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Career Accolades

  • All-American (2021)
  • Elite 90 Award winner (2022)
  • MPSF Women's Fencer of the Year (2022)
  • NCAA West Regional foil champion (2022)
  • All-West Region first team (2022)
  • MPSF foil champion (2022)
  • All-MPSF first team (2022)
  • All-MPSF second team (2023)
  • Two-time MPSF All-Academic (2022, 2023)
  • Two-time Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll (2022, 2023)
  • Two-time MPSF team champions (2022, 2023)

As a Junior (2022-23) • MPSF Champions

  • All-MPSF second team
  • Reached the MPSF semifinals in foil
  • Went 7-3 at the NCAA West Regionals in foil, placing fourth
  • Had a season overall record of 26-18 (.591)
  • Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll
  • MPSF All-Academic

As a Sophomore (2021-22) • MPSF Champions

  • Elite 90 Award winner
  • 18th in foil at NCAA Championships
  • MPSF Women's Fencer of the Year
  • NCAA West Regional foil champion
  • All-West Region first team
  • MPSF foil champion
  • All-MPSF first team
  • MPSF All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll
  • MPSF Women's Fencer of the Week (Feb. 8)
  • Compiled a 55-30 (.647) overall record
  • Went 37-10 in the regular season and 18-17 in the postseason
  • Won regionals with an 8-2 record
  • Won both bouts at MPSF Championships
  • 8-15 at the NCAA Championships to place 18th foil

As a Freshman (2021)

  • Earned second-team All-America honors in foil
  • Placed sixth at the National Collegiate Championships with a 13-7 record
  • Top women's foil placer at the Western Invitational, going a team-best 15-1
  • Had a season bout record of 28-8 (.778)

Prior to Stanford

  • Class of '20 from Northern Highlands Regional High School in Allendale, N.J.
  • Competed in club for the Gukovskiy Fencing Academy.
  • Fifth in Division, 14th in junior, and gold in senior team at the 2020 January North American Cup.
  • Ninth in junior at the 2019 Summer Nationals, and ninth at the 2019 Division 1 Championships.
  • Gold in junior team at the 2020 Junior Olympics.
  • In 2018 on Cadet World Cup circuit, was sixth in Austria and 11th in U.K. as an individual, and won team gold in France.
  • Took individual bronze in cadet at the 2018 Pan Am Games.
  • U.S. Fencing first-team All-American and first-team high school All-American in 2017. 
  • Northern Highlands women's foil A-strip and squad leader. 
  • 2019 State squad champion.
  • First-team All-Bergen Passaic Fencing League in 2019 in high school.
  • Undefeated individual record for Northern Highlands High in 2018.
  • First-team All-New Jersey Interscholastic Fencing Association in 2017.
  • State silver medalist and district champion in 2017 for Northern Highlands.

Personal

  • Parents are Henry and Lisa Koo.
  • Has a sister, Rachel, and brother, Jason.
  • Father played football at Columbia as a freshman. 
  • National Honor Society.