2019-20 Fencing
Roster
Samantha Viqueira 2018-19 Fencing Roster
Foil
Height
5'4''
Class
Freshman
Hometown
Maplewood, NJ
High School
Columbia
AWARDS AND HONORS:
- 2017 ACC Championships Women’s Foil Third Place
- 2017 Ted Hodges Award
AS A SOPHOMORE:
- Competed in four contests for the Irish, racking up a 15-9 record
- Went 4-2 at the St. John’s Invitational
- Posted a 3-1 record at the NYU Invitational
- Concluded the season witha 4-2 record at the Northwestern Duals
AS A FRESHMAN:
- Went 34-11 during a standout freshman campaign
- Opened the year with a 5-2 weekend in New York (3-2 at St. John’s, 2-0 at NYU)
- Posted a 12-2 mark at the DeCicco Duals
- Went 12-6 during Northwestern Duals
- Turned in a 5-1 record during the ACC Championships to help the Irish women to their third straight team title
- Went 11-4 to earn the No. 2 seed in individual ACC semifinals
- Fell to teammate Sabrina Massialas in the semifinal, but rallied to take third place by defeating Duke’s Julia Lee in the consolation bout
- Earned the team’s Ted Hodges Award, which is given periodically to a fencer “who, when faced with adversity, did not merely endure, but prevailed.”
- Earned a monogram
PREP AND PERSONAL:
- Member of the New York Fencers Club
- Posted a 54-1 foil record through three high school seasons
- Helped guide her team to two state championships and one bronze medal
- A two-time Men of Essex Scholar-Athlete award recipient and team captain
- Has placed in the top 10 at 12 national and international fencing events during the 2014-15 season at the cadet, junior and Division I levels
- Club team, the New York Fencers Club, claimed first place at the 2015 Junior Pan-American Games team event, while she claimed an individual third place
- Also placed second at two junior North American Cup events in 2015 and seventh at the 2015 Junior Olympics