Chloe Daniel finished 12-4 at the Ivy League Championships over the weekend and helped the Quakers knock off Princeton, the No. 1 team in the country.
Freshman fencer Chloe Daniel, left, is presented with a plaque celebrating her Ivy epee championship.
Chloe Daniel, a freshman on the 27-9 women’s fencing team, won the individual women’s epee championship at the Ivy League Fencing Round Robins over the weekend at the Gordon Indoor Track in Boston.
Daniel, a native of Sierra Madre, California, finished with a 12-4 record at the championships and helped the Quakers defeat Princeton, the No. 1-ranked team in the country; Harvard, the No. 7-ranked team in the country; and 10th-ranked Cornell. The Red & Blue are the eighth-ranked team in the land.
On account of her title-winning performance, Daniel has been awarded First-Team All-Ivy honors. She is only the 10th women’s epee fencer in program history to be named First-Team All-Ivy, and the first overall women’s champion since 2016.
As a team, Penn finished 4-2 at the championships, which tied for second place with Princeton. Columbia finished 6-0 and won the overall team championship.
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