Epee runner-up at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional Championships … Made collegiate fencing debut at the OSU Invitational, going 7-5 with 2-1 marks against Notre Dame, UNC, and Princeton (11/16) ... Picked up six wins at the Penn State Invitational, including a 3-0 mark against Haverford (1/17) ... Added seven wins at the NU Duals with a 2-0 mark against Stanford (1/31) ... Won eight bouts at the Ivy League Round Robins, going 3-0 against Brown (2/8-9) … At the USCSC, went 8-4 with another 3-0 mark against Brown (2/21).

Personal: Son of Mia and Richard Raynis … Enrolled in the School of Engineering and Applied Science … Brother, Michael, was a two-time NCAA top-eight finisher in the Epee at Harvard.  

Historical Player Information

  • 2014-15Freshman

    Epee
  • 2015-16Sophomore

    Epee
    5'10"
  • 2016-17Junior

    Epee
    5'10"
  • 2017-18Senior

    Epee