Kasia Nixon

Photo by: Beverly Schaefer

Position:
Épée
Class:
Senior
High School:
Notre Dame Academy
Hometown:
Los Angeles, Calif.

At Princeton
2019-20: Took the year off from collegiate competition ... 2018-19: First-team All-Ivy, going 17-1 at the Ivy League round-robin ... went 14-1 at Temple, 17-1 at Ohio State, 9-0 at Sacred Heart, and 29-4 at Northwestern ... 2017-18: NCAA Champion ... All-America ... first-team All-Ivy League, going 17-1 at the Ivy round-robin ... fourth at the NCAA regional ... went 13-2 at the Ohio State Duals, 3-1 at the Vassar Duals, 15-3 at the Northwestern Duals and 13-2 at the Temple Duals ... 2016-17: Went 11-0 at the Penn Elite Invitational and 4-0 at the Temple Duals ... No. 1 junior in the U.S. in 2017 ... No. 6-ranked senior in the U.S. in 2017 ... won gold at the Junior Olympics, the Junior World Cup in Finland and earned a place at the 2017 Junior World Championships representing the U.S. in Bulgaria.

Before Princeton -- Trained at the Los Angeles International Fencing Cneter ... earned salutatorian honors at Notre Dame Academy and first-team academic All-America honors from 2012 through 2016 ... became the first U.S. woman ever to win a gold medal at the Gothenburg Épée Cadet European Cup in Sweden in 2014 .. was the No. 1 cadet fencer in the U.S. in 2013 and 2014 and the No. 1 junior fencer in the U.S. in 2016 ... Cadet World Team member in 2013 and 2014 ... gold medalist at the U.S. Junior Olympics in 2016 ... four-time U.S. Academic All-America ... placed fourth at the 2015 Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China ... cadet bronze medalist at the 2014 World Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria ... junior team bronze medalist at the 2016 World Championships in Bourges, France ... was the first U.S. fencer to win the European Cadet Circuit Tournament in Gothenburg, Sweden, the first fencer in U.S. history to win 5 consecutive Junior national tournaments, and the first fencer in U.S. history to win all four junior national tournaments, including the National Championship, in a single season

Personal -- Father Mark Nixon ’84 was the captain of men’s club volleyball team and was a volunteer assistant coach of both the men’s and women’s volleyball teams ... mother, Lucyna, was a volunteer head coach of the women’s gymnastics team ... grand-uncle, Kris Korzeniowski, was the head coach of women’s open crew team from 1978-81 ... aunts Tracy '85 and Alison Nixon '93 are also alumni.