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.At Columbia: Two-time first team All-American ... finished second in the nation at sabre at the 2006 NCAA Championships as the Lions finished fifth in the nation ... won 19 of 23 bouts at 2006 NCAAs ... placed eighth at the 2006 North American Cup ... captured silver medal at the 2006 Regionals to finish first overall at sabre ... 31-2 during the 2005-06 season ... won all four Ivy League bouts, three vs. Princeton ... won all three from Notre Dame, St. John’s, Northwestern and Penn State ... 2005 NCAA Champion ... first Columbia woman to become an NCAA Champion since Tzu Moy won gold in women’s foil in 1990 ... one of the most impressive fencers in the country ... has helped lift the women’s sabre squad to the elite in the nation ... one of the best first-years in the nation in 2004-05 ... 27-3 overall, 5-1 in the Ivy League in 2004-05 ... ranked third in the nation and eighth in the world in sabre during the season ... won the women’s sabre title at the North American Cup ... secured the silver medal in sabre at the IFA Championships as women’s team took second overall ... swept bouts against Notre Dame, Princeton, Stanford, Rutgers, St. John’s, NYU, Sacred Heart and Vassar.
Outside Experience: Member of the 2004 U.S. Olympic Fencing Team ... ranked second nationally, 11th in the world after high school ... 2004 Junior World Champion ... member of 2004 Junior World Champion women’s sabre team.
Personal: Psychology major ... father, David, fenced at Yale and was a member of the 1974 U.S. men’s sabre team ... Emily Phillipa Jacobson, b. December 2, 1986 in Atlanta, Ga