Photo Descriptions:
1.Me with fencing stuff. I'm 14 in this photo. Haven't changed much-have I? Give or take a few pounds I guess.
2.Jumping around a bit-I'm about 11 in this photo. Can you guess which one was me? Felicia won the tournament and I took eighth. I think it was a national junior competition (Under-20 age category). The significance of the photo-the gym is at Stanford. Little did I know, six years later I would be fencing NCAA meets there.
3. Here I am in Paris being tossed up in the air after having won the Cadet World Championships (Cadet=under 17 age category). Significance of this photo: I was 14 when I won, the youngest person to ever win this event. Also, I was the first American to ever win a world championship. Older/retired fencers from the states were there watching and they told me later that they cried when they heard the American national anthem. Funny story-I was just happy to be up on the stage so that the cute french fencer was able to see me. :) Haven't changed much have I? Give or take a few relationships.
4. A picture of me and Felicia. Significance of the photo: I'm holding my cadet world championship medal and my sister is holding her medal for winning the Junior world cup title. Felicia was the first to win this as well-world cup title means that she was ranked number one in the junior world standings after a series of about 10 or more world cups. So here we are-in all our golden glory.
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