Kunling Tong

Position:
Saber
Height:
5-4
Class:
Sophomore
Hometown:
Marietta, Ga.

Honors: NCAA Qualifier (2023, 2024) ... Second Team All-Region (2023, 2024) ... Honorable Mention All-Region (2025) ... ACC Silver Medal (2025) ... ACC Co-Women's Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2025) ... USFCA All-Academic Team (2024) ... All-ACC Academic Team (2023, 2024, 2025) ... ACC Academic Honor Roll (2023, 2024)

2025: Qualified for the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional and placed ninth for the second consecutive season ... Earned Honorable Mention All-Region accolades following the performance ... Turned in a 22-9 regular-season ledger to guide the saber squad to a 23-4 regular-season record … Turned in a 9-3 mark during the Eric Sollee Invitational while going 8-2 at the Elite Invitational ... Went 3-0 at No. 1 Harvard to help Duke to a 15-12 upset versus the reigning NCAA champions ... Earned a silver medal at the ACC Championship by going 5-0 in pool competition and earning the No. 2 seed heading into pool play ... Helped the women's team to the gold medal match versus Notre Dame at the ACC event ... Named the ACC Co-Women's Scholar-Athlete of the Year and earned a place on the all-league academic team.

2024: Qualified for the NCAA Fencing Championship where she placed 13th, one spot short of All-America honors … Played to a 41-24 regular-season record to help lead the women’s saber team to a 27-6 regular-season showing … Compiled 12 wins at the Philadelphia Invitational and 10 wins at the Eric Sollee Invitational … Placed 11th during the individual portion of the ACC Championship … Earned a ninth-place finish at Regionals to earn USFCA Second Team All-Region honors … Named to the USFCA All-Academic Team, the All-ACC Academic Team and to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.

2023: Qualified for the NCAA Championship as a freshman … Placed 19th overall … Placed eighth at the ACC Championships and sixth at NCAA Regionals … Went 36-10 during the regular season … Opened her collegiate campaign 16-3 overall at the Penn State Duals … Named ACC Fencer of the Week for her efforts at Penn State … Named second team All-Region … Named to the All-ACC Academic Team and to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.

Prior to Duke: Member of the Nellya Fencers Club … 2nd at the 2021 Summer Nationals in Senior Team … Top 16 at the 2021 October NAC in Division I … Top 8 at the 2022 January NAC in Juniors … Top 8 at the 2022 Pan-American Championships in Juniors … 1st at the 2022 Pan-American Championships in Junior Team … Top 16 at the 2022 April NAC in Juniors … Top 16 at the 2022 Division I Championships … Participated in the European Cadet Circuit in 2018-19 and 2019-20 … Placed 22nd at the 2022 Junior World Cup in Plovdiv, Bulgaria … First Team All-American (2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21) … Global finalist in the Wharton High School Investment Competition … first team All-Academic (2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21) … National Merit Finalist … Valedictorian … 2021-22 Georgia Scholar.

Personal: Born in Houston, Texas … Daughter of Haiying Huang and Xiangdong Tong … Has a brother, Qilin, who is a fencer at Johns Hopkins.