Christine Whalen

Class:
Senior
Hometown:
San Juan Capistrano, Calif.
High School:
Phillips Academy

2014-15: Finished in a tie for 19^th place in women’s sabre at the NCAA Championships (Mar. 19-22) … Earned NFC Women’s Sabre Second Team honors … Went 10-2 in the season opener at NFC Meet No. 1 at MIT (Nov. 16) … Placed 28^th at the Penn State Open (Nov. 22) … Finished 3-0 at the Brandeis Invitational (Dec. 7) … Went 16-3 at the NFC Meet No. 2 (Jan. 24) … Finished 12-3 at the Eric Sollee Invitational (Feb. 1) … Ended with an 8-10 record at the Ivy League Fencing Round-Robins (Feb. 8-9) … Came in seventh place at NCAA Northeast Regionals (Mar. 8).

2013-14: Finished in 14^th in women’s sabre at the NCAA Championships (Mar. 20-23) … Placed third in women’s sabre at the NCAA Regionals (Mar. 9) … Went 10-8 at the Ivy League Round Robin (Feb. 8-9) … Compiled an 11-4 record at NFC No. 2 (Jan. 25) … Notched a 7-2 record at the Brandeis Invitational (Dec. 8) … Totaled an 8-0 mark at NFC No. 1 (Nov. 16) … Came in second in women’s sabre at The Big One (Nov. 2).

2012-13: Earned NFC All-Star accolades, garnering a spot on the first team with an overall record of 27-2 in saber ... Finished 10th in women’s sabre with a record of 12-11 at the NCAA Northeast Regionals … Finished seventh at the Ivy League Round Robin Tournament … Tied for best record of the day at the NFC Opener with a mark of 12-1 … Went an impressive 15-1 at NFC #2 … Opened the season by taking gold at the Big One, placing first out of 80 competitors.

2011-12: Finished in seventh place out of 87 competitors in the women’s saber at the Big One … Went 12-2 at NFC #1 … Earned a 16-5 record at NFC #2 … Finished in 14th place at the Ivy League Championships … Finished in seventh place at NCAA Regionals … Came in 19th in the country at the NCAA National Championships.

Before Brown: Fenced since she was 10, first at South Coast Fencing Center then at Prise de Fer … Finished in second place at the Division 1A Nationals in 2012 … Finished in second place at the Division II Nationals in 2010 … National Merit Scholar.

Personal: Christine Whalen is from San Juan Capistrano, California ... Concentrating in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science.