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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2024-25 MIT Men's Fencing Roster

Zachary Tong

  • Height 5-10
  • Year First Year
  • Hometown Marietta, Ga.
  • High School Wheeler
  • Weapon Sabre
  • Major Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making

Biography

Off the Fencing Strip at MIT:
- Majoring in artificial intelligence and decision making
High School:
- Graduated from Wheeler High School
- Valedictorian
- National Merit Scholarship Finalist
-  Georgia Governor’s Honors Program (Mathematics)
-  Spanish AP and Honors Faculty Awards (2023, 2024) 
-  Published lead-author research on using decision trees to predict stock market in the Journal of Student Research
Club:
- Nellya Fencers Club
- Men’s Sabre Junior National Ranking: 32nd (2022-2023 season)
- Men’s Sabre Cadet National Ranking: 19th (2021-2022 season)
- Team USA Representation: 4th place in Sabre Cadet team event and 35th place in Cadet individual competition, World Cup (November 2021).
- Fifth place in Junior, North American Cup (December 2022)
- First place in Division II, Summer Nationals (July 2022)
- 15th place in Junior, North American Cup (April 2023)
- 20th place in Junior, Junior Olympic (February 2024)
- 21st place in Junior, North American Cup (December 2021)
- 26th place in Junior, North American Cup (April 2024)
- 11th place in Cadet, July Challenge (July 2021)
- 18th place in Cadet, North American Cup (October 2021)
- Third place in Cadet, Super Junior and Cadet Circuit (December 2019)