Completed Event: Fencing at NCAA Championship on March 20, 2025 , , 12th
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Final
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2024-25 Fencing Roster
Travers, Samir
Samir Travers
- Height:
- 6-1
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Newton, Mass.
Bio
Honors: NCAA Championship Qualifier (2024) ... ACC Bronze Medal (2024) ... USFCA Second Team All-Region (2024) ... USFCA Honorable Mention All-Region (2025) ... USFCA All-Academic Team (2024) ... All-ACC Academic Team (2024, 2025) ... ACC Academic Honor Roll (2024)
2025: Qualified for the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional and claimed ninth ... Earned Honorable Mention All-Region accolades following the performance ... Experienced action in two regular-season meets, going 16-7 at the Philly Invitational and 1-2 at No. 1 Harvard ... Helped the Blue Devils knock off the top-ranked Crimson with a second-round win that put Duke ahead 4-1 in saber before winning 6-3 ... During the ACC Championship, helped the Blue Devils finish tied for third as a team with a 7-5 ledger ... A member of the All-ACC Academic Team ... Earned a place on Duke's Spring 2025 Dean's List with Distinction.
2024: Qualified for the NCAA Fencing Championships as a freshman … Earned a bronze medal during the individual portion of the ACC Championship … Placed sixth at regionals … Ended his rookie campaign 22nd at NCAAs … Tallied 38 wins during the regular season … Went 8-1 at the Duke Meet … Added 13 wins at the Philadelphia Invitational … Earned USFCA second team All-Region honors for his work at regionals … Named to the USFCA All-Academic Team, the All-ACC Academic Team and to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
Prior to Duke: Comes to Duke from Newton, Mass., where he attended Newton North High School ... Member of the Boston Fencing Club under David Sach ... Captured silver at the 2022 Junior December North American Cup ... Silver at the 2021 Junior US National July Challenge ... Silver at the 2023 Division I National Championship team event ... Silver at the 2021 Junior July North American Cup in the team event ... Highest ranking was 12th in juniors ... Made the junior travel squad in both the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons ... National Merit Scholarship Finalist ... Roberton Scholarship Semifinalist ... AP Scholar with Distinction ... Two-time American Invitational Mathematics Exam qualifier ... Co-Captain of his high school math team.
Personal: Son of Tripti Thomas-Travers and Jonathan Travers ... Born October 12, 2004 ... Has one brother, Arnav.
2025: Qualified for the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional and claimed ninth ... Earned Honorable Mention All-Region accolades following the performance ... Experienced action in two regular-season meets, going 16-7 at the Philly Invitational and 1-2 at No. 1 Harvard ... Helped the Blue Devils knock off the top-ranked Crimson with a second-round win that put Duke ahead 4-1 in saber before winning 6-3 ... During the ACC Championship, helped the Blue Devils finish tied for third as a team with a 7-5 ledger ... A member of the All-ACC Academic Team ... Earned a place on Duke's Spring 2025 Dean's List with Distinction.
2024: Qualified for the NCAA Fencing Championships as a freshman … Earned a bronze medal during the individual portion of the ACC Championship … Placed sixth at regionals … Ended his rookie campaign 22nd at NCAAs … Tallied 38 wins during the regular season … Went 8-1 at the Duke Meet … Added 13 wins at the Philadelphia Invitational … Earned USFCA second team All-Region honors for his work at regionals … Named to the USFCA All-Academic Team, the All-ACC Academic Team and to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
Prior to Duke: Comes to Duke from Newton, Mass., where he attended Newton North High School ... Member of the Boston Fencing Club under David Sach ... Captured silver at the 2022 Junior December North American Cup ... Silver at the 2021 Junior US National July Challenge ... Silver at the 2023 Division I National Championship team event ... Silver at the 2021 Junior July North American Cup in the team event ... Highest ranking was 12th in juniors ... Made the junior travel squad in both the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons ... National Merit Scholarship Finalist ... Roberton Scholarship Semifinalist ... AP Scholar with Distinction ... Two-time American Invitational Mathematics Exam qualifier ... Co-Captain of his high school math team.
Personal: Son of Tripti Thomas-Travers and Jonathan Travers ... Born October 12, 2004 ... Has one brother, Arnav.
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