Robert Wong 2019-20 Fencing Roster

AS A JUNIOR:

• Ended the season with an 11-13 record after competing at the Elite Invitational, St. John’s Invitational and Philadelphia Invitational.
• Season best performance came at the Philly Invite after going 4-2 on the day
• 56-32 career record after three seasons

AS A SOPHOMORE:

• Opened the year with a runner-up finish at the Penn State Garret Open
• Went 22-11 in dual competitions
• Went 9-0 at the DeCicco Duals
• Improved career record to 45-19
• Earned the team’s John Crikelair Award for leadership in men’s foil

AS A FRESHMAN:

• Finished his first season with the Irish posting a 23-8 record
• Won 16 straight through the NYU Invitational (3-0) and DeCicco Duals (13-0)
• Concluded the season at the Northwestern Duals where he posted a 6-3 record

PREP AND PERSONAL:

• Graduated from Horace Greeley High School in spring 2017
• Coached by former two time Olympian Slava Grigoriev at Fencing Academy of Westchester
• Scored his highest Division I finish in 2016 at the Division I Championship in eighth place
• Scored his highest at the International Cadet Circuit, placing seventh in Italy 2015 and finishing in eighth place in Germany 2016. Finished in the top 10 in Hungary 2015
• Scored his highest at 2015 National Championship, medaling 6th place in Cadet
• Scored his highest at 2014 Super Youth 14, snaring gold
• In high school, was a peer leader, soccer captain, member of the Cum Laude Society and an AP Scholar with distinction
• Son of Bill Wong and Mi Chung
• Both younger siblings, Sophia and Jackson, are current fencers at his former fencing club
• Friends and family call him Bobby
• Majoring in Financial Economics