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2024-25 Fencing Roster

Chiara Di Perna

  • Position SABRE
  • Class Senior
  • High School Rio Americana
  • Hometown Sacramento, Calif.
  • School Columbia College
  • Major Biological Sciences

Biography

YEAR-BY-YEAR STATISTICS
Season
Dual Record
Ivy League
Northeast Regional
NCAA Championship
2021-22
34-6
6-3
5-7, 18th place
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2022-23
5-0
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2023-24 24-6 -- -- --
2024-25 3-0 -- -- --
Career
66-12
6-3
5-7
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2024-25

Competed in one regular-season meet.

2023-24

Competed at four regular season meets … Was 5-1 at Brian Palestis Memorial … Went 12-2 at Western Invitational.

2022-23

Only competed in two events … Went 2-0 at Kolombatovich Historical Meet … Won all three bouts at LIU Shark Showcase.
 
2021-22

NCAA Northeast Regional participant … Went 6-3 at Ivy League Round Robins … Posted 34-6 record in dual meets … Went 6-0 at LIU Showcase … Won 5-of-6 bouts at Penn State duals … Went 7-1 at Columbia Invitational … Made collegiate debut at MG Open.
 
HIGH SCHOOL

A 2021 graduate of Rio Americana High School in Arden-Arcade, Calif. … Four-time All-American in sabre … Ranked No. 24 on the USA’s Junior Rolling Points list … Won a team Gold at the Women’s Cadet World Cup in Bulgaria in 2019 … Finished sixth individually at the Women’s Cadet World Cup in Bulgaria (sabre) … Finished in the top-8 at the North American Championships in North Carolina in January 2020 … Four-time USA Fencing Academic All-American … Competed for Premier Fencing Academy … Also competed in gymnastics, swimming, and golf … National Honor Society student … Concluded her high school career with a 4.3 grade point average … Volunteered with Breast Cancer Research, Oncology Service Line with Dignity Health, and as a patient care volunteer with Dignity in Thoracic Surgery Service.
 
PERSONAL

Mother attended post-bac and pre-med at Columbia ... Enrolled at Columbia College...Majors in Biological Sciences.

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22First Year

    Sabre
  • 2022-23Sophomore

    Sabre
  • 2023-24Junior

    Sabre
  • 2024-25Senior

    Sabre