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2018-19 Fencing Roster

Calvin Liang

  • Position Sabre
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Chandler, Ariz.
  • Previous School Brophy College Preparatory
  • College Enrolled at Columbia College
  • Major Architecture

Biography

Second team All-American (2019)
2x Honorable Mention All-American (2016, 2018)

First Team All-Ivy (2016)

2x Second Team All-Ivy (2018, 2019)

NCAA Northeast Regional Silver Medalist (2018)

NCAA Northeast Regional Bronze Medalist (2016)

Career Record
Year Season Ivy Overall
First-Year 2015-16 10-2 56-20
Sophomore 2016-17 6-4 14-7
Junior 2017-18 8-5 30-19
Career Record 24-11 92-41

Senior (2018-19):
Tallied a 17-10 regular season record for his senior year...Competed at Ivy League Championships and held a 8-4 record, including wins over Penn, Yale and Princeton (Feb. 10)...Named to second team All-Ivy roster...Won all six bouts at the Historical Meet (Feb. 13)...Finished ninth overall at Northeast Regionals... Qualified for NCAA National Championships... Finished fifth in the sabre competition at Nationals with a 16-7 tournament record (Mar. 22)... received second team All-American honors.

Junior (2017-18): 
Named second team All-Ivy after finishing 6th place with a 8-5 record at the Ivy League Fencing Round Robins (Feb 10-11)...won a silver medal at NCAA Northeast Regionals to qualify for third straight NCAA Championships (March 11)...Named Honorable Mention All-American with 9th place finish and 14-9 record at the NCAA Championships (March 22-25)...Went 8-3 at Philadelphia Invitational (Jan. 21).

Sophomore (2016-17):
Finished 14th at NCAA Championships with 11-12 record and +6 indicator (March 23-26)...Placed 10th at NCAA Northeast Regionals...Went 4-2 at Penn State Invitational.. (Jan. 15)...Made season debut going 4-2 at Columbia Invitational (Nov. 18)

Freshman (2015-16):
Named Honorable Mention All-America after finishing 11th at the NCAA Championships (March 26-27) with a 13-10 record and +5 touch differential … took the bronze medal at the NCAA Northeast Regional (March 13) after posting a 19-4 record with a +31 touch differential … earned first team All-Ivy League honors after taking second at the Ivy League Round Robins (Feb. 6-7) with a 10-2 record … went a perfect 6-0 at the Penn Elite Invitational (Nov. 21) … made collegiate debut with a 3-0 performance against NJIT at the Columbia Invitational (Nov. 6) … won his first 13 bouts of the season.

Before Columbia: 2017 Junior World Team member...Placed fifth at Junior Pan American Championships...Part of USA's men's sabre silver medal team at Junior Pan Ams...Got a silver medal at 2017 Arizona Junior Sabre World Cup...Earned silver medal at the 2015 Pan-American Junior Championships … ranked No. 1 in the U.S. in junior men’s saber rolling point standings and fifth in senior men’s saber rolling point standings … member of the 2015 Junior World Championship bronze medal team and the 2015 Pan-American Junior Championship Saber team.

Historical Player Information

  • 2015-16First Year

    Sabre
  • 2016-17Sophomore

    Sabre
  • 2017-18Junior

    Sabre
  • 2018-19Senior

    Sabre