2025-26 Women's Fencing Roster
Weintraub, Maia
Maia Weintraub
- Position:
- Foil
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Friends Select
- Hometown:
- Philadelphia, Pa.
Bio
Awards
2025 second-team All-Ivy
2023 All-American
2023 NCAA qualifier, finishing third
2023 first-team All-Ivy
2023 Ivy foil champion
2023 USFCA all-region first team
2023 USFCA All-Academic
2022 NCAA foil champion
2022 All-American
2022 first-team All-Ivy
2022 Ivy foil champion
2022 NCAA regional champion
At Princeton
2024-25
Co-captain ... second-team All-Ivy, going 11-6 at the Ivy League Championships ... went 12-3 at the Elite Invitational, 19-2 at the Philadelphia Invitational, 3-0 against Wagner, 11-1 at the Penn State Duals, 4-2 at the Temple Duals, and finished 18th at the NCAA regional.
2023-24
Took the 2023-24 school year off from Princeton to prepare for the Olympic Games, where she helped Team USA to a foil gold medal ... the gold medal was the first ever for Team USA in the event and it made her the first Princeton fencer to win Olympic gold.
2022-23
All-American, finishing third at the NCAA Championships ... first-team All-Ivy League, going 14-3 at the Ivy round-robin and winning the Ivy foil title .... NCAA regional runner-up ... went 13-2 at the Penn Elite Invitational, 9-3 at the Sacred Heart Duals, 14-1 at the Philadelphia Invitational, and 8-1 at the LIU Duals.
2021-22
NCAA foil champion, the second Princeton woman to win an NCAA foil title (Eva Petschnigg, 2000), and sixth Princeton woman to win an NCAA individual fencing title ... All-American ... earned the top seed at the NCAA Championships after an 18-5 record, defeating fourth-seeded Sylvie Binder of Columbia 15-9 in the semifinal before a 15-9 win over Amita Berthier of Notre Dame in the final ... first-team All-Ivy League and Ivy foil champion, going 12-2 at the Ivy round-robins ... NCAA regional champion ... opened the season going 10-0 at the Drew Duals before going 11-1 at the Sacred Heart Duals, 3-0 at the Philadelphia Invitational, and 11-0 at the Penn Duals.
Before Princeton: Part of the U.S. Fencing delegation to the Tokyo Olympics ... took first at the Junior Olympics during the 2017-18 season ... took first at the Division 1 national championship during the 2018-19 season ... part of a second-place team finish at the Junior World Championship during the 2020-21 season ... took 16th at the FIE Kazan Senior World Cup during the 2019-20 season ... had an eighth-place finish at the Junior World Championship during the 2020-21 season ... runner-up finish at the Division 1 national championship during the 2020-21 season ... held a No. 2 junior world ranking in Aug. 2021 and a No. 64 senior world ranking in Aug. 2021.
Personal: Daughter of Elizabeth Surin and Jason Weintraub ... majoring in ecology and evolutionary biology.
2025 second-team All-Ivy
2023 All-American
2023 NCAA qualifier, finishing third
2023 first-team All-Ivy
2023 Ivy foil champion
2023 USFCA all-region first team
2023 USFCA All-Academic
2022 NCAA foil champion
2022 All-American
2022 first-team All-Ivy
2022 Ivy foil champion
2022 NCAA regional champion
At Princeton
2024-25
Co-captain ... second-team All-Ivy, going 11-6 at the Ivy League Championships ... went 12-3 at the Elite Invitational, 19-2 at the Philadelphia Invitational, 3-0 against Wagner, 11-1 at the Penn State Duals, 4-2 at the Temple Duals, and finished 18th at the NCAA regional.
2023-24
Took the 2023-24 school year off from Princeton to prepare for the Olympic Games, where she helped Team USA to a foil gold medal ... the gold medal was the first ever for Team USA in the event and it made her the first Princeton fencer to win Olympic gold.
2022-23
All-American, finishing third at the NCAA Championships ... first-team All-Ivy League, going 14-3 at the Ivy round-robin and winning the Ivy foil title .... NCAA regional runner-up ... went 13-2 at the Penn Elite Invitational, 9-3 at the Sacred Heart Duals, 14-1 at the Philadelphia Invitational, and 8-1 at the LIU Duals.
2021-22
NCAA foil champion, the second Princeton woman to win an NCAA foil title (Eva Petschnigg, 2000), and sixth Princeton woman to win an NCAA individual fencing title ... All-American ... earned the top seed at the NCAA Championships after an 18-5 record, defeating fourth-seeded Sylvie Binder of Columbia 15-9 in the semifinal before a 15-9 win over Amita Berthier of Notre Dame in the final ... first-team All-Ivy League and Ivy foil champion, going 12-2 at the Ivy round-robins ... NCAA regional champion ... opened the season going 10-0 at the Drew Duals before going 11-1 at the Sacred Heart Duals, 3-0 at the Philadelphia Invitational, and 11-0 at the Penn Duals.
Before Princeton: Part of the U.S. Fencing delegation to the Tokyo Olympics ... took first at the Junior Olympics during the 2017-18 season ... took first at the Division 1 national championship during the 2018-19 season ... part of a second-place team finish at the Junior World Championship during the 2020-21 season ... took 16th at the FIE Kazan Senior World Cup during the 2019-20 season ... had an eighth-place finish at the Junior World Championship during the 2020-21 season ... runner-up finish at the Division 1 national championship during the 2020-21 season ... held a No. 2 junior world ranking in Aug. 2021 and a No. 64 senior world ranking in Aug. 2021.
Personal: Daughter of Elizabeth Surin and Jason Weintraub ... majoring in ecology and evolutionary biology.
Princeton Athletics 2023-24 Highlights
Tuesday, June 04
Reflections from the Princeton Athletics Class of 2023
Friday, June 02
Highlights from 2022 Gary Walters ’67 PVC Awards Banquet
Wednesday, June 22
Princeton Athletics 2021-22 Highlights
Monday, June 06
