Completed Event: Fencing at NCAA Championship on March 20, 2025 , , 12th
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Final
Fencing
at NCAA Championship
2024-25 Fencing Roster
Lin, Vanessa
Vanessa Lin
- Position:
- Epee
- Height:
- 5-9
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Toronto, Ontario
Bio
Honors: NCAA Regional Qualifier (2024, 2025) ... USFCA All-Academic Team (2024) ... All-ACC Academic Team (2024, 2025) ... ACC Academic Honor Roll (2024)
2025: Fenced in five competitions during the regular season, posting a 31-17 record … Blazed through the Philly Invitational with 15 victories ... Booked eight victories during the Beguinet Classic and seven at the Eric Sollee Invitational ... helped the women's team sweep the Beguinet Classic with her eight wins ... Took part in regionals and placed 23rd ... A member of the All-ACC Academic Team ... Earned a place on Duke's Spring 2025 Dean's List with Distinction.
2024: Competed in all six competitions during the regular season and played to a 23-17 record … Finished 17th at regionals … Captured nine wins at the Eric Sollee Invitational and eight wins at the Philadelphia Invitational … Named to the USFCA All-Academic Team, the All-ACC Academic Team and to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
Prior to Duke: Comes to Durham from Toronto, Ontario Canada where she attended Bill Crothers Secondary School ... Member of the Vango Toronto Fencing Center under Andrew Hu ... Placed ninth at the 2023 Division I July Challenge ... 10th at the 2022 Junior July Challenge ... Third in cadet at the 2021 July Challenge ... Earned multiple top seven finishes at the Canadian National Championships ... Represented Canada in the 2019 World Cup, the 2020 World Cup and the 2020 European Cadet Circuit ... AP Scholar ... Member of the Tennis Club and was a peer tutoring president.Â
Personal: Daughter of Fang and Feng Lin ... Born January 6, 2005 ... Has one brother, Scott.
2025: Fenced in five competitions during the regular season, posting a 31-17 record … Blazed through the Philly Invitational with 15 victories ... Booked eight victories during the Beguinet Classic and seven at the Eric Sollee Invitational ... helped the women's team sweep the Beguinet Classic with her eight wins ... Took part in regionals and placed 23rd ... A member of the All-ACC Academic Team ... Earned a place on Duke's Spring 2025 Dean's List with Distinction.
2024: Competed in all six competitions during the regular season and played to a 23-17 record … Finished 17th at regionals … Captured nine wins at the Eric Sollee Invitational and eight wins at the Philadelphia Invitational … Named to the USFCA All-Academic Team, the All-ACC Academic Team and to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
Prior to Duke: Comes to Durham from Toronto, Ontario Canada where she attended Bill Crothers Secondary School ... Member of the Vango Toronto Fencing Center under Andrew Hu ... Placed ninth at the 2023 Division I July Challenge ... 10th at the 2022 Junior July Challenge ... Third in cadet at the 2021 July Challenge ... Earned multiple top seven finishes at the Canadian National Championships ... Represented Canada in the 2019 World Cup, the 2020 World Cup and the 2020 European Cadet Circuit ... AP Scholar ... Member of the Tennis Club and was a peer tutoring president.Â
Personal: Daughter of Fang and Feng Lin ... Born January 6, 2005 ... Has one brother, Scott.
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