Kristen Coury

Position:
Foil
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Far Hills, N.J.

Honors: NCAA Championships Qualifier (Foil - 2016) ... NCAA Regional Participant (Foil - 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) ... All-ACC Academic (2016, 2017) ... ACC Academic Honor Roll (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)

2019: Named to the 2019 All-ACC Academic Team for the third time in her career … Posted a 27-13 ledger as a senior foilist … Added a season-high 14 victories at the Northwestern Duals … Finished sixth in the individual portion of the ACC Championships … Went on to NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional where she finished 16th … Named to the 2019 ACC Academic Honor Roll

2018: Logged a 36-27 overall record as a junior … Qualified for the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional for the third time in her career … Picked up a season-best 15 victories at the Northwestern Duals … Collected seven wins to open the season at the Penn State Duals and six at the annual Duke Meet in front of a home crowd … Helped the women’s foil team to a 23-5 overall record … Placed 10th at the ACC Championships and 11th at regionals … Named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll for the third time.

2017: Logged an overall 33-25 ledger as a sophomore … placed 10th during the individual portion of the ACC Championships … qualified for the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional for the second consecutive year … finished 13th at the regional competition … logged the second-best total victories on the women’s foil squad … posted a season-best 12 victories at the Eric Sollee Invitational … added eight victories at the first meet of the season … named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.

2016: Advanced to the NCAA Fencing Championships as a freshman, placing 18^th in women’s foil … led the Duke women’s foil squad with a season record of 51-27 … one of six Blue Devils to record at least 50 bout victories in 2016 … served as the Duke women’s top finisher at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional, finishing seventh in women’s foil … placed 10^th in the individual women’s foil competition at the ACC Championships … added two bout wins during the team portion of the conference meet … logged a 22-6 mark at the Northwestern Duals … also posted winning records at the Penn State Duals (11-4) and Philadelphia Invitational (9-4) … picked up seven victories at the Duke Meet … named to the All-ACC Academic team.

Prep: Lettered four years for Bernards High School and fenced with the Morris Fencing Club under the tutelage of coaches Slava Danilov and Oleg Brusilovsky … two-time New Jersey all-state first team honoree, garnering the award during junior and senior year … captured the district crown all four years … competed in both the 2015 Junior Olympics and USA Fencing National Championships, highlighted by 29^th-place showing in Division I-A Women’s Foil at Nationals … also was a four-year letterwinner for the women’s soccer team, playing forward for the Mountaineers … member of the National Honors Society at Bernards.

Personal: Daughter of Ed and Debbie Coury … born Feb. 6, 1997 in Rockleigh, N.J. … has one brother, Nicholas, and one sister, Elizabeth.

CAREER STATS

YEAR	RECORD	WIN %	ACC	REGIONAL	NCAA
2016	51-27	.654	10th	7th	18th
2017	33-25	.568	10th	13th	--
2018	36-27	.571	10th	11th	--
2019	27-13	.675	6th	16th	--
TOTAL	147-92	.615