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Rachel Koo
- Position:
- Foil
- Height:
- 5-5
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Old Tappan, N.J.
Bio
Honors: NCAA Championship Qualifier (2023, 2025) ... Second Team All-America (2025) ... First Team All-Region (2025) ... Honorable Mention All-Region (2023, 2024) ... All-ACC Academic Team (2023, 2024, 2025) ... ACC Academic Honor Roll (2023, 2024) ... USFCA All-Academic Team (2024)
2025: A Second-Team All-America honoree after placing eighth at the NCAA Championships ... Finished with a 15-8 mark at the NCAA event ... Made a 10-spot improvement from her first NCAA trip ... Finished a career-best fourth at regionals and earned First Team All-Region accolades ... Experienced action in five regular-season competitions … Helped Duke to an undefeated Beguinet Classic with her 8-1 mark ... Finished the Eric Sollee Invitational with a 12-3 mark as the Blue Devils swept the competition ... Went 2-1 at No. 1 Harvard as Duke claimed a 15-12 victory ... Ended ACC Championship action 9-3 with a record and helped lead Duke to the gold medal match versus Notre Dame ... Earned a place on the All-ACC Academic Team.
2024: Competed in all six regular-season competitions … Helped the women’s foil squad to a 27-6 regular-season record … Tallied 14 wins at the Philadelphia Invitational and went 8-1 twice (Eric Sollee + ACC Championship team event) … Placed 12th at regionals … Named a USFCA honorable mention All-Region … Named to the USFCA All-Academic Team, the All-ACC Academic Team and to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
2023: Qualified for the NCAA Fencing Championship as a freshman … Finished the championship in 18th … Placed sixth during the individual portion of the ACC Championship … Placed ninth at the regional … Posted a 41-11 regular-season ledger, second on the women’s foil squad and third on the team overall … Went 10-1 at the Eric Sollee Invitational … Helped the women’s foil squad go 22-3 overall … Named All-Region honorable mention … Named to the All-ACC Academic Team and to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
Prior to Duke: Member of the Gutkovskiy Fencing Academy under Stas Gutkovskiy and Stepan Simonov … During the 2022 season, she placed 31st at the October North American Cup … In 2021, she participated in numerous North American Cups and earned 21st in the junior division at the May NAC … USA Fencing first team All-American (2020, 2021) … USA Fencing High School first team All-American (2020, 2021).
Personal: Born in Hackensack, N.J. … Daughter of Lisa and Henry Koo … Has a sister, Haley, and brother, Jason … Sister Haley is a fencer at Stanford.
2025: A Second-Team All-America honoree after placing eighth at the NCAA Championships ... Finished with a 15-8 mark at the NCAA event ... Made a 10-spot improvement from her first NCAA trip ... Finished a career-best fourth at regionals and earned First Team All-Region accolades ... Experienced action in five regular-season competitions … Helped Duke to an undefeated Beguinet Classic with her 8-1 mark ... Finished the Eric Sollee Invitational with a 12-3 mark as the Blue Devils swept the competition ... Went 2-1 at No. 1 Harvard as Duke claimed a 15-12 victory ... Ended ACC Championship action 9-3 with a record and helped lead Duke to the gold medal match versus Notre Dame ... Earned a place on the All-ACC Academic Team.
2024: Competed in all six regular-season competitions … Helped the women’s foil squad to a 27-6 regular-season record … Tallied 14 wins at the Philadelphia Invitational and went 8-1 twice (Eric Sollee + ACC Championship team event) … Placed 12th at regionals … Named a USFCA honorable mention All-Region … Named to the USFCA All-Academic Team, the All-ACC Academic Team and to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
2023: Qualified for the NCAA Fencing Championship as a freshman … Finished the championship in 18th … Placed sixth during the individual portion of the ACC Championship … Placed ninth at the regional … Posted a 41-11 regular-season ledger, second on the women’s foil squad and third on the team overall … Went 10-1 at the Eric Sollee Invitational … Helped the women’s foil squad go 22-3 overall … Named All-Region honorable mention … Named to the All-ACC Academic Team and to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
Prior to Duke: Member of the Gutkovskiy Fencing Academy under Stas Gutkovskiy and Stepan Simonov … During the 2022 season, she placed 31st at the October North American Cup … In 2021, she participated in numerous North American Cups and earned 21st in the junior division at the May NAC … USA Fencing first team All-American (2020, 2021) … USA Fencing High School first team All-American (2020, 2021).
Personal: Born in Hackensack, N.J. … Daughter of Lisa and Henry Koo … Has a sister, Haley, and brother, Jason … Sister Haley is a fencer at Stanford.
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