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2019-20 Women's Fencing

Danielle Ferdon

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool George Washington
  • Hometown San Francisco, Calif.

Biography

2019-20: Competed in 31 of 41 team bouts with women’s foil, going 42-23 … Picked up wins over Ohio State and Harvard at the Elite Invitational (11/16) … Went 8-6 at the Philadelphia Invitational, earning a win over #8 St. John’s (1/18 & 1/19) … Won 17 straight bouts from 1/19 to 2/1 … Won 17 of 18 bouts at the Sollee Invitational, dominating with five straight 3-0 sweeps (2/1) … Went 9-3 at the Ivy League Round-Robins, sweeping Brown and earning six other wins against ranked opponents (2/8 & 2/9) … Earned two wins over ranked opponents at the Temple Invitational (2/23) … Finished 19th at the NCAA Regional (3/7) … Ended Penn career with a 180-101 record.

2018-19: Placed 11th at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional ... Helped Quakers to a top-3 finish at the Ivy League championships ... Finished with a 33-31 record ... Went 10-7 at the Ivy League Championships ... Posted 3-0 marks against Haverford (1/13), Cornell (2/9), and Princeton (2/24). 

2017-18: First-team All-Ivy ... Helped team to fourth place finish at the Ivy Championships ... Earned a team-best 12-3 record at the Ivy Championships ... Finished third at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional ... Had 50 wins for a second straight season ... Earned 100th win at Ivy Championships against Princeton. 

2016-17: NCAA third-team All-America (foil) … Second-team All-Ivy (sixth-place) … Placed second at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional … Led the foils with a 54-18 record in dual matches … Went 11-5 at the Ivy Round Robins (Feb. 12) … Finished seventh at the Penn State Open (Nov. 20) … Earned a 9-3 record at the Penn State Invitational (Jan. 15) … Posted an 8-2 mark at the Philadelphia Invite (Jan. 21) … Finished 9-3 at the Northwestern Duals (Feb. 4). 

High School: Placed second at Cadet Nationals in Louisville, Ky. (2014) … Finished third in the Junior Summer Nationals in Columbus, Ohio (2014) … Placed 8th at the Division I Championships in Richmond, Va. (2016) … Put together a ninth-place finish at the Junior World Cup in Bratislava, Slovakia (2016).

Personal: Daughter of Dolores and Timothy Ferdon … Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.
 

Career Statistics
Year W-L Pct. 
2016-17 54-18 .750
2017-18 51-29 .638
2018-19 33-31 .512
2019-20 42-23 .646
Career 180-101 .641

Historical Player Information

  • 2016-17Freshman

    Foil
  • 2017-18Sophomore

    Foil
  • 2018-19Junior

    Foil
  • 2019-20Senior

    Foil