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Career Accolades

  • MPSF team champions (2022)
  • MPSF All-Academic (2022)
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2022)

As a Senior (2022) * MPSF Champions

  • Advanced to the NCAA West Regionals in foil
  • MPSF All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll
  • Went 4-6 for ninth at regionals
  • Compiled a 19-33 (.365) overall record
  • Went 8-7 at the Western Invitational

As a Junior (2021)

  • Opted out of season.

As a Sophomore (2020)

  • Did not compete

As a Freshman (2019)

  • Placed 12th in the foil at the NCAA West Regionals
  • Compiled an 18-17 record in team dual competitions

Prior to Stanford

  • 2018 Graduate of Lycée Français Prins Henrik (Denmark)
  • Fenced for Trekanten 2016-2018
  • Placed first in Malmö Junio Open (2018)
  • Placed third in Trekanten International Junior (2018)
  • Placed first in Danish Cadet Team Championship (2017)
  • Fenced for Frederiksberg Slots 2016
  • Competed in gymnastics and placed second in the all-around at the 2013 Danish Junior Championships
  • Competed in gymnastics for Farum Gymnastik Forening

 Personal

  • Daughter of Leonardo Sanchez and Larissa Escobar de Sanchez
  • Two brothers, Alejandro and Nicolas, played rugby at Stanford
  • Born in Pembroke Pines, Fla.
  • Moved to Denmark at age 2
  • Venezuelan and Italian parents
  • Fluent in four languages (Spanish, French, Danish, and English)
  • Placed first at international math competition in France
  • Represented Denmark at the International German Olympiad in 2018
  • Finished in the top 6 percent at the Olympiades Nationales de Geosciences in 2017
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2019-20
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2020-21
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