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2021-22 Women's Fencing Roster

Hunter Martin

Vanessa Dib

  • Height 5-7
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Richmond Green Secondary School
  • Hometown Beirut, Lebanon

Biography

2021-22: First-team All-Region … 1st at NCAA Regionals … T-14th at NCAA Championships … Competed in 27 team bouts, going 39-28 in epee … Went 8-3 at Ohio State Invitational, including 4-2 against Notre Dame and Ohio State (12/5) … Went 18-3 during Philadelphia Invitational, including a perfect 12-0 against UNC, Duke, NYU, and Ohio State (1/22-1/23) … picked up six wins at Ivy Round-Robins, including 2-1 performances against Harvard and Yale (2/12-2/13).

2019-20: First-Team All-America ... Honorable Mention All-Region ... Academic All-Ivy ... With Jessica Liang, became the second and third first-team All-America selections in Quakers women's epee history ... Appeared in 23 team bouts with women’s epee, going 39-20 … NCAA Championships qualifier … Went 8-4 at the season-opening Elite Invitational, including a 2-0 showing against Notre Dame (11/16) … Finished in eighth place at the Penn State Garret Open (11/23) … Turned in a 9-5 showing at the Penn State Invitational, including a 2-0 showing against defending national champion Columbia (1/12) … Recorded one of the strongest individual showings at the Philadelphia Invitational, going 14-4 overall including a 2-0 mark against #7 Temple (1/18 & 1/19) … Went 2-1 against four Ivy teams, including #1 Princeton, at the Ivy League Round-Robins (2/8 & 2/9) … Finished 11th at the NCAA Regional (3/7) … All 2020 NCAA winter postseason competition was canceled on Thursday, March 12 due to a nationwide outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19.

2018-19: Second-team All-Ivy ... Finished fifth at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South regional ... Finished 17th at the NCAA championships ... Helped Quakers to a top-3 finish at the Ivy League championships ... Led the epee squad with a 42-25 record ... Went 17-6 at the Philadelphia Invitational ... Posted 11-6 record at the Ivy League championships ... Recorded 3-0 marks against Penn State (11/18), Brown (1/20), NYU (1/20), Temple (1/21 & 2/24), and Haverford (2/10).

High School: Placed in the top-16 at the Junior North American Cup and Senior Satelite (2017) ... Finished third at the Junior Canadian National Championship (2017) ... Took third at the Senior Canadian National Championship (2017) ... Placed in the top-32 in the Cadet European Circuit (2016) ...Ontario Principal's Award for Student Leadership recipient ... Health Occupants Students of America (HOSA) National first place in behavioral health ...Vice President of Social Justice Council ... Events Coordinator of Leading through Equity and Diversity Council. 

Personal: Daughter of Xiaomei Zhang and Hassan Dib ... Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences. 
 
Career Statistics
Year W-L Pct. 
2018-19 42-25 .627
2019-20 39-20 .661
2020-21
2021-22 39-28 .582
Career 120-73 .622

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19Freshman

    Epee
    5'7"
  • 2019-20Sophomore

    Epee
    5'7"
  • 2020-21Junior

    Epee
    5'7"
  • 2021-22Senior

    Epee
    5'7"