Honors: NCAA Championship Qualifier (2025) ... USFCA Second Team All-Region (2025) ... All-ACC Academic Team (2025)
2025: Made initial NCAA Championship appearance and placed 15th ... Finished 11-13 in five rounds of NCAA pool competition ... Qualified for the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional and placed sixth en route to Second Team All-Region accolades ... Took part in all six regular-season events, going 38-22 ... In Duke debut, went 3-0 versus North Carolina ... Turned in a year-high 16 victories at the Philly Invitational ... Went 6-1 at the Eric Sollee Invitational as the Blue Devils swept the field ... Helped Duke to a 15-12 upset at No. 1 Harvard with a 2-1 mark ... Went 7-4 to end the regular season at the Miller Invitational ... Claimed ninth during the individual portion of the ACC Championship ... Earned a place on the All-ACC Academic Team.
Prior to Duke: Awarded a Tier 3 Scholarship within the 2023 Sport Australia Hall of Fame Scholarship and Mentoring Program … Just the second fencer to be a part of the program … Born in Shanghai, China, and moved to Sydney, Australia, with his family at the end of 2018 … Attended an international British school in Shanghai and discovered fencing at an after-school club in 2012 … Won his first Chinese national youth event in a field of over 250 competitors at age 10 … Between 2015-18, won national medals in China, and international medals in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, France, USA, UK and Australia … Selected to represent the Australian National Men’s Foil Team in U17, U20 and Opens … In April 2022, after missing three years of competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting travel restrictions and tournament cancelations, made his U17, U20 and open age World Championship debut where he finished 29th from a field of 120 in the U17 category … Followed this success with a podium finish in the U17 category at the National American Cup, which had a field of 162 competitors.