Lydia Shen

Position:
Foil
Class:
Freshman
High School:
Lexington
Hometown:
Lexington, Mass.

Before Princeton
Earned bronze in Division I and seventh in juniors at the April 2025 Division I NAC ... earned bronze in junior at the January 2024 NAC ... earned bronze in junior and silver in cadet at the 2023 Summer Nationals & July Challenge ... won the 2021 Division 1A National Championship ... served as captain of the Lexington High fencing team, helping the team to second-place finishes at the state championships in 2023 and 2025 ... earned USA Fencing All-Academic and All-American first team from 2022-25 ... earned AP Scholar with Distinction ... won the 2022 Massachusetts chess championship ... National Honors Society member.

Personal
Parents are Lin Yang and Su Shen ... has sisters, Sophia and Emilia ... Sophia is in the Class of 2027 with the Duke fencing team ... considering majoring in operations research and financial engineering.