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Career Accolades

  • Two-time MPSF team champions (2022, 2023)

As a Senior (2022-23) • MPSF Champions

  • Team captain
  • Went 8-0 in foil at the Northwestern Duals in her only action of the season
  • NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient

As a Junior (2021-22) • MPSF Champions

  • Team captain
  • Did not compete

As a Sophomore (2021)

  • Team captain.

As a Freshman (2020)

  • Advanced to the NCAA West Regionals in the foil
  • Placed 13th at the regionals
  • Posted an overall record of 13-21 (.382), including 13-10 (.565) in the regular season
  • Went 8-4 at the Midwest Duals

International Competition

  • Won individual bronze in the foil and team silver for the U.S. at the 2017 Maccabiah Games in Tel Aviv, Israel

Prior to Stanford

  • Graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va., in 2019
  • Trained at the Virginia Academy of Fencing from 2011-19
  • Earned Region 6 gold medial in the 2019 under-20 women's foil competition
  • U.S. first-team All-American in 2017
  • Earned a B-rating in 2017
  • Winner at the Cherry Blossom Women's Open and Virginia U20 Championships in 2017
  • Served as Jefferson football team manager for two years, including head manager in 2018

Personal

  • In April, 2022, was among 58 from around the country to earn a Truman Scholarship
  • Students were selected based on their records of leadership, public service, and academic achievement
  • Parents are Ron Keesing and Melissa Gold
  • Has a younger sibling, Senna
  • Born in Suva, Fiji
  • Aunt, Felicia Keesing, was an All-Pac-10 selection for Stanford in rowing
  • Managed a multi-thousand dollar budget from 2016-19 while serving as the treasurer for the D.C. Junior Branch of a nonprofit international organization, CISV, that sends kids to summer camps around the world
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2020-21
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5-8 / -
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2021-22
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5-8 / -