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2006-07 Fencing Roster

Kathleen Reckling

  • Position FOIL
  • Class Senior
  • High School Ardsley
  • Hometown White Plains, N.Y.

Biography

At Columbia: Honorable mention All-American in 2005-06 ... 43-14 overall and 11-7 in the Ivy League as a junior ...  finished 12th at the 2006 NCAA Championships ... eighth at the 2006 IFA Championships ... finished 36th in the senior division of the North American Cup ... swept bouts against St. John’s, Ohio State, Cornell and Brown ... 30-21 overall, 5-10 in the Ivy League in 2004-05 ... took two Ivy League wins against Penn and one each against Princeton, Cornell and Yale ... finished the season with 12 straight victories, with sweeps over Temple, NYU, Vassar and Sacred Heart ... 16th at the NCAA Regionals ... 38-12, 10-5 in the Ivy League as a first-year ... second team All-Ivy League ... placed 13th at the IFA Championships ... 17th at the North American Cup in junior division ... 32nd in Division I ... placed 11th at the Northeast Regionals ... finished 22nd at the NCAA Championships.  Outside Experience: Studies and competes at the New York Fencers Club under Mikhail Petin ... competed on the Fencers Club Open Women’s Foil team which was second at the 2002 National Championships and the Junior Women’s Foil team which finished in first place at the 2003 Summer Nationals ... sixth in the 2003 Nationals, Division 1A, and 13th in juniors ... currently ranked in the top 25 of junior women’s foil. 

At Ardsley: Six letters in fencing and swimming ... three-year fencing captain ... led Ardsley girls team, coached by her mother, to 2002 and 2003 Westchester-Rockland county championships ... undefeated in 120 consecutive bouts ... fencing MVP all four years ... Con Edison Scholar-Athlete Award ... “Good Call” Scholarship for Sportsmanship and Academics ... Quad-Village Rotary Sportsmanship Award ... New York State Scholarship for Academic Excellence ... Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarship ... first place on the National Latin Exam ... AP Scholar ... Ardsley and Yale Book Award ... selected to the all-county and all-state orchestras. 

Personal: Double major in economics and philosophy ... hopes to go into journalism ... has played the violin with the Westchester Youth Symphony for seven years ... likes to write and design clothing ... learned the sport from her mother, Diane, a competitive fencer in the 1970s and 1980s ... father, Keith, played on the Canadian and United States national rugby teams.

Historical Player Information

  • 2003-04Graduate Student

    Foil
  • 2004-05Sophomore

    Foil
  • 2005-06Junior

    W. Foil
  • 2006-07Senior

    Foil