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Career Accolades

  • Elite 90 Award winner (2024)
  • Second Team All-America (2024)
  • Two-time USFCA West All-Region First Team (2023-2024)
  • MPSF Women's Fencer of the Year (2024)
  • MPSF Women's Newcomer of the Year (2023)
  • Two-time NCAA West Region foil champion (2023-24)
  • MPSF foil champion (2023)
  • MPSF foil runner up (2024)
  • Two-time All-MPSF first team (2023-24)
  • Two-time MPSF team champions (2023-24)
  • MPSF All-Academic Team (2024)
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2024)

As a Junior (2024-25) 

  • Opened the season 10-3 at the Western Invitational in San Diego
  • Part of a women's foil squad that went 8-0 in the first weekend of the year
  • Led the way in upset wins over No. 1 Harvard and No. 5 Northwestern

As a Sophomore (2023-24) • MPSF Champions

  • Elite 90 Award winner
  • Second Team All-America
  • USFCA West All-Region First Team
  • MPSF Women's Fencer of the Year
  • NCAA West Region foil champion
  • MPSF foil runner up
  • All-MPSF first team
  • MPSF All-Academic Team 
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Ended the season 29-14 in individual bouts
  • Went a near-perfect 11-3 at the Northwestern Duels
  • Swept the NCAA West Regional, going 12-0
  • Went 14-9 at the NCAA National Championships, finishing sixth in the country

As a Freshman (2022-23) • MPSF Champions

  • NCAA West Region foil champion
  • MPSF foil champion
  • MPSF Women's Newcomer of the Year
  • All-West Region first team
  • All-MPSF first team
  • 14th in foil at the NCAA Championships, with a 12-11 record
  • NCAA West Region champion with an 8-2 record
  • Went 16-6 at the Western Invitational in collegiate debut
  • Regular-season record was 27-9 (.750)
  • Overall season record was 49-22 (.690)

Prior to Stanford

  • 2021 Cadet World Team member
  • Achieved No. 1 cadet national rank in 2020, 2021
  • Four-time USA Fencing First-Team All-American
  • Four-time USA Fencing First-Team All-Academic
  • Won bronze in Division I and bronze in junior at 2022 April North American Cup
  • Won bronze in junior at 2022 Junior Olympics
  • Won silver in cadet and was seventh in junior at 2021 Junior Olympics
  • Won team silver and was sixth individually at 2019 Cadet European Cup in Cabries, France
  • Won gold, silver, and bronze at 2018-19 Y14 North American Cup circuit
  • Fenced at the Silicon Valley Fencing Center from 2012-22

Personal

  • Parents are Feng Qian and Yanyan Liu
  • Has a younger brother, Derek
  • Valedictorian at Lynbrook High
  • A.P. Scholar with Distinction
  • National Honor Society
  • Fremont Union High School District Community Service Award recipient
  • Editorial Board member of high school newspaper, the Epic
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2022-23
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2023-24
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