2024-25 Women's Fencing Roster

Helen Tan

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Coppell, Texas
  • High School Coppell

Biography

2024-25:
  • Placed 14th in foil at Ivy Championships
  • Placed 20th at NCAA Regionals
  • Academic All-Ivy
  • CSC Academic All-District
  • Delaney Kuphuth Student-Athlete Distinction Award winner
2023-24:
  • Participated in foil at Ivy League Championships
  • Placed 11th in foil at NCAA Regionals
2022-23:
  • Tied for third at the Garret Penn State Open 
  • Tied for sixth at Ivy Round Robin 
  • Finished tenth at the NCAA Northeast Regionals 
  • Finished 21st at the NCAA Championship 
  • Second Team All-Region 
  • Selected to attend the NCAA Student Athlete Leadership Forum as an Ivy League Representative of the Yale Student Athlete Advisory Committee 
2021-22:
  • Competed in the Brandeis Invitational 
  • Finished ninth at Ivy Round Robin 
  • Finished 17th at the NCAA Championship 
  • Honorable Mention All-Region 
  • Kristaps Keggi Best Freshman Team Award Recipient 
Before Yale:
  • 2019 USA Cadet World Team Alternate
  • Member of USA Designated Cadet and Junior International Foil Team
  • Silver medalist in Junior event at 2021 May North American Cup
  • Silver medalist in Junior event at 2020 Junior Olympics
  • Gold medalist in Junior Team event at 2019 Pan American Championships
  • Silver medalist in Junior and Cadet at 2019 Pan American Championships
  • Sixth at Junior World Cup in Mödling in 2019
  • Bronze medalist in 2018 Cadet World Cup
  • Gold medalist in team event at 2018 Cadet World Cup. 
Personal: Helped set up new dental offices to provide accessible care to underprivileged communities in Guangzhou, China during the summer of 2018… Volunteered at the Coppell Community Library… High School Student Council Member.
 
Why Yale? “Because of the vast array of opportunities on and off the fencing strip, and the strong feeling of community that both Yale Fencing and the University embodies. I can see myself finding my home at Yale and making life-long friendships along the way.”

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22First Year

    Foil
  • 2022-23Sophomore

    Foil
  • 2023-24Junior

    Foil
  • 2024-25Senior

    Foil