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2025-26 MIT Women's Fencing Roster

Brian Foley

Cassandra He

  • Height 5-7
  • Year Graduate Student
  • Hometown Watkinsville, Ga.
  • High School North Oconee
  • Weapon Sabre
  • Major Mechanical Engineering

Biography

Top Finishes: 
  • The Big One Invitational: 10th Place (Nov. 7, 2021) 
  • New England Intercollegiate Fencing Championship: 10th Place in Epee “B” Group (Feb. 26, 2022) 
Accolades: 
  • 2023-24 USFCA All-Academic Team 
  • 2022-23 NFC Academic All-Conference Team 
2024-25: [INDIVIDUAL RESULTS] 
  • Did not appear in a competition 
2023-24: [INDIVIDUAL RESULTS]
  • Finished 15th at The Big One Invitational (11/4)

2022-23: [INDIVIDUAL RESULTS]

  • Overall Record: 10-7
  • NFC Record: 8-0
  • Finished 11th at The Big One Invitational (11/5)
  • Went 5-11 in Foil Group B at the New England Championship (2/25)
  • Compiled a 2-7 record in foil at the Eric Sollee Invitational (1/29)

2021-22 [INDIVIDUAL RESULTS]

  • Overall Record: 4-5 (0-4 in epee at the Brandeis Invitational)
  • NFC Record: 4-1
  • Went 6-8 to finished 10th in the epee “B” qualifying group at the New England Championship (2/26)
  • Finished 10th at The Big One Invitational (11/7)

Before MIT: 

  • Graduated from North Oconee High School 
  • Georgia High School Fencing League – Third Place 
  • Mu Alpha Theta 
  • National Merit Finalist, National AP Scholar 
  • Georgia Governor's Honors Program Finalist (Mathematics) 
  • District Student Advisory Committee Board 
  • Math Team captain, Science Club president, Girls' Coding Club president, Robotics Team co-captain, LEO Club president 

Personal: 

  • Pursuing a master’s degree in mechanical engineering in the Soft and Micro Robotics Lab 
  • Graduated from MIT in 2025 with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering 
  • Research: Human-Computer Interaction at CSAIL, Bathe BioNano Lab, Thompson Lab at CSAIL 
  • External relations for IEEE/ACM 
  • Collegiate Capital Partners 
  • Pi Beta Phi vice president of recruitment 
  • DynaMIT camp counselor 
  • MIT tour guide 
  • Favorite Sports Memory: “Getting to travel with my team!”  

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete: 

  • “Having fun fencing a different weapon for NEIFCs.” 

Club: 

  • Athens Fencing Club 
  • Arsenal Spring Challenge RJCC/ROC: DIV2WS: 2nd, DIV1AWS: 3rd, JNRWS: 3rd 

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22First Year

    Sabre
    5'7"
  • 2022-23Sophomore

    Sabre
    5'7"
  • 2023-24Junior

    Sabre
    5'7"
  • 2024-25Senior

    Sabre
    5'7"
  • 2025-26Graduate Student

    Sabre
    5'7"